EXPLORE AND DISCOVER
St Bridget Church
Still there!
Union Pond
Currently Northwest Park
Cheney Silk Mills
Center Congregational Church and Trolleys
Now: Church still there. Trolleys stopped running in 1938
Manchester Green and 
Center Memorial Park, and Civil War statue
Now: 7-acre park still there.
“Hall of Records,” in 1914
Now: the Probate Court
Railroad yards of South Manchester Railroad, going north-south 2.5 miles.
Now: a rail trail
Washington School
Now: Closed in 2019
Cheney Machine Shop
Now: Manchester History Center
Educational Square — Barnard & Franklin Schools
Now: Bennet Academy
“Old” High School
Now apartments
St. James Church
Now: Still there
Hilliard Mills and Hilliardville
Now: Mixed Use
Hilliard Ponds
Now: Gone
Buckland Railroad Depot
Now:
Shade-grown Tobacco Sheds
Factories along Charter Oak St.
Now: Charter Oak Park
Oak Grove St., site of former paper mills
Now: Oak Grove Nature Center
East Cemetery
Now: Still there
Interactive Map Sponsored by:
Bon Ami – “Hasn’t Scratched Yet”
Compiled by Jim Hall from various sources noted below Excerpted from: “The History of Manchester, Connecticut” by Mathias Spiess and Percy Bidwell, 1924 The Orford Soap Company. The most widely known of Manchester’s products, with the exception of the Cheney silks, is Bon Ami (“Good Friend”), the cleanser manufactured by
The Cheney Silk Mills
THE CHENEY SILK MILLS By Susan Barlow, Manchester Historical Society Beginning in 1838, Cheney Brothers built the silk mills that made Manchester famous and drew workers from throughout the United States and Europe. During the second Industrial Revolution (1860-1890), the Cheney business prospered, and eventually became the largest silk manufacturer
