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Trecarten - Stanton Genealogy The PDF file below starts with a 1912 photograph of the Clemons - Stanton - Trecarten clan along with a few other names. Each is identified on the following page. The next pages show family trees for the Stanton and Trecarten generations. This account ends with four hand-written pages with details of how they arrived in Bartlett and information about their farms and residences. For this editor, it connects some familiar names with their ancestry. EDITOR'S NOTE: SOURCE: As I have previously mentioned, I have been collecting Bartlett History items for about 30 years. In a recent sorting of files I discovered the document you see below. I think it came to me from Dale Trecarten many years before his death.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Historic Lodging Places Intervale Area THE NEW ENGLAND INN Has a long and interesting history. We will post it here when it's all put together. Before it was the New England Inn it was the BLOODGOOD FARM. The Eastern Slope of the White Mountains was still a vast, untamed wilderness when the original farmhouse was built on this site by Samuel Bloodgood, in 1809. The Bloodgood farm was famous for its hospitality from the first and remained so during Samuel’s life and those of his sons and grandsons. Among the third generation, Lyle Bloodgood had been a handsome, young and talented actor. Returning in later life after extensive travels, he often regaled his guests with tales of the state. His most exciting story was an eye-witness account of Lincoln’s assassination. He had been one of the performers at Ford’s theater in Washington on that fatal night.It was some years before this, in the late 1830s, that the farm had in fact become an inn, the owners setting a sign at the roadside to invite the traveling public to their hearth and board. The Hampshire House , across the street from the Inn. was acquired by the Inn and later remodeled to a more modern era. Intervale Page 1 Intervale Page 2 Intervale Page 3 Intervale Page 4 Intervale Page 5 Previous The Emerson Inn was renamed to The Maple Villa during the 1920's. It burned to the ground in 1948. Anybody ever heard of "Broadview" in 1924 ? May 2011: Judy Curtis & Eliza Jane Curtis Know all about this cottage and provided the following information: This was one of two neighboring summer cabins built in the early 1900's by each of the Burdett brothers, who founded Burdett College in Boston . The cabins are still standing, on Burdett Road (off 16A, across from Intervale Farm) in Intervale. The uphill cabin, built by C Fred Burdett, was named Intervale Overlook and the lower cabin (pictured on this postcard) was named Intervale Broadview . This cabin was built as a summer house for Charles Burdett and his wife Anna Burdett, who had two daughters, Camilla and Anne, whose signature is on that postcard. Their year-round residence was at 7 Mishawum Road in Woburn, Mass , which is now home of the Woburn Historical Society. Charles was the artistic one of the two brothers, excelling in calligraphy, hence leading into the business school. His delight in artistry can be seen in the Japanese influenced roof line of the cottage. The cabin pictured on this postcard is no longer in the Burdett family, though the other more rustic cabin, Overlook, remains in the Burdett family. NOTE: Here is a link to the Burdett mansion i n Woburn, now home of the Woburn Historical Society: Pittman Pitman Hall was spectacular while it lasted. Built in 1905 it burned in 1930 The Pitman Family were an industrious lot for sure. One can find their name attached to at least a half dozen substantial hotels in the Intervale Area. Some were Judges, Lawyers, Pharmacists, teachers, or just plain ole farmer folk. You can read a full accounting of each relative and what they did at this link. Pitman's Arch - Named in honor of Lycurgis for his devotion to the Town, Pitman residence - have photo Alice Pendexter - wife of John Pitman 1774 had 11 children Angivine - another proprietor of East Branch House - died in 1880 Benjamin - Built Cedarcroft 1800 Doris - Daughter of William, returned after retirement from a teaching career in 1941 to a home she and her sister built on the site of the East Branch House that burned. Ella - First wife of George Gale, Maple Villa's owner Intervale Page 1 Intervale Page 2 Intervale Page 3 Intervale Page 4 Intervale Page 5 Lodging Preface Upper Village Area Glen Area Intervale Area Historic Lodging Map NewEnglandInn BloodgoodFarm Hampshire House EmersonInn MapleVilla Broadview Burdett Pitman Hall

