Backstreet – Jamestown’s Main Street 1620-1699

As Jamestown expanded beyond the fort, the Virginia Company sent William Claiborne to survey lots in New Towne. There Ralph Hamor patented an acre and a half lot in 1624. Hamor’s deed made it clear that at least three streets ...

Main Street

"Broadest Street in the World'

Made

316 feet wide by the City and the

S.C. Highway Department after

moving the C.&W.C. Railways Depot

facilities from this plot in,

1949

Paul B. Ellis, Mayor

J.J. Rauch, City Manager

Councilmen

R.C. Herman, ...

Elizabeth Main Street

A visit to Elizabeth’s Main Street reveals some older building still used for day-to-day business, but it might surprise you to learn that many of these stores have been features of the Elizabeth scene for far more than a century!

Start ...

66 Main Street

This building was built in 1926 after the Main Street fire. Originally it was a Chinese restaurant owned by Sun and Moy Kow. Later it became a cantina/dime a dance hall run by Joe Kum You and Joe Gung. It ...

History - Main Street Bridge

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First Bridge at this site a three span wooden toll bridge erected in 1865. Purchased by Tippecanoe County in 1871.

Second Bridge, a steel three span bridge erected in 1889. Rendered useless by the flood of March 18, ...

Main Street Meeting House

Built in 1842 following a

theological dispute that led to

a separation between Orthodox

and Hicksite Friends in 1827.

Friends reunited under one

yearly meeting in 1955.

1847-1997

Marker is on S Main Street north of South Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Main Street in the Late 1800s

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Looking south from Prospect Street, where the shops and offices of Yankee Ridge are today, stood homes at the beginning of the 20th century. From the left are the Osborn house, owned by Richard Osborn, owner of the Ridgefield ...

Nine South Main Street

Isaac Stokes built this brick

house about 1813. Half of the

two-story upper level

is an early sun room addition.

This historic building was

restored in the year 2000.

Marker is on S Main Street (County Route 541) south of Bank Street, on the right when ...

163 Main Street

The property at 163 Main Street was originally part of a section of land confiscated from British Loyalists. The lot contained the City Hotel which was a well known hostelry. After a fire destroyed the City Hotel, the lot was ...

167 Main Street at Conduit Street

This site owned by Amos Garrett was surveyed as Lot 46 on James Stoddert's 1718 plan of Annapolis. The Lloyd Dulany family lived here from 1761 until 1783. The group of buildings known successively as Mann's Tavern, City Tavern and ...