Riverside Place and Main Street.

Riverside Place and Main Street.

Neighborhood -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Streets -- Watertown -- Massachusetts.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Beacon Square -- Watertown (Mass).; Wagons -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Nolan, Edward C. -- d.1921.; Nolan, James F. -- d. 1899.; Tuck, Benjamin W.; Perkins, William H.; Page, George, A.; Ham, Joseph F.;

Looking from Riverside Place toward the buildings at the lower end of Main Street and Riverside Place. Molding-shop of the foundry at right. Stores, left to right, shown are E & J Nolan Bros., a blacksmith (sign with horse and "Shoes" on it): Edward C. Nolan d. 1921. James C. Nolan died in 1899. The address was Beacon Square and then later 8 Arsenal St. Their parents were Mary and Martin J. Nolan. Martin J Nolan started the blacksmith shop. Benjamin W. Tuck had a business over Nolan's and he was a painter. William H. Perkins, flour, grain, hay, straw - a grist mill at 18 Main Street. George A. Page, interior painting, hardwood finishing, at 6 Main Street, corner of Riverside Place. J.F. Ham, Beacon Square, 1 Riverside Place, a blacksmith. The blacksmith was run Joseph F. Ham and the Town Directories list him from 1880 to 1897.

1900

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