SECTION - D - E - F - , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Forman Barbara J. Forman of North Conway, passed away on Tuesday, December 28, 2010. She was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and moved to the Mount Washington Valley in the late 1970s. She is survived by her four daughters and their families: Jennifer Forman and her wife Rachel Silverstein of Seattle, Wash., Elizabeth “Betsy” Merrill and her husband Jonathan Merrill of Barrington, Maryanne Affolter, her husband Jarrett Affolter, and her son Mitchell Affolter of Statesville, N.C., and Holly Bell, her significant other Craig Keaveny, and sons Thomas Bergen and Jamison Keaveny, of North Conway. Barbara also leaves behind her beloved fiancé, Gerald Farrington of Center Conway. Her love of her daughters and grandchildren gave her great joy in life. She was not only a mother to her daughters, but a friend. She enjoyed sewing and other crafts to give to her children and grandchildren. She loved to shop with her daughters and close friends and was always on the lookout for the best bargain. Her family and friends will miss her dearly. Visiting hours will be held at Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway, on Monday, Jan. 3 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Memorial contributions may be sent to Furber and White Funeral Home, P.O. Box 498, North Conway, NH 03860 Elizabeth Eliason garman: Elizabeth Dorsey Eliason Garman, 71, of Chesley Drive, Durham, NH died Tuesday November 30, 1993 at her home. Mrs. Garman was born April 29, 1922 in Carroll County Maryland and was the daughter of Milton and Nellie E (Bennett) Dorsey. She lived in Bartlett, NH for over 20 years and had lived in Durham since 1970. She attended Washington College in Chestertown, MD many years ago and was a recent graduate of UNH. Mrs Garman has been a co-owner of Sky Valley Motel in Bartlett since 1946, was a former president of the Bartlett PTA and was a member of Christ Church Episcopal in North Conway. She was an active member of St. George's Episcopal Church in Durham and was head of the Altar Guild and was active in the Church Fair and Thrift Shop for many years. She enjoyed cooking and was well known for her cinnamon rolls. She had been a member and served on the board of directors of A.R.A in Durham. Survivors include her husband of 11 years, Earl M. Garman of Durham. Two sons, David Eliason of Bartlett NH and "Hap" Eliason of Sunderland, VT; three daughters, Sylvia Needel of Canastota, NY, Cynthia Eliason and Susan Eliason, both of Bartlett, a stepdaughter, Kathleen Ann Uebel of Pittsford, NY; 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren; a sister, Mildred Costin of Baltimore, MD; many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a son, Douglas Bruce Eliason who died in 1969 at only 19 years. Visiting hours will be held Thursday from 7-9 p.m. at the Kent and Pelczar Funeral Home, 41 East Exeter Street, Newmarket, NH. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at St. George's Episcopal Church in Durham with Rev. Albert Snow, rector, officiating. Graveside services will be held at the Bartlett Village Cemetery on Friday at 2 p.m. Flowers are acceptable or should friends desire, memorial donations may be made to the Altar Guild, St. George's Episcopal Church, PO Box 626, Durham, NH 03824. Alan Eliason of Chestertown, Maryland and Bartlett New Hampshire died on August 9, 2013 at Chester River Manor after a brief illness. He was 92. He was born in Chestertown on March 30, 1921 the son of the late Thomas Wilson and Marguerite Cree Eliason. He owned and operated Eliason Photographic Studio in Chestertown during the 1940's. He built and operated the Sky Valley Motel in Bartlett from 1950 until 1975. He was a Realtor with the Wimpy Thurston Agency and later Country Squire Realty in North Conway during the late 1950's until the early 1970's. He was instrumental in several community developments at Saco Ridge in Bartlett, Cathedral Ledge Village in North Conway and Tyrol in Jackson. He was a multi-talented man and it seemed there was nothing he didn't know how to do. He had a wonderful long life. (Picture was taken July 2013) He is survived by his wife Louise Avent Eliason, his children: Alan Dorsey Eliason, Sylvia Eliason Needel, David Alan Eliason, Cynthia Eliason Brown, and Susan Walker Eliason, his siblings: Mary Margaret Forney, John Cree Eliason, David Mead Eliason, and Walker Cree Eliason. He is also survived by grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren. He was predeceased by a brother, Thomas W Eliason, Jr and a son, Douglas Bruce Eliason. Graveside services will be held privately at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Kent in Chestertown. Arrangements by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home Chestertown.--------------- -DOUGLAS ELIASON Douglas Bruce Eliason 18, died Nov 22, 1969 in Bartlett. He was born Dec. 12 1950 in Chestertown, Maryland the son of Alan and Elizabeth Dorsey Eliason and had lived in Bartlett formthe past 15 years. He was a graduate of Kennett High School Class of 1969 and was attending The Laconia Technical Institute. Besides his parents, survivors include two brothers Alan D. Eliason (“Hap”) of Bartlett and SP 4 David A. Eliason Institute Brigade – Special Forces, Fort Bragg, NC; three sisters Mrs Sylvia Needel of Brookline. Mass, Mrs. Cynthia Landry of Orlando, Fla., and Miss Susan Eliason of Bartlet, his paternal grandfather, Thomas Eliason of Chestertown, Md , and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Brown of Baltimore Md. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at Christ Church Episcopal with the Rev Donald Nickerson officiating. Burial took place at the Bartlett Village Cemetery. Bearers were David Eliason, Alan D Eliason, Michael Landers, Stuart Needel, Douglas Williams and Allan Mallett. The Furber Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Linda P. Eliason, 76, of Rupert, Vermont passed away at her home on January 21, 2023. Linda was born in North Conway, NH; the daughter of the late Norman L. and Marion F. (Young) Pennett. She attended school in Conway, NH and graduated from Kennett High School. Linda was a woman of many talents with the eye of an artist and a passion for antiques. She was a respected restorer of vintage and antique traditional hooked rugs, and often joked about her career as a “hooker”. Linda was an avid reader, loved gardening, jazz and cooking, and enjoyed the occasional glass of single malt Scotch. Linda is survived by her daughters Beth Eliason (Michael Cummings) of Ripton, VT and Heather Harding (William) of Pierre, South Dakota; her sister Norma Theo Pinette (Jerry Litofsky) of Baltimore, MD; grandchildren Morgan Czarnecki (Brad) of Rutland, VT; Zachary Golden (Kate Fuller) of Danby, VT; and Jayce Torri of St. Augustine, FL; her great grandchildren Blake and Layla whom she adored, and her beloved dog Isabelle. A celebration of life for Linda will be held Thursday February 2, 2023 from 4-6 pm at Brewster-Shea Funeral Home, 34 Park Place, Manchester Center, VT. If friends desire, memorial gifts in Linda’s memory may be made to the Foley Cancer Center in Rutland, VT or the Rupert Volunteer Fire Department, c/o Brewster-Shea Funeral Home, P.O. Box 885, Manchester Center, VT 05255. To send the family personal condolences please visit www.sheafuneralhomes.com On Aug. 15, 2019, Earle W. Fernald, 55, passed away from battling liver cancer. He was surrounded inside his home in Bartlett by family when he took his last breathes. He is survived by his wife, Leigh Fernald; three daughters, Crystal Bowles, Tania Fernald and Bambi Shackford; one stepson, Robert Cote; two sisters, Joanne Graves and Etta Hill; and seven grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents, Marilyn and George Fernald; brothers, Lawrence Fernald, Walter Fernald and John Fernald. He worked at Colemans when he became sick and worked for the Town of Bartlett for over 15 years before that. As of now, there will be no funeral services per his request but a graveside service will be held at a later date to be announced. =====================================-BACK TO -INDEX- =============== Robert O. Emerson, 73, of Bartlett, N.H., passed away peacefully with his family by his side on August 19, 2019 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice Center in Scarborough, Maine. He was born March 27, 1946, in Norway, Maine, to Vera Merrill Emerson and Edwin A. Emerson. He graduated from Oxford Hills High School in 1964, and joined the U.S. Air Force, serving from 1965-69. After gathering with so many others at Woodstock, Bob attended College at the Virgin Islands and entered into the hospitality world. He spent most of his life traveling and managing hotels and resorts, later retiring to the quieter side of the business and settling in Bartlett with his wife, Cheryl Pettengill Emerson, and son Aaron Charles Emerson. He is survived by his wife, daughter Casey Louise Hickey, son Ian Hickey and grandson John Oliver Hickey of Worcester, Mass., his sister, Mary Emerson, of Lovell, Maine, and several nieces and nephews. Visiting hours will be from 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Aug, 23, 2019, at Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway, N.H. Gifts in his memory may be made to the Visiting Nurse Home Care & Hospice of Carroll County, P.O. Box 432, North Conway, NH 03860 or the Bartlett/Jackson Ambulance P.O. Box 422, Glen, NH 03838. To send a message of condolence, or for more information, go to furberandwhite.com Kevin W. Donovan, 70, of Intervale, N.H., died peacefully at his home on January 29, 2020 with his family by his side. He was born on June 23, 1949, in Somerville, Mass., the son of the late Paul J. Donovan and Eileen C. Donovan, of Norwood, Mass. Kevin graduated from Norwood High School in 1967. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts in 1971 with a degree in economics, Kevin lived and worked in greater Boston before moving to the Mount Washington Valley in 1976. He initially owned and operated his landscaping company, Mountainside Landscape Design, prior to starting a long career at Cranmore Mountain spanning more than two decades as director of mountain operations (aka Mr. Kevin). He spent the following 16 years serving the public as a regional supervisor for the New Hampshire State Parks, before retiring in 2018. Kevin is survived by the love of his life for more than 40 years, Kathleen; his two sons, Kirk (Thomas) and Christopher (Kimberly), and his grandson; his siblings, Steven, Mary Ellen and Brian (Barbara) Donovan; and many nieces and nephews. Kevin lived an active life, animated by a love of the outdoors that shaped not just his working careers but his family life. He cherished camping trips with family and friends to Maine, coaching Bartlett Little League, and watching his kids ski race across the Valley. He also had a love of travel, going with his family to locations as varied as Ireland, Spain, Italy, the Alps of Austria, and road trips out West. Kevin shaped his life around the people and things that were most important to him, including the many lasting friendships that he made. The positive impact he had on people’s lives is immeasurable. The family would like to thank the Bartlett EMS and Drs. D. Riss, R. Rabideau and D. Evans for their professional care. Kevin touched many lives throughout the valley and beyond. A celebration to honor his life for friends and family will be held at Delaney’s Hole in the Wall restaurant in North Conway on Feb. 4 from 4 to 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, and to honor his memory, donations can be made to Jen’s Friends Cancer Foundation (P.O. Box 1842, North Conway, NH 03860). The Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of arrangements. ============================= ====== Stanley E. Davidson, 88, of Hudson, N.C ., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care — Robbins Center in Hudson. He was born June 3, 1931, in Woburn, Mass., to the late Stanley E. Davidson Sr. and Ruth Files Davidson. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his first wife, Madeleine S. Davidson, and son, Andrew W. Davidson. Survivors include his wife, Patricia E. Davidson; sons, David Davidson and wife, Tyha; and Mark Davidson and wife, Vivian; daughter, Joyce Cutts and husband, Jeffrey; Sue Davidson, widow of son Andrew; his sisters, Janet Patch, Ruth Dawkins and Temple Davidson; step-son, Allan Boyd; stepdaughter, Christine Bushey; grandchildren, Nicole Davidson, Yvonne Nicholas, Jonathan Davidson, Tyler Cutts, Robert Davidson, Kyle Bushey and Jacob Bushey; and great-grandson, Maxwell Nicholas. Stanley’s early years were spent in Woburn, Mass. He was educated in public schools in Woburn, Mass., The Tilton (prep) school located in Tilton, N.H., and Paul Smith’s College in Adirondack, N.Y., where he studied culinary arts and hospitality business management. In 1950, he was married to Madeleine Scott and they lived in the Boston area where he worked as a chef in a number of prestigious restaurants and managed food-service for some area hospitals. In 1954, Stanley and Madeleine both became Jehovah’s Witnesses, a faith that both were very active in until their passing. Stanley was very active in witness activities, including their door-to-door preaching work and public speaking assignments. He held positions of responsibility in the various congregations he and Madeleine attended in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He was also involved with larger responsibilities that involved the organization and management of conventions and larger gatherings and construction of places of worship (Kingdom Halls). In 1993, his wife of many years, Madeleine passed away after an extended illness. In 1995, he was remarried to Patricia Fitzmorris. Patricia has been his companion and help-mate since, sharing with him in his work with Jehovah’s Witnesses which included volunteer disaster relief work for hurricane victims in St. Kitts and Puerto Rico and other special assignments. In 1962, he became involved with the management of his father’s business and took a position as general manager of the Kearsarge Peg Co., Inc. in Bartlett, N.H. The company was a manufacturer of wooden shoe pegs (nails) used for boot and shoe manufacturing and as a consumable component in the surface finishing and polishing of metal and plastic parts. In 1979, he became the president and owner of the company. In 2002, the company was sold and he retired from the business. He and his wife, Patricia, moved to the Lenoir, N.C., area where he maintained a very active participation in the Bible educational work of Jehovah’s Witnesses until his passing. A memorial will be at held at two locations simultaneously on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 6 p.m. at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses at 750 21st St. Dr SE, Hickory, N.C., and Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 72 Webster St. in Lewiston, Maine. Online condolences may be sent to evansfuneralservice.com . Evans Funeral Service & Crematory is serving the family. Muriel L. Dana, 88, of Glen died January 29, 2018 at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin, following a sudden illness. Born in North Conway, the daughter of Neal and Reba (Reynolds) Crouse, she grew up in Intervale and moved to Glen in 1945. She attended Kennett High School in Conway and the married the love of her life, Harold W. Dana. Muriel had worked at the White Trellis Motel in North Conway, Storybook Inn in Glen and retired from Attitash Mountain Resort in Bartlett after 20 years. The family includes: two daughters, Brenda J. Medeiros and her husband Earl of Glen and Barbara J. Bowley of Rumford, ME; five grandchildren, Carla Placey Duval, Kevin Dana, Sarah Tower, Ashley Bowley and Madison Bowley; six great grandchildren; a sister, Marilyn H. Chappee of North Conway and several nieces and nephews. Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her daughter, Lenda Lou Dana. Memorial services will be held Saturday February 3, 2018 at 10 a.m. in the Glen Community Baptist Church with the Rev. William B. Rose, Jr. pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Glen Cemetery later in the spring. There will be no visiting hours. The Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of arrangements.0. Russell Fish, 73, passed away at Maine Medical Center on Jan. 17, 2021, after a series of illnesses. Russell was born in Revere, Mass., on July 23, 1947, and was the only son of Albert C. Fish and Ernestine Russell. Russ grew up in Massachusetts, but his heart was always in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He fi rst visited this area as a boy and helped his father build a home in Crawford Notch, which they called Jellystone. These trips to New Hampshire instilled in him a love of the mountains, hiking, and the outdoors. Russ met his future wife, Margaret (Trecarten) Fish, while they were both working at the Willey House one summer. They were married in 1969 and remained deeply committed to one another throughout their lives. Russell joined the United States Air Force and served his country in the Vietnam War as part of the Red Horse Squadron . He also served in the Strategic Air Command in North Dakota. He was an avid photographer and loved to take photos both while he was in Vietnam and while documenting two family trips to many of America’s national parks. Russ liked to claim that the family visited “some parks,” but Dan, Bec, and Katie are pretty sure that they have visited every Indian ruin in the continental United States. Over the course of his career, Russ worked on a number of prominent structures including the Mount Washington Observatory, the White Mountains School, and the nuclear power plant at Seabrook. However, some of his fondest memories were working with his trusted friend Mike Lynn building homes in the valley. Most people knew Russ as a private person, but his children and grandchildren fondly remember the hours that he spent with them building amazing treehouses, constructing and launching model rockets, playing a mean game of hearts, and teaching them to shoot at the gravel pit. Russ is survived by his former wife Peg Fish and three of his four children, Rebecca Fish (Jonathan Scanlon) of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Daniel Fish (Allyson Conley) of North Berwick, Maine; and Katherine Fish of Bartlett, N.H. Russell was predeceased by his daughter Amy Ruth Fish; and his sister Penny Spring. Russell is also survived by fi ve grandchildren, Jonathan Blackwell Russell Scanlon, Katherine Eleanor Scanlon, Alexander William Scanlon, Owen Russell Fish and Maggie Victoria Fish. Above all, Russ was a good man, who worked hard, and lived his life with decency and integrity. He left this world surrounded by the people he loved most, and he will forever be remembered as a beloved father and grandfather. The family plans a private viewing at Furber White Funeral Home this week. There will be a service and burial with full military honors at the Garland Ridge Cemetery in the spring of 2021. Arthur E. Junge-Dennison, 61, of Intervale, died April 29, 2011 at the Memorial Hospital in North Conway following a long illness. Born in Newton, Mass., the son of Arnold and Anna (Dempster) Dennison, he had lived in the Mount Washington Valley nearly 40 years. Arthur had worked for the State of New Hampshire and most recently was the attendant at the Scenic Rest Area in Intervale previous to his retirement. He was a U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and a member of the American Legion. He belonged to the National Rifle Association and was a former member of the North Conway Fire Department and Rescue Squad. Arthur adored his family and enjoyed photography, hunting, fishing and gardening. The family includes his wife of 32 years, Karen Junge-Dennison, of Intervale; a son, Andrew E. Junge-Dennison, of Intervale; a daughter, Aliana M. Lanciaux and her husband, Michel, of North Conway; a sister, Donna Budris and family, of Pleasanton, Calif; his father and mother-in-law, Ralph and Anna Junge, of North Conway; his sister-in-law, Kathleen Junge and her husband, Jeff, of Lyndeborough. Visiting hours will be held Friday, May 6, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway. Private graveside services will be held in the North Conway Cemetery at a later date. Dennison ElizabethEliason AlanEliason DougEliason EliasonLinda EarlFernald EmersonRobert DonovanKevin DavidsonStan MurielDana FishRuss BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE Egbert Thurston Merrell Egbert Jr. ("Sam") died on July 18, 2020 at the age of 90 with his only regret being that he did not live to be 100. Barbara Decker Egbert, his high school sweetheart and loving wife of 67 years, will miss him with all of her heart and cherish their long life and memories together. Thurston would be the first to tell you that he had a happy and lucky life filled with family, fun and friends. In business he had a successful career and in retirement he had his skis, his sailboat and his tennis racquet. Thurston was born in New Haven, Conn., moved often and met Barbara in 10th grade Spanish class at Passaic High School, Passaic, N.J. He attended Dartmouth College ('52, Sigma Alpha Epsilon) where he earned his bachelor's degree in English. He and Barbara wed right after he was commissioned in the Navy, where he was stationed in Norfolk, Va., during the Korean War. He was a proud Veteran who loved his country. After the Navy, he was a reporter for the Passaic Herald News until 1960 when he went to work for General Electric. In 1967, he moved with his family to Paris, France, to serve as chief press and public relations officer for GE's computer subsidiary, Machines Bull. In 1970, he was promoted to public relations manager for all of GE's European operations, based in Geneva, Switzerland and subsequently Brussels, Belgium. In that position he played a key role in GE's expansion throughout Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He returned to the United States in 1979 to serve on GE's corporate public relations staff with company-wide responsibility. He retired in 1987. At his winter home in New Hampshire, Sam was an avid skier known at Attitash for being in the first chair of the lift every day, all season and for being a proud member of the AOGAs (Attitash Old Goats Association). His trail reports were predictably consistent: It was always perfect! There was no such thing as a bad day of skiing, just bad clothing choices. He advised everyone to “give every day a chance because you don't know if you don't go!” At his summer home in coastal Maine, Sam sailed and played tennis every day. When not outdoors, he took great pleasure in completing the New York Times crossword puzzle in red ink, since he had learned to do that with his mother as a child. He loved his peaceful lifestyle. His life lessons will live on in his family: Susan, Rogers, Karolyn, Merrell, Kadie, Nataliya, Lauren and Matt. His son, Thurston Merrell Egbert III predeceased him and undoubtedly on Saturday night they had a three-olive martini together. It was Sam’s wish to avoid the formalities of services and to encourage everyone to appreciate their lives and find pleasure in the outdoors. The family sends grateful thanks to the medical professionals involved for their knowledge & kindness. Typical Sam, he had no patience for cancer. Please show support to Visiting Nurse Home Care & Hospice of Carroll County or The Bartlett-Jackson Ambulance Service in Bartlett, N.H. The Cremation Society of New Hampshire, Littleton is in charge of arrangements. To view an online tribute, send condolences to the family or for more information, go to csnh.com.-- Hansjoerg Ettel 79, of Bartlett, N.H., passed away at Maine Medical Center on Oct. 30, 2021, after a short illness. Born in Cologne, Germany, he was a professionally trained druggist, owning several shops, as well as a traditional Bavarian Inn in the Alps. His hobby of photography followed him to the United States when he moved here in 1970s. Joerg had lived in several parts of this country, but fell in love with the Mount Washington Valley while on a tour of New England. He decided to move to Bartlett and made this his home there for the next 40-plus years. But, he never lost his love for his “birth city,” proudly flying the city banner of Cologne in his front yard on West Side Road. He also retained his love of Formula 1 racing, Koelsch beer and German food. Always a great host, he would make authentic German Sauerbraten for his guests. And, dinner was always followed with a dessert to satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth, including his! Using his interest in photography he opened the Olde Time Photo booth at the Shops of Attitash, one of a number of craft shops organized for the summer operations at Attitash Ski Area. Joerg made many longtime friends among the other craft shop owners and visitors that came to Attitash during the summer months and to the Attitash Red Carpet Ski Shop, during the winter ski season. He joined the staff at Heaven’s Ski Shop in Glen, N.H., when it opened. Through his work, he met Forrester Clark and later became the caretaker of the family’s Wolfville property. Joerg became the face of Wolfville to the many generations of the Clark family and friends who visited the Bartlett property over the years. He managed and maintained the house and the grounds until his recent passing. Joerg was a friend to many and always ready to lend a helping hand. He was the perfect gentleman to all, strangers and friends alike, open but never one to pry. He will be greatly missed by all those he touched with his calm presence and caring attitude. Hansjoerg is survived by his son, Hansjoerg Jr. who lives in Germany. There is a celebration remembrance of Joerg being planned for the spring of 2022. Details to be announced when complete. ================== BACK TO -INDEX ========= Jan Gordon Filip III As Frank Sinatra occasionally sang,” I’m going to live until I die,” so could be said of Jan Gordon Filip III, who died peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 1, 2022. Born the youngest of three children near Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan, an adventurous spirit, was the only one from his family to flee his homeland. While weary of the rise of communism spreading throughout Czechoslovakia, Jan made the inconceivable decision at the age of 18 to literally “take a hike” by heading into the nearby mountains with just his backpack. It was there he was confronted by guards who believed the story of his going on a “hiking trip.” Later that night, under the threat of searchlights, he was able to give them all the slip and swim across the border to safety. After spending a couple years living at the U.S.-led refugee camp in Germany, he was fortunate to, as he would say, “seize the moment” in his current life by accepting a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the condition of joining the military at some point in the future. Since he was fluent in six languages, Jan was a natural candidate for the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Division where he served for four years. Not only was he able to receive a degree in civil engineering from Boston’s Northeastern University and MIT, he also was able to receive his U.S. citizenship, which was what he was aiming for all along. His influential decision to come to America was made easier by sponsorship from the Boy Scouts of America. As well as meeting up with Jan upon arrival in America, their Northeast Reginal Director helped him secure a job at Pine Knoll Camp in Albany, N.H. This summer counselor’s job eventually led to a blind date set up by Jan’s co-counselor with a girl from Glen, N.H. This could be another one of those moments in one’s life when something happens, as Jan so recently liked to ponder, that causes one to go in a totally different direction ... that is when he introduced himself to Stella Clark, proprietor of Storybook Inn in Glen, N.H., and mother to Charless Ann Tofft. That same day Stella would prophesize to her daughter that she had just met Charless’ husband! No surprise then for Stella when Jan and Charless married in Dec. 15, 1955, in Boston. They were to spend the next 61 years together raising four children and a number of exotic birds, bulldogs, cats and sheep, while running Storybook Inn and several other businesses in the Mount Washington Valley for the rest of their lives. Quite the storyteller, Jan liked to talk about how after taking over the helm at Storybook Inn in 1958, he was offered a job on the spot as an engineer to help with the project design of Routes 16 and 302 in Glen, and how he was instrumental in getting the state of New Hampshire to build the road so that it would go directly in front of the inn. Jan enjoyed telling the story of when he and his wife took over Storybook Inn after the death of Charless’ mother, they made the major decision in declining several local offers to buy the property. Apparently, the potential buyers felt the young couple could use some help with the inn’s $50,000 debt by offering them $50,000 for the property. With a lot of hard work and long hours throughout the years, they were able to pay off that $50,000 debt and secure a loan from the bank six years later to build 20 more units. Jan’s vision of building an ice cream store across the street became a reality when the doors to the Glen Dairy Queen opened in 1968. While Charless cooked and ran the inn’s restaurant, Jan ran the Dairy Queen, and they both shared in renting Storybook’s rooms. From then on about every decade some major expansion took place at Storybook Inn, to include six new buildings and one major renovation while becoming a Best Western hotel member for about 20 years. Over the years, Charless and Jan were able to acquire Sylvan Pines motel in North Conway, N.H., and the Red Apple Inn in Glen. Jan started The Breakfast Club restaurant in North Conway then 13 years ago replaced that building with a new Dairy Queen. About four or six years back, Jan received a beautiful golf cart for Father’s Day. Proud of his family roots and heritage, Jan made sure to display a sticker of the Czech flag on the golf cart. He enjoyed driving around the property on that bright yellow golf cart nodding to guests and employees. He was very much a lover of flowers, plants, shrubs and fruit trees and found pleasure in checking on them while out on his rides about the property. He would get a thrill when some of his house plants, especially the Christmas cactus, would bloom. He took great pride in the past two years for peddling on his exercise bicycle the distance in miles to peddle to California and back. His life revolved around his family and of course his businesses. He was supportive in watching his granddaughter, Leilani, performing in her theater and dance recitals these past few years, and was fortunate to meet his namesake, his grandson, when he was born almost two years ago. He always looked forward to going swimming for hours upon hours in Jamaica’s Caribbean Sea and relaxing on the beach with his wife and family members on their nearly annual late fall vacations. He was passionate about traveling and visited six continents with his wife throughout the years. He was a member of the North Conway Rotary Club for over 50 years with a virtually perfect attendance record. He was also a member of the Masons in North Conway, where he held the top leadership role at one point. He volunteered with the 4-H sheep program and volunteered with the Eastern Slope Ski Club Junior Ski Program where he taught skiing. Being an avid skier, he was one of the first people from New Hampshire to go helicopter skiing in the Bugaboos of British Columbia and continued skiing for most of his life. Throughout the years Jan has been a staunch employer of hundreds of locals and foreign students, not to mention personally driving up to Berlin, N.H., to transport employees to and from work. Jan knew how to buckle down and work diligently, often toiling 18 hours a day until the job was done. This hard-earned attribute prompted one of his children to remark: “He was the toughest employer I ever had.” Another recently commented they’d consider it fortunate to get to Jan’s age and be able to do even half the things he was doing. Jan never really retired from working. In fact, he was still going strong at age 95. This past summer and fall, he was still an integral employer for Storybook Inn ... still the Filip family rock. He has been an important figure in our lives. His continuing presence is heartfelt and we are heartbroken; he will be sorely missed. Jan is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Charless, as of 5½ years ago; and by his sisters, Elizabeth and Ludmila. He is survived by his children, Jan Filip, IV and grandson, Jan Filip, V; Lucy (Brian) Eling and granddaughter, Leilani; Chris (Marc) Zuffa and granddaughter, Stefany; and Elizabeth Filip; also his nephew, Joseph Vastl and family. A private burial is planned for the spring. =================================== ======== BACK TO -INDEX ======== Vivian Rose Eastman, 93, of Glen N.H. , passed away peaceably on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, at the Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H., with her loving family by her side. Vivian was born in Bartlett, N.H., to George A. and Emma R. (Burke) Robertson on Nov. 19, 1928. She was a lifelong resident of the Mount Washington Valley and will be missed by everyone that knew her. She was the last survivor of 11 children. She married Arnold P. Eastman on Dec. 23, 1952. Together they raised five children. Mom was a homemaker and was always canning fruits and vegetables, churning butter, making doughnuts, baking bread and many sweets as Daddy always carried a dinner pail. There was always an extra plate at the table as you never knew who the kids or Dad would bring home to feed. When we were little, there was usually a Sunday ride to Brownfield, Maine, to purchase Italian sandwiches and check out the Brownfield fire damage. We would then go to Fryeburg, Maine, and get an ice cream at The Dairy Joy. Mom loved our mother/daughter weekends that we enjoyed once a month. We would stay at each others house for the weekend and play cards, eat, and party till one or two in the morning. Her favorite trip was the weekend we went to Camden/Rockland, Maine. Her greatest joy was being a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She was a past member of the Glen Grange, Glen Community Baptist Church, and the Bartlett Rescue. She was also a member of the Glen-Bartlett County Extension Group where she learned to make jellies, can vegetables, cane chairs, hook rugs, braid rugs, quilting, and anything to do with the home. She had the honor of going to the Mall in Washington D.C., with her sister in law Dorothy Towle to present quilt making during the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Deeply Rooted: Celebrating New Hampshire Stories. They also displayed the 1976 Bi-Centennial Quilt made by both of them and the Glen-Bartlett Extension Group which now resides at the Conway Historical Society. She was a great seamstress and made many of her children’s clothes as well as her own. Knitting was a hobby of hers and her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandson were the recipients of her many sweaters, hats, and mittens. Some of us are fortunate to have received one of her quilts to treasure forever. She is survived by her four children, Karen (Terry) Leach of Fryeburg; Rose (Reggie) Illsley of Intervale, N.H.; Allen (Debbie) Eastman of Glen, N.H. and Joyce Shaffner of Bridgton, Maine; son in law Hal Handelman of Arizona; grandchildren, Tommy Leach, Michael (Erin) Leach, Patrick (Jen) Haley, Adam Haley, Jeffrey (Roxanne) Lucy and Stephanie (Jon) Poure; great-grandchildren, Alexis, Emma Leach, Ryan, Renee, Dylan, Dustin, Hermoine Haley, Meredith, Alexander Lucy and Lillian and Gavin Poure; great-great-grandson Bentley Daniel Wade McCloud and her companion, Gordon Lang. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her husband Arnold (Gib) Eastman, oldest daughter D. Gail (Haley) Handelman, her parents George and Emma, and her brothers Cecil, Albert, George Jr., Seth, Glenn (Pike), Floyd (Sharkie),and Victor; sisters Pearl, Annie, and Stella. Graveside services will be held on Friday, Aug. 19, at 1 p.m. at the Glen Cemetery. Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Bartlett/Jackson Rescue Glen, NH 03838. MARK Wayne Dolley, son of the late Gary Dolley and Marcia Clemons Dolley, died of natural causes on July 15, 2023. He grew up in Bartlett, N.H., and joined the Army after graduating from Kennett High School, spending time in Colorado and Germany. While in the Army, Mark also enjoyed skiing the Rockies and the Alps. He lived in San Diego, Calif., after his time in the service. Mark then moved back East to be closer to family and settled in southern New Hampshire, where he lived and worked for the last few decades. He liked the challenge of working on big rigs in his job as a heavy duty mechanic. He also loved music, car racing and Boston sports teams, especially watching the Red Sox with his dad. Mark is survived by his mother Marcia Dolley; sisters, Denise Barrington and Sherry Roberts; niece Kirby Barrington; nephews Jacob Barrington and Christopher Roberts; and several aunts and uncles. A private memorial will be held for close family.--- David A. Dudley, Jr., 72, of Stewartstown, died at the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, following a brief battle with brain cancer. To those in Stewartstown he was known as the local butcher, to his friends and family he was a wonderful brother, uncle, father, grandfather and lifelong friend. David passed away quietly surrounded by the love of his life, Christine Webster, and his two daughters. David was born at Memorial Hospital in North Conway on July 31, 1951, to Cecile Miller and David Dudley, Sr. He was raised in Bartlett along with his three sweet sisters, Diane, Connie and Beverly. He also spoke lovingly about his hometown and the many hours he spent in the woods hunting and fishing, swimming the rivers, messing around at the railroad trestles, learning to play instruments from the neighbors and, of course, causing a little town mischief with "the Bartlett boys.” You all know who you are! He also spent many summers taking the train from Bartlett to Colebrook to work on his grandparent’s farm. He would often tell of the hard work in those hot fields, required porch naps (even as a teenager), meals made from scratch, the occasional root beer float, learning to pickle, milking the cows, replacing fence posts, and sleeping like a rock in that old farm house. David attended school at Bartlett Elementary School and then A. Crosby Kennett High School in Conway. He played sports, and was a member of the choir and band during his high school days. He later left high school and joined the Navy, making the USS Buck 761 his new home. He proudly served his country, enjoyed all the travel and returned to civilian life. David returned to his love of music and played the bass guitar in many local bands, got married and raised his family in the Conway area. Over the years he worked for JV Components, Mr. Butcher, Hannaford Supermarkets, Palmer Machine Shop, and Solomon's Grocery where he worked for almost 20 years in West Stewartstown, retiring in 2018. David has two daughters from a previous marriage: Stacey Dudley and her husband Drew Strout of Lincolnville, Me., and Jamie Dudley and her partner Donnie Butters of Chatham N.H. He leaves behind 5 grandchildren for whom his world revolved around, and he recently learned he would become a great-grandfather this fall to twins! Known as Camp Grampa to them, he was the keeper of good snacks, he was the great north woods "deer & bear killer" and one heck of a fisherman! Every brook they dropped line in was a magic brook! For the past 13 years, David was reunited with a middle school girlfriend he met again at a class reunion. He and his honey-bee (Christine) spent a little more than the last decade caring for each other in their little cabin in the woods. They spent much of their time raising gardens, canning, laughing and telling stories from their porch, watching the hummingbirds, and preparing for the seasons of the north country that can include multiple winters, 3rd spring, 2 weeks of summer, all in the same year! They loved the solitude and simplicity of their life in Stewartstown. Christine and his daughters will recall his love of ice cream, lobster and lottery tickets. He loved all of God’s animals, especially his golden retriever "Ole Holly Girl," who saw him through tough times. David's retirement left more time to go antiquing, renewed his interest in old coins, getting reacquainted with old western movies, getting back into bow-hunting, and spending more time with his family and friends. His daughters will spend the rest of their lives trying to perfect his pot roast and mashed potatoes! Just the best evah! David will always be remembered for his sense of humor, colorful language, hospitality, love of cooking, independent nature and willingness to learn. He would tell you he never went to college because the school of "hard knocks" was offering a free ride for all of those who showed up! Then he would nudge your shoulder, smile and laugh and give you a big hootie-who! He will be sadly missed but his memory will live on in our hearts. Visting hours are planned at Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home at 103 Main Street, Colebrook, NH, on Sunday, May 19th, 2024, from 1:30-3 pm. A celebration of life will be planned later this summer. Expressions of sympathy in David's memory may be made to: Homeland Heroes Foundation, 10 Delaware Drive, Suite 1, Salem, NH 03079; or visit: www.homelandheroesfoundation.org . Condolences may be offered on-line by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com . Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of David A. Dudley Jr please visit our Sympathy Store._ ==================================== Allen Wayne Eastman It is with extreme sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Allen Wayne Eastman of Glen, NH on Oct. 21, 2025. at the age of 72. He was born Feb. 6, 1953, to Arnold P. Eastman and Vivian R. Eastman in North Conway, NH at Memorial Hospital. He lived in Glen, N.H., most all of his life and attended Bartlett Elementary school and graduated from Kennett High School in Conway, NH. He was very active in sports while attending school, including football and baseball. After high school he played in the senior softball league and his team was known as the Grizzlie’s. He hit many home runs. During high school he worked for Spruce Mountain Lodge in Jackson, N.H., and that is when he got his first dog named “Snookie” and there were many more dogs and cats to follow. He loved his animals and wherever he went, his dogs went with him. If you valued your hand, you did not try to enter the truck if Allen wasn’t in it. He graduated from the 30th class of the Police Academy in August 1976. He enjoyed the police force for over 12 years. We are sure there are many stories to be told including skidding into a bank building. When Allen was about three or four years old he climbed up into his father’s John Deer tractor and started it up. Of course his mother and sisters did not know how to turn it off, so they called their neighbor for help. We think that is when he got the bug for excavation! He worked for locals Gene Fernandez, Ed Luken and Owen Jefferson . He started a business with his father in 1978 as A. Eastman & Son. He was known as “Big A” throughout town as evidence of his number plates. He loved being on a tractor or excavator. That is where he felt at home. Allen sold the business Oct. 1, 2019, to Gene Brown, but kept a small space for his chair and television. He usually went to the garage almost every day. Allen married Debra Cloutier on July 8, 2006, at the Stonehurst Manor in North Conway, N.H., and arrived by helicopter with his best man and friend Speedo (attached to a ball and chain, courtesy of Speedo}. Allen and Debbie celebrated their anniversary every year in July with a townwide party. He was known for his sausages, calico beans, macaroni and cheese, and strawberry shortcake. Everyone looked forward to helping them celebrate each year (this being their 19th). Allen was always lending a helping hand to anyone. He was very generous hearted and did a lot for people less fortunate. His friends were many; it did not matter if you were a millionaire or less fortunate, they were his friends. He was loved and will be missed by all. He loved going to his camp in Pittsburg, N.H. His friend and carpenter David would get it ready for him and Debbie. Allen and Debbie would load up the dogs and cats and head off for some quiet time at camp feeding the deer. Please do not think that he was all peaches and cream, as he could be very stubborn. Especially when it came to his sweets and bread. He felt you were on this earth for a short time so you might as well enjoy it while you were here! A special thanks to Gene Brown and his sons and employees for all their help to Allen and Debbie. He was very generous with his time and the family appreciates it. Allen was previously deceased by parents Arnold Eastman and Vivian (Robertson) Eastman; his father-in-law, Joe Dafonseca; his sister D. Gail Handelman; his brother-in-law J. Reggie Illsley ; and his great niece Alexis Mary Leach. The family includes his wife Debbie (Cloutier) Eastman; mother-in-law Gloria Dafonseca; sisters Karen Leach, Rose Illsley and Joyce Shaffner; brothers-in-law Terry Leach, Hal Handelman and Michael Dafonseca; sister-in-law Karen Dafonseca; and several nieces, nephews and families. Visiting hours are Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, from 4-6 p.m. at Furber Funeral Home, 2925 White Mountain Hwy, North Conway, N.H. Funeral services will be Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at 11 a.m. at Union Congregational Church of Bartlett on Albany Avenue in Bartlett, N.H. with burial in the Glen Cemetery immediately following. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to True North Veterinary Hospital, 1053 U.S. 302, Bartlett, NH 03812 or Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, 1389 Bridgton Road, Fryeburg, ME 04037 Arrangements are in the care of Furber Funeral Home and Cremation Services at 2925 White Mountain Highway in North Conway. ===================================== DolleyMark Ettel Filip EastmanVivian DudleyDavid BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE EastmanALLEN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE ElliottBert BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE Opal Eastman Opal T. Eastman, 93, of North Conway died Dec. 23, 2003 at Memorial Hospital in North Conway. Born in Bartlett, the daughter of George and Lillias (Sarson) Knight she lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Littleton before moving to Conway in 1972. She worked at New England Telephone Company and North Conway Post Office. She was also the bookkeeping supervisor at White Mountain Bank, as well as a telephone operator at Yield House.While living in Littleton she was a member of Eastern Star and had the honor of being worthy matron.She is survived by her daughter, Jean E. LaBelle of Center Conway; two grandchildren, Terrence Scott Johnson of Seattle, Wash. and Michelle Lynn Johnson of Arizona; a niece, Anita E. Stanley of Conway; a grand nephew, Peter A. Stanley of Seattle; and several other nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Everett "Bud" Eastman. Graveside services will be held in Bartlett Village Cemetery in the spring. Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of the arrangemen BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 James Frederick Howarth's Livermore Postcard Collection - 1919 Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces These postcards, sent during 1919 were written by James Frederick Howarth and sent home to his family in Roslindale Massachusetts. It would seem this was Mr. Howarth's new job and he wanted to let his family know what it was all about. He was the manager of the Livermore General Store. At about this time the Senior Saunders owner died and left his interests to his three daughters. The three daughters hired a Mr. Clinton Nash to take on the management of their interests. In these postcards there appears to be a vague familiarity with Mr. Nash. Perhaps Howarth and Nash were casual buddies...or perhaps not. Considering that these are postcards, the actual date of the picture is probably sometime before 1919. James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2 James Arrives at Sawyer River Station, Apr 30, 1919: Rails going into woods go to Livermore. This shows the chimney of the old Mill. The house furthest to right is where Mr. Howarth lived, next door is the Goulding House. Big Jim Donahue lived in the house to the left of chimney and the School is the last visible building. Looks like a tent pitched below the chimney. Apr 30, 1919: This card addressed to Howarth's son, Lawrence, asks "If he would like to go barefoot in this river?" The building on the left is "the dam house". Residence of Big Jim Donahue. 2 well dressed boys in foreground are barely visible. Donahue was General Manager of the Mills as well as the Town and served in nearly every capacity during his 40 years at Livermore. He died in North Conway in 1928 at age 60. Apr 30, 1919: The C.J. Saunders Engine 1. The lady riding on the back is one of the Saunders Sisters. This was the main source of transportation from Sawyer River Station. May 7, 1919: Mr Howarth referred to the Saunders Mansion as "The Forests". May 7, 1919: This card references Mr Nash going home. Five flushing bathrooms and Mr Howarth mentions where his room is, (On the right hand side you can see a penciled "x", indicating his room) or perhaps that is wishfull thinking? But, if he was buddies with Mr. Nash it may be possible. Clinton Nash was the manager of the entire operation in 1919, having been hired by the Saunders sisters after the death of their father. The Goulding House at Livermore. L.D. Goulding was a Justice and Selectman of Livermore. This page has shown the first seven cards that James sent home to his family. There are six more on the next page. James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2

Eastern Slope Signal Newspaper Circa 1960's 60 Various News Articles From 1962 - 1967 The Eastern Slope Signal was published weekly December to March from 1962 to 1967. It was usually 8 pages per issue. It was published by the local radio station, WBNC, in Conway. Skip Sherman was the editor and it was printed at the Reporter Press Newspaper building in North Conway. Your website editor, Dave Eliason, in High School at the time, delivered the paper every Friday afternoon/evening to all the significant businesses on the northern route from North Conway to Wildcat and Bartlett Village. Skip Sherman did the Southern route as far as Ossipee. It was a very popular publication at the time.to 1967. Apologies and Regrets in Advance: There are some incidences of columns being cut short, stories continuing on another page, but the other page is missing, skewed or crooked pages and for any and all other situations that make the reader uncomfortable, The editor sincerely apologizes. The scanning operation happened decades ago when someone was not as smart. maybe still not so smart. Contents: Link - Click the Date 1964 - SEC Approves Big Bear Stock 1963 - J. Holland Beal - Columbus Day Blizzard 1963 - Snowmobile Born at West Ossippee 1923 1963 - George Burgess - Holiday Inn - Ski Instructor Go To - Wimpy Thurston Real Estate Ad 1964 - Attitash Nears Completion 1965 - Attitash Opens for First Time 1965 - Attitash Adds Trails 1963 - Cranmore Busts a Bottle on New Chairlift 1963 - and an Interview with Herb Schneider 1963 - Wildcat gets a New Chairlift 1962 - Intervale Ski Area Expands Race Run 1963 - Intervale Ski Area Extends Poma Lift 1964 - Intervale Ski Area Expands Skiable Terrain 1964 - Intervale Ski Area Dumps the Outhouse 1963 - Clarendon Inn Burns to the Ground 1964 - Winter Carnival - Snowless Success 1964 - Early Spring Winter is Over - Signal calls it Quits f 1964 - Juniors Learn from Charlie Broomhall 1964 - A New Sauna Bath House at the old Bellehurst Inn 1964 - Miss Eastern Slope is Mary Cushman of Lynn, Ma 1966 - The Scavengers, A Local Rock Band 1966 - Blizzard Produces Record Low Barometric Pressure 1965 - Tyrol - A New Ski Area Opens in Jackson 1965 - Ann and Steve Sherlock - Ski School Directors at Attitash 1965 - "We Passed"; Phil Robertson and Attitash Lift Approval 1964 - Remember O'Saxby's Sandwich World? 1964 - Dr. G. Harold Shedd - Bone Surgeon - Fixes the Breaks 1964 - Stan Judge - Wildcat Gen. Manager 1964 - Verland Ohlson - District Ranger, White Mtn Nat Forest 1964 - Fran Savard - Makes a Return to Skiing - Intervale Ski Area 1964 - Jody Palmer wins at Whittier Junior Alpines 1964 - Bartlett Recreation Development Corp - Stock $4.00/share 1964 - Berlin's Nanson Ski Jump Made Even Faster 1964 - Pinkham Realty Ad "Chalet Village" at Big Bear Ski Area 1965 - Copters Speed Things up at Attitash Lift Installation 1965 - J. Holland Beal Recalls Riding the Rails in the 1920's 1964 - J. Holland Beal Recalls The First Ski Tows 1964 - Bill Clapp says "Don't Talk About The Weather" 1964 - Robert Morse Thinks Ski Joring is the Next Big Thing 1965 - A Big Lobster Bake at Whittier Ski Area 1963 - Whittier Gondola Passes Directly Over Route 16 1963 - Palmer & Fisher Early Season, Fast Grass, Heavy Dew 1964 - Maple Sugaring with Ken & Herb Lucy 1964 - Don't Like the name "Eastern Slope Region"? No Prob, Let's Call it "Mt Washington Valley" 1964 - Eastern Slope Inn adds a Motor Lodge 1964 - Ruth Pope Directs the Junior Ski Program 1964 - Anna Martin of the New England Inn (1938-1964) Dies at Home 1964 - New Expert Trail at Cranmore - Kandahar 1964 - Dave Baker, Artist - Before he Thought-up "Vitreous Flux" 1964 - Joe Dodge - Weatherman of Distinction 1964 - Winter Carnival Begins with Night Ski Jumping 1964 - Meet Each Mountain's Chosen Queen of Carnival 1964 - George Hamilton is the AMC Huts Director 1963 - Sled Dog Race in Tamworth Ends in Raging Blizzard 1963 - Dr Lombard Wins Annual Sled Dog Championship Race 1967 - Cheap-Unfashionable-Non Competitive: That's How The New Jackson Ski Touring is Defined in 1967 1967 - ESSC - School Dismissed for 495 Kids Learning to Ski 1967 - Local Teenage Bounty Hunter Gets $15 for Bobcat 1966 - New Beginner Ski Slopes You Never Heard Of. 1966 - Monorail Coming to Attitash. 58 Years & Still Waiting 1965 - Phil Ostroski and his Dad enjoy togetherness on slippery Rocks 1965 - Studying Snow Drifts at Big Bear Ski Slope in Bartlett 1965 - Carroll Reed Studying How to Get More Money From Skiers More Coming shortly

