Anonymous

“ This first hotel was the Pleasant Street Hotel, built around 1800 on East Street where the current fire house is. High Street was the northern way out of town at that time. Bootman's Store was across from the hotel. ”

“ And he believes he is the boss.
It now is sold to T. R. Barrett,
I understand he will repair it,
He rented it to Hoffman next,
I do not mean the Governor EX.
A man by name of S. H. Preston,
Built under the hill to learn us a lesson,
That two hotels was better than one,
And kept it himself when it was done.
This was the second hotel in town. Preston bought the land from Adin Deming, the first settler in the area. He built the hotel sometime between 1840 and 1843 at the location of the current Bank/Post Office building He run it quite a spell ”