Woodbridge Pizza in Manchester is the most recent occupant of a building erected c. 1898. Commercial structures have occupied the site, at 489 Middle Turnpike East, since the early nineteenth century. At the time the area was a village known as Manchester Green. Its settlement predated the incorporation of Manchester as a town in 1823. The community’s post office, dating to 1808, was originally located across the street in the Woodbridge Tavern, but had been moved to the store by Wells Woodbridge. Located next door is a house built by Wells’ brother, Deodatus Woodbridge. Woodbridge and Keney operated the store in the 1840s. and E. P. Hatch had a store and post office in the 1860s. At one point the store was owned by J. B. Williams, who would later found a famous soap factory in Glastonbury.