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The Reporter Press & The Irregular Newspapers Covered the Story The fire was big talk around Town with some folks suggested the Chief didn't fight the fire correctly and should be relieved. (Hindsight is always 20/20) REMEMBER THE IRREGULAR NEWSPAPER ? It was one of the local newspapers before the Conway Daily Sun came along. This article written by Marcia Meehan. THEN WHAT HAPPENED ? Several years before the fire Mr Rogers had sold his interest in the entire property, and all the acreage, to the Attitash Lift Corporation. He retained a life estate, which entitled him to live on the property for as long as he lived. In the following months the fire debris was removed and a foundation was poured for a trailer to be installed on the same spot as the original house. Betty and Harry lived in this trailer until Harry died in 1989. At that time the trailer was removed and Betty moved to another residence on East Conway Road in Conway, where I assume she still resides to this day. (10-30-1990) The property now belongs to the owners of Mt Attitash. fires tasker Fires Curse the Tasker Family. Just to follow-up to the article on the Harry Rogers homestead fire of 1980. I wonder what the odds are of a 'family' having so many fires? If you check your Intervale stories you will see that the Fariveiw Cottage owned by Cyrus Tasker burnt down a number of times. But that is not all, in February of 1968 our family home in Chatham NJ built by my father George W. Tasker in 1938, caught fire and was substanially damaged (we had the local paper article, but I can't find it now). We did rebuild it but it was unihabitable for some time. Then in December 1992 the home of my brother's son, Howard Haskell Jr, was completely destroyed by fire. In both the recent fires, luckily, no one was hurt (but we did lose the family cat in the Chatham fire). Of course I am offering this tongue-in-cheek, but the odds certainly have to be long, particularly once you get to the end of the 20th century. Maybe a Halloween time article? Deborah Tasker Sena Flip back to the pictures The photos for this article were obtained from the Collection of Dave Eliason, who snapped these pictures. He only wishes he had been more dutiful to have captured more faces of the firemen.

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS & PUBLICATIONS NEWSPAPERS: The White Mountain Reporter, later it was the Reporter Press. 1895 to 1978. Searchable by keyword: Thanks to Conway Public Library See 1895 TO 1993 Here The SIGNAL featured winter adventures in the Eastern Slope Region during the 1960's. Ski areas, people and events are all covered in a light hearted format. If you are of sufficient age you can re-live part of your youth. The advertising is almost as interesting as the topics. TAKE A LOOK - It's Free TOWN REPORTS We were asked where to find the Town Reports from previous years. This link will show the most recent report and others going back to 1880. See 1880 to 2025 Here Here's an example of the top heading of the December 31, 1925 Reporter.

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Dr. Harold Shedd Source: em>Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire: Volume 4 - By Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward (Ed. note: George Horsley is Harold's father) GENEOLOGY George Horsley Shedd, son of George and Rebecca (Frost) Shedd, was born in Waterford, Maine, February 13, 1853. George Horsley's preliminary education was obtained in the public schools of Norway, Maine, and in the Norway Liberal Institute. After teaching a few years he entered the Medical School of Maine, from which lie graduated in June, 1879. His further medical education was obtained by post-graduate work in New York. Philadelphia, Berlin, and the hospitals of Berne, London. Paris, and Edinburgh. He is a member of the New Hampshire Board of Medical Examiners, of the Conway Board of Health, of his county, state and the Maine Medical Societies, also of the American Medical Association. He is a Mason, being a member of Mt. Washington Lodge and Signet Royal Arch Chapter of North Conway, and of St. Girard Commandery, Knights Templar, of Littleton, New Hampshire. He commenced the practice of medicine in Bartlett, New Hampshire, during the summer of 1879, and in the spring of 1883 moved to Fryeburg. Maine, where he resided until 1891, when he removed to North Conway, where he has since resided and been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He married, May 15, 1880, Mary Hall, daughter of Solcman Smith and Emily Augusta (Warren) Hall. Genealogy: She descended on the paternal side from Hate Evil Hall, son of one of three brothers who came from England and settled in New Hampshire. Hate Evil Hall (2) was born at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1707, and afterward settled in Falmouth, Maine, where he died, November 28, 1797. He married Sarah Furbish, of Kittery, Maine, by whom he had thirteen children: Dorothy. Daniel, Hate Evil, Mercy, Ebenezer, Abigail, William, John, Jedediah, Andrew, Nicholas, Paul and Silas. Jedediah (3), son of Hate Evil and Sarah (Furbush) Hall, married (first). Hannah Hussey, and (second), Elizabeth Clough. His children were: Peter, Joel, Elizabeth, Aaron, Mercy, Moses, Abigail, David, Jonathan, Ann and Dorcas. Jonathan (4), son of Jedediah, married Mary, daughter of Joshua Smith, who was town treasurer of Norway, Maine, for twenty years. Soloman Smith Hall (5), son of Jonathan and Mary (Smith) Hall, was born at Norway, Maine, June 10, 1821, and died at Waterford, Maine, January 8, 1895. He married (first), November, 1852, Emily Augusta Warren, granddaughter of Abijah Warren, who was born in Taunton. Massachusetts, October 15, 1762, and at the age of thirteen entered active service as minuteman in the battle of Lexington, and served with distinction throughout the Revolutionary war. She was born in Paris, Maine, April 22, 1832, and died in Norway, Maine, August 29, 1861. Of this marriage there were born three children: Mary, Julia and Lizzie E. He married (second), Olivia G. Warren, by whom one child was born : Sidney Smith Hall, now living in Waterford, Maine. Mary, daughter of Soloman Smith and Emily (Warren) Hall, and wife of Dr. George H. Shecld, was born in Norway, Maine, March 6, 1854. They have one child, George Harold, born in Bartlett, New Hampshire, November 1, 1882. He is a graduate of Harvard University, A. B. 1905, and is now a student in Harvard Medical School. Mrs. Shedd has always been active in educational and charitable work. She is ex-president of the North Comvay Woman's Club, of which she is one of the founder's ; president of the Woman's Educational League ; vice-regent of Anna Stickney Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, an3 chairman of the industrial and child labor committee of both the New Hampshire Federation of Woman's Clubs and New Hampshire Daughters of the American Revolution. John Z. Shedd was born at Norway, Maine, July 8, 1861. During the autumn of 1884 he went to Fryeburg. Maine, and entered Fryeburg Academy, from which he was graduated in 1886. The two following years were devoted to teaching and reading medicine. In 1891 the degree of M. D. was received from the Medical School of Maine, at Brunswick, since which time he has taken several post-graduate courses in New York. In 1891 he began the practice of medicine at North Conway, New Hampshire, where he has since resided and has met with a good degree of success. He is a member of his county, state and the Maine medical societies, as well as of the American Medical Association. Early in his twenty-first years he was made a Mason in Oxford Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Norway, Maine, and during the following year joined Union Royal Arch Chapter in the same town. He later withdrew from these societies to become a member of similar bodies* in the town of his adoption, where he has been an active Masonic worker, being past high priest of his chapter, of which he is a charter member. In more recent years he has become a member of St. Girard Commandery, Knights Templar, at Littleton, New Hampshire, and also of Bektash Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Concord, New Hampshire. Myrtie Nina Shedd was born at Norway, Maine, September 16, 1875. Alton Brackett Shedd was born at the same place, February 17, 1880. AAbout two years after the birth of the latter, the children with their parents removed to Waterford, where they resided until after the death of their father, in 1893. Later, with their mother, they removed to Fryeburg, Maine, where both were graduated from Fryeburg Academy. On September 20, 1899, Myrtie N. was married to Dr. Byron W. McKeen. a native of Fryeburg, and a classmate in the academy. He received his M. D. from the Medical School of Maine, and, after serving one year as house physician at the Maine Insane Hospital, settled in Saxony, Massachusetts, where by his pleasing personality and medical skill he built up a large and lucrative practice. He died of pneumonia. May 7, 1903, at the age of twenty-eight years. Shortly after his sister had become settled in Massachusetts, Alton B. and his mother removed to the same town and household, where they all have continued to reside. Alton B. accepted a position with the Dennison Manufacturing Company at South Framingham, where he has been advanced to becoming the head of one of its departments. SHEDD WOODS Shedd Woods is located on Route 16 and 302 directly across the highway from the Memorial Hospital. This 13-acre parcel is named for Dr. Harold Shedd, the former owner. Received by the Town in 1973 partly as a gift from the Pequawket Foundation as well as federal monies from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The property is forested primarily with tall White Pines, thus creating a special overhead forest canopy, giving the landscape a dark, deep, cool and quite atmosphere. A picnic area at the edge of the drop off down to the Saco River floodplain opens up a “photo op” of the Saco Valley and the Moat Mountains just beyond in the National Forest. A connecting parcel, also given to the Town by the Pequawket Foundation, gives access to Shedd Woods from River Road. This long, narrow 3-acre lot on the east bank of the Saco River is primarily an open field maintained by the Town for picnicking, sunbathing, and swimming in the Saco. The Doctor Harold Shedd that some of us old folks can remember visiting in our childhood was Born in Bartlett in 1882, he graduated from Harvard in 1910, then spent several years in Boston and New York hospitals before returning to North Conway to practice with his father, also a country doctor. (see left column) What trauma he treated in the teens and 1920s came mainly from farm and logging accidents, and the occasional mountaineering mishap like the Jesse Whitehead accident on Mt. Washington that gained wide press attention in 1926. As interest in skiing accelerated in the 1930s, Dr Shedd's winters became increasingly occupied with treating sprains and fractures originating on the mountains and slopes of the region. He devised a new way to cast broken limbs that left openings to accommodate swelling, allowing patients to spend minimal time in the hospital. By virtue of his location in one of the hotbeds of skiing activity in the 1930s and 1940s he became one of the first experts in treating ski injuries in the country. Memorial Hospital gained expertise in the field along with him,alist in the treatment of ski injuries. In 1924 Dr. Shedd married Gertrude Greeley, the daughter of Adolphus W. Greeley, who was well known for his arctic expedition to Lady Franklin Bay from 1882-1884, and later became Chief Signal Officer for the US Army. When his father-in-law was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1935 for his arctic exploits, Dr. Shedd was kept from attending at the last minute by the need to minister to a casualty of Mt. Washington. Dr. Shedd died in 1964 while making a house call on Kearsarge Street in North Conway. His several legacies live on in the valley; one is Memorial Hospital itself, which he shepherded through its early years, at one point even re-locating the hospital into his own house for a year while finances stabilized. Evidence of his medical handiwork can even now be seen in the dim scars on a few of his local patients, whose wounds from mowing machines and axes he stitched. His other legacy is the community of skiers which he and his associates--Carroll Reed, Harvey Gibson, Joe Dodge, Bob Davis, Bill Whitney among them--did so much to create in the Eastern Slope Region. Originally published in the 2004 Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race Program, March 2004. Thanks to Jeff Leich Executive Director of New England Ski Museum for letting us use part of the article. Who's who in New England: a biographical dictionary of leading living men ... By Albert Nelson Marquis 1919 SHEDD, George Horsley, M.D. : b. Waterford, Me., Feb. 13, 1953; s. George and Rebecca (Frost) Shedd, and descendant of Daniel Shedd. an early settler of Braintree, Mass.; prep. edn. Norway Liberal Inst.; M.D., Med. Sch. of Me. (Bowdoln Coll.), 1879; post-grad, work in New York, Phlla., Berlin, and hosps. of Berne, London. Paris and Edinburgh; m. Norway, Me., May 16, 1880, Mary Hall: 1 son. George Harold. Practiced at Bartlett, N.H ., and Fryeburg, Me., until 1891, since at North Conway, N.H. ; Burgeon-ln-chlef Memorial Hosp. ; mem. N.H. Bd. of Med. Examiners. Republican. Fellow Am. Coll. Surgeons: mem. Carroll Co. and Me. State med. socs.. A.M.A. Mason (K.T.). Recreations: pine tree farming. Address: North Conway, N.H. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REGISTRATION REPORT YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1882. MALARIA IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. The impression has been gaining ground within a year or two that malaria is rapidly invading the state, as it has some sections of Massachusetts and Connecticut. In reports received at this office from one hundred and sixty-five physicians, from nearly all sections of the state, less than thirty have seen anything like indigenous malaria in the state. The evidence received would not indicate that it is increasing in any marked degree, if at all. There are localities in which the topographical and sanitary conditions are such as to favor its development, and in such places it would be surprising if such malarial influences were not manifested. Several physicians, who report one or two cases each, have remarked that it was the first indication of malaria that they have seen in the locality, and hence expressed the opinion that it was invading sections of the state where it had never before existed.By a careful examination of the localities where it is reported to have existed, it was found that it occurred almost entirely along the larger rivers, especially the Connecticut, Ashuelot, and the Merrimack. There were very few instances given to indicate that it had a local origin. Most of the cases existed among men who "drive" logs down the Connecticut river to Holyoke or Hartford, and probably received the disease below our state line. The following is some of the testimony upon which this opinion is based George H. Shedd, M. D., Bartlett, N. H., "observed, in all, six cases of intermittent fever, in the early part of last spring— April. All these cases occurred in the camps of lumbermen. These were situated in a swampy district near a small pond. Camps were poorly ventilated, surrounded by quantities of decaying animal and vegetable matter. Some of the camps were overcrowded with men. Type, usually tertian, and most if not all, had suffered from the disease the previous summer while ' driving' the Connecticut. F. D. Henderson,M. D., West Stewartstown, N.H. "Have had about two cases,—one of the tertian type, and one of the quotidian. Cases well marked. The cases were not local, but occurred in two men who worked upon the river driving logs. C. R. Gibson, M. D., Woodsville, N.;Five cases, all rivermen passing through the place with logs in the river. Drs. T. B. C. A. Sanborn, of Newport, report fifteen cases intermittent, most of them well marked, and express the following opinion: "We have not observed any cases that have originated in this state, but have observed that they have been contracted in adjoining states, and we attribute the increase in the past two or three years to its invasion of Connecticut and Massachusetts, where part of cases were contracted. The following report from Dr. M. C. Dix, of Hinsdale, embraces a larger number of cases than have been reported by any other physician in the state, excepting one at Winchester. From the statement given, it would seem that these cases were of local origin: "Intermittent, one; quotidian and remittent, twenty. Our village lies directly upon the Ashuelot river, upon the outside, and upon the other, about a half mile to the south, lies the Connecticut. A canal which takes its rise from the Ashuelot, at the upper end of the village, runs at the base of the bluff back of the village for about four hundred yards. It is upou the low grounds bordering these rivers, and the canal, that I have treated a large majority of my cases of malaria. That there has been an increase of fevers of a remittent type during the last three years is evident to the physicians who are acquainted with the practice in our vicinity. The principal reason, to my mind, for this increase is this: that during the summer months the manufacturers who utilize the water of the canal take the opportunity of low water to repair its banks, and consequently the inhabitants in close proximity to the reeking ditch, filled with foul odors, are the principal sufferers. During the past year 1 have met with many cases, usually denominated ' bilious attacks,' especially among children, which have shown a marked periodicity as regards their worst symptoms, which invariably yielded to quinine. Dr. George W. Pierce, of Winchester, reports as follows : "I cannot give the number. The cases have all been mild, nearly all 'walking cases:' perhaps, in all, thirty. The cases have nearly all had a tertian character. There seems to be an increasing tendency to malarial manifestations ; cause, in doubt. It has been diffused all over town. It would seem from the reports of Drs. Dix and Pierce that the two south-west corner towns of the state, Hinsdale and Winchester, situated on the Connecticut and Ashuelot rivers, have experienced considerable malarial trouble,—very much greater than is reported from any other section of the state. Towns remote from the larger streams and ponds appear to be almost or quite exempt from malarial complications. There is but little evidence that malaria is increasing in this state other than that given above. No deaths are reported from malarial fever, and but a few (five or six) from cerebro-spinal meningitis. Several physicians report that in previous years they have observed malaria in their localities, but that during the past year none had been met with. The conclusions in the matter are, that sufficient evidence to prove that malaria is increasing in the state has not been presented ; that if it is increasing, its progress is so slow as to be nearly or quite imperceptible. At the close of the present year (1883) sufficient information and facts will be in the possession of this office to settle the question of its invasion into the state. toothache Malaria woods 1925 Lincoln Salon , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Further Reading Bill Clapp Eastern Slope Signal - Feb 1964 Dr Shedd Link Further Reading Jeff Leich - Conway Daily Sun Article - August 2017. 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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Lady Blanche Murphy Lady Blanche Murphy A Notable Woman's Story Background Lady Blanche was the eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough from Rutlandshire, England Born in March 1845 into a noble family with wealth and rank Her family name was Noel, belonging to one of Britain's proudest aristocratic families The Noel family had held the title since 1682 The Romance Met Thomas T. Murphy, who was hired as an organist in her father's private chapel at Exton Hall Lady Blanche, who had a sweet singing voice, would practice with Murphy after services They fell in love despite their social class differences Her father, the Earl, initially dismissed warnings about their relationship In March 1870, she eloped with Murphy "for dear love's sake" Life After Marriage The couple married in London before moving to America Her father disowned and disinherited her, forbidding her return In New York, she became known as a brilliant magazine contributor Father Hecker, a Catholic Priest, helped the couple, securing Murphy a position as organist in New Rochelle She wrote for various publications including The Galaxy and Catholic World Later settled in North Conway where they built a small house near Humphrey's Ledge Death Lady Blanche passed away in Portland Her funeral was held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Bishop Healey as celebrant She died just before her 36th birthday Her father, the Earl of Gainsborough, died a few months after her death, never recovering from the shock Her husband continued to live in their small house after her passing The article presents a romantic yet tragic story of a noblewoman who gave up her privileged life for love, adapting to a new life in America as a writer and common citizen. historic Marker pictures Bartlett New Hampshire's Author, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata (Noel) Murphy (1845-1881) by Janice Brown on Fri 21 Jul 2006 Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel was born 25 March 1845 at Exton Hall in England, daughter of Charles George Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough and Lady Ida Harriet Augusta Hay, and godchild of Queen Victoria. She died 21 March 1881. She married 6 March 1870 to Thomas P. Murphy. Although one source says he was "an Irishman," Thomas Murphy was probably born about 1847 in England and died 11 Oct 1890 (the census states his parents were also born in England). As the story goes... Lady Blanche fell in love with a "commoner," Thomas Murphy, the organist for the church on her father's estate. One story states her father did not approve, but allowed the marriage to take place in their house. A second source states she eloped with him. At any rate, they did marry, and moved to the United States, settling in a "cottage" in Bartlett, New Hampshire. This cottage is located on the east side of West Road, about three miles north of its intersection with Route 203 (in Conway NH), and one half mile north of the Conway-Bartlett town line. He taught music at the Kearsarge School for Boys, nearby in North Conway. (Another source states he was an organist in a local church. Perhaps he did both). Lady Blanche was a writer who contributed short stories, many of them travel logs, to various publications including "Harper's," "The Atlantic Monthly," "The Galaxy," and "Catholic World." Reportedly she also furnished sketches of her travels to "Lippincott's Magazine." They did not appear to have any children. Apparently either this love story between a grand lady and a commoner, or Lady Blanche's unique writing ability (or both) was sufficient for the location of their "cottage" in Bartlett New Hampshire to gain a New Hampshire "historic" marker (number 109). INFO FROM MAIN ARTICLE IN THE COW HAMPSHIRE BLOG. -Ancestry of Lady Blanche (Noel) Murphy- -Lady Blanche- -Brief Biography of Lady Blanche Murphy- -New Hampshire Historic Sign: Lady Blanche House- -"A Day at Pisa" by Lady Blanche Murphy- -Lady Blanche Murphy Stories - Cornell University Library- -GoogleBooks: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography--Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel Murphy- 1880 UNITED STATES CENSUS 1880 United States Federal Census > New Hampshire > Carroll > Conway > District 16 Murphy, Thomas P. W M 33 Music Teacher England England England [b abt 1847] Murphy, Blanche W F 32 wife Keeping House England England Keywords: writer, woman, New Hampshire, New, Hampshire Posted to: Main Page New Hampshire Women N.H. Historical Markers Mountain Ear Article February 2011: Bartlett Historical Society Presents…Dick Goff and the Lady Blanche House by Rachael Brown Norman Head of the Bartlett Historical Society and Dick Goff, present owner of the Lady Blanche House, stand in the newly renovated kitchen, but still in keeping with the originality of the house February 03, 2011 The Lady Blanche House has captured the attention of many for over 200 years. So much so, in front of the house, there is a New Hampshire historical marker commemorating its namesake Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel and the English commoner Thomas Murphy whom she married. Lady Blanche bought the home in 1890. Since then there have been another 21 owners. The present owner is Fryeburg native and local business owner, Dick Goff. Norman Head of the Bartlett Historical Society ran into Goff at Patch's Market in Glen one day and asked if he'd be interested in telling the history of the house and the Lady Blanche story. Goff agreed and here's what he had to say. "This is my home that I share with Glen Heath. She and I had been talking about this house for four years before purchasing," says Goff. Goff purchased the house in the spring of 2006. The home sits on 32 acres on West Side Road at the foot of Humphrey's Ledge with an open field and the Saco River as its backyard. The view is so spectacular that a photo viewing the house from the river through the trees looking at Humphrey's Ledge won the photo contest in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, says Goff. It's not only the view that attracted Goff and Heath, it is the rich history, the story of who built the house, owned the house and the young couple who only lived there for a short time. "Glen and I would look at each other and say; 'Though Lady Blanche only lived here for 11 months her tentacles reached to Boston, Providence and New York,'" says Goff. Lady Blanche was born to the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough in 1845; English nobility. Living in the lap of luxury at the time, her father built a chapel on their estate and hired a young Irishmen, Thomas Murphy, to serve as the organist. As the story goes, the pretty, talented, woman of her convictions, Lady Blanche, fell in love with the handsome commoner. The two eloped and set sail for America, Lady Blanche never to see her family again. "Lady Blanche came to this country traveling in the steerage compartment of a ship. She had a lot of grit. She and Murphy bummed around New York. They had no money and hadn't eaten for 24 hours. She sold her earrings for a loaf of bread and said it was the best meal she ever had," explains Goff. The couple found themselves to North Conway through a clergyman they knew. Murphy was hired to teach music and French at the Kearsarge Schools for Boys. Goff says the school was located near where TD Bank is in North Conway. "She (Lady Blanche) loved it here. She would walk to Artist Falls. Even though she was disinherited from her family, her mother's sister left her some money and with that she purchased what is now the Lady Blanche House," says Goff. The home was originally called the Ledge Farm. "She was a good writer and fell in love with the country," says Goff. Their time here was short-lived. Lady Blanche only lived in the house less than one year until her death at 36 years of age. Murphy continued to stay here after she died. He kept the farm but he went to a boarding house in North Conway. He then found his way to Boston where he died and is buried at Calvary Cemetery. When Lady Blanche bought the farm, the house was already 90 years old," says Goff. Goff continues; "Samuel Willey built the house in 1790." Willey moved somewhere in Bartlett in 1825. Editors note: Samuel moved to the Willey House location in 1825. Here's that story. It was Wiley's family that was caught in the landslide that occurred at the site of the Willey House in Crawford Notch in 1826. Goff says the Lady Blanche House then went to a Mr. Thompson and then others with mostly English sounding names. The Wyatt (of the Wyatt House in North Conway) family was the 18th owner. Goff purchased the house from the last owner Gaylord R. Briley. Days of researching divulged deeds and ownership information. "Glen spent three or four days at the library and the registry in Ossipee. She actually got stuck in the year 1840," says Goff. In 1839, Carroll County was part of Grafton County. Grafton was later tri-sected including Coos and Carroll. At times it was difficult to research because the language back then was different, says Goff. Heath had to spend time in Lancaster to learn about the early history. "We didn't leave any stone unturned. You really have to know what you are talking about or you'll get caught," says Goff. Goff and Heath aren't leaving any stone unturned when it comes to renovating their home. "The house was in disrepair and tired when we moved in," says Goff. He tells about the orange shag carpet and the lilac tub and flush. "I couldn't give those away," he says laughing. After two and a half to three years of renovation, the downstairs is just about finished. All 45 windows in the house were replaced. There is a new roof. The floors were badly slanted, they put up a steal beam to lift the house, says Goff. A new foundation was poured for the side porch. The orange shag carpet is gone and hardwood floors have been brought back to life. Of course the lilac tub and flush are history replaced with colors of the times. The kitchen was gutted and a cook stove added that helps heat the area. Goff and Heath have worked to keep the house original. "When we renovated we tried not too alter," says Heath. Goff tells about the paneling in the great room. The light colored wood had turned a dirty dark brown from years of neglect. "We put on face masks and gloves. We took each and every panel down, marking them all and stripped in a lye mixture to bring them back to life," says Goff. The panels are now a rich tawny color and back to their original state. Goff and Heath love the house. "I love living here," says Goff. "I have always loved old houses and knew about the mystique a surrounding this house. It is really nice that someone local can buy this and keep it in the family," he adds. February 2014: I just acquired this article from the December 8, 1883 issue of The Kennebec Reporter Newspaper in Gardiner Maine. It's an article written by A.A. Smith and gives a delightful account of the life of Lady Blanche Murphy who went from Aristocrat to Pauper in pursuit of her ideals. It is in PDF format. Read it Here Thursday June 23rd, 2011 was the Lady Blanche open house by invitation to the Bartlett & Jackson Historical Societies. There were somewhere in the range of 45 +/- people there, Dick & Glen had prepared a very nice table of goodies for everyone. T his article by Norman Head I did a short intro and brief explanation on the history of Lady Blanche for the benefit of those who were unaware of the actual history and then Dick led a tour of the house and gave more detailed history. With the exception of Dick & Glen, there were only about 7 people from Bartlett there and all the rest were from Jackson. Realizing that any date could have a conflict with people’s work or personal schedules and the weather was not the best, it’s a shame that we couldn’t have a larger representation of people from Bartlett, since this treasure lies in our very own town. Everyone raved about the house and its history and all the Jackson folks kept remarking how appreciative they were to be invited and how nice it was that the two societies were working so well together. So it was a feather in all of our caps. I have been conversing, via e-mail, with a couple of ladies (Annette Oliver and more recently Meryl Hart) who are members of the Exton, Rutland History Group. Exton Village is in the Exton Parish Council in Rutland County, Leicestershire in England where Exton Hall is located, which was the childhood home of Lady Blanche and is the present home of the Earl and Lady of Gainsborough. Ref: Exton and Horn Parish Council The current Earl is the sixth Earl and Lady Blanche’s father was the second Earl of Gainsborough, so here we are four generations later discussing the same family. The family used to own the entire village and all the houses in it, which were occupied by employees or tenants of the Earl. The family has, over the years, sold off some of their holdings, but still own a number of properties (incl Exton Hall, a mammoth castle) and about 6,000 acres of land. They also have other holdings in the UK. The Harts happened to be visiting relatives here in the U S and inquired about the possibility of her seeing the Lady Blanche house. The owners, Richard Goff and Glenora Heath, were delighted to hear of Mrs. Hart’s impending visit and on June 24th, we gladly welcomed Meryl Hart, her husband Paul and their son and daughter-in-law Jonathan & Ellen and their three children for a personal tour of the Lady Blanche house. Mrs. Hart is affiliated with the Exton, Rutland History Group. Her mission in that group is working on their Graveyard Survey, which is similar to a cemetery mapping and indexing project here. We all had a lovely visit and exchanged stories about Lady Blanche and Thomas Murphy, their elopement and arrival in the United States and then their difficult travels that finally brought them to North Conway and Bartlett. The Harts regaled us with stories about their classic English village with its thatched cottages and the history of Lady Blanche’s family. The house that the Harts live in in Exton was built in the 16th century ! Mrs. Hart told us that the history group’s first Graveyard Survey was done for the Protestant cemetery and they did such a great job that Lady Gainsborough asked them if they would do a similar project for the Catholic cemetery, which they gladly accepted. This is where, in the process of their research, they came across the name Lady Blanche, daughter of the Second Earl of Gainsborough. Once their intrigue set in, they started researching on the internet, googled Lady Blanche, found their way to the Bartlett Historical Society website and their timing was perfect as we had just completed our program on Lady Blanche. Of course, we have to brag here a little bit and give kudos to our webmaster, Dave Eliason, who made the website so easy to navigate and the information so interesting. Good job Dave ! One of the stories that Mrs. Hart shared with us was that after doing their work on the Catholic cemetery and discovering all the information about Lady Blanche, she received a very rare invitation from Lady Gainsborough to come to Exton Hall. While there, she took them into the family crypt and showed them the caskets of Lady Blanche and her parents. The rest, as they say, is history. Just think; all this history, a connection between two small villages on different continents, a visit from a European historian, an invite to visit their village and a very rare invitation to meet the Earl and Lady of Gainsborough---all because a local bought a house of historic significance and a small historical society thought it would be a good idea to do a program on it. We should all be very proud and pleased. We have a number of pictures and I audio taped as much as I could. I will get this on a CD. Written by: Norman Head Norman Article SECTION A - GAINSBOROUGH FAMILY MEMORIALS - Lady Blanche final resting location 1883 Newspaper MtEar Article final resting area Exton Hall, the home where she grew up and the Lady Blanche Murphy House where she lived with Thomas Murphy 1895 photo BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812

