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I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. school reunions 2008 All Classes Reunion Recap I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Early in 2007, Bartlett Historical Society members agreed that the society should host a reunion of Bartlett school classmates to commemorate the last class to graduate from and subsequent closing of Bartlett High School in 1958. It was agreed to invite everyone who ever attended a Bartlett School to join us. Later in the year the society contacted 60 individuals to enlist their assistance in collecting current addresses for school alumni. The following responded and collected classmate addresses for the project: Mikell Chandler Perry; Ruth Ward Abbott; Nancy Pettingill Hayes; Lisa Saunders Dufault; Donna Ward Iovino; Evelyn Sanborn Bailey; Carol Ainsworth Saunders; Ellen Sanborn Hayes; John & Judy Ludgate; Jim Howard; Elois Henry Sullivan; Virginia Liberty Lewis; Raymond Hebb; Jane Burdick Duggan; Louise Ludgate Merrill; Barbara Smith Denhard; Jean McGraw Ainsworth, as well as many family members in town. Then in February 2008, the invitations were mailed to those who had attended Bartlett schools throughout the years asking them to come home and celebrate their educational heritage at a reunion in August. Next came months of planning under the direction of Norman Head, chairman of the reunion committee. Finally late August arrived. The timing was right and after weeks of rain, the weather was absolutely perfect, an omen of good things yet to come. Former Bartlett school students arrived from far and near. They came from California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Connecticut, Vermont, Kentucky and from several towns and cities throughout New Hampshire. They brought with them their anticipation of the reunions with classmates with whom they hoped to share their school days memories and photos. They also brought genealogical information on their families to share with BHS and the library history files. The reunion was underway on Friday, August 22nd at 6:30 p.m. The Bartlett Recreation Department under the direction of Annette Libby had arranged for a special presentation of their popular concert in the Park with Kevin Dolan and Simon Crawford. The guests of honor arrived amid hugs, kisses, and squeals of delight on meeting their classmates. A sidelight to the evening was a mini family reunion, of sorts, as Jim and Jan Clemons presided over the gathering of several of the Clemons cousins and their spouses. Also, among those present were many other family groups. All were heard to be exchanging memories and enjoying the refreshments made available by the V.F.W., the Congregational Church and others, for several hours. All too soon it was time to leave this picture-perfect setting and promises of we’ll get together again tomorrow” were heard throughout. Another wonderful day arrived on Saturday and thanks to Joe Voci, principal of the JBES, Earl Mederois, and the entire staff at the school who were so accommodating and helpful, we were ready and at 9 a.m, the doors of the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School were opened and the library was staffed with volunteers ready to greet the guests of honor and to direct them to check-in with the historical society volunteers. After check-in they spent time enjoying the many displays of the historical society and the library. Soon the activities of the day were underway and those present were treated to presentations with a historical flavor: A Century of Railroading with Ben English, former teacher at Bartlett Elementary school; an Update on the Flying Yankee and its Restoration Project with George Howard, 1953 graduate of Bartlett High School; River Driving on the Saco River and Molly Ockett, Indian Doctress presented by Carol Foord of the Tin Mountain Conservation Center; The Construction of Stoney’s Sugar House under the direction of Valerie Ford, with Bartlett School students Lisa Carper, Lily Brennan, Aslyn Dindorf, Quinn Duffy & Matt Shaw; and, Songs of Old New Hampshire with Jeff Warner of the New Hampshire Humanities Council on the Arts. "The staff at the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel at Bear Peak made the honored guests welcomed as they arrived at the entrance. Once inside the resort, the Grand Summit staff, under the direction of Tracy Albert & Jen Albert greeted everyone with a selection of cheeses , and fruits to enjoy with cocktails. And throughout it all classmates continued to reminisce! As they sat down to dinner, George Howard lead the pledge of allegiance to the flag and David Gosselin gave the invocation. During dinner Norman Head and Bert George presided over the drawing of raffle prizes and special recognitions donated by the following Bartlett Artisans and Merchants: Bartlett Schools Afghan, BHS; hand painted plate with a Bartlett scene, Greta George; Print, Lisa Saunders Dufault; Afghan and pillow, Evelyn Sanborn Bailey; Framed Photo, Ellen Sanborn Hayes; Breakfast Basket, Carol Ainsworth Saunders; Replace the Turf from Whence it was Hacked’’ by Kathi L. McGraw; Gift Certificate, Fresh Start Restaurant; Gift Certificates, Trails End Ice Cream Shoppe; Gift Certificate, White Mountain Cider Co.; Gift Certificates, Settler’s Green; NH Lotto Scratch Tickets, Patch’s Market; T-Shirts, Langdon’s Mercantile; Golf Foursome, Linderhof Country Club; Maple Syrup, Stoney’s Sugar House; Wine Basket, Austin & Debbie Ferland; Paintography, Carol Saunders; framed print, Dolley/Emerson, and a Hand-crafted Bird House, Wanda Allan. After the raffle, Norman celebrated the following individuals with special recognition: ⇒ Jean Garland, was presented with flowers donated by Brian Hill. of Hill’s Florists. Gene Chandler, Selectman and Bartlett School classmate, recalled her more than 55 years as the town librarian. ⇒ Edith Chandler, at 90 years old, was the oldest person (by two years) in attendance and was presented with flowers also given by Brian Hill along with town histories given by the Bartlett Library. ⇒ It should be noted here that BHS members, Donald Clemons, 87, and Barbara Denhard, 84, were also in attendance. Carol Saunders, member of the last class to graduate fromBartlett High School, which closed in 1958 upon their graduation, presented her classmates and favorite teacher, Mr. Sal Manna with tee shirts prepared by her daughter, Lisa Saunders Dufault to remember the event. Then Carol recalled growing up in Bartlett in the 1950’s in rhyme. The recollection she titled, “The Class of 1958” was most entertaining. After dinner it was time to enjoy the entertainment provided by Jonathan Sarty and the White Mountain Boys which, we understand, was very much enjoyed by everyone. And, once again it ended all too soon. On Sunday morning, classmates gathered again, this time at the Red Fox Pub & Restaurant on Route 16 in Jackson, for an Until We Meet Again Breakfast. And, once again, the reunion guests received special treatment from Paul Ciamillo and his staff at the Red Fox with a private room where they could enjoy the scrumptious breakfast buffet and continue to reminisce with old and new friends. One last time it was over much too soon. This time the classmate partings were bittersweet as now it was time to say good by. Each left wishing that it could have lasted “just a bit longer,” and, leaving a small piece of their heart in their “old home town.” However reluctant, they did leave and they took with them the memories t hey brought on Friday, in addition to the new memories of those three glorious August days. Those memories are certain to last until they gather again one day. In addition to those mentioned in this diary of the Bartlett School Reunion 2008, the Bartlett Historical Society reunion committee wishes to thank the following for their contributions to this event: Dave Eliason for adding event info to his Bartlett website ; Bob “Homer” Holmes and Kathleen Sullivan Head for recording the oral history conversations, Ruth Ward Abbott, who gave her permission for us to copy her compilation of photos, programs and memorabilia chronicling the history of Bartlett High School; Jean Garland and the library staff for always being willing to help us out; Bev Shaw and Kelly Gilinas of T.D. Bank, North for the welcome bags; Marcia Burchstead, for keeping us in her column; Kathi McGraw for coming through when we needed to get out member emails and information posted to the website; Resort Rentals Realty and Hannalore Chandler, for welcome bag donations; Settlers’ Green Outlet Village, and to all of those who helped in the many ways too numerous to mention. Thank you for a fantastic production one and all. Bartlett School Reunion committee members: John Ludgate, Carol Saunders, Bert George, Marcia Dolley, Leslie Mallett and Chairman, Norman Head I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Glen - Jackson Station More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 The Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad built the first station here, originally named Glen in the spring of 1873. It and today's station are located 64.73 miles from Portland. I could find no pictures of the original building. The only proof it existed is in the P&O Stockholders Report of 1874. In 1889, one year after the Maine Central Railroad leased the P&O, a new station with a restaurant, ticket office, western union office, and men and ladies waiting rooms were constructed. The sidings opposite the platform side of the depot and including one spur out beside the east end of the station had a capacity of 83 cars. Logs were brought in 2-3 times a day from the Rocky Branch Logging Railroad from 1908-1914.and were transferred to Maine Central log cars. The Station was closed on January 22, 1950. Today, the Glen and Jackson station survives but does not serve a Railroad. It is owned by the Hickory Hawks Ski Club of Melrose, Massachusetts. Scotty Mallett has researched and written the information on this page. Intervale Station Glen Jackson Station 1912 looking southeast. Photo courtesy Jane English Source: History of Carroll County - Georgia Drew Merrill - 1889 This video is mis-labeled. Apparently the video-guy thought he was in Intervale but this is actually taken at the Glen - Jackson Station looking west. There are many more pictures at the Facebook Page "MEC RR MT DIVISION". Mountain Division at Facebook More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right...

