Here at the corner of Westway and Willow, you can get the feeling of what this busy village must have looked like in the mid-19th century.  Picket fences lined the right of way, keeping stray horses and cattle out of gardens and chickens and other livestock off the road.  Most of the houses were still small in scale, sited close to the road for a good view of the neighbors, the older homes updated with Italianate loggias or porches, like the house built by Lot Bulkley in the early 1800s at 14 Willow Street.  Now, like then, most homes were covered with clapboard painted white, their windows trimmed with working green painted shutters that closed tight on a hot summer afternoon, kept out the sun’s heat, the flies, and the roadside dust.