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"It is no longer a cluster of officers’ quarters and workmen’s abodes grouped around the central shops; but Company Shops is a beautiful town of with eight or nine hundred inhabitants…containing buildings not only substantially but tastefully and handsomely constructed…and each house has the advantage of convenient isolation; and surrounded with beautiful trees and luxuriant shrubbery, and blessed with its nice gray soil forms a pretty picture of urban life as could well be imagined."
Hillsborough Recorder, August 29, 1877

 
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