Paleo Indians to the Abenaki Beginnings - Paleo-Indians to the Abenaki Paleo Indians were here 11,300 years ago We current residents and our ancesters are still "newbies" in the broader historical perspective. Other folks lived here long before us. Paleo-indians were living in this area about 11,300 years ago (9,300 BCE). Small groups of families migrated seasonally to hunt and gather various floras, gradually moving about along the waterways and primitive trails. Their way of life was successful, and so the population grew. There is debate about how these early people got here, but many Native Americans believe that their ancient ancestors originated on this continent. One clue is that Abenaki and other Native American creation stories are rooted in the American environment and not elsewhere. Family groups lived in rock outcroppings or shelters made of saplings or, perhaps, mastodon bones covered with animal skins. They used stone tools such as chert and quartzite, which were durable enough to cut through animal skin and bone, but brittle enough to be chipped into sharp-edged tools. This material was plentiful in New Hampshire and Vermont. Part of their seasonal migrations were for trading purposes. Chert from as far away as Maine and New York and jasper from Pennsylvania have been found in Vermont. Tools made from Vermont stones have been found from Massachusetts to Maine. Paleoindian sites that have been excavated in Ludlow and East Highgate Vermont help us understand the Paleo-indian way of life. Tools show that they fished and gathered plants, but hunting seemed more important since tools found were more suited to hunting big land animals than marine animals. Paleoindians ate a lot of caribou because they were abundant. By about three thousand years ago, a new Woodland culture was thriving. Analysis of archaeological sites along the rivers and lakes help us understand the lives of these early peoples. Abenaki Life: 1600 The Abenaki of the Late Woodland period were part of a larger Wabanaki group that extended throughout most of Vermont, into Quebec, and included all of New Hampshire and Maine. In Vermont, the western Abenaki divided themselves into three major bands: Missiskoik (in the Champlain Valley) and Sokwaki and Cowasuck (in the Connecticut River Valley). By the Late Woodland period, extensive settlements existed in all of Vermont's lake and river valleys. SOURCE MATERIAL ABOVE: Flow of History c/o Southeast Vermont Community Learning Collaborative Brattleboro, VT 05302 Visit their web site for a wealth of information from which these snippets were derived: http://www.flowofhistory.org/index.php SOURCE MATERIAL BELOW: The White Mountains: a handbook for travellers: a guide to the peaks, passes ... edited by Moses Foster Sweetser 1886 When the first English explorers reached the shores of New England, they found a strong confederacy existing between the various Indian tribes of Maine and New Hampshire, which were then populous and powerful. The headship of this union was vested in the chief of the Penobscot tribe, who bore the title of Baahdba. Soon after the year 1614, however, several war-parties of Tarratine Indians from Acadia advanced stealthily into the Penobscot country, and surprised the royal town at night. The Bashaba and his chief warriors and councillors were slain while fighting, and the power of the Penobscots and the union of the tribes were broken together. According to Sir Ferdinando Gorges's Description of New England, a terrible state of anarchy and civil war ensued, the chief sagamores battling with each other for supremacy, while against the divided league foreign enemies made successful campaigns. The valiant Tarratines marched mercilessly throughout the country of the Bashaba, shattering the power of the isolated tribes, and sending their fleets even as far as the Massachusetts coast, where the Indians of Ipswich were harried by a fierce naval foray. " The strong fought for supremacy, the weak for existence. There was no necessity for the war-song or the war-dance. Every brave was compelled to enlist whether he would or not. The signal-fire gleamed on the hill-top. The war-whoop was heard in the valley. New England, before nor since, never saw such carnage within her borders." The destruction of the villages and their deposits of provisions, and the impossibility of tillage or hunting, catised a wide-spread and desolating famine to fall upon the tribes, already in process of extermination by battle and ambush. In company with the universal war and famine came a mysterious pestilence, which broke out in 1616 on the coast and spread inland in every direction with fatal swiftness. Entire villages were depopulated, and tribes were blotted out This visitation lasted for three summers, and swept away the strength of all the northern peoples. Morton tells, in his New English Canaan, that the bones and skulls that he saw throughout the Massachusetts district made the country seem " a newfound Golgotha." After the passage of the pestilence and the famine, the remnants of the thirteen tribes of the Connecticut Valley and the White-Mountain region formed a new confederation, designed to resist the Mohawks on the W. and the Tarratines on the E. The noble Passaconaway, formerly a valiant warrior and chieftain, now a venerable and sagacious sagamore of Pennacook, was appointed Bashaba. The Indians of New Hampshire belonged to the Abenaqui nation, and were called Nipmucks, or fresh-water people, from Nipe, " pond," and mike, "place." They were divided into 13 tribes, each with its semiindependent chief. The Nashuas lived on the river of that name (meaning " pebbly-bottomed "); the Souhegans occupied the Souhegan Valley (Swheganash means "worn-out lands"); the Amoskeagswere about Manchester (deriving their name from namaos, "fish," and mike, "place"); the Pennacooks were at Concord (from pennaqui, " crooked," and auke, "place"); the Squamscotts were about Exeter (from asquam, "water," and auke, "place"); the Xewichawannocks were on Salmon-Falls River (from nee, "my," week, "wigwam," and owannock, "come"); the Pascataquaukes were toward Dover and Portsmouth (from pot, "great," ..-//."/, " deer," and auke, " place "). " The eighth tribe built a wigwam city at Ossipee Lake (cooash, 'pines,' and sipe, 'river'), and they were the cultivated Ossipees, with mounds and forts like more civilized nations. A ninth built flourishing villages in the fertile valley of the Pequawket River (now Saco, — from pequawkis, 'crooked,' and auke, 'place'), and were known as the pious Pequawkets, who worshipped the great Manitou of the cloud-capped Agiochook. A tenth had their home by the clear Lake Winnepesaukee, and were esteemed ' the beautiful Winnepesaukees.' An eleventh set up their lodges of spruce bark by the banks of the wild and turbulent Androscoggin River, and were known as ' the death-dealing Amariscoggins' (from namaos, 'fish,' kees, 'high,' and auke, 'place'). A twelfth cultivated the Coos intervales on the Connecticut, and were called 'the swift deer-hunting Coosucks' (from cooash, 'pines,' auke, 'place')." The thirteenth were the Pemigewassets. On Father Ducreux's Latin map of 1GGO, the Abenaqui nation occupies all the country between the Kennebec and Lake Champlain, including the upper waters of the Androscoggin (Fiuvius Aininvocontiits) and Saco (C/ioacotius Fluvius). " Most of the Northward Indians are between five and fix Foot high, straight Body'd, strongly composed, smooth Skin'd, merry Countenanc'd, of Complexion more swarthy than the Spaniards, black Haired, high Foreheaded, black Ey'd, out-Nof'd, broad Shoulder'd, brawny Arm'd, long and slender Handed, out Breafted, small Wasted, lank Belly'd, well Thigh'd, flat Kneed, with handfome brown Legs, and small Feet : In a word, take them when the Blood skips in their Veins, when the Flesh is on their Backs, and Marrow in their Bones, when they frolick in their antique Deportments and Indian postures, they are more amiable to behold (though onely in Adam's Li-very) than many a trim Gallant in the newest Mode; and though their Houses are but mean, their Lodging as homely, Commo'nsfcant, their Drink Water, and Nature their best Clothing, yet they full are healthful and lofty." (ogilby's America.) After the abdication of Passaconaway, in 1660, his son Wonnalancet succeeded to the chieftaincy. According to the Puritan fathers, he was "a sober and grave person, of years between 50 and 60. He hath been always loving and friendly to the English." The Apostle Eliot visited him in May, 1674, and preached from the parable of the King's son, after which the Sachem embraced Christianity in a beautiful allegorical address. He lived a pure and noble life, and restrained his warriors from attacking the colonists, even during the deadly heats of King Philip's War. After that struggle, he visited the frontier town of Chelmsford, and asked the minister if it had suffered from attacks. The Puritan answered, "No, thank God." " Me next," rejoined Wonnalancet. At a later day he found it impossible to restrain his people from open hostilities, upon which he gave up the chieftaincy, and retired, with the few families who adhered to him, to St. Francis, on the St. Lawrence River, far away from the crash of war and the undisariminating fury of the English forays. He returned to the Merrimac Valley in 1696, but stayed only a short time, finally retiring to St. Francis, where he died. When Wonnalancet retired, in 1685, Kancamagus, the grandson of Passaconaway, assumed the government. He made several attempts to retain the friendship of the English, as is seen in his letters to Gov. Crandall, but was slighted and ill-treated by them, and finally yielded to the impulses of the martial and patriotic party in the confederation. He organized and headed the destructive attack on Dover in 1686, which was the last terrib'e death-throe of the Pennacooks ; and was present at the signing of the truce of Sagadahoc, in 1691. He then vanishes from history, and it seems probable that he led the feeble remains of his people to the Abenaqui city of refuge at St. Francis. " Kancamagus was a brave and politic chief, and in view of what he accomplished at the head of a mere remnant of a once powerful tribe, it may be considered a most fortunate circumstance for the English colonists, that he was not at the head of the tribe at an earlier period, before it had been shorn of its strength, during the old age of Passaconaway, and the peaceful and inactive reign of Wonnalancet. And even could Kancamagus have succeeded to the Sagamonship ten years earlier than he did, so that his acknowledged abilities for counsel and war could have been united with those of Philip, history might have chronicled another story than the inglorious death of the Sagamou of Mount Hope in the swamp of Pokanoket." (potter's Hist, of Manchester.) The northern tribes of the confederation remained in their ancestral homes for some years longer, under the government of their local chiefs, but were nearly annihilated by military expeditions from the New England towns. (See Fryebury, Plymouth, etc.) They then migrated to Canada, and after their mournful exodus the Saco and Pemigewasset Valleys were opened to the settlers from the lower towns. "Thus the aboriginal inhabitants, who held the lands of New Hampshire as their own, have been swept away. Long and valiantly did they contend for the inheritance bequeathed to them by their fathers ; but fate had decided against