Photo courtesy of the Norfolk Historical Society

Emerson Street is pictured about 1903 when it was known as Emerson Place. The house partly visible on the far right belonged to Isabella Beecher Hooker, who summered in Norfolk. Hooker worked for over 30 years for the cause of women’s suffrage. Next door was the home of Charles Pulver, who operated his business, Camp & Pulver Market Gardeners, out of his house. The last house on the right, just before the curve in the road, belonged to William Thurston. Thurston was a plumber and had a store on Greenwoods Road (Main Street). His daughter Ruby kept scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings and memorabilia dating from 1906 through the 1950s. Twenty-six volumes are now in the collection of the Norfolk Historical Society. 

—Ann Havemeyer