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Title
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Cyrus Palmer in A history of the town of Keene by Simon Goodell Griffin
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Type
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Text
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Date
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1799-04
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Description
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Cyrus Palmer is considered the first veterinarian on record in Keene
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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University of New Hampshire Library
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Contributor
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Carroll, J.
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Bibliographic Citation
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Simon Goodell Griffin, "A history of the town of Keene from 1732, when the township was granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city," 1904, page 308, https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofk00grif/page/308/mode/2up
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Location
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Corner of Main and Roxbury Streets, Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, US
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HISTORY OF KEENE.
308
For further explanation:
Allen
&
Bond (Amasa
Allen,
from the firm of Allen & Dorr, and John G. Bond) had
opened the first store on the east side of the Square.
David Forbes had a law office next door north, and north
of him, where city hall now stands, was a blacksmith's
shop, owned by Joseph Dorr and carried on by Towns &
Wright, who made axes and other tools for the merchants
to
sell.
Thomas Edwards kept
the former Chandler House,
stands. It was at his
tavern, in April, 1799, that the first veterinarian of which
we have any record, one Cyrus Palmer, a black man,
Dr.
where the Cheshire House
now
advertised that he would attend sick and disabled horses
few weeks. South of that were the Sentinel office, law
Dr. Ziba Hall, who had kept
offices, stores and shops.
tavern in 1779, on the east side of Main street, had
removed to Lebanon in 1780, and had been succeeded in
for a
the tavern by Aaron and Luther Fames, apparently had
returned and was again keeping the tavern at this time.
Then came Federal Row, where Luther Smith made clocks
and Peter Wilder made rakes, scj'^the-snaths, chairs and
wheels. Smith afterwards built the main, or north, part
of the present Eagle Hotel, where his shop stood. Many
some of them
of the tall, old fashioned clocks still in use
kept as heirlooms
were made by Luther Smith. The
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old two-story wooden Masonic Hall, with Major Wm.
Todd's store on the ground floor, stood next south of
where the "Adams Kingsbury" brick house now stands.
Thomas Wells was keeping tavern in the old Bullard Coffee
House (Dunbar house) and Alexander Ralston had a distillery down the Packersfield road.
Below, Thomas Fields
had a blacksmith's shop, and the " Washburne House"
appears to have been in the old fort.
Down to this time, the lower part of Main street had
been the "court end" of the town. Dr. Daniel Adams had
built the house now 324 Main street, had been appointed
postmaster in 1799, and kept the office there. Thomas
Baker, Esq., was living in the house that he had built
still standing
on the sand knoll on the "Boston Road;"
Judge Newcomb had built and was living in a fine colonial
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