them, and it was all in vain. With bitter feelings of unavailing regret, the Indian looked for the last time upon the happy places where for ages his ancestors had Iived and loved, rejoiced and wept, and passed away, to be known no more forever." Concerning Passaconaway, the Great Chief of the Mountain and Merrimac Indiani. The name Passaconaway is derived from two Indian words, papoeis, " child," and kunnaway, " bear," the Child of the Bear being a fitting chief for the tribes whose ancestral insignia was a mountain-bear. It is estimated that the Merrimae tribes had 3,000 warriors in the year 1600, but the annihilating successions of famine, pestilence, and pitiless invasions of hostile tribes reduced their number, in less than 20 years, to 250 men. There is a tradition that the Mohawks attacked Concord not long before the year 1620, and inflicted terrible damage on the Pennacooks; and a subsequent foray of the western tribes of Passaconaway's league 'ito the land of the Mohawks resulted disastrously. Passaconaway was probably at the head of the Pennacook confederation before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth; and Captain Levitt reported having seen him in 1623. In 1629 he and his sub-chiefs granted the coast of New Hampshire to John Wheelwright; and in 1632 he sent in to Boston a culprit Indian who had killed an English trader. In 1642 Massachusetts despatched a strong force to disarm the friendly Pennacooks; but Passaconaway retired to the forest, and there received a just apology from the colonial authorities, after which he voluntarily surrendered his guns. In 1644 he put his " subjects Lands and estates under the Government and Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts to be governed and protected by then." From this time the forest emperor and mighty necromancer became nominally a sort of Puritan magistrate, administering the laws of the colony upon his astonished liegemen. In 1647 Passaconaway was visited by the Apostle Eliot ("one of the noblest spirits that have walked the earth since the days of the Apostle Paul"), whose preaching deeply impressed the great chief and his sons, and led them to entreat him to dwell with them and become their teacher. He was probably converted to Christianity by Eliot's loving counsels. In 1660, overburdened with years and weary of honors, he abdicated his authority at a solemn senate of the mountain arid river tribes holden at Pawtucket Falls. His farewell address to his people was heard by two or three English guests, and was reported by them to have been a splendid piece of oratory. The following sentences are extracted from it: — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak, that has withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall! But when young and sturdy, when my bow no young man of the Pennacooks could bend, — when my arrows would pierce a deer at a hundred yards, and 1 could bury my hatchet in a sapling to the eye, — no wigwam had so many furs, no pole so many scalp-locks, as Passaconaway-s. Then I delighted in war. The whoop of the Pennacooks was heard on the Mohawk, — and no voice so loud as Passaconaway's. The scalps upon the pole of my wigwam told the story of Mohawk Buffering The oak will soon break before the whirlwind,—it shivers and shakes even now; soon its trunk will be prostrate, — the ant and the worm will sport upon it. Then think, my children, of what I say. I commune with the Great Spirit. He whispers me now: 'Tell your people, Peace — peace is the only hope of your race. I have given flre and thunder to the pale-faces for weapons,— I have made them plentier than the leaves of the forest; and still shall they increase. These meadows they shall turn with the plough, — these forests shall fall by the axe, — the pale-faces shall live upon your hunting-grounds, and make their villages upon your fishing-places-' The Great Spirit says this, and it must be so! We are few and powerless before them! We must bend before the storm ! The wind blows hard! The old oak trembles, its branches are gone, its sap is frozen, it bends. It falls! Peace, peace, with the white man ' —is the command of the Great Spirit; and the wish, — the last wish of Passaconaway." In reflecting upon the character of the Merrimaek Sagamon, tho conviction forces Itself upon one, that at the head of a powerful confederacy of Indian tribes, honored and feared by his subjects, and capable of moulding their fierce passions to his will, the history of New England would have told another story, than the triumph of our Pilgrim Fathers, had Passaconaway taken a different view of his own destiny and that of his tribe, —and exerted his well-known and acknowledged power against the enemies of his race." (potter's Hist, of Manchester ) " It is a notorious fact that the English trespassed on his hunting-grounds and stole his lauds. Yet he never stole anything from them. They killed his warriors, — yet he never killed a white man, woman, or child. They captured and imprisoned his sons and daughters, — yet he never led a captive into the wilderness. Once the proudest and most noble Bashaba of New England, he passed his extreme old age poor, forsaken, and robbed of all that was dear to him, by those to whom he had been a firm friend for nearly half a century." (little's Htst, of Warren.) The legend of the apotheosis of Passaconaway on Mt. Washington suggests the mysterious story of St. Aspinquid, who, according to the tradition, was an Indian sage, born in 1588, converted to Christianity in 1628, and died in 1682. His funeral was on Mt. Agamenticus, and was attended by many sachems, who had a great hunting-feast and brought to his grave 6,711 slain animals, including 99 bears, 66 moose, 25 bucks, 67 does, 240 wolves, 82 wild-cats, 8 catamounts, 482 foxes, 32 buffaloes, 400 otter, 620 beaver, 1500 mink, 110 ferrets, 520 raccoons, 900 musquashes, 501 fishers, 3 ermines, 38 porcupines, 832 martens, 59 woodchucks, and 112 rattlesnakes. On the mountain-tomb was carved the inscription: — "Present useful; absent wanted ; Lived desired; died lamented." St. Aspinquid is said to have preached the Gospel for 40 years, and among 66 nations, " from the Atlantic Ocean to the Californian Sea. "Mr. Thatcher thinks that Passaconaway and St. Aspinquid were one in the same, since their age and reputation so nearly agree; and advances a theory that Passaconaway retired to Mt. Agamenticus during King Philip's War, received the name of Aspinquid from the sea-shore Indians, and died a few years later. , The Apostle Eliot and Gen. Gookin saw Passaconaway when he was in the white winter of his 120th year. After his abdication of the Pennacook sovereignty he was granted a narrow tract of land in Litchfield by the Province of Massachusetts, where he lived for a short time. The time and manner of his death are unknown, but the traditions of the Pennacooks relate that he was carried from them, in the winter season, by a weird, wolf-drawn sleigh, and borne to the summit of Mt. Washington, whence he was received into heaven. The Theft of America The un-glorious stories of how the western areas of the United States were occupied by our forefathers through cajolery, fraud and deception is not limited to those western territories. The theft of the native American's homelands all began when the first English explorers set foot on this continent. All too frequently the native people were more than willing to sell or trade their homelands for a trivial compensation. While the early explorers inflicted unknown diseases upon the Indians who already lived here, it was not done intentionally, (Although it has been shown that it was not beneath the early settlers to intentionally expose the Indians to known diseases with known consequences.) The process of illness and disease severely decimated and weakened the native population. Additionally, fighting amongst rival tribes also contributed to a dramatic decrease in their populations during the 1600's. Many of those who did survive found their way of life completely at odds with the practices and traditions of the early settlers who came from completely different backgrounds. The concept of owning land was unheard of to the native populace who believed the land was there for everyones mutual benefit. Yet they did respect the territories of rival tribes and wars over such territories were not uncommon. Thus, their defenses against the intrusions of the early settlers would have been a natural reaction. The weapons available to them however were far inferior to those of the invading settlers. While there were atrocities committed by both the native populace and early settlers many early stories point to the basic peaceful nature of the native inhabitants, particularly the Abenaki peoples and their desire to obtain peaceful arrangements with the new settlers over the use of the land. The history of New England would have told another story, than the triumph of our Pilgrim Fathers, had Passaconaway taken a different view of his own destiny and that of his tribe, —and exerted his well-known and acknowledged power against the enemies of his race." It is a notorious fact that the English trespassed on his hunting-grounds and stole his lands. Yet he never stole anything from them. They killed his warriors, — yet he never killed a white man, woman, or child. They captured and imprisoned his sons and daughters, — yet he never led a captive into the wilderness. Once the proudest and most noble Bashaba of New England, he passed his extreme old age poor, forsaken, and robbed of all that was dear to him, by those to whom he had been a firm friend for nearly half a century. In another article you can read of the heritage and lives of those who now are only remembered as the names of mountains, roads and towns, beyond which many inhabitants have no knowledge of how the names originated or who those people were. This material came from Moses Sweetser's White Mountain Guide of 1886. Google it for more interesting information. CONSIDER THIS MORE CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINT: There is a growing effort to bring history back into focus and to correct many misconceptions about the relationship of Native People, such as us, and the founding of the United States. We were not all killed off by disease or warfare and did not disappear with the colonization of this country. Many of us became the individual fibers of the weave that made the cloth of the United States and Canada. We are among you, working beside you in all walks of life. Unless we told you who we were, you would probably never know us. Please Have a peek at their website; HERE Also check this list of NATIVE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS Abenaki clothing, 18th Century Abenaki Culture ABENAKI CULTURE There are a dozen variations of the name Abenakis, such as Abenaquiois, Abakivis, Quabenakionek, Wabenakies and others. The Abenaki were described in the Jesuit Relations as not cannibals, and as docile, ingenious, temperate