![]() ![]() The heart of Crookertown was at the intersection of Plain and Valley streets, a spot still marked by a granite signpost dating to 1841. The work also focuses on two neighborhoods that have “fallen into obscurity,” Crookertown and Fosterville. That was one of many surprises she encountered in eight months working on the book, Proctor said. “He took photography, published a newspaper, invented a banjo – that was quite interesting.” “I didn’t realize he did quite a lot of things – kind of a Renaissance man,” Proctor said. He also created the Lewis banjo, an instrument with “an unusual one-piece rim construction” made by a Boston company in the 1890s, the book says. Most of the images, many published for the first time, came from the Pembroke Historical Society’s archives.Ī large number of the photos in “Pembroke” were taken by George Edward Lewis, who moved to town in 1884 and was the publisher of the Bryantville News, covering that Pembroke neighborhood. More than 200 black-and-white photos are included. Karen Cross Proctor’s new book “Pembroke” is full of hidden history chronicling the life of the town from its 17th-century roots to the turn of the 20th century. A deaf blacksmith, Fred White, made 70 to 80 violins as a hobby before his death in 1928.Īnd traffic jams were common at the intersection of Center Street and Curve Street on Sunday mornings in the 1890s, as people drove their buggies to and from First Church. Pembroke’s oldest still-standing structure was built on Water Street by a Scotsman, John Magoun, in 1666.
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