Horse Cart on State Street

Strawbery Banke presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #2

A forlorn rider waits in a rented cart on State Street around 1886. The Custom House building is visible in the background. at the corner of Pleasant Street. Downtown shops like those of James Sanborn, shoemaker, and Gardner J. Greenleaf, carriage builder and blacksmith, were located nearby.

 

 

 

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From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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