Upper Village

Businesses and residences in the Upper Village and the area around the intersection of Main and Elm Street, which officially became known as Yarmouthville in 1882, are listed below, roughly from west to east.

[3] After his death in 1811, the family of Dr. William Parsons moved into a colonial home, built around 1790 by its first occupant, Ebenezer Corliss, where the single-storey building now stands at the corner of Main and West Elm Streets.

It formerly housed Peck's pool hall,[5] Harriman's IGA Foodliner, and Turner's Television sales and service business.

Edgar Read Smith's grocery store, later that of Sam York, was located to the east of the Parsons residence.

[4] The building that housed George H. Jefferd's harness shop (today's 358 Main Street) was built in 1890.

In 1935, a 31-year-old Anderson combined the two wooden buildings of Griffin's and an adjacent grocery store (which sold produce "at Portland prices").

[1] Ernest C. Libby was an employee with the Moxceys for thirteen years before opening his own barber shop on Center Street.

[15] Elmer Ring's "washerette" later stood in the Coombs location, and it was he who changed the roofline and façade of the building.

[17] Captain Eben York's mansion at 326 Main Street (occupied since 1910 by the Parish Office of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church next door).

[18] Where Peachy's Smoothie Cafe stands today at 301 Main Street was, from 1905 until 1913, Bernstein's Department Store.

James O. Durgan's daguerreotype salon (located just to the east of the hotel; later Gad Hitchcock's coffin and casket showroom).

[21] Alson Brawn's jewelry shop (at what was then 73 Main Street; formerly Sidney Bennett's Yarmouth Market, now Hancock Lumber).

[1] An elm tree in front of Marston's store had a bulletin board nailed to it, upon which local residents posted, as early as 1817, public notices, circus posters and satirical comments about town affairs.