Yes, I know what you mean.
Like the lady with the baby carriage walking down Second Street. Wonder if she saw anything suspicious
I have a couple of pictures of neighborhoods close to the hill but none of the hill where Lizzie lived. Certain the Historical Society has some.
But here's a couple of interesting shots I found in my picture file.
The first photograph is only of note because there's another 2 story colonial on the right. Older and shabbier, but a conventional 2 story colonial. This is Anawan Street. The colonial sat right where the Andrew Borden building was built or right behind it.
Enough with the two story colonials.
The second photo is of Rock Street at the corner of Pine. All the buildings you see still exist. You can see the old high school tower. About 6 blocks or more from Maplecorft. The building on the left use to be a pharmacy when I was in high school. I use to shop there to buy greeting cards for my sweetheart or a candy bar. It was called Thooeys. (Can't remember the spelling.). Still a pharmacy today under a different name.
The third Photo is of Franklin Street looking West. You can see the tower for Lizzie's church. Everyone had a nice fence back then. Thought went into the construction of a fence.
The third and fourth photo were taken on north Main Street just north of Maple Street. It's of Bernard's Folly, called that I think because it was so large and extravagant. It was much bigger than what you see below in the last photo. So big in fact that years later they cut it in two to make two large houses. In the 70s and 80s I was in and out of these installing telephones. They were dumps. Cut up into apartments. And not any nice ones. Just money pits for some landlord, its Victorian interior gone.
To us, at work, they were known as the "Eat Me Houses." Because on the roof was a trap door and someone wrote, in large letters, 'eat me' on the roof.
I must have scooped the two photos from the Fall River Historical site at one time or another. Both photos are of the same house or yard. What a wonderful majestic property it must have been. Just on the outskirt of the hill.
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