This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... LEXINGTON SIXTY YEARS AGO. Rjjad By Albbrt W. Bryant, Jan. 14 And Pbb. Ii, 1890. To obtain an idea of the general appearance of Main Street (now Massachusetts Avenue) as it was sixty or sixty-five years ago, would be also to pass over and notice some of the outlying roads in town. Then the convenience of a side-walk was not enjoyed or its necessity realized; the street, where fenced at all, was by a roughly laid stone-wall, and I do not recall a single attempt towards beautifying or ornamenting by graded lawns or flower-beds or even by walks. The door yards were often used for the wood pile, and in several instances pig-pens were located nearly in front of the houses. Very few of the dwellings were ever painted, and those that were with only one coat, applied at the time of building. Not a house, to my recollection, had blinds on the windows. The general appearance of all the buildings, with scarcely an exception, was one of neglect. At the time to which I refer the appropriation for repairs of highways, was only a few hundred dollars, and it was optional with the tax-payer to pay in money or to work out his amount on the road under supervision of the surveyor, the highway apportionment of every person's tax being made separate. I believe there never was an instance known where a person became injured by extra exertion in working out his tax. The method of repairing the roads was merely to make them passable. There were several low places by the wayside that were used for composting fertilizers, and refuse material from the barn yards and other places was dumped there. There were three places on this street that were used for watering purposes; on the north side of the road where Vine Brook crosses, was a driveway passing through the brook; at Brown's Bro...
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