Historic Inns, Lodges, Hotels and Motels in Bartlett NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Share Lodgings in the upper village area - Page 2 Village Area Lodging Page 1 Village Area Lodging Page 3 Upper Village Area Intervale Area Glen Area Historic Lodging Map Silver Springs Tavern and Cabins : The building pictured here in 1944 burned and was replaced with the existing building. This property once belonged to GK Howard, then Howard and Sadie Lowd who sold it to C.I. Pendelton. In the late 1940s it was owned by Henry Mead . Eventually Emil Hanson rented it and in 1971 Clinton Burke bought the business. Later Jerry and Dora English managed it. In 1976 the Schoen family took over and operated it as a popular campground until their retirement in about 2000. The building has been unused since then and the campground closed.. This photo dated 1938 This was called The Forest Inn located in Bartlett Village on the corner of Forest Ave and Rte 302.. In 1890 Frank George sold the land and probably the existing building to Clementine Lawlis. She operated it as an Inn until her death in the mid 1950's, Clementine left the property to her only survivor, Hazel Amadon, who lived near Portland Maine. Hazel sold the property in 1955 to R.G. Hazelton but it is not known how he utilized the property but he resold it to Leland Walsh in 1958. Leland Walsh was a 1st cousin to Sonny and Robert Pettengill. He was the son of their Father's Sister Ester who lived in VT. In 1967 the property was sold to Edmund and Ruth Pettengill and it remains with their descendants now (2020). Frank George probably acquired the property between 1860 and 1885 as part of many transactions in which he purchased more than a thousand acres of land in the Bartlett area from Parker, Stillings, Rogers, Towle and Hall to name just a few. For some period of time in the 1930's Silver Springs was called Howard's Camp . These Photos are titled "Howard's Camp" and dated 1930 on the back. It is recognizable as the later named Henry Mead's Silver Springs Campground. Today (2019) you will find it as an un-named building about a half mile east of the Harts Location Town Line. The building shown here was destroyed by fire and re-built. The once famed Sawyer's Rock is just around the corner on the left. It has been mostly blasted away to widen the road. Historic Lodging Map Hotels Lodging Page 1 Continue to page 2 Continue to page 3 Forest HowardsHenrys Glendenning Glendennings Cabins were owned and operated by Ray Glendenning in the 1930's. Each of the ten cabins was just large enough for a bed and a burea. They were located just east of the Bartlett Town Ball Field. There are just two of these buildings still standing, one of which was recently repaired and resided. The Pines is today's Bartlett Inn . This photo is from about 1915. The building dates from about 1885 and was originally the private residence of "Big Jim" Donahue who was also a familiar name in the lumbering operations at Livermore . As Livermore came to an end, by 1925 the Donahue's were catering to tourists and called their Inn The Pines. The Donahue's also operated a store in the Village (Later Mallett's). The Pines also had the only tennis courts in town. During the 1930's the Donahue's were doing so well they added more units, in the form of cottages. In the 1940's the property was purchased and operated by Claire and Paul Birnkammer who remained for thirty years when in 1970 they sold to Barbara Stone , followed by Don and Chere Meegan , followed by Mark Dindorf in 1985. Pines The Gateway Cottages, later The Target, then The Abenaki Motel. These have been connected to be one structure and still exist next door to the Bartlett Village Ball Park (Blackfly Field).These were operational from the 1930's to the 1990s. The main Inn building dates back to 1890 and was operated as The Gateway, by the Sweet family. The cottages were added in the 1930's. In 1961 the property was purchased by Doug Williams and Stuart & Anna Walker, all of Canadian background. In 1963 Mr. Williams became the sole owner. In 1971 he changed the name from Target to Abenaki. The three original cabins were joined with three new units being added, making a six unit motel. There were four cottages behind the main building. The main Inn burned sometime during the 2010's and the "motel" has been unused. Picture Below is The Gateway, 1940's. In 1961 it became The Target and in 1963 was renamed The Abenaki. Description at left. gateway Abenaki Target The Gateway Office Sign - not dated It appears to be lit by a kerosene lantern.. Historic Lodging Map Hotels Lodging Page 1 Continue to page 2 Continue to page 3 skyValley Sky Valley Motor Court: In 1945 Alan & Libby Eliason came to Bartlett from Chestertown, Maryland, where Alan operated a professional photographic studio. Alan and Libby intended the cottage business to be a summer only endeavor so he could keep himself busy while he escaped his allergies, ‘hay fever.’ In 1946, Alan and Libby purchased the property from Orin Cook and established Sky Valley Motor Court on the former French Farm about one mile east of Bartlett Village. A brief history of the Sky Valley property. This property was a part of the 1793 farm of Obed Hall , one of Bartlett's first pioneers. A part of it was also known as The Timothy George Farm. In 1898 Ida Hall (a descendant of Obed) sold a part of the property to Edgar Stevens, who at that time was the proprietor of the Cave Mountain House in the Village. In 1921 Edgar Stevens’ heirs (Don and Blanche Hobbs and James and Bertha Cook ) sold the property to Orin A. Cook . Orin operated a farm and an inn known as Maple Dale Cottage. By the 1950's Maple Dale Cottage was operated by Andrew and Anna-Marie Arendt , who came to Bartlett from Germany shortly before the beginning of WW II. Andrew was a meticulous flower and vegetable gardener and the area that is now the parking lot of the Penguin Ski Club was once filled with flowers and shrubs of all varieties. The Arendts are both buried in the Catholic Cemetery just down the street, (see headstone picture below) and Maple Dale Cottage became the Penguin Ski Club in the mid 1960's. Another 88 acre section of Obed Hall's Farm, later known as the Maybury lot , passed from a John T. Wentworth to Nathan French in 1855. That section remained in the French family until 1908 when it passed on to Lavinia Maybury by will. Lavinia sold the property to Orin Cook in 1918. It's interesting that when the Eliasons were looking for property to buy, they almost purchased the abandoned property then known as the Stilphen Farm , today's Storybook Inn , but the superb mountain vistas from the French farm swayed the decision, even though Stilphen's was a better location. Alan said most of his business decisions were often made for the wrong reasons, but personal preferences usually ruled over business sense. Not a bad credo. Sky Valley first consisted of nine cabins that were popular at the time. By 1955 ten modern motel units were added, along with the first swimming pool in the area. Since there were very few eating establishments in the immediate area at that time, Alan and Libby also built and operated "The Poolside Restaurant " on the property, along with a gift shop added about 1958. Many folks in the Village worked at Sky Valley at one time or another. Lillian Sanborn made all the pastries and desserts for the restaurant, and her daughters, Evelyn and Ellen , along with the daughters of farmer Harry Rogers , (Rogers’ Crossing) and Harry's niece Betty Jackson, were among the housekeepers. Lillian’s son Henry ran what may have been the first trash collection business in Bartlett. Alan’s son, David , remembers the big old truck loading up all the trash, with separate containers for anything suitable to feed the pigs Henry kept. Donna Ward worked at Sky Valley for at least ten years, first tending to Eliason's children and later on the front desk. The "summer only idea" did not last - by 1956. With full backing from their children, Alan and Libby moved the family from Chestertown permanently to Bartlett, although the business did not open for winter guests until the early 1970's. To supplement his income, Alan became a real estate broker first working with Wimpy Thurston , who briefly owned a store in the Village at that time. Alan was later associated with Leland Realty in the development of Tyrol Ski Slopes , and later with Country Squire Realty in North Conway along with Ellsworth Russell, who was a prominent citizen of Eaton. Alan continued to operate the business until 1968 when it was sold to Mr. John Chase . However, by 1971 Alan was once more the owner when Chase defaulted on the mortgage. About this time Alan's son, David, was in college and helped out in the business as time permitted. In 1975 Alan retired from Sky Valley and David agreed to take over the operation full time, with a one year contract. Forty four years later Dave and his siblings sold the property to Little Angels Service Dogs, owned by Kyler and Darlene Drew of Intervale. Dave was one of the longest serving innkeepers in the Mt. Washington Valley! Most hotel/motel operators have enough sense to "move along" after ten or fifteen years...or less. Dave is also your humble Bartlett Historical Society Web site editor. Alan returned to Maryland permanently in 2008, where he died at the same house where he was born in 1921. 1948 front sign on Route 302 These type of cottages were very popular in the 1950's and 1960's. As with all things, their popularity declined in the 1970's and many similar operations were no longer viable. Sky Valley kept up with the times with a series of renovations until the mid 2010's when many businesses could not compete with the influx of chain hotels and condominiums in the area. In 2019 the business was sold to Little Angels Service Dogs operated by Josh Drew with his parents Darlene and Kyler . If you grew up in Bartlett from the mid 1950's through the mid 1980's you probably learned to swim at the Sky Valley Pool with Red Cross Swimming Instructors. Sky Valley operated for about 70 years from the late 1940's until 2019. Eliason obed timothy IdaHall edgarstevens coles November 2019: The old restaurant building above (on the left) and all the little cabins were demolished to make way for a new campground being constructed by Dick Goff. (The cabin on the left remains as of April 2021). Coles Cabins and Coles Restaurant were operated by Henry and Sadie Cole beginning about 1935. It is said that Sadie had quite a temper and one needed to be alert for fry pans flying around. Lewis Mead purchased the cabins and restaurant in 1955 and the bigger house in the background is where Lewis and Sandra Mead live. Lewis died in 2008. You can see the gas pumps that, in 1935, were in the driveway of the main house. The pumps were later moved eastward to the front of the cabin office. The cabins and restaurant building later became A Better Life Cabins although they never used the restaurant building. Their office was in a smallish building in front of the cabins, which doubled as a convenience store. In the 1960's Winston Marcoux operated the store for a year or two. As of this writing (2020) the restaurant and cabins have been demolished to make way for a new campground being built by Dick Goff of West Side Road in Bartlett. Pictured below are the Cole's in 1924 on a berry picking expedition. cole Mead Better Life Winston The Dunrovin Inn was originally the private Residence of GK Howard and before he opened the Howard Hotel he had taken in travellers at this location. Eventually he sold the building to Elizabeth and John OConnell. They operated it as an Inn until 1945. The postcard below, with a postmark of 1948, states the owners as George and Hazel Bennett of Jackson. The building now serves as the Brettl-hupfers ski club. Click on the image for a large size, and click on the postcard back side to read the message dated August 1948. Photo postcard courtesy Michael Bannon. dunrovin John Whyte's Villager Motel is located about a mile east of the Village. It was built in the 1960's. Mr Whyte operated it for a number of years before selling to Mr. & Mrs Zerveskes. They added about 15 more units on the right side of this picture. The Zerveskes lasted about 15 years before retiring to Florida in the 1990's. There have been a few other owners in the meantime and it is still operational today (2019). Editors note: My memory is a bit foggy on these details. Please send any corrections to me using the contact form. Thank you, JohnWhytes Contact CRAWFORD NOTCH POSTCARD DATED 1913 on the back side. Probable location is about a half mile west of where Silver Springs Campground was located. We are looking east and Sawyers Rock is around the bend on the right side. This card scanned from the collection of Michael Bannon. Upper Village Area Intervale Area Glen Area Historic Lodging Map OMISSIONS - ERRORS - MISTAKES - JUST PLAIN LIES? 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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The George Family of Bartlett Village I'm just getting started on this section and already I'm beginning with a Question? I have seen reference to the Timothy George Farm in various places and I believe it was located in the area of the present day Villager Motel. I am wondering how (if) Timothy was related to Franklin George of the Village. He, and his family are buried at the west end of the Garland Ridge Cemetery, close by to all the other Georges', but not in the same plot. Timothy W. George was born in 1800 and died Feb 1869. His wife, Lavina, born 1806 and died in June of 1870. Timothy Jr died at 24 years of age in Jan 1869 and a Daughter, Sarah, died Nov of 1863 at 26 years of age. How did the father and son come to die just a month apart; and Lavina just a year and a half later. I'd guess they succombed to the Asiatic Flu that swept the world about that time, although there were many other incurable contagions that were much more common. How did Timothy come to own the farm and who inherited the farm after their deaths? That's alot of questions for a 155 year old event. Beginnings in Passaconway SOURCE: PASSACONAWAY IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS William James Sidis Published in 1916 http://www.sidis.net/PassContents.htm During the year 1800, Austin George, with a large family (fourteen children) drove up from Conway to the Passaconway intervale and built a large barn of hewed and split white pine from top to bottom. No labor was wasted, for the timber grew upon the very ground which the settler wished to clear. The men chose rift trees, split the boards, shingles and planks and smoothed them with an adze. A log-house was built and finished in the same way. One or two neighbors came with this family, but made no preparations for permanent settlement, and, after two or three years, went back to Conway. Mr. George's oldest son brought his bride from Conway to live with the family. Doubtless owing to the hardship of pioneer life, sickness came to the family. A daughter, nineteen years of age, died of consumption. The nearest neighbors were ten miles way. The poor mother was forced to make all the funeral preparations with her own hands. Friends arrived later and the customary burial rites were observed. The father, Austin George, was a scholar and a great reader. He taught his children geography, grammar, arithmetic and history, and in later years some of these frontier children became among the best school teachers In the country. So cold was the climate that corn and wheat were out of the question; in fact, the only vegetables they could raise were those which frost could not kill, such as cabbages, turnips, onions, and potatoes. Although the soil is unusually fertile and free from stones, so very short is the season between frosts (for ice often forms here in July and August) that only the fast growing vegetables and those that can survive the frosts can be relied upon. The girls and boys reaped abundant crops of hay, while the father cultivated the garden. The mother, by hand, wove the clothes for the numerous members. The entire family had to turn to and toil from daylight to dark in order to eke out their meagre existence. There were no drones in these early families. Times grew harder and harder in the George home. The cattle died of the "Burton Ail," no remedy at this time being known. A hurricane swept through the very center of the valley, tearing up trees by the roots. Everything in its path, which was a half mile in width, was laid level with the ground. The hurricane crossed the valley from northwest to southeast. In 1814, the family decided to abandon the place. Two sons had left and enlisted in the war against England, one of whom was killed at the Battle of Bridgewater in July, 1814. In October of the same year, the oldest son moved his family away. The now aged father decided to stay long enough to feed his stock the supply of hay on hand, while his family lived on the produce they had raised, as it was impossible to move these supplies through the forest and Mr. George had nothing with which to buy more. Until March, 1815, he remained, when, taking his family, which now consisted of a wife, three sons and three daughters, he moved to Bartlett. Mr. George felt very sad over abandoning his home in the intervale, and, although he lived twenty-four years longer, he never could bring himself to visit the spot again and see the, abandoned home. Thus Mr. George derived no benefit from the years of toil and hardship which he had put in here. For ten years the old George homestead was left to transient hunters, trappers and perhaps bandits. Yet its occupancy by the Georges had proved that, despite Chocorua's curse and the rigorous climate, human beings could exist here. In March, 1824, nine years after Mr. George had left, Mr. Amzi Russell, who had married the granddaughter of Austin George, moved into the old house and the settlement was begun in earnest; and never afterwards, up to the present, although time and again sorely tested, has it been entirely abandoned. The building was in a very dilapidated condition, having been used by rough men from time to time. The beautiful white-pine finishing had been ripped off by these vandals, who used the wood as fuel with which to cook their venison and keep themselves warm. The Russells had every reason to believe that the house had been used as a meeting-place by men who came from different parts of the country and who seemed well acquainted with the place. Evidently it had been a rendezvous for brigands who met here by agreement to divide their plunder or bury their treasure. A horse was discovered in the month of March by some of the Russells who were hunting. The family worked industriously on their farm and existed on what "garden truck" they could raise, which fare was supplemented by a plentiful supply of game. In 1833 the Russell brothers built a mill at the lower end of the intervale. Here they sawed lumber for the valley and made trips to Portland to haul lumber to market. At Portland they could procure supplies for their families. On these trips they would also bring back goods for the traders at Conway, and this helped to pay expenses. They managed to subsist by such activities and by farming. Happily and contentedly they lived, and made what improvements they could in addition to their regular tasks. Austin George had fourteen children, the first three of whom are buried in the Russell Cemetery in the Albany Intervale. Daniel George, a son of the pioneer, had a daughter, Eliza Morse George, who married Amzi Russell, son of Thomas Russell. Mrs. Russell lived to be over ninety years old. She kept a manuscript from which were taken not a few of the facts here recorded. The children of Amzi and Eliza Morse (George) Russell were Martha George Russell, who married Celon Russell Swett; Thirza Russell, who married Andrew J. Lord; Mary Russell, who died young; Ruth Priscilla Russell, who married Thomas Alden Colbath and lives in the historic old George homestead, and who for many years was Postmistress; and Flora Emma Russell, who never married. To Mrs. Colbath the present writer is deeply indebted for access to the Russell Manuscript and for letters supplementing the account given in said manuscript. Mrs. Colbath, as her acquaintances can testify, is a woman of superior intellectual ability and moral excellence, and scores of people, in many states, take pride in calling her their friend. The reason for writing so particularly about the George family is that not only have very reliable records been kept of the hardships endured, which hardships were typical of those necessarily endured by all the early families, but because Mr. George's long stay laid the foundation for a permanent settlement in the Albany Intervale. James Sidas has written extensively on the Albany area and the above material is a snippet from that. You can read the entire manuscript and see all the pictures at this link: http://www.sidis.net/PassContents.htm Feb 2013: This link seems to have disappeared but was originally somewhere in this extensive website of Mr. Sidis: http://www.sidis.net Let me know if you can find it.....thanks. According to former U.S. Forest Service Guide Ann Croto of Bartlett, who provided tours at the Russell Colbath house at the Passaconaway Historical Site for more than a dozen seasons. In December 1834, Amzi Russell married Eliza Morse George , daughter of Daniel George and granddaughter of Austin George, who was one of the first settlers in Burton (Albany) Intervale. In 1805, Croto said, Austin George built a large barn of hewed and split white pine and a log house to shelter his wife and child, just east of where the Russell Colbath House now stands. In 1810, their cabin was replaced by a framed dwelling. Repeated harsh frost, however, killed their vegetables, and the cattle died from "Burton's Ail" (later found to be caused by impure water). A hurricane also swept through the valley in 1814, leveling everything in a half-mile-wide path. The George family abandoned the valley and in 1815 moved to neighboring Bartlett. Son Daniel chose Conway as his new home. Thus were the beginnings of the George family in Bartlett. (Eliza and Amzi Russell continued along in what is now the Russell/Colbath House on the Kancamagus Highway, but that's a whole nother story) Source for the above material: http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090809/GJNEWS_01/708099961 Austin's Son, Benjamin Franklin George, decided to stay on at the Bartlett Farm and fathered seven children; three from his first marriage to Charlotte Stanton and four from his second wife, Comfort Tasker. Franklin built his farmhouse in 1856 and its location in the center of town made it an ideal stop-over for travellers (there was no railroad in 1856). Franklin continued making additions to the house and by 1872 It became known as The Bartlett House with accommodations for fifty people. Franklin was a man of astonishing ambition and fortitude. In 1872 he leased the Mount Crawford House from Dr. Bemis who had acquired it from Abel Crawford (and that's another good story too). In addition to his hotels Franklin also acquired large tracts of land, at one time owning all the land from the Saco River to the Albany Town Line. In 1890 Franklin founded the Bartlett Building and Improvement Company (a loan company). In 1877 Franklin laid out a bridle path to the summit of Mount Langdon. As if he did not have enough to do he held the town office of Selectman for six terms , was a delegate to the Constitutuional Convention in 1876 and a State Representative in 1878. He was also the Town Tax Collector for many years. Franklin died at the age of 76. CHAPTER 247. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BARTLETT TRUST AND BANKING COMPANY - 1891. Section 1. That Arthur L. Meserve, Perley N. Watson, Clarence E. George, W. H. Yates, W. Rounds, Edgar A. Stevens, Mark W. Pierce, George W. Darling, William G. Ayer, Henry M. Rideout, Frank George, H. L. Towle, Joseph O. George , W. S. George, C. F. Noyes, George K. Howard, Frank H. Morgan, James H. Mead, John R. Gillis, Eben O. Garland, George T. Wilson, Sanford E. Whitton, Richards, G. Morgan, Willis A. Page, Nelson C. Brooks, Freeman C. Stillings, Daniel D. Carlton, John Snow, Edward Ground, Otis H. Smith, Herbert W. Blanchard, H. P. Dearborn, John L. Pendexter, F. H. Bartlett, George \V. M. Pitman, their associates, successors, and assigns, be and hereby are made a body corporate by the name of the Bartlett Trust and Banking Company, to be located in Bartlett, in this state, with authority to have and execute all the powers and privileges incident to corporations of a similar nature, for the purpose of prosecuting the business of a safe deposit and trust company, to receive on deposit, or for safe keeping, money or other valuables, the funds of trustees, guardians, administrators, or others; to act as trustees for individuals and corporations, whether by appointment by will, by the courts, or otherwise; and officially, under appointment by the courts of this or other states, to act as financial agents, to make and negotiate loans for itself and others, or otherwise; to loan, borrow, and deal in money and securities, and to do a general banking business. Sect. 2. Said corporation shall have a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of not less than fifty dollars each, with authority to increase its capital to one hundred thousand dollars; and may acquire and hold real estate for its own use to the value of ten thousand dollars, exclusive of such real estate as may be taken in good faith for indebtedness, or held as security. Said corporation shall not begin business until the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall have been paid in in cash, and no certificate of shares shall be issued until the par value of the same has been fully paid, and a certificate thereof shall have been filed in the office of the secretary of state, verified by the oath of the directors. Sect. 3. The provisions of law, now or hereafter in force, governing the taxation of the capital stock in banks and deposits in savings banks, shall apply to this company. Sect. 4. Said corporation, at any meeting duly holden, may adopt such by-laws and regulations, not repugnant to the laws of this state, as may be necessary for the management of its business Sect. 5. The private property of shareholders shall not be liable for the debts of the company. Sect. G. The affairs of this company shall be under the supervision and control of the bank commissioners, who shall examine its books and securities, make the same reports upon its condition, and receive the same pay for their services from the state, as provided in the case of savings banks. Sect. 7. Any three of the grantees may call the first meeting of the corporation by notice in writing to each grantee at least one week before the day of meeting. Sect. 8. This act shall take effect on its passage. [Approved April 7, 1891.] Information From Ann Croto The disease from which Burton (Albany) cattle suffered and which was laid to Chocorua's curse, proved to be not imaginary but real. So serious was it that, in 1821, Professor Dana, of Dartmouth College, was sent by the state to the afflicted town to find out if possible the nature of "the Burton Ail." 22 He found the cause to lie in the water, with contained a weak solution of muriate of lime. A remedy was discovered near at hand, however. It was found that a certain kind of meadow mud, when administered in large pills to the cattle, counteracted the disease. Soap-suds acted similarly.23 The town had gained an evil reputation on account of "the Burton Ail," but with the discovery of a remedy, its population and business were stimulated somewhat. These cemetery stones are located at the Garland Ridge Cemetery on Rte 302 in Bartlett - - They are ordered by date burton timGfarm Croto Austin SR BFtoBart charlotte comfort Lease PathLangdon TaxCollect bank Anzi1824 cemetery abandons The Franklin George and Elmeda (at right) operated the What Not Shop in Bartlett Village until his death. Like a relative of the same name he was also the Town Tax Collector for a number of years. rusColHouse These photos were taken sometime around 2005. There may be others there now. Primarily for Franklin's two sons, Benjamin and Clarence, better known as "Bert". Others mentioned in this story may be found at the Russell Colbath Historic Site on the Kancamagus Highway. (But this editor has not confirmed that. Anyone have pictures ??? RCInsideHouse Inside the Russell Colbath House The Historic Site includes the Russell-Colbath House, a timber frame barn, the Town of Albany Cemetery, and the one-half mile Rail N' River Trail. Additional amenities include parking, toilet facilities, picnic tables, interpretive signs. The Russell-Colbath House was built in 1832 and is the only original structure left from the town of Passaconaway. wall st 1929 Resize text here