in the use of liquor, and not profane. All Abenaki tribes lived a lifestyle similar to the Algonquin of southern New England. They cultivated crops for food, locating villages on or near fertile river floodplains. Other less major, but still important, parts of their diet included game and fish from hunting and fishing, and wild plants. They lived in scattered bands of extended families for most of the year. Each man had different hunting territories inherited through his father. Unlike the Iroquois, the Abenaki were patrilineal. Bands came together during the spring and summer at temporary villages near rivers, or somewhere along the seacoast for planting and fishing. These villages occasionally had to be fortified, depending on the alliances and enemies of other tribes or of Europeans near the village. Abenaki villages were quite small when compared to the Iroquois'; the average number of people was about 100. Most Abenaki settlements used dome-shaped, bark-covered wigwams for housing, though a few preferred oval-shaped long houses. During the winter, the Abenaki lived in small groups further inland. The homes there were bark-covered wigwams shaped in a way similar to the teepees of the Great Plains Indians. The Abnaki lined the inside of their conical wigwams with bear and deer skins for warmth. The Abenaki also built long houses similar to those of the Iroquois. POPULATION AND EPIDEMICS Before the Abenaki — except the Pennacook and Micmac — had contact with the European world, their population may have numbered as many as 40,000. Around 20,000 would have been Eastern Abenaki, another 10,000 would have been Western Abenaki, and the last 10,000 would have been Maritime Abenaki. Early contacts with European fisherman resulted in two major epidemics that affected Abenaki during the 1500s. The first epidemic was an unknown sickness occurring sometime between 1564 and 1570, and the second one was typhus in 1586. Multiple epidemics arrived a decade prior to the English settlement of Massachusetts in 1620, when three separate sicknesses swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes. Maine was hit very hard during the year of 1617, with a fatality rate of 75%, and the population of the Eastern Abenaki fell to about 5,000. Fortunately, the Western Abenaki were a more isolated group of people and suffered far less, losing only about half of their original population of 10,000. The new diseases continued to cause more disaster, starting with smallpox in 1631, 1633, and 1639. Seven years later, an unknown epidemic struck, with influenza passing through the following year. Smallpox affected the Abenaki again in 1649, and diphtheria came through 10 years later. Once again, smallpox struck in 1670, and influenza again in 1675. Smallpox affected the Native Americans again in 1677, 1679, 1687, along with measles, 1691, 1729, 1733, 1755, and finally in 1758. The Abenaki population continued to decline, but in 1676, they took in thousands of refugees from many southern New England tribes displaced by settlement and King Philip's War. Because of this, descendents of nearly every southern New England Algonquin can be found among the Abenaki people. Another century later, there were fewer than 1,000 Abenaki remaining after the American Revolution. The population has recovered to nearly 12,000 total in the United States and Canada. Where Are They Now? There are no federally recognized Indian tribes in New Hampshire today. Originally the Abenaki's lived in the area from Concord northward and the Pennacooks lived in the area from Concord Southward. Most Native Americans were forced to leave New Hampshire during the 1600's, when eastern tribes were being displaced by colonial expansion. These tribes are not extinct, but except for the descendants of New Hampshire Native Americans who hid or assimilated into white society, they do not live in New Hampshire anymore. Most tribes that once were native to New Hampshire ended up on reservations in Canada. THE WHEELWRIGHT DEED May 17, 1629: Whereas we the Sagamores of Penecook, Pentucket, Squamsquot, and Nuchawanack are inclined to have the English inhabit amongst us by which means we hope in time to be Strengthened against our Enemies who yearly doth us Damage likewise being persuaded that it will be for the good of us and our Posterity, do hereby covenant and agree with the English as follows - - - in consideration of a Competent valuation in goods already received in Coats, Shirts, and victuals...convey all that part of the Main Land bounded by the River of Pisattaqua and the River of Meremack... In Witness whereof we have hereunuto set our hands and seals the seventeeth day of May 1629 and in the fifth year of King Charles's reign over England...Passaconaway...Runaawitt, Wahanqnononawitt, Wardargoscum.. This deed has been pronounced a forgery, but authentic documents have lately come to light, that go to show the genuineness of this instrument." Judge C. E. Potter, 1851 W. J. Sidis wrote: Passaconaway inquired as to whether white ideas of property covered anything corresponding to permission to occupy, and found out that the whites know of such things as leases; so, by authority from the Federal Council (after considerable objection from the Piscataquas, whose territory the place was) he had a regular deed made out as part of the peace treaty, leasing to these unrecognised Puritan outposts a region extending from the Piscataqua west to the Merrimac, and from the Merrimac thirty miles north. This lease provided for a specified rental in furs for each town to be established in that region. This rent was paid regularly, except for war periods, up to 1755; but, as land titles in that region are still based on Passaconaway’s deed, now preserved at Exeter, rather than on Mason’s title claim, this leaves the Penacook Federation, or whoever is their successor, the real owners of a territory including Rockingham County in New Hampshire, and some surrounding territory, including the cities of Haverhill and Manchester, and half of Lowell and Lawrence. The Tribes and the States, Chap. 8 ["One of the earliest of Passaconaway's transactions with the English is said to have been his signing of the famous Wheelwright Deed. By many this has been considered a forgery. The Rev. N. Bouton, D. D., Editor of the Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, writes thus, however: 'The famous 'Wheelwright Deed, which has been pronounced a forgery by Hon. James Savage, the distinguished antiquarian of Boston, and the late John Farmer, Esq., of Concord, bears date May 17, 1629. The Sagamons (chiefs) of most note among the Pennacooks, were Passaconnaway, Wonnalancet his son, and Kancamagus, usually called John Hogkins, his grandson. These Chiefs were successively at the head of the Pennacoks, and each in his way, was a man of mark in his time. Passaconnaway was one of the most noted Indian Chiefs in New England. For a much more detailed accounting of their activities refer to Chapter 5 at this link: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/evening.html Theft of America contemporary culture population wherenow wheelwr[ght THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 BACK TO TOP KING PHILIP'S WAR The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, Metacom, or Pometacom , known to the English as "King Philip." King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom 's War or Metacom's Rebellion,[1] was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676. It continued in northern New England (primarily on the Maine frontier) even after King Philip was killed, until a treaty was signed at Casco Bay in April 1678.[2] According to a combined estimate of loss of life in Schultz and Tougias' "King Philip's War, The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict" (based on sources from the Department of Defense, the Bureau of Census, and the work of Colonial historian Francis Jennings ), 800 out of 52,000 English colonists (1 out of every 65) and 3,000 out of 20,000 natives (3 out of every 20) lost their lives due to the war, which makes it proportionately one of the bloodiest and costliest in the history of America.[3] More than half of New England's ninety towns were assaulted by Native American warriors.[4] Much More Information can be found at Wikipedia. -------------------------------------- King Philip was a native American Indian and King Philip's war began in 1675. King Philip explains what led to the uprising: The English who came first to this country were but an handful of people, forlorn, poor and distressed. My father was then sachem [chief]. He relieved their distresses in the most kind and hospitable manner. He gave them land to build and plant upon. He did all in his power to serve them. Others of their country men came and joined them. Their numbers rapidly increased. My father's counselors became uneasy and alarmed lest, as they were possessed of firearms, which was not the case of the Indians, they should finally undertake to give law to the Indians, and take from them their country. They therefore advised him to destroy them before they should become too strong, and it should be too late. My father was also the father of the English. He represented to his counselors and warriors that the English knew many sciences which the Indians did not; that they improved and cultivated the earth, and raised cattle and fruits, and that there was sufficient room n the country for both the English and the Indians. His advise prevailed. It was concluded to give victuals to the English. They flourished and increased. Experience taught that the advice of my father's counselors was right. By various means they got possessed of a great part of his territory. But he still remained their friend until he died. My elder brother became sachem. They pretended to suspect him of evil designs against them. He was seized and confined, and thereby thrown into sickness and died. Soon after I became sachem they disarmed all my people. They tried my people by their own laws and assessed damages against them which they could not pay. Their land was taken. Sometimes the cattle of the English would come into the cornfields of my people, for they did not make fences like the English. I must then be seized and confined till I sold another tract of my country for satisfaction of all damages and costs. But a small part of the dominion of my ancestors remains. I am determined not to live till I have no country. Source: History of Swansea KingPhilip THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP TALL TITLE What life was like 1,000 years ago Life1000YearsAgo In an article published in 2000, Doug Sweet looks back at life 1,000 years ago in Montreal. The story gives some historical context to the an exhibition at Pointe-à-Callière Museum, St. Lawrence Iroquoians, Corn People. By Montreal GazetteNovember 17, 2006 Begin with quiet. No noise from jostling traffic or an onrushing metro train. No hum from the computer