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12/29/07
A local historian experienced one of those "Oh, my goodness!" moments earlier this month when she ran across a collection of more than 100 well-documented photos of Eastport, taken in the 1930s. 
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In 1934, workers installed a 39-inch sewer line along Chester Avenue. The low wall along the street was made of “pillow block,” a rough-sided block that historian Jeff Holland said was made in Oscar Prann’s block factory on what is now 2nd Street.Find Us On Facebook
The black-and-white pictures were shot between October 1933 and September 1937, and show a place of modest businesses, dirt roads and an 18 mph speed limit.
View slideshow. "Eastport was a village, it had a village-like quality as soon as you crossed that (Spa Creek) bridge," the historian, Ginger Doyel, said recently as she looked at the stack of...
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