This Week in Chester History…

In 1960, a two-and-a-half story building and four-car garage on the E.A. Taylor farm on the North Road burned until destroyed, reported the Observer-Tribune. No one was injured, but the Ellis Burd and Henry Blokzyl families (10 people total) were left homeless as a result. Also burned that week were three cars when a fire broke out in a garage owned by Walter Patrey.