fan. No jumble of voices bouncing off the walls of a frenzied shopping centre. No television, no radio, cinema, CDs, MP3s or other instruments of the late-20th-century cacophony in which we are immersed every blessed day of our brief lives. Silence. Listen, now, for the sounds that 1,000 years ago - a millennium ago - would be heard in this place we call home. Tall and ancient trees moaning in the clean wind. Water rattling through rocks and rapids and lapping quietly at the pebbled shore. A bird's stabbing cry. The quick rustle of unseen wildlife in thickets of underbrush. The echoing rumble of thunder or splatter of falling rain. A primeval atmosphere. Add to this the murmur of human voices gathered together - an infant's wail, the shrieks of children playing, sharp words between a husband and wife, the drone of mystical singing. There's the strike of stone on stone, the thud of a rock axe against thick wood, a fire's crackle. These would be about the only sounds anyone would hear if they visited what is now Montreal. The only sounds. That was to change, of course. But in the vast sweep of time, what was wrought by later immigrants to this land was relatively recent. In our collective arrogance, we often overlook the human life that existed in this place for millennia before the first Europeans ventured up a great river in search of a quick route to the treasures of China and the East. The history of the island now called Montreal does not begin with Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville Marie in 1642. It doesn't begin with Samuel de Champlain's visit of 1611 or with Jacques Cartier's day-and-a-half stopover at the Iroquoian village Hochelaga in 1535. People had lived in this region long before that. Thousands of them. After the last of the great ice sheets melted away and the resulting inland sea began to dry up about 10,000 years ago, people drifted into this land, discovering its abundant rivers and their rich flood plains. With lower-lying land still flooded by the Champlain Sea, the earliest possible residents lived on higher ground to the west of Montreal, near what is now called Lac St. Francois, a widening of the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ont. They are referred to as Paleoindians and were succeeded, the archaeologists tell us, by Archaic people about 5,000 years ago. These were the ancestors of the people who, about 1,000 years ago, began to develop rudimentary agriculture here. By about 1200 to 1300 AD, those whom anthropologists and archaeologists call St. Lawrence Iroquoians had developed their agriculture to the point that their crops of beans, squash and corn had supplanted hunting as the community's primary source of food. Farming brought an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians settled down, shifting their longhouse villages about every 20 years in search of more fertile farmland. On his 1535 voyage up the St. Lawrence, Cartier visited a village, which he called Hochelaga, with between 1,000 and 2,000 inhabitants. He stayed only briefly, but described the community in some detail. Less than 50 years later, the people who lived on Montreal Island and in the vicinity began to disperse. Where they went is fairly easy to determine by studying far-flung fragments of pottery - the St. Lawrence Iroquoians employed a distinctive pottery style - into eastern Ontario, farther down the St. Lawrence River, even into northeastern New England and the Lac St-Jean region. But why they left remains a mystery. Could diseases, such as influenza and smallpox, have been introduced by Cartier (or other lesser-known explorers), leaving the people of Hochelaga vulnerable to more frequent and sustained attack from neighbouring Algonquin, Iroquois or Huron tribes? Was there a small but significant shift in climate patterns rendering their rudimentary agriculture impossible? Did they just get tired of the same old river and the same old mountain? A definitive answer is probably impossible, but what is certain is that by the time Champlain explored this area in 1611 there was no trace of Hochelaga. Gone. And never to return. Although Algonquins from the Ottawa River region settled the island sporadically between the time of Cartier's visit and the permanent French encampment established by Maisonneuve in 1642, the last substantial aboriginal community on the island simply evaporated. - - - So the white-faced men and women returned, and this time they stayed for good, bringing different customs, different values, different goals, a different god. They also brought different sounds: their languages, as well as the sound of hammering and sawing, the thwack of sharper steel axes against the same tree trunks, then the rumble of wheeled carts, the mooing and grunting of domesticated animals. The sound of gunfire. And, through treaties, trade, cheating, warfare and wave upon wave of unending immigration, they took control of this island and they built, stone by stone, log by log, a small town nestled under the protective shadow of a stunted mountain, hard against the endlessly flowing river that would shape the city's destiny for centuries to come. How appropriate that Montreal, a city that has borne witness to so many profound changes in its makeup and character, should lie next to the endless flow of a river rather than the static body of a lake. History is the story of change, a nd Montreal has enjoyed more of it than most cities on this continent in its 357 years of existence.The French settlers, in addition to devoting themselves and their energies to converting the ``heathen'' aboriginals to Christianity and specifically Roman Catholicism, quickly realized the potential of the region's rivers as superhighways leading inland to the heart of a lucrative fur trade. That industry, more than any other, propelled the young city into a position of economic expansion and prominence in the New World. The British conquest of the mid-18th century brought the tones of yet another language to Montreal, although the fur trade continued to be the economic staple of an expanding and diversifying economy. Gradually, into the next century, industrialization crept in and with it new sounds, new energies. Smokestacks and coal fires brought soot and smoke along with jobs for immigrants. Machinery, sugar, tobacco, dry goods were refined or produced here for consumption elsewhere. That meant a transportation industry, and again the river was of vital importance. For a time in the middle of the 19th century, most of the people living within the city of Montreal proper spoke English, but that soon changed with massive immigration of French-speaking Quebecers from the hinterland, providing Montreal with the unique sound and image it offers to the world to this day: a mixture of languages and cultures that sometimes collide but more often embrace each other; a face and a voice that are replicated nowhere else on the planet. Added to the principal ingredients of this cultural bouillabaisse is the spice of multi-ethnicity made possible by successive bursts of immigration: the Irish in the early to middle part of the 19th century; Russian Jews at the turn of the 20th century; Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and other Europeans in smaller numbers in the first decades of the 1900s and then in great waves that date from the 1950s on; more recently Africans and Middle Easterners, those from the Caribbean and southern Asia, as well as people from Central and South America. All have contributed to the local culture; all have helped change the sounds of Montreal, from the bustle of Chinatown to the summertime tam-tams at the foot of Mount Royal. With the different cultural currents have come changing economic fortunes. The early industrialization of the mid-1800s gave way to larger and more numerous factories, from the sugar refineries of the Lachine Canal to the heavy machine shops of the sprawling Angus yards where Canadian Pacific built and maintained locomotives. But just as political eddies and whirlpools were becoming stronger and more tumultuous, so, too, was there continued turbulence in the city's economic underpinnings. Smokestacks and enormous electric motors gave way to computer chips and microscopes. The heavy machine shops closed and the pharmaceutical industry exploded. Sugar refineries became film studios; instead of locomotives, Montrealers were building jet airplanes. The river flowed on. - - - Most of us who live at the close of the 20th century can be pretty full of ourselves . We sit in hermetically sealed houses and office towers, shops and factories, the vast majority of us perfectly safe from numbing cold or blistering heat. Look, we say, look at all we have accomplished and created, how we have shaped this place, conquered the wilderness and erected great temples to our commerce, our technology and our genius. In this pride and comfort, it is so easy to overlook who and what went before us - what it took to live here, what humans endured merely to survive until the next dawn, what drove men and women to live in this terrible land, to feel it, explore it and test it. We forget the courage it took to stare at the worst of nature's elements and prevail. We forget how primitive were the conditions that existed before anyone had even imagined the word ``lifestyle.'' Stripped of human comforts, this is a rugged, forbidding, unfriendly place. It is hot and infested with insects. It is soggy with rain. It is bitter with cold and snow and wind. It is ice. That those who came before us, either by land bridge or by the hand of the Creator or by way of creaking little wooden ships, managed to carve out a lasting existence is evidence of an astonishing spirit. Could we summon such spirit today? There are those who have doubts about human society's lurching ``progress'' which is, but for some important aesthetic touches, little different in modern Montreal than in modern Berlin or Baton Rouge. