Anthony McManus
Many people may not think of Dover as a particularly hilly area, but in fact, from its very early years a number of locations have been identified specifically as heights of land.
In today s world, with paved roads and structures of various kinds spread about, the landscape may seem more flattened and we may not be totally aware that we are dealing with some fairly dramatic inclines. A motor vehicle makes it seem easy. But think for a minute about our forbears in the 1700s and 1800s pushing a wheelbarrow or trying to maneuver a horse and wagon, the principal modes of transport of the times, on a muddy or icy unpaved roadway from one of the warehouses along the waterfront up the lower portion of Portland Avenue, or up what is now Rogers Street, slipping and sliding up or down what we know as George or Hanson streets, going south the length of Henry Law Ave (back then Payne Street), or (even today under some winter conditions) heading toward the hospital on Ce