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- Schenectady Gazette, September 19, 1912 (Under Mechancville news items): Charles Hurd is constructing a concrete blacksmith shop in North State Street on the site formerly occupied by the cobblestone house, which was a landmark.
- Schenectady Gazette, October 25, 1912 (Under Mechanicville news items): Alvah Ames has the new concrete shop for Charles Hurd, nearly completed. This is the first concrete building of this mode of construction in that village. It stands on the site of what was one of the oldest buildings in the village, the old cobblestone house on the tow path, which was razed to make room for the new building.
Note from Paul Loatman, Mechanicville City Historian: "Charles & John Hurd worked as wheelwrights at Dodd's Wagon/Carriage Shops in 1897 on Park Avenue & South State St., the formal name of the canal tow path running on the east side of the Champlain Canal which is now Central Avenue.
"This is about a block south of Hill Street where the Fort cobblestone house in question was located. Apparently, the Hurds decided to go into business themselves and built a shop at the top of the northeast corner of Hill Street within 150 yards of the cobblestone house on what the article says was the scene of a previous cobblestone house."