James Howarth Post Card Collection - 1919. PAGE 2 Bob Girouard obtained this collection of Post Cards and has also done some research on the cards author, James Frederick Howarth. Bob writes, "Boy, am I excited on what I'm sending you. Cost me a leg and an arm but they are mine and I get to share them with Bartlett, New Hampshire. These are postcards. Most pictures everyone has seen but what is totally fantastic is the writing on the backs of these cards." "They are written by James Frederick Howarth. Born Sept. 21,1872 in Boston Mass. He was the Clerk at the company store in Livermore who went on to become Manager of the Company store. On his Service registration card that he filled out on Sept. 12,1918 we find this information. He was 45 years old. Worked as a clerk at Livermore Mills (Livermore company store). His wife is Alice M. Howarth." "James, I noticed, likes to go by his middle name. He signs his name J. Fred Howarth. You will see this on the postcards. He was of medium height and of medium built. Has grey eyes and light brown hair. In my research of J. Fred I find this out. In a 1880 census he is 8 years old and has two other brothers. His father William is 34 and is a watch engraver. No information on J. Fred Howarth until 1900. The 1900 census says Boston but I believe as Fred writes on the postcards he is living in Roslindale Ma. This is right outside of Boston." "In 1900 we find J. Fred at his house on 100 Aldrich St. living with his wife Alice, his mother in law Mary E. Getchull, brother in law Frederick E. Getchull and sister in law Jennie F. Getchull. Boy seems J.Fred had a lot of patience. J. Fred is now a treasurer at a corporation." "In 1910 we find J. Fred still at the same house living with his wife, son Lawrence B. who is 3 years old, a daughter Marjorie who is 10 months old, and mother in law and sister in law. J. Fred is now a clerk at a food company." "In 1920 we have J. Fred Howarth on two census 1920 in Roslindale, Ma.in the same house and also in Livermore NH. On the 1920 Roslindale census J. Fred is with his family and mother in law and sister in law on occupation he is down as store manager. The Livermore census of 1920 J. Fed Howarth in living as a boarder. He is a boarder at 11 High St. in Livermore NH. On occupation he is down as Manager Grocery store." "You will see on the cards that he writes to his son, daughter and sister in law and wife. Some postcards were not mailed. These cards are from 1919. Two cards which weren't sent I would say were a little later than 1920. Wish they were dated. Seems the J. Fred Howarth family lived in Livermore at one time in the St. George's hall. After all this research you seem to get to know James Frederick Howarth a little. When the information trail ends...you kind of wonder whatever happened to Good Ole J. Fred?. These postcards and the 1920 census is about all we have left." "One last bit of Information we have is in the1930 census which I hated to see. The Howarth family is living at the 100 Aldrich St. Alice M. Howarth now 56 years old is widowed. Seems J. Fred passed away sometime between 1920 and 1930. Living with Alice M. Howarth are her son Lawrence B. at 23 years old,daughter Marjorie at 20 years old, Alice sister Jennie F. Gethull who is 45 years old and Alice mother Mary E. Gethull now 80 years old in 1930." "Well Enjoy the cards and information on the backs of these cards. It's a Husband, Father, Store Manager also a person who worked, lived, and explains in first had account to his family "Livermore New Hampshire" Enjoy!! Bob Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2 May 7, 1919: This card addressed to Howarth's son, Lawrence, asks "How would you like to sail your boat here?" Reference to the Scudler House and Store visible in distance. St. Georges Hall. Mr Howarth describes the various sleeping arrangements and identifies his room above the bay window. May 7, 1919: Village Store at Livermore. Mr Howarth describes this as "where he has been straightening out things." May 7, 1919: Mt Tremont and Saunders House May 7, 1919: The Village Store with men hanging out on porch. Mr. Howarth refers to "a store being burnt before they built this last one." This photo is not part of the Howarth collection, but here it is anyway, Whiteface Road, Livermore NH In Peter Cranes dissertation about Livermore he asked Robert Shackford (In the 1960's he owned the Livermore tract of land that included the Saunders Mansion) if he knew where Whiteface Road was located. Shackford did not know. This postcard shows Whiteface Road and with the mountain reference points in the background one might be able to find the approximate location of this road that existed 100 years ago. The peak on the left, which is very faint behind the trees, has a shape very similar to Mt. Tremont. Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2

Some Older and Some Newer Videos Found Skiing at Intervale Ski Area - 1966 Sorry for the dumb music - I didn't pick it A shaky airplane ride around Bartlett. Seems heavily centered on the Sky Valley area, Rte 302 Some ski jumping action in 1966 at Intervale Ski Area. You might see someone you know? Peter Limmer Presentation January 2022 A Monorail Comes to Attitash in 1966 followed by some sort of school parade that might be some different year It's 1950 or so and Sky Valley Motor Court is Ready for Business Richard A. Jones, "Dick", who died in 2015, left us a small collection of his stories: 1. Making flowers move by waving at them 2. Volcano secret eruption word. 3. The Caribe cruise ship in a hurricane. 4. Getting served alcohol at the Oak Lee Lodge at a young age. 5. The Island of Petito Don't know who recorded this but, Thank you. An eight minute flight over Bartlett, NH with DragonFly Aerials DragonFly Aerials has a bunch more local videos at their YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@DragonFlyAerialsLLC Link is good 01/05/2025

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BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 A LEGAL ADVENTURE Bartlett Land and Lumber Co v. Daniel Saunders BARTLETT LAND AND LUMBER COMPANY V. DANIEL SAUNDER8. (See 8. C., 13 Otto, 31&-326.) April 1881 - U.S. Supreme Court Boundaries of land—reference to plat—u/uue0r° tained boundary—estoppel by a surrey. 1. In boundaries of land, monuments control courses and distances. 2. Where land granted was bounded by Hart's Location, it is no objection that Hurt's Location had never been located by a fixed definite survey, if tin.' plat of it annuxed to the grant and referred to in n. did show a boundary line, laid down to a scale. 3. As Hart's Location must necessarily have n western boundary somewhere, and as its limits anil bounds were shown, whether correctly or incorrectly, by public maps in the archives of the State, it could not be said that this boundary was incapable of ascertainment. 4. A line run without any communication 01H urn •incut with the proprietors of Hart's Location, or any other parties having an interest in the adJoining lands, and in ignorance of the true western boundary of that location on the land, is no estop>el "n the question of that boundary. [No. 251.] Argued Apr. 1,4, 1881. Decided Apr. 15, 1881. IN ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire. The case is fully stated by the court. Messrs. William L. Putnam, / IV. Hackett and Ossian Ray, for plaintiff in error: Hart's Location is not such monument, as. is intended by the maxim that "Courses and distances yield to boundaries." "The reason why monuments, as a general thing, in the determination of boundaries, control courses and distances, is that they are less liable to mistakes; but the rule ceases with the reason of it." White v. Luning,QSV. S., 520 (XXIII..940). "The ordinary rule rests on the presumption that all grants and conveyances are made with reference to an actual view of the premises by the parties thereto." Higinbotham v. Stoddard, 72 N. Y., 98. "Where a boundary is inadvertently inserted or cannot be found, * * * or an adherence to it would defeat the evident intent of the parties, * * * the boundary may be rejected, and the extent of the grant be determined by measurement, or other portions of the grant." Morsev. Rogers, 118 Mass., 578. "A call for a line not marked, will not control courses and distances." Luning (lupra); see, also, None v. Rogers, 118 Mass., 572; Smitii v. Dodge, 2 N. H., 303; Bowman v Farmer, 8 N. H., 402; Drew v. Drew, 28 N. H., 489; Hall v. Davit, 86 N. H., 569; Cviminytiam v. C'urtit, 57 N. H., 167; Enjield v. Permit, 5 N. H., 280. M,-xxrn. 3. G. Abbott, Daniel Sounders one Charles G. Saunders, for defendant in error: It has been repeatedly decided that the lineol another tract of land is a monument, which will control both courses and distance mentioned in a deed. Peailee v. Gee, 19 N. H., 278; Cunningham, v. Curtis 67 N. H., 167; Breek v. Young, 11 N. H., 485; How, v. Bait, 2 Mass., 380; Fla v. Thuriton, 18 Pick., 145; Henshaw v. Mi lent, 121 Mass., 148; Bond v. Fay, 8 Allen, 212; Cltadbourne v. Mown, 48 Me., 389; Abbott v. Abbott, 51 Me., 575; Haynet v. Young, 36 Me., 557; Park v. Pra«,88 Vt.,545; Bolton v. /xmn, 16 Tex., 96; James v. Brooks, 6 Heiak., 151; Com. v. MeCrary, 8 Jones, 496. Hart's Location is such a monument. The fact that its westerly line had never been actually located on the ground at the point where the north line of Klkins' Grant strikes it, will in no way vary the rule. Id cerium est quod certum reildi poteit. Corn v. JtcCrary (supra); Dula v. M'Ohee, 12Ired.,332; Brownv. Hobton,3 A. K. Marsh., 880; Kronenberger v. Hoffner, 44 Mo., 185. If the distance from the Lincoln corner to the location was greater than they supposed, that would not affect a deed conveying all the land lying between the two bounds. Newsom v. Pryor, 7 Wheat., 7; Mayhew v. Norton, 17 Pick., 857. It has been decided that the .words, "by land of adjoining owner," mean along the line of such land. Penslee v. Oee (supra); Breek v. Young (supra); Enjield v. Day, 11 N. H.,520; Brown v. Hobton (supra). The line from Hart's Location to the Albany corner must be a straight one. Alien v. Kinysbury, 16 Pick., 235. To the same effect are the following cases: Henniker v. Hopkinton, 18 N. H., 98; Jenks v. Morgan, 6 Gray, 448; Henthaw v. Mullen* (supra); Call v. Barker, 12 Me., 820. There is no such point as that mentioned in the grant, from which a line drawn due south shall strike the northwest corner of Albany, the whole western boundary of the location being east of such line. This boundary must then be a line drawn from Albany to the nearest point on the westerly line of the location., Campbell v. Brandt, 4 Jones, 813. In the case of Coburn v. Coxeter, 51 N. H., 158, the above case of Campbell v. Branch, is cited in the opinion, and the principle there laid down, approved by the New Hampshire court. Where any principle of law, establishing a rule of real property has been established in the state court, the same rule will be applied to the United States Courts that would be applied to the state tribunals. Suydam v. Williamson, 24 How., 427 (65 U. 8., xYl.,742); Jackson v.Chev, 12 Wheat.,158; Walker v. /State Harbor Comrs., 17 Wall., 648 (84 U. 8., XXI., 744). Mr. Justice Bradley delivered the opinion of the court: 13171 This is a writ of entry brought by the plaint- l iff in error, the demandant below, against thedefendant, to recover possession of a certain tract of land in Grafton County, New Hampshire, described as foDows: "Beginning at the1 northwest corner of the Town of Albany, and thence running north about 8 degrees east, threemiles and 65 rods, to a spruce tree marked; ami from thence north about 6 degrees east, 4 mile. and 95 rods, to a fir tree marked; and from thence south about 87i degrees east, to the westerly line of Hart's Location, and to the easterly line of Grafton County, as established by the Act approved July 3d, 1875, entitled ' An Act Establishing the East Line of Grafton County;' and from thence along the east line of Grafton County to the bound begun at, and containing 8,000 acres of land, more or less." The defendant filed a plea, defending his. right in, and denying disseizin of, all the land described in the plaintiff's.writ which is included in the following described tract, viz: "Beginning at the nortwest corner of the Town of Albany, formerly called Burton, and thence running north about three degrees east, three milesand sixty-five rods,to a spruce tree marked; and from thence north about six degrees east, four miles and ninety-five rods, to a fir tree marked; and from thence south about eightyseven and one-half degrees east, to the westerly line of Hart's Location; thence southerly by the westerly line of Hart's Location to the point iu said westerly line nearest to the nortwest corner of said Albany; thence in a strai't line to the northwest corner of said Albany." As to the. remainder of the land claimed in the plaintiff's, writ, the defendant disclaimed title. Upon these issues the cause came on to be tried, and after the demandant's evidence was adduced, the court below instructed the jury that upon the case made by the demandant ft was not entitled to recover, and a verdict was given for the defendant, and judgment rendered accordingly. The present writ of error is brought to reverse this judgment. 13181 The specific points raised upon the trial, up-' on which the court was called upon to pass, are presented by a bill of exceptions, which exhibits the evidence in detail. Such parts of thievidence as may be necessary to understand the matters of law raised by the writ of error will be adverted to. The demandant, on the trial, produced and deraigned title under a quitclaim deed from James Willey, land commissioner of the Stole of New Hampshire, to Alpheus Bean and others, dated Nov. 26, 1831, made by authority of i resolve of the Legislature,which included the lands claimed in the writ. The demandant also produced a prior deed, under which the defendant claimed the land described in his plea, being a deed from Abner R. Kelly,Treasurer of the State of New Hampshire, :o Jasper El kins and others, dated August 31, 1830, and made by authority of a resolve of the Legislature, which deed purported to convey he following described tract in the County of Grafton, New Hampshire, to wit: "Beginning at the northeast corner of the Town of Lincoln, and running east seven miles and one hundred and seventeen rods to Hart'sLocation; thence southerly by the westerly boundary of said location to a point so far south that a line drawn thence due south shall strike the northwest corner of the Town of Burton; thence -south to said northwest corner of Burton; thence westerly along the northern line of Waterville to the eastern ooundary of Hatch and Cheever's grant; thence northerly and westerly by said grant to the east line of Thornton; thence by said line of Thornton northerly to the line of Lincoln, and along this line to the point first mentioned." The principal question in the cause was whether the premises thus granted to Elkins and others by the last named deed embraced the land described in the defendant's plea; if they did, as was held by the Judge at the trial, the defendant's was the elder title to the land in dispute, and the title of the demandant failed, and there is no error in the instructions as to the documentary title. The beginning corner of the premises granted to Elkins and others was conceded to be a well known point, and the general position of the first line of the survey, which is described as "running east 7 miles and 117 rods to Hart's Lo[319] cation," was not disputed; nor was the position of the northwest corner of the Town of Burton (now Albany) disputed, it being a common point to which both parties referred; nor were the lines of the Elkins survey from the northwest corner of Burton "westerly along the northerly line of Waterville, etc., to the point first mentioned," brought in question. The only point in dispute was the eastern boundary of the Elkins tract; the defendant contending that, by virtue of the deed of 1830, it extended eastwardly.to Hart's Location, covering the disputed territory; and the demandant contending that it did not extend further to the eastward than the northwest corner of Burton (or Albany) and a line drawn north from that point. The language of the grant is, " east 7 miles and 117 rods to Harft Location; then southerly fty the westerly boundary of laid location to a point so far south that a line drawn thence due .south shall strike the northwest corner of the Town of Burton; thence, etc." Now, if when the grant was made, there was a tract known as Hart's Location lying easterly and in the vicinity of the land granted, and if it had a westerly boundary to which the granted tract could by any reasonable possibility extend, no more apt language for this purpose could have been adopted. It would be a monument which would control courses and distances. If more or less distant from the point of beginning than 7 miles and 117 rods, still it would control the survey. If a line drawn due south from any point of its western boundary would not strike the northwest corner of Burton, then they must be connected by a line not running due south. The line of shortest distance between said boundary and said northwest corner would be the proper one, and this is the one that was adopted. Hart's Location is called for, and to that location we ore bound to go. The evidence was overwhelming and uncontradicted to show the existence and notoriety of Hart's Location. It is a Urge tract of land lying on both sides of the Saco River, directly to the eastward of the Elkins tract. On the 27th of April, 1772, this tract was granted by Governor Wentworth, in the name of the King, to one Thomas Chadbourne. The plaintiff produced in evidence a copy of that grant, having a plat or survey of the tract annexed to it. The premises granted are described as follows: "Beginning at a birch tree being the southwesterly corner bounds of a tract of kind granted to Mr. Vere Koy.se; from thence running north four hundred and seventy rods, from thence extending westerly the same breadth of four nundred and seventy rods, the distance of two hundred and eighty-five rods from thence running northwesterly six hundred rods, from thence running nearly a north course thirteen hundred rods until it meets the notch or narrowest passage leading through the White Mountains lying upon Saco River. The plat, or survey, annexed to the grant shows the Saco River running through it. It follows the river on both sides from the beginning of the survey up to the mountains. It is conceded that the beginning corner is well known; and the general location of the tract is undisputed. By the name of Hart's Location it has been well known for nearly a century past. Its census has been published in the laws, like that of a regular township, and it seems to have been treated in some sort as a tfuani township. In the state census published with the laws of 1815, and again in 1820, the population of Hart's Locution is put down as 35 for the year 1810, and at 65 for 1820. In the Acts for the apportionment of the state lax among the several townships of the State, theprorata share of Hart's Location was fixed at 8 cents on a thousand dollars in 1816; at 12 cents in 1820; at 10 ceuts in 1824; and at 8 cents in 1829. By an Act approved Dec. v>4th, 1828, it was resolved"That Hart's Location, in the County of Coos, be annexed and classed with the Towns of Bartlett and Adams, in said county, for the purpose of electing a representative to the general court, until the Legislature shall otherwise order." The demandant's principal witness stated that it had been a political organization at one time and sent a representative to the general court. But it was claimi. I by the demandant, and proof was offered to show that the western boundary of Hart's Location, being in a wild and mountainous region, had never been located on the ground in 1830, and could not be located from the description contained in the grant, because it was too vague and uncertain, to admit of a fixed and definite survey. But the plat annexed to the grant, and referred toby the grant for greater certainty, did show a boundary line, laid down to a scale. If there was no other evidence on the subject, this would be sufficient to show that Hart's Location had a boundary, and a definite one, whether it was ever actually run out on the ground or not. In or about 1803, on occasion of a general perambulation of the townships of the State, made in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature, a survey of Hart's Location was made by one Merrill, by public authority, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. This was also produced in evidence on the trial, and showed a well-defined map of the location, laid down to a scale—differing some what from the plat annexed to the original grant, but not more than might be naturally expected if the original was not used. There can be no doubt, therefore, that when Hart's Location was referred to in public Acts and resolves, whether for the purpose of taking the census, taxation or political jurisdiction, it was referred to as a defined tract or portion of territory, within the bounds of which the State claimed no proprietary interest. In 1830, when the Legislature, by a resolve, authorized, and by its treasurer made, to Elkins and his associates, a grant of land to extend from the Town of Lincoln on the west to Hart's Location on the east, the exterior line extending along "by the westerly boundary of said location, "it is difficult to find any ground for uncertainty or ambiguity in the grant, or to imagine how, after that, the State, or any persons claiming under the State, could, with any show of reason, claim that there was no such thing in being as a Hart's Location having a western boundary; or that the Elkins grant did not extend to and bound upon it. All rights of the State up to and adjoining said location were as clearly disposed of as if the two grants, that of Hart's Location and that to Elkins and others, had been made in the same instrument; granting to one party, first, Han's Location as described in Chadbourne's patent, and then granting to Elkins and his associates all the residue of the hinds westward to the Town of Lincoln between designated side lines on the north and south. The truth is, that Hart's Location itself was the monument indicated, whatever might be the location of its western boundary. The existence of the location as a territorial subDivision of New Hampshire was as notorious and certain as the existence of any township in the State. It must of necessity have had a boundary whether that boundary had ever been actually surveyed on the ground or not. The State owned all the land lying westerly of it, between it and the Township of Lincoln, and this land had never been granted to any person. It was wild, mountainous land of little value. The whole area, equal to the extent of a large township, and containing probably seventy or eighty square miles, was in 1880 valued at only $800. All this tract thus lying to the west of Hart's Location was granted to Elkins and his associates. They may have been under an erroneous impression as to the true location of the western boundary of Hart's Location, but whatever it was, and whenever found, that was to be the boundary of the grant. It may be true, as stated by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Hone v. Bogert, 118 Mass., 578, that where a boundary is inadvertently inserted or cannot be found or an adherence to it would defeat the evident intent of the parties, "the boundary may be rejected, and the extent of the grant be determined by measurement, or other portions of the grant." But that is not the case here. The evident intent of the parties was to go to Hart's Location as a territory or known body of land, without particular regard to a marked, designated and visible line. It was their intent to leave no land belonging to the State between that territory and Uie tract granted. This was clearly the principal object in view; and as Hart's Location must necessarily have a western boundary somewhere, and as its limits and bounds were shown, •whether correctly or incorrectly.by public maps in the archives of the State, it could not be said See 18 Otto. U. S., Book 26. that this boundary was incapable of ascertainment. To hold this, and abandon the call of the deed for Hart's Location, and to confine the grantees to courses and distances, would defeat instead of-furthering the intention of the parties. If the western boundary of Hart's Location had never been surveyed on the ground, it could be surveyed; or it could be located by agreement between the owners of it and the owners of the Elkins grant. They were the only parties who after that grant had any interest in the matter. It may well be asked, if the call for Hart's Location and its western boundary can have no 13Z3J significance in the Elkins grant in 1830, how does it suddenly acquire significance in 1831, hi the grant under which the demandant claims? The language used is almost exactly the same: "thence easterly to Hart's Location; thence southeasterly by said Hart's Location, etc." "With the accumulated evidence on the subject which was presented in the demandant's case, most of it of such a character as not to admit of contradiction, we think that the Judge was perfectly right in assuming that Hart's Location was a monument sufficiently definite to control the courses and distances given in the grant. Indeed, we do not see how he could have done otherwise. The fact that the Town of Burton, which lay to the south of Hart's Location, extended so fur westerly that its northwest corner would not be met by a line drawn due south from any part of Hart's Location, cannot prevent the Elkins grant from extending to Hart's Location, as its eastern boundary, as called for in the deed. As before stated, the connection between this location and the northwest corner of Burton, if it cannot be made by a line drawn due south as called for, must necessarily be made by the line of shortest distance between them. This is the surveyors' rule and the rule of law. Campbell v. Brandt, 4 Jones (N. C.), 818. It is constantly applied when trees or monuments on or near the margin of a river are called for in a deed where the river is a boundary. We think that the Judge did not err in relation to the construction and effect of Elkins' deed. But the demandant raised another point at the trial, namely: that the owners of the Elkins grant had estopped themselves from claiming under it any land eastwardly of a line running north from the northwest corner of the Town of Burton, or Albany. The evidence offered on this point tended to show that about,or soon after the date of the Elkins grant, the grantees or some of them employed surveyors to ascertain the extent and boundaries of the grant, and that a line was run directly (or nearly) north from the northwest corner of Burton,to I lie north line of the grant, as the supposed eastern boundary adjoining Hart's Location; but that this was done without any communication or agreement with the proprietors of Hart's Location or any other parties having an interest in the adjoining lands, and in ignorance of the true western r«24. boundary of that location on the land. The evi- 1B**J dence consisted of the testimony as to the declarations of some or one of the grantees, as to the running of such line, made over forty years before, and of a recent examination of marked trees, which indicated a date corresponding with the period referred to. 85 649 We think that the Judge was ri.q-h t. in holding that this evidence was totally insiillidci.it, under the law of New Hampshire, or any other law, to show such a teMemtnt of the line, as to estop the owners of the grant from claiming to the extent of the description contained in the deed. Conceding that everything was proved which the evidence tended to prove, it would only show that the grantees made a tentative effort to find the limits of their property in a mountainous and almost inaccessible wilderness, without consultation or communication with any other parties, and without doing any act or thing that could in the least commit them in relation to such parties. The only line shown to have been the subject of any agreement was that located by Wilkins in 1850, parallel to, and 235 chains from, the Saco, which was concurred in by Walker, the agent of the owners of the Elkms grant, and one Davis, who professed to own one half of Hart's Location. It is alleged by the counsel of the demandant that the law of New Hampshire on the subject of estoppel as to boundary lines is peculiar; that an agreement settling such lines, though made by parol, is binding upon the parties and all those claiming under them. Conceding this to be true, not the slightest evidence was offered to show any agreement whatever, or even any communication, between the adjoining owners prior to 1850, and the line then agreed upon coincides substantially with that which is now claimed by the defendant. It is contended, however, that the running of the hypothetical line northerly from the Burton corner was an estoppel as regards the State; that the State, upon the faith of this line being run and marked by the Elkins grantees, entered upon the land eastward of it, and granted the same to Bean and others. That is, the State, by legislative resolve and solemn grant, having [325] in 1830 granted to Elkins and others all the land west of Hart's Location, had the right to reenter upon some 8,000 acres of the same land in 1831 and grant it out to third parties, because the Elkins grantees, in making an ex parte survey, had mistaken the position of the west boundary of Hart's Location. There is no pretense, certainly no proof, that this survey was made by any concurrence of the parties, or that there was even any communication between the agents of the State and the Elkins grantees. The agents of the State simply lay by and watched the operations of Elkins and company, and finding, or supposing, that they had made a mistake, and had left a vacant tract of land between the line they ran and Hart's Location, stepped in and made another grant to other parties of nearly a sixth part of the tract granted to the Elkins party. Not a particle of evidence was produced to show any acquiescence on the part of Elkins and his associates in this proceeding, or that they had any notice or knowledge of it. So far as appears, they have never acknowledged the right of these new grantees, nor have they ever admitted that any one had any right to interfere with the extension of their land eastwardly to Hart's Location. We think no case can be found, that would make out an estoppel under such circumstances as these. We have been referred with much confidence to the case of Propn. of Enfield v. Day, 11 N. H., 590. We have carefully examined this case, and do not find in it anything to support the proposition contended for. There the State interposed, after due notice to the parties and an inquiry by the Legislature, in reference to the true and right ownership of a certain gore between two adjoining townships, which by an alleged mistake of a figure had not been included in the grant (of Enfield) in which it was intended to be. The south line was south 08° east in the deed, when it should have been south 58° east. The grant of Grantham was made a few years afterwards, binding on Enfield, but having the right course (south 58° east) for its north line. On the application of the proprietors of Enfield and adjoining townships, the Legislature was applied to to correct this error, and commissioners were appointed to run the true line, and the disputed gore was granted to Enfield. The parties acquiesced for 20 years, and the question was, whether Enfield had sufficient seisin and color of title to claim the benefit of [326] the Statute of Limitations; and the court held that it had. But the court expressed itself with great caution as follows: "In this case we are clearly of opinion the seisin would not pass by the mere effect of the second grant; but was there not such a previous re-entry and assertion of ri-rlit on the part of the government as to constitute, together with the grant, a conveyance with livery of seisin? An entry upon the land by the government agents, and the running anew and re-marking of lines, with the express design of a reconveyance to rectify a former mistake, would seem to be evidence sufficient to show an actual possession in the government of any given tract." Was anything of this kind done in the present case? Were the Elkins grantees notified of any error or mistake Y Were they informed of the intention to regrant a portion of the tract granted to them? Did they acquiesce in such proceedings? Nothing of the kind. But the court adds: "The proceedings of the Legislature were had on publicnotice, and actual service on the proprietors of Grantham. They also had full knowledge o! the subsequent proceedings of the proprietors, of Enfield, in their entry upon and frequent sales, of portions of this gore of land, claiming the whole under the grant from the State, and must be regarded as acquiescing in such adverse possession and claim. It is now too late for the proprietors of Grantham to assert their title." It is obvious that the cases are totally distinct; and it is unnecessary to discuss the subject further. The Judge, on this part of the case, instructed the jury that there was no evidence before them to estop or bar those claiming under the Elkins grant from maintaining their line by the westerly side of Hart's Location; and in this we think he was right. The, judgment of the Circuit Court it affirmed True copy. Test: James H. MuKenney, Clerk, Sup. Court, V. 8. Source Material: United States Supreme Court reports, Volume 26 By United States. Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company Source Material: http://books.google.com/books?id=44oYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA551&lpg=PA550&ots=xG7V-mZ1XV&dq=Elkins+grant+land+NH&output=text Back to Top of This Page and Menu Some of these pages are under construction Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces

