Historic Places

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The Bon Ami Building

Now: Time Machine Hobby, Hilliard Street.

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St Bridget Church

Still there!

Union Pond

Currently Northwest Park

Cheney Silk Mills

Now: Apartments

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Center Congregational Church and Trolleys

Now: Church still there. Trolleys stopped running in 1938

Manchester Green and the Woodbridge Farmstead

Now: Woodbridge Farmstead Museum

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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

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