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From The Telegraph Files

By Staff | Oct 24, 2020

Telegraph file photo Longtime Nashuans may recall shopping at the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company – "the A & P" for short – in the 1960s and 70s, until the former P. E. Fletcher company moved in sometime around 1980. When Fletcher's moved to Amherst Street, this building was taken down to make room for a new Rite Aid store, which occupies the site today. The property has a rich history: for moe than a century, a stately, 10-room 19th-century home stood on this spot, at 331 Main St., which was occupied for decades by prominent Nashua teachers and historians Annie and Adella Goodrich. Shortly after they died in the mid-1950s, the late Attorney Richard Leonard bought the house, had it sliced into two sections and moved to a lot on Farmington Road, where he and his family lived, and which is still a private residence today.

Longtime Nashuans may recall shopping at the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company – ‘the A & P’ for short – in the 1960s and 70s, until the former P. E. Fletcher company moved in sometime around 1980. When Fletcher’s moved to Amherst Street, this building was taken down to make room for a new Rite Aid store, which occupies the site today. The property has a rich history: for moe than a century, a stately, 10-room 19th-century home stood on this spot, at 331 Main St., which was occupied for decades by prominent Nashua teachers and historians Annie and Adella Goodrich. Shortly after they died in the mid-1950s, the late Attorney Richard Leonard bought the house, had it sliced into two sections and moved to a lot on Farmington Road, where he and his family lived, and which is still a private residence today.

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