Bartlett NH - Glen Junction area - 1952 aerial photo BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Glen Area Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge This picture was taken in the winter of 1952. If you live in Bartlett you probably drive through here everyday. Do you know where it is? Just a hint, the building at left center is the Storybook Motor Inn. Everyone knows where The Red Parka Pub is located. Well, it wasn't always a pub. It started life as a General Store in the 1940's. Nancy Grant Bartlett shared this information: In 1952, the building that is now the Red Parka Pub was my parents' general store. In 1965, they built Grant's (on the hill), and Conway Supply (Bun Lucy) rented the "old store". A year later (I think - maybe it was two), my parents built the shopping center and Conway Supply moved there. At that time, my parents rented the building to Dottie and Rick Roderick, and they opened it as the Red Parka Pub. A couple of years later, the Rodericks moved back to Massachusetts. Dewey & Jean Mark and Al & Lois Nelson then leased it from my parents, and eventually Dewey and Jean purchased it. The rest, as they say, is history.... More trivia - the house where Jen Forman lived was the station agent's house, and my great-grandfather, Frank Burnell, was the station agent. After Papa (my great-grandfather) died, the house was sold. I don't remember who bought it originally, but it was sold again in the 60's and became Vien na Lodge. The Vienna Lodge sign is also in the Pub at the Parka. My house (since 1968) is just before that. Redparka One more 60 year old memory has come in from Roger Marcoux of Bartlett: "Straight ahead through that left door on the back wall was where The Rifleman rifles were (toy gun) when it was Grant's Store, ( I know, because I got one) and just in front of that on the right was the cooler with 16 ounce Jic-Jac soda for a dime, which was a pretty crazy deal since Cokes were a nickel in Bartlett, plus a 2 cent deposit unless you drank it there, but you only got 6-1/4 ounces, and Pepsi was a dime for 12 ounces. It was also Carroll County Hardware at one point, before they moved that to main street in North Conway on the right side of the entrance to Reporter Court. I helped my dad paint that building." Red Parka Pub - 1970 burnell Glen Train Station and Post Office. Mr Burnell is standing next to the porch. dated 1909 Nancy Grant Bartlett sent this photo: "Here is my great-grandfather, Frank Burnell . He was the station agent in Glen and lived in the red house next door to my house." kensCoffee Top of Page Redparka burnell kensCoffee sanbornsstore storyland Cannellphotos Boulder coveredbridgeshop roadkill RoadKillCafe FrogRock PineGlen Lock Shop sanbornsstore storyland Roy Sanborn's Store in Glen, N.H. It closed in the mid 1960's and became Gabby's Pub. It later became The Ross Family's Margarita Grill. They called it MargaritaVille until the folks who already trademarked the name complained. As of this writing it is the Margarita Grill Restaurant, Across the Street from Patch's Marketplace. (2022) Thanks to Robert Gerouard for this picture. Storyland in Glen was founded in the early 1950's by Bob Morrell. That's a whole story in itself, that I will get around to one of these days. I would suppose this little map is from the very beginning days. I recall once when my family went there in the mid 1950's and my older brother "Hap", w ho was about ten years old, was studying the old fire truck they had there and wondered why the siren didn't work. Being a mechanical sort of kid he noticed that it was simply that the battery was disconnected and within five minutes he had it all connected and had the siren wailing. The Storyland management was not impressed. They didn't throw us out though. I have a dedicated page for Storyland at this LINK . Cannellphotos Cannell's in Glen about 1935. At this time the highway ran about 600 feet south of its current location in the Jericho Road area. The Cannell's that most 2000 era folks remember was at the Intervale Scenic Vista. They moved there from Glen in 1937. They closed the business in 2022. This post card was sent in by Diane Lambert and is labeled Cannell's, Glen, N.H. The cars in this picture suggest a time frame in the 1920's. The mountains in the background are suggestive of the area around the Intervale scenic vista...but the Cannell's did not move there until 1937. I think a closer investigation will reveal this is a southwesterly view from their Glen location. Small Running Title Boulder This 1900 era photo shows the Bartlett Boulder suspended by four smaller boulders. It was once a very visible attraction but in recent years trees grew up and houses were built. It is now in the backyard of a house opposite the Glen Warehouse. (Allen Road) I don't know how they feel about folks traipsing about to search it out. There is no sign, so that might be a hint they hope you don't find it.... (just my guess) The Bartlett Boulder is a large glacial erratic. The exact date when the Bartlett Boulder came to its final resting spot is unknown, but it is generally believed to have been deposited in its current location by a glacier during the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,700 years ago. The Bartlett Boulder is made of Conway granite, which is found about 30 miles to the north. This suggests that the boulder was transported by a glacier from its source to its current location. Glaciers can transport boulders of this size over long distances, and the Bartlett Boulder is a testament to the power of these massive ice sheets. The movement of the Bartlett Boulder is generally attributed to the Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred between 85,000 and 11,000 years ago. During this period, glaciers covered much of North America, including New England, and left behind many glacial features, such as moraines, drumlins, and erratics like the Bartlett Boulder. coveredbridgeshop The first covered bridge photo is sometime in the 1950's. Next one shows it as "The Shop In The Bridge". It was purchased from the Government for $1.00 by Jules Cassenelli who opened it as a shop in 1968-69. Mr Cassenelli was also the Bartlett Postmaster and lived on Company Hill (Albany Ave) in the Village. He also operated the movie theatre in North Conway. As of 2022 this location is called "The Covered Bridge Shop" and is part of a Bed n Breakfast next door. The lower photo is the backside of the postcard, dated Sep 24, 1969. The Road Kill Cafe - 1992 Was located just west of the West Side Road intersection. This area was known for many years as "Frog Rock". The frog was recently moved a hundred yards west to Norman Head's property. roadkill RoadKillCafe FrogRock Frog Rock Before, and after, it was the Roadkill Cafe the area was locally referred to as Frog Rock. Tom Luken , living in Colorado now (2026), tells me that his dad, Ed Sr, who fought in WW2 in 10th Mountain Division, built the house at frog rock. When his parents purchased the property in the mid 1960's, it was known as Pine Glen Cabins . Eddie Luken, the oldest son, served two tours in Vietnam. He headed west, married and had 3 boys. Vietnam took its toll on him mentally. PTSD. He passed in March, 2014, 3 days after his mom. Perhaps around 2015 the frog was moved a short distance west to the Norman Head property where it can still be seen to this day (2026). PineGlen Eddie Luken: 1967 Kennett High School graduation picture. Lock Shop The Lock Shop's background This item appeared in the Letters to the Editor of the Conway Daily Sun on September 10, 2009. — To the editor: I must correct some information in your article about Joe Thibodeau’s recent purchase of The Lock Shop [Conway Daily Sun Business section, Sept. 2, 2009]. My step-father, William Gimber, started The Lock Shop in North Conway. He owned the former gas station where the Connie Davis Watson park is now located. The garage was for gas sales and a mini-mart only. The service bay was where Bill originated The Lock Shop (that and his van). He ran it there until he purchased the location where Prompto Oil Change now is. You may remember there was a vacant retail space and a small laundromat. Bill then moved The Lock Shop to that location and ran it up until his passing in November 1975. There were two employees then, Doug Carr and John Stetson. Doug Carr, while a valuable employee, never owned either the business or the real estate. Doug and his wife Ruth, in their retirement, had built a house on Dundee Road a fter my father’s passing, I managed the business with the very capable help of Doug and John. Doug had already retired up here once and didn’t want to continue working any more. About that time, John started having some personal problems and the family decided it was time to sell. Mr. Charlie Albro had previously expressed some interest and we ended up negotiating a satisfactory agreement. He ran the business until he sold it to Bob and Maureen Day . Charlie Albro moved the business from North Conway to Conway when he purchased that mobile home park there in the rear and he subsequently sold to Bob Day. Don’t mean to be picky, but I hope this clarifies the situation for both you and Mr. Thibodeau. Again, Mr. Carr never owned the business. I still have some old Lock Shop memo pads with my father’s name on them. Norman J. Head Badger Realty LLC Jackson This item seems to be more about North Conway than Bartlett. It's included here because Bill Gimber owned The Woodshed in Glen. His Lock Shop van was often seen there. Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge

Josiah Bartlett Biography Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795) was an American physician and statesman who, as a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, signed the Declaration of Independence. He was later Chief Justice of New Hampshire's Supreme Court and Governor of the state. Personal life Josiah was born in on November 21, 1729 to Stephen and Hannah (Webster) Bartlett in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He was their fifth child and fourth son. He attended the common schools, but with uncommon success. By the age of sixteen, by study, he had also built a foundation in Latin and learned some Greek. In 1745 he began the study of medicine, working in the office of Dr. Ordway of Amesbury. Before he turned twenty-one, in 1750, he moved to Kingston, New Hampshire in Rockingham County, hung out his shingle and began his practice. Kingston at that time was a frontier settlement of only a few hundred families. If a man could stitch wounds, set bones, and treat fevers, he was welcome, even without formal educational credentials. Dr. Bartlett could, and as the only Doctor in this part of the county, his practice prospered. He purchased land and added a farm to his credit. On January 15, 1754 he married Mary Bartlett of Newton, New Hampshire. She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Joseph. They would remain a devoted couple until her death in July 14, 1789. Over the years they would have eleven children: Mary (1754), Lois (1756), Miriam (1758), Rhoda (1760), Hannah (who died as an infant, 1762), Levi (1753), Josiah (1765, died that same year), Josiah (1768), Ezra (1770), Sarah (1773), Hannah (1776, also died as an infant). All three of his sons, and five of his grandsons would follow him as physicians. Political career Like many prominent men in small communities, Bartlett became active in the political affairs of Kingston, and in 1765 he was elected to the colonial assembly. In 1767 he became the colonel of his county's militia and Governor John Wentworth appointed him justice of the peace. As the Revolution neared, his Whig policies brought him into opposition with the Royal Governor, John Wentworth. In 1774, Bartlett joined the Assembly's Committee of Correspondence and began his work with the revolutionary leaders of the other 12 colonies. Later that year, when Wentworth dismissed, or prorogued, the Assembly, Josiah was elected to its revolutionary (and illegal) successor, the Provincial Assembly. He also suffered the loss of his home by fire, alleged to have been set by opposition Tories. He moved his family out to the farmhouse and began rebuilding immediately. When the assembly appointed Bartlett and John Pickering as delegates to the Continental Congress, he had to decline because to attend to his family, but remained active in New Hampshire's affairs. In one of Governor Wentworth's last acts before being expelled from New Hampshire in 1775, he revoked Bartlett's commissions as Justice, Militia Colonel, and Assemblyman. Continental Congress Bartlett was selected as a delegate again in 1775, and attended that session as well as the meetings 1776. Indeed, for a time in late 1775 and early 1776 he was the only delegate attending from New Hampshire. Much of the work of the Congress was carried out in Committees. The most important of these had a delegate from each state, which meant that Bartlett served on all of them, including those of Safety, Secrecy, Munitions, Marine, and Civil Government. His attention to detail and hard work in these committees made him one of the most influential members in the Congress, even though he was seldom active in debates before the full congress. Eventually, after his continued letters home to the Assembly and Committee of Safety in New Hampshire, William Whipple and Matthew Thornton were added to the delegation in Philadelphia. When the question of declaring independence from Great Britain was officially brought up in 1776, as a representative of the northernmost colony Bartlett was the first to be asked, and answered in the affirmative. On August 2, 1776 when delegates signed the formal copy of the Declaration of Independence, his position made him the second to sign, just after John Hancock, the president of the Congress. In 1777, he declined a return to the congress, citing fatigue due to earlier efforts. But when trouble threatened, he used his medical skills and accompanied John Stark's forces to the Battle of Bennington in August. He was re-elected to Congress in 1778, and served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation. But, after the articles were adopted, he returned to New Hampshire to attend to personal business. This was the last of his federal service, as he felt he had overlooked his family for too long. Indeed, while he was at the Congress in 1776, his wife Mary had managed the farm, saw to the completion of rebuilding their house, cared for nine children, and given birth to Hannah. Later career Although he remained in the state after 1778, in 1779 he returned to his role as a Judge, serving in the Court of common ples. Then in 1782 he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in spite of not being a lawyer. Indeed, some contemporary lawyers held the view that justice was never better than when the senior judges knew little legal history. In 1788 Bartlett was made the Chief Justice of the state's supreme court. That same year he was a delegate to the New Hampshire convention for adoption of the Constitution, serving part of the time as is Chairman. He argued forcefully for ratification, which finally took place on June 21, 1788. The legislature of the new State of New Hampshire, selected him to be a U. S. Senator, but he declined the office. Josiah Bartlett House: 156 Main Street, Kingston, New Hampshire, 03848 (Across from Kingston Town Hall) Access: This is a private home and not open to the public. Recognition: National Historic Landmark As Governor In 1790 Josiah's lifetime of contribution received its highest recognitions. He secured legislation recognizing the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was also elected chief executive of New Hampshire by an overwhelming majority. He served in 1791 and 1792 as President. Then when the new State Constitution took effect in 1792 he continued, now as governor. He resigned in 1794 after four years because of declining health, he died the next year. During his tenure, he oversaw the installation of a new state constitution, compilation of the laws and statutes in force, and provision for the early payment of the State's debt. He actively promoted agriculture and manufacturing, the improvement of roads, and saw the start of projects to build canals to better unite the people. Medical career Bartlett actively practiced medicine for 45 years. From a modern perspective, this alone would be a major accomplishment. He had no university training, and left school at the age of fourteen. In effect, he apprenticed with another Doctor, and set up a practice at the age twenty. But, he was willing to consider what worked, and avoided some traditional therapies such as bleeding. His reputation was firmly secured in 1754. The area around Kingston had an epidemic of a fever and canker simply called throat distemper around 1735. For adults it was a serious illness, but for children it was frequently fatal, especially among the very young. When the illness struck again in 1754, Dr. Bartlett simply tried doses of several available drugs, and discovered that Peruvian Bark would relieve symptoms long enough to allow recovery. Bartlett lived during a time when medical practice was progressing rapidly. His wide reading, steady hands, and conscientious work made him an effective and successful physician. He founded and was the first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. In 1790 he delivered the commencement address at Dartmouth College when his son Ezra graduated. In part, the honor was due to his signing of the Declaration of Independence, and his new selection as President of New Hampshire. But, in part, it was a recognition of his medical career. He was awarded an honorary MD (Doctor of Medicine) the same day his son earned that degree. Later life He retired to his home in Kingston, and died there on May 19, 1795. He is buried next to his wife Mary in the Plains Cemetery, also at Kingston. A bronze statue of Bartlett stands in the town square of Amesburry, Massachusetts. His portrait hangs in the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, drawn from an original by Jonathan Trumbull. Bartlett, New Hampshire is named in his honor, and The Josiah Bartlett elementary school is a visible presence on its major roadway. The fictional President of The West Wing, a popular television drama series, is named "Josiah Bartlet". Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen) claims to be a direct descendant of a New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence. SOURCE MATERIAL: http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bartlett_Josiah.html painting BartHouse museum Statue MaryB Mary Bartlett - Biography Mary "The wife of Governor Bartlett, the signer, was Mary Bartlett (a cousin), of Newton, N. H., A lady of excellent character and an ornament to society. She died in 1789," wrote Levi Bartlett, a descendant of the signer, nearly a century after her death. Not much more of her youth than this can be told. Her father, Joseph Bartlett, was a soldier at Haverhill, in 1707, where he was made captive by the French and Indians, carried to Canada and held four years.* Mary Bartlett was one of ten children born to Joseph Bartlett, and she was married to her cousin, Josiah Bartlett, in January, 1754. He was a rising young physician at the time, in the town of Kingston, N. H ., and had already attracted favorable attention by reason of his success in the treatment of a throat distemper, known as the "black canker," which had broken out with uncommon virulence. Mary Bartlett was then twenty-four years old, an amiable girl, well grown and, for the times, well educated. For the next ten years, her life was that of the wife of a popular and prosperous young country doctor. His skill as a practitioner was accepted. He was democratic, kindly, and fast growing in the esteem of his fellow citizens. Always a man of strict integrity, sound judgment, and marked public spirit, he early began to take an active part in public affairs. He was made a civil magistrate and soon after given command of a regiment of militia. In 1765, he was chosen representative to the Provincial Legislature from Kingston. Though Governor Wentworth had appointed him to several positions of honor and profit, Dr. Bartlett felt called upon, almost from the first, to oppose vigorously some of the Governor's measures in the Legislature especially those pertaining to the land grants, a vast system of official peculation that was one of the great evils of the administrations of both the Wentworths. By 1774, the aggressions of the Governor, and the policy of the British Ministry which he was trying to carry out, had grown so burdensome to the people that Dr. Bartlett and a few other leaders found themselves in almost open opposition. He was still a member of the Legislature and in that year we find him at the head of a "Committee of Correspondence," which was in constant communication with Samuel Adams and other patriots of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Then Dr. Bartlett was elected delegate to "a general congress to be held in Philadelphia." This brought down upon him the wrath of Governor Wentworth and his Tory adherents. His appointment as Justice of the Peace was revoked and his commission as Colonel of militia was taken from him. Soon afterward his house was set on fire and burned to the ground, after he had received warning to cease his "pernicious activity . During all this period, Mary Bartlett had been the closest friend and counselor of her husband. Just as he had consulted her over his troubles as a young physician, helping to bear the home burdens of his patients and personal friends in their little community, so now he consulted her about the greater troubles and dangers that menaced the country. And always she was the true helpmeet, always the ready and sympathetic friend and judicious adviser. Her patriotism was as ardent as his and burned with as steady a flame, and when their home lay in ruins and the family were driven to seek shelter and safety elsewhere, she took their numerous brood and retired to their little farm, which she managed thereafter, leaving him free to devote himself almost entirely to the public business. Between these public duties Dr. Bartlett found time to rebuild, on the site of his ruined home, a fine old-style New England mansion, that still stands. In all her letters to her husband and her children, there is not one word of regret at his course or pity for herself, left alone to bear the double duties incumbent upon her; no complaints, only a spirit of loving, helpful sympathy in all his acts. Mrs. Bartlett died in their new house in Kingston, in July, 1789, and her death was a great blow to her husband, who was at the time Chief Justice. The following year he was chosen President of New Hampshire, which office he held until 1793, when he was elected Governor, the first the Commonwealth ever had as an independent State. He declined re-election and died shortly afterward in the sixty-sixth year of his age, broken down, according to his own declaration, by grief and the double duties and responsibilities imposed upon him since her death. Twelve children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Bartlett, of whom eight came to maturity. Three sons, Levi, Joseph, and Ezra, followed in their father's footsteps and became eminent physicians, and all three of them took considerable interest in public affairs, holding not a few positions of honor and responsibility. Of the daughters, Mary, who married Jonathan Greeley, Miriam, who married Joseph Calef, Rhoda, who married Reuben True, and Sarah, who married Dr. Amos Gale, were the only ones to leave descendants. Source: Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, A.B. (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 1997). Orignaly Published in 1912 as volume 3 of The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons). Pages 10-14. (Some minor spelling changes may have been made.) SOURCE: Colonial hall . com * [From page 149] In 1707, Joseph Bartlett was drafted and sent with others to Haverhill to defend the town against an expected attack of French and Indians from Canada. August 29, 1708, about 160 French and 50 Indians attacked the town and set fire to several buildings. Mr. Bartlett and others were in a chamber of Captain Wainright's house from the windows of which they fired upon the enemy. They were informed that their only safety was in surrender. Mr. Bartlett secreted his gun in the chimney above the fireplace, went down, asked for quarter, was bound, and carried to Canada where he remained a prisoner until he was redeemed. After a captivity of four years he returned. He afterward visited Haverhill and found his gun where he had secreted it. It finally came to his grand nephew, Richard Bartlett of Amesbury, Mass., who carried it while a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Richard brought the gun back with him from the Revolution and it was afterward blown to pieces by some boy celebrating Fourth of July. Levi Bartlett (author of this sketch) collected the fragments in I879, and riveted, and wired the gun together and deposited it in the rooms of the New Hampshire Historical Society where it may still he seen." MaryB-PIC Gun

