Good Morning, I live in North Easton and have all my life and grew up hearing the stories of the Ames Shovel Shop. We have quite a few large castle like homes in Easton that belonged to this family but most have since been sold. The Ames Shovel Shop is still standing and various businesses have been in there thru the years. They no longer make shovels there. When I was young I remember hearing stories and seeing pictures of the joining or the east and west with the railway at Promontory Point, Utah and the picture shows some men standing with shovels and at least one of them was an Ames as their shovel were used to put in the railway. It is a beautiful stone building and there has been talk of a developer going in and making them into housing, etc. Right side of the Shovel Shop is the Easton Historical Society which is housed in the old Old Colony Railroad Station. They have occasional open houses where their collection of old pictures of Easton are on display. Just some thoughts. Carol Sherman Houghton