Manchester developed three commercial hubs—the Village, the Center, and the Depot—and the Depot took its name and growth from the arrival of the Western Vermont Railroad in 1852. South of Route 11/30, originally the Flat Road and later Depot Street, the railroad depot expanded commercial opportunities for local businesses and stimulated growth in the surrounding neighborhood. In 1866, W.H. Fullerton moved his marble business to a new site along the tracks, where he shipped more than 70,000 marble tombstones for Civil War soldiers. After returning from the war, John C. Blackmer opened a dry goods store in a small brick building and later established the New York Store, a high-end emporium, in a two-story brick building at Elm and Centre streets, while also building his home between them and predicting a village would rise around him. The New York Store became the Colonial Theater in 1919. Growth continued in 1882 when John Davis established a large hardware and tin business, and that building became a popular movie theater in 1935. Behind it, E. N. Abramson opened the Arrowhead Store, selling groceries, fruits, and vegetables. Across Elm Street, the gabled building opened as Pettibone's Drugstore in the early 1880s and has housed a succession of small businesses ever since. J. H. Couture had the gabled building on the right constructed for his cash-only dry goods business in 1906, and from the 1940s through the 1960s it housed the popular Reed's Soda Fountain. Private homes built in the late 1800s gave the Depot its characteristic blend of small commercial buildings and comfortable residences.