Silver’s Drug Shop
519 Campbell Avenue, at Main Street. Family service, employment, the soda fountain, and the later life of the Wood Building. The 2012 image shows the successor Silver Dollar storefront, after Silver’s closed.

id: WHSD-001
title: The Wood Building after Silver’s, 2012
kind: Photographs
date: 2012-04-28
summary: The half-timbered Wood Building viewed across Main Street and Campbell Avenue. The Silver Dollar successor storefront is visible; Silver’s Drug Shop had closed six years earlier.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Haven_Main_and_Campbell_110.JPG
credit: Pedro Xing / Wikimedia Commons
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id: WHSD-002
title: Silver’s Drug Shop, Part III
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2017-06-01
summary: Family succession and the 1927 baby letter.
url: https://westhavenvoice.com/historians-corner-3/
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notes: Oral-history article by Dan Shine. Images and letter reproduction are linked only; no reuse clearance established. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: WHSD-003
title: Silver’s Drug Shop, Part IV
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2017-06-07
summary: Employee memories of work and community.
url: https://westhavenvoice.com/historians-corner-4/
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id: WHSD-004
title: Silver’s Drug Shop, Part V
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2017-06-21
summary: Soda fountain, medication delivery, and closure.
url: https://westhavenvoice.com/historians-corner-6/
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id: WHSD-005
title: Former Silver’s site gets a dollar store
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2010-05-08
summary: 2010 report independently confirms the 1919–2006 business dates.
url: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Former-Silver-s-site-in-downtown-West-Haven-11599969.php
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id: WHSD-006
title: Vacant Silver’s site and proposed grocer
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2023-02-13
summary: 2023 reporting with Arnold Gold exterior photographs.
url: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/west-haven-s-silver-s-drug-shop-site-home-new-17781203.php
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id: WHSD-007
title: Silver’s Drug Store — Franz Photo
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Date not established
summary: Photographer identifies the former West Haven drugstore.
url: https://www.flickr.com/photos/franzphoto/7154669146/
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id: WHSD-008
title: Supporting source: westhavenvoice.com
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source consulted September 2026
summary: Supporting source for the collection history and chronology.
url: https://westhavenvoice.com/new-market-opens-at-former-silvers-site/
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