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... Crawford Notch section houses Railroad Section Houses of the Maine Central and P & O Railroads through Crawford Notch It is generally known that there were three popularly known Section houses in Crawford Notch. However, when the Portland and Ogdensburg opened the line there were many more houses, often in sight of each other. The dwelling most remembered is the famed Mt. Willard Section house . This fortress like building could be seen from US Route 302 along with Willey (pronounced willie not wylee) Brook Bridge, a double span deck girder bridge 104 feet long and 90 feet high at its highest point. The west end of the trestle was made of wood from 1875-1888. The entire bridge was replaced in 1905 with both spans of the bridge rolled out and the current new bridge being rolled in and the bridge reopened in 7 minutes!!!! and.......with no interruption in train service!! This building was located 83.54 miles from Portland, ME. Built in 1888 for the James Mitchell family it boarded section men that would work the most difficult section of the mountain line from Mile 82.5 miles from Portland to just east of Crawford’s Station: Section 129. In 1898 James Mitchell retired, at which time Joseph Monahan moved in as Section foreman until the summer of 1903, when Loring Evans and his wife Hattie set up housekeeping in the remote mountain dwelling. Loring was killed by accident in 1913 but Hattie stayed and boarded the section men until her retirement in 1941. In 1942 Hattie moved to one of her childrens residences in Maine where she died in 1954 at age 82, A recent Bartlett History newsletter featured the story of Hattie and the Evans Family. Read it here beginning on page 6. Researched and written by Scotty Mallett. Some photos on this page courtesy of Robert Girouard Sawyer River Station and Junction of The Sawyer River Railroad to Livermore. Sawyer River Station Section Houses on the way west through Crawford Notch 7 constructed by the P&O RR and 1 by the MEC. Name and Miles from Portland: *Sawyers River @ mile 74.8 (P&O) Section Foreman- 1888-1891 George Rich 1894-1902 John Stevens 1902-1903 Leslie Smith 1903-1905 George Murch 1905-1911 Merville Murch 1912-1927 John McCann 1927-1954-Robert Gardner Closed 1954 Carrigain Dwelling Carrigain Station and Town. The "dwelling" was about a mile west of this scene. Carrigain Dwelling @ mile 78.8 (later to become Willey house post office) (P&O) 1875-1894-? 1894-1896 Fred Pingree 1896-1940-Patrick McGee 1941-1973 Peter King 1973-1990 Private Dwelling Razed 1990 Avalanche Flag Stop later willey house Flag Stop *Avalanche flag stop @ mile 80.8 (P&O) 1875-1887 Anthony Swift *Willey House flag stop @ mile 80.9 (replaced Avalanche) 1870 - 1883 -Alfred Allen (Foreman, but Lived at Crawford House) 1887-1903 William Burnell 1903-1941 - Joe & Florence Monahan 1943-1953-Joseph Burke 1953-1965 Cornelius Griffin 1965-1976- Wellman Rowell Closed 1976 Burned by the Railroad 1988 Aldrige House @ mile 82.5(P&O) 1875-1894 Joseph Aldridge Closed unknown Guay Place @ mile 83 (P&O) 1875-1888 Forman Unknown monahanjoe Joe & Florence Monahan. Much has been written about the Evans Family who resided at the Mt Willard Section House yet we don't hear so much about others who raised their families next to the tracks. Joseph and Florence Monahan were one such couple who raised their six daughters at the Willie House Station Flagstop, two miles east of the Evans family. Joseph Monahan became foreman of Section 129 in 1898 and to ok up residence at the Mt. Willard Section House upon James Mitchell's retirement. Joe was "filling in" for Loring Evans, who was away for a trackmen's strike. In 1901, Joe married Florence Crawford Allen, the daughter of Alfred Mingay Allen, who was Section Foreman at Fabyan's (Fourth Division - Section 130). A.M. Allen later owned an Ice Cream Parlor and Gift Shop in Bretton Woods. The Monahans had one child while at Mt. Willard Section House: Gertrude born March 3, 1902. On the day Gertrude was born, it was too stormy to send the doctor to the house on the train, so they bundled Florence up and put her on the train to Fabyans, where Gert was delivered. In the summer of 1903, the Monahan family was moved to section 128 - Willey House Station, where the family was blessed with five more girls (Ethel, Hazel, Alyce, Doris and Agatha). Joe Monahan dubbed them his "super six"! The girls were very friendly with the Evans children, who now occupied the Mt. Willard Section House, about a mile west of the Monahan residence. Joe built them a playhouse in the backyard where the two Evans girls would visit and play with their dolls and toys in the little house. The Monahans were of the Catholic faith. There was no church nearby, so the priest would come to their home to perform mass. The residence was a busy place, housing the Post Office, Telegraph Office and 2 crewmen. Florence was appointed Postmaster in 1903. In addition to cooking and cleaning for the family and crew, she found time to serve on the Hart's Location Board of Education. Meanwhile, Joe served on the Town Board of Health, was a Road Agent, Supervisor of Checklist and was a Town Selectman for 22 years, beginning in 1905. In this remote building (which also served as a dwelling) the people of Hart's Location came here to vote. It was said that from mid-October to early April, the rays of the sun never touched this building. When the girls were old enough, they attended school at Bemis except during the winter months, when the teacher came to their residence twice a week. Eventually, all the children went to school in Fabyan, with the train serving as their school bus. Doris (born 1/1/1910), better known as Dot, would be the only child to remain in Hart's Location during her adult years. After Dot completed the sixth grade, she attended school at St. Johnsbury Vermont as a boarder. She was a graduate of Whitefield High School, Class of 1927 and went on to Concord Business School. She worked in Boston until 1928, when health problems forced her to return hom e. Dot married Peter King, section foreman at the Carrigain Section House. They had two children (Shirley and William "Bill"). Dot and Pete purchased the Carrigan dwelling in 1941. Dot took after her parents, becoming Postmaster and Town Clerk from 1935 to the 1970's. Many First in the Nation Presidential Election votes were cast around her dining table. Peter King died in 1956, and Dot moved to Bartlett. She married Robert "Bob" Jones (died 1975) and then married Ralph Clemons, who died in 1993. Dot continued to live in their Birch Street home until her death (7/21/2006). The Carrigain Dwelling remained in the family. Son Bill King purchased the residence from his mother in 1989, with plans to renovate. An inspection showed that the house had to be razed. A new log home was built on the site in 1990, where Bill and wife Carolyn lived comfortably. The Bartlett Historical Society featured an interview with Bill King in one of the Newsletters; h e nce, you may read the continuing story at this link: 2020 Newsletter, Go To Page 6. SOURCES: "Hart's Location in Crawford Notch" -Marion L. Varney, 1997, Laurie Spackman & Sylvia Pinard: personal recollections. ( Laurie is Gertrude's granddaughter; Sylvia is Gerts daughter.) . Monahan pictures are attributed to the Pinard family collection. Notes: Only two of Joe and Flore nce's grandchildren survive today (2023) - Bill King and Laurie Spackman's mother, Sylvia Pinard of Lebanon, NH. They are first c ousins. No doubt, some may wond er how Mom, Dad, Six daughters and section crew boarders all fit inside this modestly sized dwelling? Imagine the housekeeping chore with coal burning monsters passing within a few feet, several times a day. This editor has no answer except that life and expectations are now vastly different than 100+ years ago. The Monahan family - 1915 Back Row: Ethel, Agatha, Florence, Joe Front Row: Hazel, Alyce, Dot and Gertrude Th e Monahan "Super-six". Gertrude, Ethel, Hazel, Aly ce , Doris and Agatha These are four of the Monahan's Grandchildren The first four Monahan Grandchildren: Left: Shirley and Bill King (Dot and Pete's children) Right: Eleanor and Joanne Pinard (Gertrude and Horace's children) kingpeter kingdot monahanGert Allen PLEASE NOTE; THIS WEBSITE IS OPTIMIZED FOR TABLET OR LAPTOPS, Content may be jumbled on a small phone screen...Sorry. Back Row: Eleanor Pinard, Hazel, Florence, Joe and unknown. Middle Row: Joanne Pinard, Gertrude Pinard, Ethel and Alyce. Front/crouching: Doris King, Shirley King and Agatha. Hazel has her arm around Eleanor (Florence's oldest granddaughter/Hazel's niece/Gert's oldest daughter) G ert is holding her daughter Joanne. Dot is holding her daughter Shirley. Below are Dick and Brother Joe Monahan at the Willey Residence. Undated photo courtesy of Bill King. Agatha Monahan Wallace (near age 100? not sure.) She died only 2 days shy of her 103rd birthday on December 31, 2016. The Youngest Daughter, Agatha, wrote her memories of "Happ enings Growing Up By The Railroad Tracks at Willey House" NOTE TO READER: Agatha w as 88 years old when she penned these words in 2001. The story has been typed for ease of reading. I have taken this from 13 1/2 pages of memories hand -written by Agatha “Babe” Monahan (then Wallace). I have stayed true to her spelling and grammar. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of these memories; she lived them and this is a record of her memories and hers alone. Laurie Hammond Spackman - granddaughter of “Babe’s” eldest sister, Gertrude Willey House Station and flag stop through the years in various states of condition StoryAgtha Willey House Station also housed the post office and telegraph for Harts Location. Their first early morning Presidential election was held here at 7:a.m. November 2, 1948 The first early morning Presidential election vote for Hart's Location was held here at 7:a.m. November 2, 1948. Left to right, Mrs Macomber, Town Clerk, Douglas Macomber, Joseph Burke, Preston King, Alice Burke and son Merle, Mrs Morey and George Morey. . Willey House Station in its final years. By 1984, when these pictures were taken, it had declined to an irrecoverable condition. The railroad burned the building in 1988. A visitor today might still find the concrete foundation walls and bits of iron stuff laying about. The kitchen cook stove was "off in the woods" the last time I was there in 2004. But, since folks can rarely just leave stuff alone, it's probably gone by now. ("now" being 2019) The Foremans cottage The Foremans Cottage was located on the big curve that was built of granite blocks on the side of Mt. Willard. James Mitchell, his family and section men were the only inhabitants of this dwelling. It was located at Mile Post 84 just about 1/4 mile west of the Mt.Willard Dwelling. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchells "cottage" was built under the cliffs of Mt. Willard and on occasion, rock slides came through the house. The P&O tried to solve the rock problem by chaining some rock together. Thus the area became known as "Chained Rock". In 1887 after a horrifying night of rock slides, thunder, and lighting, Mr. Mitchell tenured his resignation. The famed Mt. Willard dwelling was built for The Mitchell's so Mr. Mitchell would stay on. He accepted the offer and did not retire until 1899. In 1887 Mr & Mrs Mitchell, two sons and a daughter moved into the Mt Willard House. The "Foremans Cottage " was torn down in 1888. The Foremans Cottage in 1875 with James Mitchell and his wife. Mt Willard Section House Mt Willard @ 83.5(Maine Central) 1888-1898- James Mitchell 1898-1903-Joe Monahan family 1903-1941- Loring Evans Family 1944-1950-O. Douglas Macomber 1951-1952-Quervis Strout 1954-1962-Thomas Sweeney 1963-1965-Wellman Rowell Closed 1965 Burned by the Railroad 1972 Mitchell Dwelling @ mile 84.0 (P & O) 1875-1888 James Mitchell ** If anyone can offer corrections to the dates and people listed, it would be of great help. All the names and dates above were taken by Scotty Mallett from the book “Harts Location” by Marion Varney Mt Willard Section House with Hattie Evans and her children. Perhaps 1920. Their homestead was actually a cheerier place than this photo might suggest. Additional photos are up at the top of this page. One of Our Newsletters includes a detailed article about the Evans Family. You can find it here, on page 6 Editors Note: Complete biographies of all the folks mentioned in this article can be found at Marion L. Varney's book, "Hart's Location in Crawford Notch" - 1997 fireWillard On August 17, 1888 the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad was leased to the Maine Central Railroad for 999 years. Included in the lease were all section Houses, Stations, Locomotives and Rolling stock as well as personnel. I thought you might be interested in the value assigned to the buildings and furnishings from Intervale thru Crawford Notch. Remember, these are 1888 prices and 1888 spelling! Intervale Passenger Station $100 Desk, Chair and Baggage Truck $30 Glen Station Passenger Station and Freight House $500 Assorted Furniture $75 Bartlett Station $1000 Freight House $150 Engine House (6 pits) $1000 Repair Shop $100 Woodshed $100 Tank House $200 Furniture, Stoves, desks, Freight truck, Passenger Truck $100 Coal Derrick $50 Sawyer’s River Station Building $75 Bemis Brook Section House $400 Avalanche Section House $400 Tank House $200 Moor’s Brook (spelled Moor’s) Old Section House $300 Mt. Willard Section House $4000 Furniture, 1 room $50 Crawfords Station $100 Ticket case, Desk, Stove and Baggage Barrow $55 Total Intervale to Crawfords $9,385 The lease of the P&O was cancelled some 50 years later when the Maine Central bought the remaining shares. Editors note: If this $9385 was adjusted for inflation the amount would be $260,000 in 2018 dollars. 1966: "Helper" engines on the Frankenstein Trestle, probably returning to Bartlett Station. Source Material: Life by the Tracks, Virginia C. Downs - 1983 Hart's Location in Crawford Notch, Marion L. Varney - 1997 Some Photos on this page, and elsewhere on this web-site, are part of the Raymond W. Evans collection now owned by Robert Girouard. We extend our gratitude for his permission to use them as part of this and other stories. - - Dave Crawford Station: February 22, 1910 roster 1895 Railroad Division Roster

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Share Cemeteries Our Collections JESS DAVIS is a professional cemetery restorer. She provided research to locate the Bartlett Cemeteries. She also offers factual advice about restoring faded and damaged stones. Her information is on the next page. Jess Davis The lists of our Collections are admittedly out of date. When we open the doors to our museum, we plan to have updated lists documenting all of the items below and maybe more. We are also exploring ways to make these lists interactive or searchable versus the static lists we currently show. Again with the museum, we plan to have these lists updatable in real time so you will always have the latest discoveries at your fingertips. Thank you for your patience. Bartlett Cemeteries The Doctor's Cemetery River Street and Cobb Farm Road. Take River St. north from 302 and turn west onto Cobb Farm Road. Near this intersection, on the north side, is the Mt. Langdon trailhead. Park and walk a few yards up the trail to the fenced grave site for Dr. Eudy. Dundee Cemetery East side of Dundee Road, 2 mi north of its intersection with 16A. Take Dundee Road north from 16A for 2 mi. Cemetery is on a lane off the east side of the road, next to a white cape. This cemetery is partially in Jackson. Garland Ridge Cemetery (AKA Bartlett Village Cemetery) North side of 302, 2 mi east of Bartlett Take 302 east out from the center of Bartlett about 2 miles. The large cemetery is easily visible on the north side, before the railroad crossing. Glen Cemetery (AKA Bartlett Town Cemetery) North side of 302, 0.75 mi west of Glen. From the intersection of 16 in Glen, take 302 west for 0.75 mi. The large cemetery is easily visible on the north side. Hill Cemetery West side of West Side Road, 2 mi east of 302. From 302, take West Side Road northeast for almost exactly 2 mi. On the inside of a curve to the south, there is an old driveway with the remnants of a structure next to it. There is also a small cellar hole across the road, but few safe places to park. Walk south along the old driveway, which stays up on the ridge as the road drops down. The cemetery is a few hundred yards away, surrounded by granite posts. Intervale Cemetery West side of 16A, 0.5 mi north of its lower intersection with 16 in Intervale. From 16 in Intervale, turn onto 16A and drive north for 0.5 mi. The large cemetery is easily visible on the west side. Old Catholic Cemetery Yates Farm Road Take River St. north from 302 and turn east onto Yates Farm Road. Follow the road ~0.4mi (past the last house and halfway into a meadow). Head due north into the woods ~0.1mi. There are a few stones standing and many grave depressions, but GPS will be necessary for location. Private property--obtain permission from the Garlands at the last house. Rogers Cemetery Yates Farm Road Take River St. north from 302 and turn east onto Yates Farm Road. Follow the road ~0.7mi (past the last house, through a meadow, and almost to the second meadow). The cemetery is just inside the woods to the north. Private property--obtain permission from the Garlands at the last house. St. Joseph's Cemetery South side of 302, 1.5 mi east of Bartlett. Take 302 east out from the center of Bartlett about 1.5 mi. The large cemetery is easily visible on the south side. Stillings-Towle Cemetery (AKA Nute's Hill) North side 302 just west of Bartlett. From the center of Bartlett, drive west past the post office, over the railroad tracks and ~0.2mi further. The cemetery is to the north in the side yard of the garage, surrounded by granite walls and trees. Other Cemeteries Near Bartlett Glidden Field Cemetery (AKA Parker-Cobb Cemetery or Sawyer's River Cemetery) I n Hart's Location. North side of 302 about 1/4 mile west of Bartlett. Drive 3.6mi west on 302 from Bartlett center. Park at a small dirt drive. Follow the drive over the tracks then veer right onto an old road (stone walls) that parallels the tracks and heads southeast. The cemetery is on the east side of the old road, about 300 yards from the start. It is overgrown but surrounded by granite posts. (SEE ADDITIONAL DETAILS AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.) Moulton Cemetery (AKA Cobb Farm Cemetery) In Hart's Location. North side of Cobb Farm Road. Park where Cobb Farm Road crosses the railroad tracks at Raccoon Run Road. Walk east on the tracks 0.1 mi. The small cemetery will be visible in the woods on the north side of the tracks. There is a cellar hole nearby and what appears to be remnants of an old road. Dinsmore Cemetery In North Conway. Just south of the Intervale Scenic Vista, behind the 1785 Inn. Drive behind the 1785 Inn and follow the road (Balcony Seat View) to its end at a house. The cemetery is visible in the yard. PEOPLE: An extensive list of names in our Genealogical Data Base (we have information on some, yet no information on others). (March 2016) The list is PDF format List of People From Bartlett Send Us a Message SHELF LIST Books, census data and printed materials we have in our collection. Send us an e mail to arrange to look at any of these items. It may take a day or two to get back to you. The list is PDF format Books in our Collection BURIALS LISTED BY CEMETERY OR BY NAME: A resource for locating graves in Bartlett cemeteries. Our list is by no means a complete record and does NOT include all the names of all folks in the cemeteries but you just might find the name you are seeking. (March 2016) Burials Listed by Cemetery Burials Listed by Name OBITUARIES WE HAVE LOCATED: OBITUARIES OBJECTS Physical items we have in our collection. (March 2016) Send us an e mail to arrange to look at any of these items. It may take a day or two to get back to you. The list is PDF format Physical Items & Objects ARCHIVES Diaries, articles, clippings, genealogical information, brochures and phamlets we have in our collection. Send us an e mail to arrange to look at any of these items. It may take a day or two to get back to you. The list is PDF format Archives - Documents If you have any historical items that you would like added to our collection please contact one of the Directors; or email us. Moulton Cem Jess Davis The Moulton Cemetery contains just one monument, notably that of John Moulton 10/31/1845 - 14yrs10mo - Son of Abner & Nancy B Moulton and Samuel E. Moulton 10/30/1845 - 16yrs9mo - Son of Abner & Nancy B Moulton. The two brothers most likely died of one of the common contagious diseases of the time. Possibly small-pox since victims of that illness were often buried alone, isolated from others. Their sister, Susan, married Benjamin Stillings and is buried in the nearby Stillings-Towle Cemetery, which is well-documented on Find-A-Grave. She died 01/12/1876 - 49 yrs, 3 mos. Moulton was her maiden name. According to a link from her page to her father’s, Abner Moulton is buried in Vermont, so most likely the family moved there at a later time. Thanks to Jess Davis for expanding on our information and to Angela Huertas for sparking the original interest. Cobb Cem Details of Parker/Cobb cemetery provided by Mike Eisner. (January 2022 This information was found on a Facebook site, "Crawford Notch & Environs History Group") In reviewing the past posts, I noticed a few posts about the Cobb Cemetery aka Glidden Field Cemetery. I am very familiar with this cemetery. The people buried there are my uncle’s ancestors. There hasn’t been a lot published concerning the Parker and Cobb families. They are important families for Hart’s Location and Bartlett as their history in the area goes back prior to 1830. In the late 1970s and early 1980’s, my extended family use to get together and hike up to railroad tracks to the cemetery. It was usually my grandmother, my mother and all us kids (cousins). The expedition was always led by my Aunt Judi. She led the group because she knew where the cemetery was. Back in those days it wasn’t so easy to find. I will never forget going there. To me it was deep in the woods. It was dark even if it was sunny. Surprisingly I never found it creepy. It was always peaceful. I remember the big trees all around. There were no weeds, just some moss. We would take stone rubbings and clear up fallen branches. All the stones were standing. We loved looking and reading the names. Sometimes there were two names; Hiram Parker and Hiram Parker as well as Phebe Cobb and Phebe Cobb. Hiram and Hiram were father and son while Phebe and Phebe were mother and daughter. I think I asked this same question every year “why are there two sets of graves with the same name?” For years we made the journey to the cemetery. As we got older and started our own lives, we stopped caring for the important graves. Some of the family, mainly my cousin and I, still go there every year to see what’s going on. I don’t live nearby so I visit when I can. I do know that other relatives visit very yearly, when they are in the area. For a while we could not see the cemetery because of all the ferns and underbrush that grew up after some trees were cut down. I know that some nice people went in and took care of it. They erected the main stone, etc. I’m glad someone cared enough to save what was remaining. Sadly most of the stones have fallen and were in bad shape. Time certainly was not a friend here. Here is everything you might need to know about those buried at the cemetery. It follows below. I have also included a map that shows who lived where in the basic Cobb Farm Road area up to Sawyers in 1861. In 1870 the land near the cemetery was valued at $2000 and owned by E Cobb. Think of E Cobb as near where the Cobb Farmhouse is currently. H Parker is Hiram Parker Sr. Treasurer of Harts Location. If you notice the homestead is near the Cobb Cemetery’s location. This may be the cellar hole people have mentioned. P Moulton is Perkins Moulton L Moulton is Levi Moulton Behind where my grandparents house was are the graves of two of the Moulton children. A story for another day. Oddly enough there’s a F Cobb - Freeman Cobb that lives near E Cobb but not on this map. Phebe Cobb Born 10/3/1827 Died 8/1/1850 - 22 years Sister of John O. Cobb (lived at the Cobb Farm and is responsible for annexing his land from Hart’s Location to Bartlett) Sarah Cobb Born 1830 Died 9/18/1853 - 23 years Sister of John O. Cobb Hattie M. Glidden Born 1/13/1873 Died 2/4/1873 (not 2/1/1873) - 18 days John Glidden - father Harriette Parker - mother Flora A. Glidden Born 11/5/1875 Died 1/29/1876 - 2 months John Glidden - father Harriette Parker - mother Flora died of a bad cold. Hattie and Flora’s mother was: Harriette Parker She died in child birth on 1/27/1877 in Hart’s Location. Harriette is Hiram and Martha’s daughter. Hattie and Flora’s father was: John Glidden was from Gardner, Maine. He remarried after Harriette’s death. Phebe Haley Cobb Born 2/20/1802 Died 10/25/1875 Mother of John O. Cobb Died of paralysis Ephraim Cobb Born 7/17/1798 Died 10/5/1882 Father of John O. Cobb Hart’s Location toll collector “Unknown” Hiram Parker Sr. Born 1805 Died 1/10/1892 Father of Harriette Parker Glidden Hart’s Location Treasurer and clerk of marriage and deaths Married twice: 1. Martha Jones and 2. Dorcus Patch Martha Jones Parker Born 1808 Died 8/13/1877 Wife of Hiram Parker Sr. Hiram Parker This is Hiram Parker Jr. Son of Hiram and Martha Parker Brother of Harriette Parker Glidden Born 1842 Died after March 1883 I hope you found this information interesting. Please let me know any further info if you have any. There are a lot of connections between the Parkers, Cobbs, Stillings, Higgins and more. Too much for one post. Jess Davis of Bartlett has been instrumental in compiling this list of Bartlett Cemeteries and taking a personal interest in their well-being. She has been restoring gravestones and whole cemeteries for about 15 years. As a middle school teacher, she has led over a dozen field trips to clean, repair and reset gravestones in Indiana Maine and New Hampshire cemeteries. She is more than happy to edit or transfer memorials--just ask! Visit her websites below: Contact Jess:jessdavis314@yahoo.com or Website: 2019 Websitehttp://www.rootsweb.com/~.. . https://brownfieldcemeteries.com/home/brownfield-maine-cemeteries/ CemeteryList JessDavis The Cemeteries In Bartlett or Nearby Leonard Eudy (right) and Ephraim Eudy (left) about 1863 Dr Leonard M. Eudy SOURCE: History of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, pg 214 1862-1863 By Charles McGregor History of the New Hampshire Surgeons in the War of the Rebellion, by Conn Granville Priest Dr Leonard M. Eudy was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire on January 8, 1843. He attended the Bethlehem school system through grade 12. At the age of nineteen, in September of 1862, he enlisted in Company C 15th Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers as a private along with his brother, Ephraim, age 25 and his older brother, William David Eudy, who enlisted on the same day as Leonard. In December of 1862 Pvt Leonard Eudy boarded the steamer ship Cambria at Brooklyn New York. Ephraim was left behind due to illness, but caught up with the Regiment later. So far I have found no further reference to William's military service, but he returned to Littleton after serving for 15 months, also in Co. C. His occupation is listed as a farmer, married Maria Woodbury on December 31, 1870, The Cambria embarked on a twenty-six day cruise from Brooklyn, around Key West and finally ending up in Carrollton Louisiana (New Orleans). In Carrolton on January 18, Sunday. a cold, east wind was blowing a gale. Charles B. Ela, Company C, was accidentally shot in thigh, and died soon after amputation. Ela was the tallest man of Company C, and received his wound at the hand of the shortest man of the company, Leonard M. Eudy. They were just relieved from guard, and in a playful mood Ela took on the point of his bayonet a hollow soup bone that lay there, which Eudy undertook to knock off in a jocular way, when his gun discharged its contents into Ela's thigh, completely shattering the bones. Eudy was called the "bantam". He was a mere schoolboy at the time of this sad accident, and his sensitive nature was so deeply shocked that he never recovered from its effects. After a month at Carrollton Eudy's Company took up residence at Camp Parapet about a mile upstream from current day New Orleans. Life at this camp was described as monotony at its finest. This was not to last as Company "C" spent the next six months of 1863 fighting in the swamps of Louisiana. They were a part of The Siege of Port Hudson and early in the Civil War the control of the Mississippee was of major importance to both the North and the South. It's ultimate control by the Northern forces was a critical part of winning the war. Company C had the dubious distinction of suffering the highest number of deaths of all the Companies in the Regiment. Of the 71 original members 30 died, only 4 from battle related injuries, the rest from illness. Both Leonard and Ephraim were mustered out of service in August 1863. Early in 1865 Leonard commenced his medical education at Harvard University under the direction of Drs. Charles Tuttle and Henry Watson. In 1870 Leonard began his medical practice in Littleton and moved to Bartlett in 1871. While practicing in Bartlett in 1877 an epidemic of small pox broke out in a lumber camp. Eudy assumed charge of the camp and established a pest house. Within a few months Eudy himself contracted the disease and died at the age of 34 on November 28, 1877. His grave site is a solitary grave at the base of Cave Mountain, surrounded by a black iron fence. His marker plaque was replaced by a preservation committee led by Roger Marcoux in the late 1990's. The Doctor's Cemetery at the base of Cave Mountain. It was not unusual at the time for those who died from smallpox to be buried far away from others. Leonard Eudy's simple stone. Hard to read so you will have to visit in person to read it. Eudy

