Petticoat Hill got its interesting name in the town’s earliest years, reportedly from its female residents’ many petticoats flapping in the breeze on wash day, visible at a distance from Village Hill and elsewhere. Several large families who settled near the hilltop were particularly rich in daughters. The road up from what later became the village center was always steep and arduous, especially in winter, and it was one of the last roads in town to be widened to two lanes and paved. Some sections still looked (and felt!) as primitive as this old 1907 post card image right into the 1980s, when more than a dozen new houses appeared along it. #throwbackthursday; #tbt
Posted to Facebook 6/24/2021
