The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-23

not recall. The East Gaylord school vas not as large as the present Hc..dricken school, but it stood on the same spot. Henry Byrnes, one of the pillars of the church and prominent in the affairs of the old Catholic Temperance society resid- ed 4n the homestead at the cor- ne- of Niagara street. The Null villes were in nice white house on the opposite corner, where a gas station is now in operation. The Mahers lived next, and then the two homesteads of the two Byrnes families. Kelley's Farmer home came next, then Keeney's, and the house at the corner of the Meriden road. The old Porter homestead, brick and stone, was opposite the present tennis grounds and there was not another house | .il the Southmayd road was reached, that of the late James Porter. The old shear shop was on the site of the present Mattatuck plant. The few houses on the east side of Southmayd road were erect ed back in the days, they tell us, when cotton mill was there, even before the shear shop.
 Mill Plain was farm land. There was a tan factory run by one Wm. Rutter, with water ob- tained from the present pond emptying into Mad river. Rutter's h. e. on the edge of the pond, was show place in those days. It still stands, too, on the north side of the road, near the new bridge. I Niagara Street . groves, the Degnans, the McMa- hons and the Cummings. The Gal la. hers, Crandalls and Wilson's comprised the population of Orch ard street.
 Wolcott street was made up of the Cullums, the McKanes, the Noonans, the McKeons, the Me- Mahons, the Marleys, the Wallaces, the McDonalds, the Mahers. the Dalys, the Ryans, the Driscolls, the Cunninghams, the Shearons, Dugg ans. the Prestons, the Reids and Elises, the Scaddens, and the McCauleys, John G. Gallaghers, the Brombergs and the Weltons lived with the Kilburns on the ex- treme end. Walter Gillette, a woodman, Pritchard, and old Lcvigne Warner, Mark Warner and the Frisbies and the Garthwaites also lived on the Wolcott road. The deceased Andy Ashborn had pie nic grove on his land, off the Woodtic road.
 Little Rutledge street, leading to the old Meriden railroad depot on Dublin street had only two houses, where the Germans lived in one, and the Hayes in the other.
 Wall street had the Bergins, the uniertakers, the Kenneys, the Layhes. the Monzanis, the How al |, the Delaneys, the Johnsons, the F!annerys. the Walshs, the Rafters, the Flynns, the good old Corden family, the Daltons, the Tynans the Myers family, the Cos groves, the Farrels, the Meehans and the Riordons, the Glynns. the Higgins, the Learys, the Careys, the Savers, the Brickleys, the Lo- oh0g iAiS 4(SL " llAo dHO IHC Laurel street, new at the time or shortly afterwards, had the Wolffs, the Reileys, and Jim Phalen, the tea man.
 The only families in and around the present Oak and Court streets were Tom Lynch and his family, and the Walsh family. The Mulville a..iily lived nearer to Walnut street, but were members of the Sacred Hears parish.
 Dublin Street
 Among the Old Dublin street families were the Burns, the Cluneys. the Moneys, the Yhomp- sons, the Gleasons, the Brophys, the 'Ropers, the Kennedys. the Doraps. the Duggans, the Dun phys, the Boylans, the Tobins, the Sla', ins, the Ryans, the Devoys, the Smiths, the Bowes, the Lyons, the Keenans; and the Campions.
 Silver street was made up in part of the Bloomfields, the O'Connors, the Cosses, the Farrels, and more Slavins.
 Remember, in those days. we were all working, some of us, most of us in the old spoon shop. where the good old Hamilton family look ed after our interests. More of US could be found in Scovills;' others of us were at "Hitchcok's," the pr sent Waterbury Mfg. Co. Some of us, especially our girls, found employment in the Platt Bros. shop on Brown street and the box shops on Bank street and Canal street. Some were employed at Steel & Johnson's and also at the Burton and Buckle factories. There were some, foo. who worked in the brass