A&P store center photo. Ashland Maine. Firehouse upper photo at about 1 o'clock.

Home! And everything has changed! The Catholic Church on the corner is gone, and so are the A&P store and the fire station. I grew up in the house next door to the fire station. My dad's hardware store was between the fire station and our house, and the Dorman house was across the street. Keep going down this street and you will pass the "Congo" Church and the cemetery on the left on the way to Sheridan.

I got the Catholic Church and A &P right.....good for a Garfield back roader, Aye ?

I got the Catholic Church and A &P right.....good for a Garfield back roader, Aye ?

Congregational Church visible top left edge. US Post Office now where Catholic Church was. Bottom of pic would be roofs of Chasses' Dept. Store and Michauds' IGA. That's Snowmans' Hardware Store between the A&P and Firehouse. It's level, now, in front of "The A&P" where there was a pretty good uphill grade.

I remember all of those places. Miss the area.

I use to serve Mass in the old Catholic Church on the corner. My brother Dick also served along with my cousins Ernie and John Michaud. Also their cousin Doug McGowan. I remember the old A&P. Think Charlie Reed was the manager there. My Uncles Norman and Lawrence had the IGA just across the street. Think the building next to the Church parking lot was Dr.; Orr's place. He was the dentist in the town. Had a son named Bob. Think Bob was wounded in Korea.

Frank wasn't that Jim May's old house that burned in the early 80 at the top left ?

Wanted to add the small building just behind A&P and before the firehouse was the phone company's switching building. Analog switching station. I remember the door being open while being with my father at the fire house. The loud click,click, clicking sound that came out of it.

Ashland Library was on top floor of the fire station.

Yes, I spent many hours getting books from the library and "dreaming" about life outside Ashland. Now I dream
of life back in Ashland.

we lived up over the A & P store. Dr.and Francis Varnum eith lived their too or he had an office there. I used to babysit the Norman and Lawrence Michaiud kids.. my brother-in-law had the insurance co.-- Charlie Coffin..I also remember Dr.Orr, the library, and would go to the cathoic church sometime with Lorraine Pelletier Beaulier...hen we lived down at Art Coffin Farm, then on Exchange street...across the street from Elizabeth Gallop..what memories

Some additions to above. It was Henry Reed who managed the former A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company). The building is still there, but has been upgraded by Mahlon Page, the current owner. There is a rent and a beauty parlor within the building.
The catholic church is gone and is now part of the parking lot for the new U.S. Post Office constructed and leased out by Mahlon Page. The Dr. Orr building is gone and the lot has been replaced by an automated car wash constructed by Alan Levesque.

The old post office was to the right side of the A&P Store, the two cars to the right of the parking space is parked where the entrance to the post office. I use to go get Grammy Grace Alward's mail every day (P.O. box 66, amazing what we can remember)

A&P (B&M Grocery) and St Marys Catholic Church on corner of Sheridan (AKA Mill ) road and Rt 11 (Station Hill), Old Fire Station behind the A&P and Building behind Church was at one time the Ashland Health Cllinic

I was born in Dr.Handley Orr's house in 1948. My father was Handley orr, his brothers were Nathan,John, and Robert. Dr. Handley Orr died in 1956 and is buried in the cemetery down the street on Sheridan Rd.

Has been 5 or 6 years since I have been up that way. All my Uncles on the Michaud and Beaulieu side are gone. Just want to see what has changed if there has been any changes to see.

Handley Orr, WHERE are you now? My mother was Hazel Cain McHatten who would be a cousin to you. I was 11 when Handley died but remember him well as my mother visited there often. We lived in Masardis.

Lynwood, I’m Handley J. Orr’s sister Linda. I believe your father (?), Lynwood McHatten was a pall bearer for our grandfather Dr. Orr. I saw that in either the obituary or a newspaper article.