Abel Snow House (1777)

At 4 Maple Street in Chester is the Abel Snow House. Newspapers dating to 1777 and 1785 were found in the walls of the house, indicating its most likely date of construction. Purchased by Abel Snow in 1824, the house was a divided dwelling with retail stores in the nineteenth century and continues today with two apartments above with a retail store below. During a twentieth-century restoration, a small room was found sealed-off from the rest of the house; it is believed someone had once hanged himself in this room in the nineteenth century.