The Horse Sheds, kind of an old-style parking garage for horses and buggies,
was located where the lower parking lot is now at the town hall. It had a
heavy wood timber frame and was about 44 feet wide and 84 feet long, space
for fifteen horses and carriages. The town kept the horse-drawn road scraper,
fire wagon and spray wagon there too.
It was built in 1897 at a total cost of $1,300.00 by Eben Higgins of Dover. The outside was matched boards and battens painted the same tan color as the Town Hall. Galvanized corrugated sheet metal covered the roof and a four foot high weathervane with a beautiful brass horse on it topped off the ridge. It had a dirt floor when it was first built.
A large door on heavy counterweights faced Centre Street and slid up to open. A little window opening at each of the stalls had a wooden panel that was pulled closed in bad weather.
The Horse Sheds were taken down in 1922 along with the Old Town Hall when the present Townhouse was built.