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The 1885 Store of E.O. Garland Demolished The Store is the building at left, White building is the IOOF Hall and the Hellen Hayes house Harold & Edith Jacobson. Son, Arthur, died in 2024 This building was originally known as Garland's Store on Albany Avenue. In more recent times it was a grocery store operated by Mr Wimpy Thurston followed by the Gosselins, Joe and Myrtle and their two kids David and Sue. Mr Ryle ran a kindergarten upstairs. Next, and final, operators of this store were Harold and Edith Jacobson and their son Arthur. After the Jacobson's gave up the business the property sat vacant for a time during which a zoning ordinance was enacted that made this area residential. A business no longer permitted, the building sat vacant until the Hodgkins family next door purchased it and due to deterioration the building was razed in October 2003. The vacant land is still owned by the Hodgkins, who live next door. Sorry,, this PDF is a tad faded

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 2 Bartlett Village Railroad Station And yard More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... This page was researched and written by Scotty Mallett The first Bartlett Railroad station was built in the fall of 1872 and passenger trains started running to Bartlett on October 20, 1873. The first station was built next to Mill Brook and was 3 stories in height. This station was lost along with the freight house in the town fire of 1896. (See Side Bar) The first Bartlett Village Station circa 1873 Photo Credit Bill Gove The second station was built in 1896 after the town fire. It was a large 3 storied building and was so well liked and constructed it was mentioned in the State of New Hampshire Railroad commissioner’s Report. The station had a ticket office, a telegrapher’s office, a western union office, a waiting Room, a Restaurant, A large station platform with a canopy to protect the passengers from the elements, oak walls with gold inlay, marble wash basins and hardwood floors. There are conflicting dates of when this station burned but Maine Central Railroad records say it burned in 1920. T he third station was built that same year (1920). The reason for the speedy rebuild of the 3rd and final Bartlett station is because Maine Central used elements of the second station for the new 3rd station. This station used the reclaimed 1st floor the second and 3rd floor were removed. It retained the marble wash basins, the telegraphers, Western Union and ticket offices, the hardwood floors, the waiting room and the oak walls with gold inlay. The Bartlett Station, on the right, early 1950's. Big building at left was the Honeywell Thermostat Factory and before that G.K Howard's Hardware Merchandise store. (Mt Carrigain under the signal pole) Photo Credit: Dane Malcolm. In 1958 the Maine Central Railroad abolished passenger service. The Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad and then the Maine Central Railroad ran passenger service from 1873-1958. The Bartlett Station was sold to a ski club in 1959. In October 1959 the ski club were doing renovations to the inside of the building, stirring up coal dust left from years of coal being used to heat the building. A new oil furnace was installed to keep the station warm in the coming winter months. Later that day after everyone had left, the new furnace clicked on igniting the coal dust left in the air. The station, now a private building was never rebuilt. Today people at a glance see the beautiful Hodgkin’s Memorial Park. The outline of the east end of the granite cellar wall can be found. The soil is reclaiming the spot and eventually there will be no trace of the station, only memories. This photo dated 1908 sIDE bAR THE TOWN FIRE 1896: Concord Evening Monitor 1893 (1896)? Fire Sunday Destroys Entire Business District in Bartlett Total damage will approximate $100,000 At 5 o’clock a fire was discovered at rear of H. L. Towle’s grocery store and as there was no fire department in the village, it spread with lightening like rapidity. Word was telegraphed to North Conway for aid and at 7 o’clock a special train left for the scene. The ten mile run was made in a little over ten minutes. When the special arrived the business portion of the town was in ashes. The most strenuous efforts of the town’s people, assisted by the willing guests of the hotels availed to nothing. Within 2-½ hours but one store was left in the place. Fourteen families had been burned out and the Maine Central Railway Station, restaurant, and freight depot, together with the post office were destroyed.The total damage will be in the neighborhood of $100,000. Following are the principal losses: -Maine Central Railway about $10,000, insured -Mr. & Mrs. Foster, general store, buildings, stock $25,000, insured for $7,500 -P.J. Martin, general store, $15,000, insured $9,000 -F. Garland, drugs and jewelry, $2,500, insurance $1,500 -E.O. Garland, building, contents, $15,000 insured $7,000 -J. Emery, house and furnishings, $3,000 insured $1,500 -J. Head house $1,500 -H.E. Brooks (?) grocery store, $2,500 insured $1,000 -H.L. Towle’s building, $3,000, insured $1,000 -A.L. Meserve building and stock, $6,000 insured $2,800 -Miss Emily A. Merserve tenement block, $2000, insured $1,500 -Miss Bates, millinery $500 The town has an ordinary population of 2,000 but this is swelled in summer to three or four times this number. It is situated in the White Mountain Division of the Maine Central Railroad and the ride over this road from North Conway through Bartlett to the Crawford Notch is one of the finest in the eastern part of the country. -From the history files at the Bartlett Public Library The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad was chartered on February 11, 1867 to run from Portland to Fabyan, a junction at Carroll, New Hampshire in the White Mountains, where the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad would continue west. Their track joined in a ceremony at the summit of Crawford Notch on August 7, 1875, then opened on August 16, 1875. Here we have, left to right...Edward Boynton Knight...George Lincoln Knight...Baby is Brian Aston Knight...and Charles Edward Knight. Charles worked as signal repairman in the Bartlett train yard and in his fifty years of work he never missed a single day. Charles also worked as watchman at the Peg Mill. I also heard from a close source..that Charles peddled booze during prohibition. Photo courtesy of Robert Girouard who received it, and this story, from Brian Knight in June 2009. fire1896 The Bartlett Yard Roundhouse Preservation Society has been very busy in their endeavors to memorialize and save this structure. They provided this history. ROUNDHOUSE HISTORY Steam locomotives at the Bartlett Roundhouse. The locomotives and their crews - circa 1891 The five locomotives left to right are Maine Central Railroad Locomotives. The one on the far right is the locomotive of the Bartlett & Albany Railroad. The trains the locomotives are assigned to are on the headlamps of the locomotives. The one that says W on the headlamp was for a work train. Bartlett Round House - Had a turntable for turning around the locomotives. The turntable was removed in 1913. There were switches into the roundhouse. The date of that photo is September 8, 1947, and the photo was taken by Phillip Hastings. Bartlett Yard Freight Office - 1960 Men at the Bartlett Yard Office, September 1961. Left to right: Bob Jones, Albert Henn and Bud Burdwood. Trainmen at the Bartlett Yard with the Mountaineer, Later the Flying Yankee. Dated 1939. (David Dudley was the man who could always be found in the caboose.) Snowplow train approaching the Bartlett Yard at Rogers Crossing. Sometime in the 1960's. Snowplow train at the Bartlett Yard Sometime in the 1960's. How this abandoned train car ended up in the Bartlett Yard This article was written in 2014 Link to NH Public Radio Article At one time the Bartlett Peg Mill was serviced by the Maine Central Railroad. The spur came off the wye and ended on the left side of the peg mill. The sidings for the peg mill had a capacity of 49 cars. There is no date as to when the spur and trackage, the rails of which were owned by the Maine Central Railroad, were removed. The site map below is courtesy Bill Gove. More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... the bartlett yard circa 1900 paragraph place holder RR YardVillage If you use an I-Pad you can enlarge this map to read the building titles. Ralph M. Hebb - Station Agent in Bartlett, NH for 21 years - 1918 to 1939 Link There are many more pictures at the Facebook Page "MEC RR MT DIVISION". Mountain Division at Facebook

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 The 1826 Willey Slide Sad to say, but the Willey Slide, more than any other single event, played a large part in bringing fame, and tourists, to the White Mountain area, MARCH 2025: A RARE FIND: We recently acquired a pamphlet telling the story of the Willey family disaster from the Clermont Historical Society in Florida . They found it in their collection, contacted the Bartlett Town Hall Selectmen’s office who contacted Phil Franklin of the Bartlett Historical Society and he contacted the Florida folks. We are very grateful that our counterparts in Clermont, Florida sought us out and sent this historically important document to BHS.. Anyway, it is a narrative written by Edward Melcher and published in 1880, when he was 83. Melcher was one of the twelve men who made their way to the Willey family site and recovered their bodies. This is the only first-hand account we have seen . In it, he adds another story of the Ebenezer Stillings family who were in the same flood from the storm that killed the Willey’s plus he adds some information from Mrs. Ethan Crawford’s book, “Guide and Historical Relics of the White Mountains. ” which tells of the tales of her husband Ethan Allen Crawford. READ THE PDF FILE CONSISTING OF 25 PAGES AT THIS LINK: This is a first-hand account of the twelve men who first made their way to the site of the disaster in 1826. He also adds another story of the Ebenezer Stillings family who were in the same flood from the storm that killed the Willey’s and some tales of Ethan Allen Crawford as told by his wife. Related reading at this website: "THE TALL TALES OF ETHAN ALLEN CRAWFORD , THE STILLINGS FAMILY OF UPPER BARTLETT THE WILLEY HOUSE Samuel Adams Drake's Trek Through Crawford Notch in the 1880's For two miles the gorge winds between these mountains to where it is apparently sealed up by a sheer mass of purple precipices lodged full in its throat. This is Mount Willard. The vast chasm glowed with the gorgeous colors of the foliage, even when a passing cloud obscured the sun. These general observations made, we cast our eyes down into the vale reposing at our feet. We had chosen for our point of view that to which Abel Crawford conducted Sir Charles Lyell in 1845. The scientist has made the avalanche bear witness to the glacier, precisely as one criminal is made to convict another under our laws. Five hundred feet below us was a little clearing, containing a hamlet of two or three houses. From this hamlet to the storm-crushed crags glistening on the summit of Mount Willey the track of an old avalanche was still distinguishable, though the birches and alders rooted among the debris threatened to obliterate it at no distant day. We descended by this still plain path to the houses at the foot of the mountain. One and the other are associated with the most tragic event connected with the history of the great Notch. We found two houses, a larger and smaller, fronting the road, neither of which merits a description; although evidence that it was visited by multitudes of curious pilgrims abounded on the walls of the unoccupied building. Since quite early in the century, this house was kept as an inn; and for a long time it was the only stopping-place between Abel Crawford’s below and Captain Rosebrook’s above—a distance of thirteen miles. Its situation, at the entrance of the great Notch, was advantageous to the public and to the landlord, but attended with a danger which seems not to have been sufficiently regarded, if indeed it caused successive inmates particular concern. This fatal security had a lamentable sequel. MOUNT WILLARD FROM WILLEY BROOK. In 1826 this house was occupied by Samuel Willey, his wife, five children, and two hired men. During the summer a drought of unusual severity dried the streams, and parched the thin soil of the neighboring mountains. On the evening of the 26th of June 1826, the family heard a heavy, rumbling noise, apparently proceeding from the mountain behind them. In terror and amazement they ran out of the house. They saw the mountain in motion. They saw an immense mass of earth and rock detach itself and move toward the valley, at first slowly, then with gathered and irresistible momentum. Rocks, trees, earth, were swooping down upon them from the heights in three destroying streams. The spectators stood rooted to the spot. Before they could recover their presence of mind the avalanche was upon them. One torrent crossed the road only ten rods from the house; another a little distance beyond; while the third and largest portion took a different direction. With great labor a way was made over the mass of rubbish for the road. The avalanche had shivered the largest trees, and borne rocks weighing many tons almost to the door of the lonely habitation. This awful warning passed unheeded. On the 28th of August 1826 , at dusk, a storm burst upon the mountains, and raged with indescribable fury throughout the night. The rain fell in sheets. Innumerable torrents suddenly broke forth on all sides, deluging the narrow valley, and bearing with them forests that had covered the mountains for ages. The swollen and turbid Saco rose over its banks, flooding the Intervales, and spreading destruction in its course. Two days afterward a traveler succeeded in forcing his way through the Notch. He found the Willey House standing uninjured in the midst of woeful desolation. A second avalanche, descended from Mount Willey during the storm, had buried the little vale beneath its ruins. The traveler, affrighted by the scene around him, pushed open the door. As he did so, a half-famished dog, sole inmate of the house, disputed his entrance with a mournful howl. He entered. The interior was silent and deserted. A candle burnt to the socket, the clothing of the inmates lying by their bedsides, testified to the haste with which this devoted family had fled. The death-like hush pervading the lonely cabin—these evidences of the horrible and untimely fate of the family—the appalling scene of wreck all around, froze the solitary intruder’s blood. In terror he, too, fled from the doomed dwelling. On arriving at Bartlett , the traveler reported what he had seen. Assistance was dispatched to the scene of disaster. The rescuers came too late to render aid to the living, but they found, and buried on the spot, the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Willey, and the two hired men. The remaining children were never found. It was easily conjectured that the terrified family, alive at last to the appalling danger that menaced them, and feeling the solid earth tremble in the throes of the mountain, sought safety in flight. They only rushed to their doom. The discovery of the bodies showed but too plainly the manner of their death. They had been instantly swallowed up by the avalanche, which, in the inexplicable order of things visible in great calamities, divided behind the house, leaving the frail structure unharmed, while its inmates were hurried into eternity. For some time after the disaster a curse seemed to rest upon the old Notch House. No one would occupy it. Travelers shunned it. It remained untenanted, though open to all who might be driven to seek its inhospitable shelter, until the deep impression of horror which the fate of the Willey family inspired had, in a measure, effaced itself. The effects of the cataclysm were everywhere. For twenty-one miles, almost its entire length, the turnpike was demolished. Twenty-one of the twenty-three bridges were swept away. In some places the meadows were buried to the depth of several feet beneath sand, earth, and rocks; in others, heaps of great trees, which the torrent had torn up by the roots, barricaded the route. The mountains presented a ghastly spectacle. One single night sufficed to obliterate the work of centuries, to strip their summits bare of verdure, and to leave them with shreds of forest and patches of shrubbery hanging to their stark and naked sides. Thus their whole aspect was altered to an extent hardly to be realized to-day, though remarked with mingled wonder and dread long after the period of the convulsion. From the house our eyes naturally wandered to the mountain, where quarry men were pecking at its side like yellow-hammers at a dead sycamore. All at once a tremendous explosion was heard, and a stream of loosened earth and bowlders came rattling down the mountain. So unexpected was the sound, so startling its multiplied echo, it seemed as if the mountain had uttered a roar of rage and pain, which was taken up and repeated by the other mountains until the uproar became deafening. When the reverberation died away in the distance, we again heard the metallic click of the miners’ hammers chipping away at the gaunt ribs of Mount Willey. How does it happen that this catastrophe is still able to awaken the liveliest interest for the fate of the Willey family? Why is it that the oft-repeated tale seems ever new in the ears of sympathetic listeners? Our age is crowded with horrors, to which this seems trifling indeed. May we not attribute it to the influence which the actual scene exerts on the imagination? One must stand on the spot to comprehend ; must feel the mysterious terror to which all who come within the influence of the gorge submit. Here the annihilation of a family is but the legitimate expression of that feeling. It seems altogether natural to the place. The ravine might well be the sepulchre of a million human beings, instead of the grave of a single obscure family. SOURCE MATERIAL: THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS THEIR LEGEND AND SCENERY BY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. HAMILTON GIBSON “Eyes loose: thoughts close” NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS. FRANKLIN SQUARE - 1882 FIRST HOUSE IN THE NOTCH. The Willey House is the oldest building erected in the Notch. This was built in the year 1793, by a Mr. Davis, to accommodate the unfortunate storm-bound traveler , who, from curiosity, or on business, might dare the dangers of this wild pass. Then a little grassy meadow stretched along the bank of the Saco; tall rock-maples, and a towering mountain barrier, rose in the background from this little home of the pilgrim. How like a cool shadow of a great rock was this retreat among the frowning crags ! But the thundering avalanche came, and, since August 28th, 1826, the spirit of desolation has brooded over that fated spot. How lonely there is the dirge of the high wind, as it sweeps down that solitary chasm; and the wail of the sunset breeze, with the loud requiem of the on-rushing hurricane, is most mournful, for human bones are there palled in an avalanche's ruins.' Source: Historical Relics of the White Mountains: Also , A Concise White Mountain Guide By John H. Spaulding 1862. Website Editor's note: The "Mr Davis" referred here may have been the father of Nathaniel Davis, who was the son in law of Abel and Hannah Crawford. Nathaniel Davis completed the Davis Path up Mt Crawford in 1845. NY Times Here is an interesting account of the 1834 Willey Slide and Rescue as told by Ebenezer Tasker, who was the son of a member of the rescue party. Names mentioned are Edward Melcher, Jonathan Rogers, Samuel Tuttle, Abram Allen, Samuel Stillings and Isaac Fall as members of the group. Reference to Judge Hall's Tavern and Tasker's 116 acre farm. This article was published in The New York Times, August 20, 1894. Here is a link to a PDF version of the story: New York Times Article The original Willey House as it appeared in 1866. In 1898 It was destroyed by fire. "The Ambitious Guest" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne . First published in New-England Magazine in June of 1835 , it is better known for its publication in the second volume of Twice-Told Tales in 1835 . [edit ] Plot A man visits a family on a mountain side that is a famous stop for people who travel on the route. The family asks him to stay, then the mountain begins to tremble but the father reassure that the mountain won't go down, and he has a hideaway in the event that it does. The stranger gives them some advice and the mountain became to fall. They ran to the safe house but didn't make it. The snow never hit the house. Some people noticed that they were gone but nobody knew the stranger. The basis of the story is the Willey tragedy of Crawford Notch , New Hampshire . ambitious Sources: Incidents in White Mountain history - by Rev. Benjamin G. Willey https://www.ancestry.com › genealogy › records › levi-chubbuck_91882748 "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill brooklyncentre.com › trees › getperson Bartlett NH - In the Valley of the Saco - Aileen Carroll - 1990 Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains - circa 1860 REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF The State of New Hampshire • BOSTON - NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 15 COURT SQUARE 1902