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1840's
Main street and Market street extended through the Public Square and thus divided the Square into four parts.
The streets around the four sides of the Square were taken up mainly by business buildings, but to some extent by residences. These buildings were generally of frame, two stories high, and this was true of the great majority of the buildings in the town, brick buildings being an exception.
The buildings on the north and east side of the Square were destroyed by fire in the 1850's and replaced by brick buildings three or four stories high. The southside of the Square was rebuilt in brick somewhat earlier and the west side many years later. (George R. Bedford)
