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Town History.—Fires.
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Walter Heywood was burned on the site where Asher Shattuck's house now stands.

Capt. Henry Whitney had a mill burned, and built another on the same site, which he sold to Daniel J. Goodspeed, which was afterwards burnt.

Martin Dunster had a chair shop destroyed by fire, on the site where Nichols & Baker's grist mill now stands.

1839. In March, a chair shop of Elijah Putnam was burned, on the site now occupied by L. H. Sawin.

1841, August 20. The blacksmith shop belonging to Capt. William Learned was destroyed by fire.

1846. A mill belonging to Ai Stone, in the north part of the town, (where John Cowee's mill now stands,) was burned. A small house belonging to Heman Bay was burned the same year. Daniel J. Goodspeed had a shop consumed by fire, where Greenwood & Wright's chair shop now stands.

1852. In November, the same individual had a shop burned on the site now occupied by B. F. Kendall.

1855. In March, the house that had been occupied by Miss Kneeland and Mrs. Phinney, was burned.