Poplar Street was laid out on a July 1706 map and received its name by 1799. It was reshaped by two fires: an 1892 fire destroyed buildings on the High Street end, and a 1929 blaze took out structures on the Gay Street end. Some of the buildings were reconstructed in brick between the 1930s and 1950s.
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