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the great minds of the recent past, put it this way: ``Modern man can all but leap out beyond the confines of his being; through the eyes of television he is present throughout the whole planet all at the same time. Yet it turns out that from this spasmodic pace of technocentric Progress, from the oceans of superficial information and cheap spectacles, the human soul does not grow, but instead grows more shallow, and spiritual life is only reduced. ``Our culture, accordingly, grows poorer and dimmer, no matter how it tries to drown out its decline by the din of empty novelties. As creature comforts continue to improve for the average person, so spiritual development grows stagnant. Surfeit brings with it a nagging sadness of the heart, as we sense that the whirlpool of pleasures does not bring satisfaction, and that before long, it may suffocate us. . . . The victory of technological civilization has also instilled a spiritual insecurity in us. Its gifts enrich, but enslave us as well. All is interests - we must not neglect our interests - all is a struggle for material things; but an inner voice tells us that we have lost something pure, elevated, and fragile. We have ceased to see the purpose.'' - - - Has the human condition improved since our ancestors inhabited this place? Undoubtedly. Even in the eyeblink of the last century, to use but one example, the infant-mortality rate in Montreal that ran to well over 300 deaths per thousand in the middle of the 1880s has been reduced to only 6.6 per thousand today. Human life expectancy in prosperous countries such as ours has virtually doubled since the Industrial Revolution. And people who have lived and worked here in Montreal in the last two centuries have contributed in no small measure to those improvements. We can take pride in work done here that has helped ease suffering and cured disease. How life has been enriched by poets and writers and artists who flourished and found in this place their muse. How thousands upon thousands of us have found a better life than the one our ancestors knew, with opportunities more vast and a future brighter than anything that could have been imagined while huddled in the stinking hold of a rat-ridden ship. How entrepreneurship and ingenuity have contributed to learning and to life at institutions and industries founded here and nurtured by citizens who cared about the progress of human society. The change of a millennium, as artificial as it may seem - and as false a turning point as it is to countless others who follow, at least for religious purposes, a different calendar - is a good time to put those accomplishments into perspective. Today, January 1, 2000, is just another day. Apart from the rather important fact that the modern calendar is woefully imprecise when it comes to measuring the time since Christ was born about 2,000 years ago, it is not even the official turning of the century or the millennium. That will come in a year's time - although, one expects, without the hoopla or the Y2K bug that tried to seize the world's attention now. Regardless of which date one chooses to celebrate the turnover of the world's most common odometer, the change of century and of millennium provides an ideal time for reflection - of what has gone before, of what is, and of what might be in the years to come. We cannot predict the future any more than we can change the past, but we can ponder the kind of society we think we should strive to achieve, and reflect upon what it might take to get us there. It is, as Solzhenitsyn suggests, a time to rediscover the purpose. Website Editor Note: While this particular story focuses on Montreal, its message is the same no matter what place name gets attatched to the subject matter. It could just as easily be Bartlett, New Hampshire. BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP

Stillings and Garland early settlers Bartlett, NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The Very Early Settlers of Bartlett 1780 - 1800 The French and Indian Wars fought in the 1700's and skirmishes with the British during this time were not of great global importance but they did set the stage for war heroes to obtain vast tracts of land as reward for their services to their various governments. Such were the times from 1765 to 1775 when then Governors Benning Wentworth and John Wentworth granted a combined 14,000 acres to Colonel Andrew McMillan, Captain William Stark, Lt Vere Royce, Adj Philip Bayley, Major James Gray, and Robert Furniss of the Royal Navy. Most of those who received such grants rarely settled on the land themselves. In 1790 this land became the Town of Bartlett. Most of these grantees had little interest in their land with the exception of William Stark who offered land to anyone who would come and settle. One might wonder if they considered their bequests as a "booby-prize" being isolated and uninhabited lands and nary a Pub for 70 miles ? (editors comment only.) Thus, around 1775 , arrived brothers Enoch and Humphrey Emery along with Nathaniel Harriman. They settled in today's Jericho and their descendants live there to this day. John and Martha Pendexter arrived in the winter of 1776 and settled in the Intervale area and in 1777 came Daniel Fox, Paul Jilly and Captain Samuel Willey who all settled in the upper Bartlett area. Richard Garland came to Bartlett in 1783. A man of considerable stamina, he lived in the Hall Neighborhood near today's Sky Valley about a mile east of the Village. Joseph and Alice Pitman first settled in Harts Location and later moved to Bartlett. Alice is Martha Pendexter's sister. Jonathan Tasker, a revolutionary soldier arrived in Bartlett about 1789. Brothers, Obed and Ebenezer Hall, came from Madbury NH about 1788 and farmed in Upper Bartlett as well as operating a "house of entertainment" in the Village. By June 1790 Bartlett had become an Incorporated town. We today might have a hard time comprehending how difficult it was for our forbears to settle in an untamed wilderness. One may also wonder what thoughts motivated them to move from the relative comforts of southern New Hampshire to an area that offered little except isolation and hardship. They faced the perils of isolation , the fear of Indian raids, the ravages of wild beasts, the wrath of the rapid mountain torrents, the obstacles to communication which the vast wilderness interposed, — every form of discomfort and danger was apparently protection for these grand mountains as impassable barriers to intrusion and occupation. One man once went eighty miles on foot through the woods to a lower settlement for a bushel of salt, the scarcity of which had produced sickness and suffering, and returned with it on his back. Several of the earliest settlers lived for years without any neighbors for miles . One man was obliged to go ten miles to a mill, and would carry a bushel of corn on his shoulder, and take it back in meal. But often these brave men did not even have the corn to be ground : they were threatened with famine, and were obliged to send deputations thirty, fifty, and sixty miles to purchase grain. These families were tried by the freshets that tore up the rude bridges, swept off their barns, and even floated their houses on the meadows. On the Saco intervale, in the year 1800, a heavy rain swelled the river so that it destroyed every cabin and shed that had been built on it. They suffered much from the inadequate legislation of those early times, and their patience was often tried to the utmost, when they sent petition alter petition to the legislature without receiving an answer until years had passed. But these hardships, privations, and sufferings did not dwarf their intellects or diminish their physical powers, and a good character of solidity, intelligence, and industry has ever been connected with the inhabitants of this county. Men distinguished in the domains of law, literature, medicine, and science, with just pride, point to Carroll County as the place of their birth, while the county with equal pride claims them as her sons. Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey 1793 prominent citizens of Bartlett These Men, and the women who may have accompanied them, might be considered the founders of the Town of Bartlett. The names include: Richard Garland, Enoch Emery, Joseph Hall, Obed Hall, Levi Seavey, Samuel Seavey, Simon Seavey , John Scribner, Jonathan Seavey, James Rogers, Jonathan Place, isick Stanton. James Baset, Samuel Fall, Peter and Nicholas Stillings, Jonathan Tasker, John weeks, Jonathan Hutchins, John wooster, Humphrey Emery, John Pendexter, Joseph Pitman, Levi Chubbuck, george woodes, Thomas Spring, Timothy Walker. Joseph Pinkham, Joseph D. Pinkham. There were others whose lives did not include exceptional traits that would have made them memorable, and like the majority of people, their names are soon forgotten. In the 1780's there were less than 5 non Indian people residing in what is now Bartlett. Fifty years later in 1830 the population had grown to only 644 and to about 775 by 1860. It has taken another 159 years to reach our 2019 population of perhaps 3000 people. This low growth rate, at least by today's standards, demonstrates that only the adventuresome choose to live in this desolate wilderness. Early bridges were no match for raging rivers Details about some of The early pioneers of the 1790's French wentworth Stillings NicholasStill PeterStill 1796: Peter Stillings came to Bartlett in 1796 and settled in the extreme upper edge of Town on about 200 acres of land which included all of the land now occupied by Garland's Mountain Home Cabins as well as property on the north side of present day Rte 302. This land extended to the Town line of todays Harts Location and included Sawyers Rock. The land extended to include both sides of the Saco River. Peter's deed was given by George Hart. Later he sold half his land to his son, Samuel. Peter was married to Elizabeth Tuttle in 1770. They had four children, Nicholas in 1773, Peter Jr in 1774, Hannah in 1776 and Samuel in 1780. Samuel Born in March of 1780 . Samuel Stillings, the son of Peter, operated a wayside tavern on the site for about 40 years, probably from 1806 until 1846. In 1846, at the age of 66, Samuel sold his farm and Inn to his son, Nicholas . This rare1860 stereo-graph photo is believed (but not confirmed) to be the Upper Bartlett House or The Stillings Tavern and Stage Stop. It would have been located in the vicinity of today's Mountain Home Cabins on Rte 302. Titus Brown's Tavern was in this area 60 years before, about 1800. Titus Brown Tavern Nicholas Stillings, son of Samuel, may have been born sometime around 1815. He was a teamster who hauled produce from upper Coos County and Vermont to Portland and on the return trip brought salt. From this beginning, about 1835, Nicholas became first, a partner in The Abbott & Osgood Company, a stage line that ran from Conway to Crawford's, and later became the sole owner. Nicholas distinguished his stage company by using only matched gray horses to pull his stages. He operated this company for eleven years during the summer months and used his teams for logging operations during the winter. In 1846 he purchased his father's (Samuel) farm. By 1854 Nicholas had built The Upper Bartlett House , a two story inn, on his father's former farm and Inn. This was located on the north side of Rte 302 near today's Mountain Home Cabins and near the location of the previous Titus Brown Inn . During the brief existance of the Upper Bartlett House it became well known and respected for comfortable beds and good food. It was mentioned in the highly respected "Eastman's White Mountain Guide" Nicholas was a natural showman and hired storyteller's to entertain his guests, and he himself was known to spin many "tall tales", some of which may have actually been true. Nicholas was an energetic and ambitious man and in 1866 he moved to Jackson and in 1869 built a starch factory and a store in that town. In 1876 he built a hotel as well. It was named the Glen Ellis House . During his Bartlett years he served six terms as Selectman and was a State Representative in 1862. He was the recruiting officer in Bartlett to see that sufficient numbers of men were recruited for the Civil War. He himself was a Captain in the Militia. Source: Incidents in White Mountain history - by Rev. Benjamin G. Willey nicholas Stillings Tavern upperBH Bartlett, NH Tavern Fire, Apr 1879 THE BARTLETT FIRE.