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View on South Prospect Street showing fences along the dirt sidewalks.

View of houses on Main Street in Amherst through a triangular patch of grass and trees.

View of Prospect Street when it was a dirt lane and showing a couple of houses on one side of the street.

This image shows a tree-lined rural road with a horse and a couple of wagons on it.

Two white boys play with sleds by the side of a frozen river. Some bare trees grow behind them and some farm buildings are in the background.

A view of a stone bridge with trees on either side and a rushing brook underneath.

A view of River Thames in Runnymede (spelled Runnymead on the caption) with trees growing densely on the far bank

A white man is kneeling by a board walk nailing down a plank while two other men stand nearby looking on. A wooden building and a brick building stand on the right side of the road with the finished board walk in front of them. Some other men stand…

A set of rules and regulations created to maintain order during town meeting, included as the first section of the 1902 Annual Report for the Town of Amherst

View of the ruins of the Palmer Block after the fire that started during the Blizzard of 1888. The Union Block and Cooper house next door were also consumed, though the chimneys of the Cooper house remained standing. Stated in the Amherst Record of…

A man sits in front of an easel painting the ruins of a mill ahead of him. A brook runs by the mill and trees are visible behind.

View of the corner of Amity and South Pleasant Streets after the fire of December 9, 1926. The ruins of the Amherst House are visible, as well as the east side of the Amherst Cinema building. The Jones Library was operating on the second floor of the…

A tumbling brook with the remains of an old mill in a forest setting on a branch of Amethyst Brook, locally known as "Valley Brook."

A woman and two boys (possibly Margaret C. Johnson, wife of Roger Johnson, and her two sons Stephen and Charles) looking down into the stream at the site of an old mill. A large section of the mill lies on the ground in the right foreground. Woods…

Interior of a ruined brick four story men's house Second Family. Caption reads: accidentally burned by Elder Pick.