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Rawlins Cross, St. John's

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Rawlins Cross takes its name from the Rawlins family who had a grocery store there from at least 1864. Another early business was grocer, James G Pennicuick. T J Eden later had a grocery business in Rawlins Cross, which was bought out by W J Murphy in 1919, as well as O'Mara-Martin Drugs,
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for the city that was manually operated by a police constable. A commemorative plaque for the St. John's Electric Light Company is located at Rawlins Cross, although the business was established on nearby Flavin Street in 1885.
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established in 1892. W J Murphy had initially worked in the drugstore, and T J Eden's before establishing a grocery store nearby at the top of Prescott Street.
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landmark. Military Road, built in 1773, was one of the first roads in this area that joined
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Human settlement in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Parks Canada: "Fort Townshend National Historic Site of Canada".
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