----Our Conway correspondent writes that the loss to Mr. N. T. Stillings of Bartlett, whose tavern stand and out-buildings were destroyed by fire on the 3d, is $5000, with no insurance. The loss will be a heavy one to Mr. S., whose popular tavern and stage lines were so well known among the pilgrims to "the Switzerland of America." The fire is thought to have originated from a defective chimney. The family of Mr. S, was away at the time of the fire. The New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, NH 13 Apr 1879 Garland From the book, "Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains": Richard Garland: In December of 1783 Richard Garland was one of only five inhabitants of this location and there were but few inhabitants within 36 miles. Dover was the closest town for purchasing provisions. At one point Mr Garland had a small farm cultivated and one of his neighbors offered him a team of horses if he could find a plow. Mr Garland then went 7 miles and borrowed the nearest one. He carried it home on his back, plowed all day and into the night, then carried the plow back. During this same day he went 2 miles to buy a 50 pound bale of hay, which he also carried home on his back. When Bartlett was incorporated in 1790 Mr Garland was the town's first constable and collector of taxes. Mr Garland also helped Captain Rosebrook in his endeavors to found a highway through the notch by bringing the first load of supplies (rum) through the notch to prove it could be done. And, from "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill Richard Garland was a soldier of the Revolution, a native of Dover, and lived to an advanced age, dying March 5,1853. His wife was Sarah Watson , of Rochester. Their eldest son, Eben , remained in Bartlett, and married Lydia Hayes , of Rochester. They had three sons, Alexis, Richard, and Otis (the two Latter died young), and four daughters. Alexis made his home in town and married. His four sons were: Benjamin C., Eben O., Richard A., and Fred E. Eben O. is a resident of Bartlett, and carries on merchandising and an Inn, The Garland in the upper Village.. December, 1783, Richard Garland, as he told Lucy Crawford, " was one inhabitant among five who came into that location, and there were but few inhabitants distance of thirty-six miles, mostly woods, and they were seventy-five miles from Dover , where they had to go for their provisions, and had them to draw in a hand-sleigh in the winter over a little bushed path, without a bridge. After several years Mr Garland had a small piece of land under cultivation. Tradition has it that at one time he walked seven miles to plow, as two of his neighbors would each lend him a horse. He carried the plow home on his back, then walked a mile and a half to buy hay. After a good day's work he returned the plow, then went home to his supper, having walked thirty miles. I've seen that the work of planting civilization here was not a holiday play, and the story of Mr Garland could he almost duplicated in the experience of any settler. Out of dangers, hardships, sufferings, and exposure, was loped a kindliness to others, and on this broad and liberal principle was civilization founded. The same spirit is a ruling passion with the descendants of the pioneers who live in town to-day. Another Version of the same story (1889). CAPTAIN NICHOLAS TUTTLE STILLINGS who was for many years well known as a successful business man BORN in Bartlett, April 1:'., 1818, and died in Jackson. Grandfather, Samuel Stillings , an early resident of Bartlett. located in the " Upper District." Samuel, Jr. in 1790 , and learned the trade of ship carpenter, but purchased a piece of wild land on the north side of Bartlett, where Waller Stanton now lives, and after developing it bought the J. B. Brown farm , and kept a wayside inn . Married Martha , daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Folsom) Tuttle. (Mr and .Mrs Tuttle were from Lee, moved to Eaton and then in 1816 to Hart's Location , and subsequently to Jefferson, where they lived out their last days.) The children of Samuel and .Martha (Tuttle) Stillings attaining maturity were: Nicholas T., Alfred, Miiin F., and Clarinda J., who married Elias M.- Hall , of Bartlett. Mr Stillings was an honest, industrious, hard-working farmer. He was never known to deviate from the strictest truth, and lost several lawsuits by telling the facts, without any attempt to omit, pervert, or mystify them. Politically he was a Democrat : religiously a Universalist, and he lived a good and useful life. He died in lStlS. his wife surviving him Nicholas T. Stillings attained a strong and robust physique in his home among the mountains and was noted for his great muscular strength. He worked for his father until his majority, then started in life on his own, purchasing a farm for seven hundred dollars on credit, his only capital being a pair of colts. However he soon took to himself a help- bright, vigorous woman, who with her willing hands helped turn wheels of honest labor with good results. Mr Stillings paid for his farm in seven years. He was obliged to work hard to do this, as money was and labor and stock brought small prices. He would go to Portland, buy a load of salt, and draw it to Vermont and Upper Coos, where he would dispose of it for part money and part produce, with which returned to Portland. In 1846 he bought the farm of his father, and kept a stage tavern until he moved to Jackson. (This house was burned in 1879.) He then commenced lumbering , and not long after purchased the stage-route from the Glen to the Crawford House, and dined the rs at his "hotel." He ran this line summers for eleven years, turning it only with the advent of the railroad. The horses he used in the winter, thus combining two enterprises very successful, a pair of " seven foot" oxen for forty dollars. And fully during his life continued to purchase and operate large tracts of timber. He had an energetic, active temperament was always ready for hard work and the promotion of new enterprises. In 1866 he built a Starch mill in Jackson, and in 1869 removed thither, and. with his daughter Sophronia, established a store as N. T. Stillings & Co . His next work was the building of the Glen Ellis House , which was opened for guests in 1876. This is a solid structure located near the Ellis river. When Mr Stillings was asked why he put so much work into it, and did it so thoroughly, he answered that he was going to build it to stand as a monument to show that he was once on earth . In August, 1839, Mr Stillings married Patience Stanton , daughter of William and Patience Jenkins . She was born in New Durham. August 1817. Their children were: Sophronia , (married Silas M. Thompson, and had one child, Harry Alonzo, born in 1884), who inherits many of her father's characteristics; Alonzo (nee.); Emeline (Mrs .lames Nute. of Bartlett). Democratic in politics, and often serving as selectman in Bartlett and Jackson, Mr Stillings was recognized as a keen business man possessing rare good judgment. He had great perseverance, and when he started an enterprise he invariably carried it through. He was public-spirited and generous toward anything that appeared to him just and right, but was never a time-server, and could not nor would not fall in with every scheme presented to him. He was a captain in the militia and a good disciplinarian. A strong, rugged character, he was one whose personality was in keeping with his surroundings, and impressed himself upon all who knew him. He will not soon he forgot ten. and few have done more tor the benefit of the town. Source: "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill fire1879 Richard Gar stanton More Stillings Story Anchor 10 Anchor 11 Anchor 12 This picture shows Mountain Home when James and Emeline Nute owned it. (James with the beard and his son with suit and tie), perhaps Emeline sitting on porch) They operated a large farm extending westward to Silver Springs, Eastward to about where The Bartlett Inn is located today and Northward to the Saco River. The farm also included what was then "Silver Spring Cottage" just a tad to the east on the opposite side of the street. This was formerly a part of the Stillings lands. The Nutes sold the pictured building and land to Clifton and Lucille Garland about 1930. Looks so idyllic - but the reality was much different. Chubbuck chubb Levi Chubbuck Born in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 15 Aug 1761 to Jonathan Chubbuck and Hannah Marble. Levi Chubbuck passed away on 16 Jan 1832 in Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire. During the American Revolution he enlisted for a year in 1776 as a fifer, and then re-enlisted for a full three-year tour of duty. He was wounded in his left knee by a musket ball. He was discharged in 1780 at the ripe old age of 19, where after he moved to Bedford, NH, to be with the rest of his family. He applied for a pension but was denied. He apparently got married in Bedford and then moved to Bartlett, NH, where he spent the rest of his life. Between 1785 and 1809 he fathered 12 children, 8 girls, 4 boys. He served Bartlett on a Committee to locate and layout roads in1793. He died comparatively young, but left a large family. His sons Levi and Barnet settled in town, Levi occupying his father's homestead. Hannah married John Thompson, of Conway; Sally married John Carlton; Betsey married a Walker: Jane married David Carlton. Levi the younger married Ann Davis, and had children: Edwin: George; Mary A. ; Emeline (married Hon. (i. W. M. Pitman) ; Rhoda (married Tobias Dinsmore). 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 REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF The State of New Hampshire • BOSTON -NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 15 COURT SQUARE 1902 Captain Nicholas Tuttle Stillings is buried at the Jackson, NH cemetery 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 NYTimes 1892 Map showing from town line at Harts Location to Chandler's Farm and another showing Center Bartlett and Jericho. Names indicate which family names from 100 years previous still had a presence in the town. You can see these high resolution maps in their entirety at the David Rumsey Map Collection here: Rumsey Maps Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey MapLowerB

