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Part 1
Businesses with Historic Character
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"Main Street is more than a line on the map. It's a sense of place, a reflection on a simpler past, a connection to a heritage," Pat Ross writes in her book, Remembering Main Street: An American Album. "People talk a lot about the way Main Street has changed and how it will never be the same. But the"Main Street is more than a line on the map. It's a sense of place,
a reflection on a simpler past, a history of Main Street is a history of change, a history of evolution. Throughout the decades, the fortunes of towns have ebbed and flowed. Main Street has never been static."
Case in point: Main Street, New Rochelle. This business area has its beginnings as early as the community’s Huguenot settlement of late 1600s and early 1700s.
The thriving farming community of New Rochelle in the 1700s and 1800s relied on Main Street’s feed shops, blacksmiths, coach makers, dry good stores, and others carriage trades.
When New Rochelle became a major resort destination, as a result of steamboat travel along its Long Island Sound shoreline, more hotels rose along Main Street and more businesses flourished. Once rail travel improved, New Rochelle’s downtown depot was instrumental in securing New Rochelle’s place on the map. |
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