And Clappville.
Industrialist Joshua Clapp, his influence so grand, was recognized in the 1800s with his own section of town, to the south, at the Oxford border. The area is now part of the Rochdale village.
Clapp's mansion is pictured in our Then photo. The home, was located on the eastern end of the Common. It's gone now.
The mansion was built in 1833, amid Leicester's emergence as an industrial powerhouse, dotted with textile and carding mills.
The Western Railroad line and the landscape's many brooks lured mill owners, some from next-door Worcester, the county seat.
Clapp was educated at Leicester Academy and worked for years as a commission merchant in Boston.