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Hotels, Inns, Taverns & Restaurants

“You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”

Thursday, November 25, 1965, there was no dump open for Arlo Guthrie and Richard Robbins to dispose of the trash from the Thanksgiving dinner that had been prepared by their…

Newspaper from November of 1783

A knowledgeable populace is a well informed populace. Here we have a bit of a newspaper from November of 1783. This scrap of newspaper was found in a scrapbook from…

Gideon Smith’s Tavern

Although the Red Lion Inn or Michael’s might be the place to go today if you are looking for libation and entertainment, in 1788 you would want to go to…

Main Street, 1829

As the summer starts to slow down, children begin to return to school, and the cool of autumn begins to slowly creep in, we see a change in the Main…

Fire at the Red Lion Inn

At 5AM on 31 August 1896, the fire alarm in town was sounded. The Plumb Hotel, also known as the Stockbridge House and Red Lion Inn, caught fire in the kitchen…