Another postal card of the same era is shown below, with a view of the Center from the area now occupied by the Oxford House, looking southwards on the Oxford Road. In the foreground can be seen the Oxford Hotel, now the Oxford House.

    It is said that the Oxford Grange held its first meeting and installation of officers in the rooms above the Oxford Hotel.
    Across the street can be seen a green, with Academy road going up towards Riggs Street. On that green there is now a stone memorial to war veterans.
    Between the corner of Governor's Hill and the Oxford Hotel there stood an old barn. It is said the barn housed old town records prior to the construction of the present town hall.

    "About one mile and a half south from the center is the 'Park,' formerly a place for deer. About eighty or ninety years since, a Mr. Wooster owned and enclosed about one hundred acres of land for the purpose of keeping deer. It is said that he had the exclusive privilege by law of restraining any person from hunting deer within the limits of 'the Park'. Upon the outside of part of the enclosure there was a kind of a precipice, from which the deer, when pursued, would sometimes leap into the enclosure, much to the mortification and disappointment of unprivileged hunters."