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HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #125
Despite extensive granite quarrying in New England, Portsmouth had few stone buildings. This rare example known as the "Stone Store" stood at the base of Market Street. Built in the 1830s, Around 1860 Joshua Brooks opened a grain and flour business here. The locally-milled grain business faded soon after its this 1894-era photo.
HISTORIC PHOTOS of the Greater Portsmouth Area appear here weekly
From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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