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Picture Somers - Then And Now
An old photograph and story from Somers history, and how that site appears today.
SOMERS, CT — Once again we dive into the amazing photo book, Images of America: Somers, compiled in 2001 by Jeanne Kenyon DeBell for the Somers Historical Society. Today's trip lands on page 11, and a look at an undated picture of a former tavern on the southwest corner of the junction of Routes 83 and 190.
Known as the Fuller-Bugbee House, the building housed town offices on the lower floor before the current town hall was built. The Masonic order conducted meetings in the ballroom on the third floor.
In the early 1950s, the building was demolished and replaced with a gas station. Today, a gas station still occupies the premises at 580 Main Street, as evidenced by this photo I took recently.
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