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 How Places Around Bartlett Got Their Names History, tragedy, and whimsy determined what we call these White Mountain peaks: REFERENCE: By Mark Bushnell AMC Outdoors, November/December 2011 Note: The editor originally posted a link to the original article. That link has since disappeared. The news shocked Nancy Barton: Her fiance had left. She decided to follow him, despite the biting cold on that December day in 1778. Nancy set out on foot from the estate of Col. Joseph Whipple in Dartmouth (since renamed Jefferson), N.H., where she and her fiancé, Jim Swindell, worked. She intended to make the more-than-100-mile trek to Portsmouth, where Jim had supposedly gone. Complete Story Below. One version of the story says Jim had taken Nancy's dowry and fled. A variant of the tale casts Col. Whipple as the villain, claiming he disapproved of the match and had sent his hired hand away. Whatever the reason for Jim's disappearance, Nancy's effort to find him was ill advised. She made it as far as what is now known as Crawford Notch. A search party is said to have found her seated beside a brook, head resting upon her hand and walking stick. Her clothes, which had gotten wet when she crossed the brook, were stiff with ice. She didn't stir as the searchers approached. Nancy Barton had frozen to death. It is small consolation, but Nancy's tragic demise earned her a measure of immortality. People began referring to a nearby mountain as Mount Nancy. The name stuck. A Harvard professor in the mid-1800s suggested changing the name to Mount Amorisgelu, a combination of two Latin words meaning "the frost of love." He thought it a more poetic way to commemorate Nancy Barton's fate. But that mouthful of a name never supplanted Mount Nancy. Over the years, "Mount Nancy" took the same path to acceptance as the names of most peaks in the White Mountains. It began as a locally known designation. The name gained some renown when it was printed in an early book, the travel writings of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, printed in 1823. Then it was accepted by the Appalachian Mountain Club's Committee on Nomenclature , which was created to standardize names and settle disputes. Lastly, it won approval from the U.S. Board of Geographic Names (USBGN ) , the nation's final arbiter on place names since 1890. Indian Terms: American Indians were of course the first to name the White Mountains. During the millennia before Europeans conquered the region, the local people bestowed names on significant landscape features. Most of those names, sadly, have been lost. The ones we still know are descriptive. Mount Waumbek,, for example, seemingly derives its name from the word "waumbekket-methna," meaning "snowing mountains" in some local Indian dialects, from "waumbek-methna," sometimes translated as "mountains with snowy foreheads," or from "waumbik," meaning "white rocks" in Algonquin. It is not unusual for the precise derivation to be ambiguous. For example, Mahoosuc Mountain's name might come from an Abenaki word meaning "home of hungry animals" or a Natick word for "pinnacle." Among the most debated origins is that of Mount Kearsarge —a name so popular that the White Mountains have two, one now known as Kearsarge North to reduce confusion. Kearsarge may come from an Algonquin word meaning "born of the hill that first shakes hands with the dawn," a long, lyrical sentiment for one word. Or perhaps it derives from an Abenaki word meaning simply "pointed mountain." Another theory holds that it owes its name to the contraction of the name of an early white settler, Hezekiah Sargent. Say it several times fast and you can almost hear it. Many of the surviving mountain names that sound like American Indian terms honor individual chiefs. But white settlers bestowed those names after the tribes of the White Mountains were overwhelmed by disease and warfare. In that sense, these names bear a more tragic legacy even than Mount Nancy. Among the Indians honored are Chocorua (who, after a dispute with settlers in the early 1700s, was either killed or committed suicide on the mountain that now bears his name), Kancamagus (who, after failing to make peace with the English, led a raid on the town of Dover in 1686, then fled to Canada), and Waternomee (who was killed during a massacre in 1712). The fad of naming mountains after past Indian leaders grew so popular that two White Mountains even honor chiefs from far-off tribes—Osceola, a Seminole who lived in the Everglades, and Tecumseh, a Shawnee who lived in Ohio. The Presidents: White settlers more typically named mountains after white leaders. That's what a group of seven men from the town of Lancaster, N.H., set out to do on July 31, 1820. They wanted to put some names on the map, perhaps knowing that once in print, a name was often picked up by later mapmakers and guidebook writers. So it was no coincidence that they brought along mapmaker Philip Carrigain, an important cartographer who would eventually get his own mountain. The naming party climbed Mount Washington, which was named for George Washington in 1784 for his military actions during the Revolution—he wasn't yet president. By the time the Lancaster men climbed the mountain, however, the former president was the sainted father of the country. They thought his peak deserved august company. That day they picked out appropriate prominences for the most prominent men of the day. With Carrigain's help, they honored John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe with mountains. But the naming party still had mountains it wanted to name, so it added one for Benjamin Franklin—this being 1820, they had run out of presidents. They also named a nearby pinnacle Mount Pleasant, having apparently run out of better ideas. More Presidents have since been added to the range. The USBGN supported a push to change the name of Mount Pleasant to Mount Eisenhower in 1970, shortly after the death of the former general and president. The Presidentials also include John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce, who got in because he was a New Hampshire native. (Some people still know the peak by its former name, Mount Clinton, after Dewitt Clinton, an important New York politician of the early 1800s.) In 2003, the New Hampshire legislature tried to add another president to the range, voting to change Mount Clay, named for 19th century statesman Henry Clay, to Mount Reagan. But the USBGN voted to keep the former name. In 2010, a peak in the Presidentials named simply Adams 4 was renamed Mount Abigail Adams to honor her life as wife and vital private counsel to John Adams. She was, of course, also the mother of John Quincy Adams. Other presidents—both great and not so great—have been honored with mountain names elsewhere in the Whites. They are: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield (who was honored shortly after—and presumably because of—his assassination), Grover Cleveland (he summered nearby), and Calvin Coolidge (perhaps because, as a native Vermonter, he was a New Englander). Some people might think Mount Jackson should be added to the list, but that summit is named not for Andrew, the sixth president, but for Charles Thomas Jackson, a New Hampshire state geologist who conducted research in the Presidentials. Local Heroes: Perhaps it is appropriate that many of the summits honor people of local rather than national renown. Among the locally prominent people celebrated are Thomas Starr King (a Unitarian minister and early proponent of tourism in the region, who wrote about the Whites in purple prose), Arnold Henri Guyot (a Princeton geology professor who had a mountain named after him by AMC to recognize his extensive research throughout the Appalachians), and Ezra Carter (a physician from Concord, N.H., who explored the mountains for medicinal herbs). Entire families whose lives were entwined with the mountains have also been honored. Mount Pickering got its name from a family that included Charles, a naturalist who climbed Mount Washington in 1826, and his nephews, Edward and William, both astronomers who shared their uncle's passion for mountains. Edward Pickering helped organize AMC and became its first president. For generations, the Weeks family was prominent in the Whites. One John W. Weeks was a member of the 1820 party that first named the Presidentials; a descendent of the same name was a congressman and Coolidge administration official who crafted the Weeks Act of 1911, which led to the creation of the White Mountain National Forest. Mount Weeks, previously known by the rather dull name Round Mountain, honors the family. Perhaps the most celebrated family is the Crawfords . Abel Crawford and his sons Tom and Ethan Allen Crawford were early innkeepers and helped open the region by cutting trails through the wilderness, including the bridle path up Mount Washington, still in use today as a hiking trail and considered the oldest continuously maintained footpath in the United States. Ethan's wife, Lucy, helped run the inn and published an important history of the White Mountains in 1846. Today the family name adorns several prominent geographical features, including Crawford Notch and Mount Crawford. Mount Tom is named for Tom Crawford. Other innkeepers have also been honored. Mount Hayes is named for Margaret Hayes, who ran the White Mountain Station House starting in 1851, while Mount Oscar is named for Oscar Barron, who managed the Fabyan House. At least one guest also had a summit named after him. Tom Crawford named Mount Willard as a tribute to climbing companion Joseph Willard. Crawford was being magnanimous. That mountain had previously been known as Mount Tom. More than 30 years later, a second Mount Tom, the one that remains today, was christened. F eatures and Events: But not all White Mountains were named after people. Some were named by referring to a distinctive characteristic of the peak. Thus we have such obvious name origins as Long Mountain, Table Mountain, Stairs Mountain, Mount Tripyramid, and even Old Speck, whose rock is speckled. Mining activity gave us Tin Mountain and Iron Mountain. Hurricane Mountain and Mount Mist are named for weather conditions, and Eagle, Wildcat, and Rattlesnake mountains for one-time inhabitants. If most people seemed to prefer stately names like Mount Washington, some of the mountains' namers preferred to bring a bit of whimsy to the task. So it was that we got names like Old Speck or, better yet, Goback Mountain, an apparent reference to what hikers decided to do when they saw its steepness. Or Tumbledown-Dick Mountain, which has puzzled mountain etymologists for generations. Some suggest the origin is clear: It was named when someone named Dick took a memorable fall. Others believe it comes from an Anglicization of an Indian name, the meaning of which we have lost. Perhaps the oddest name in the Whites, or at least the one memorializing the most trivial-seeming event, is Mount Mitten, which supposedly got its name after an early visitor lost his mitten while hiking there. But we can let that name stand. According to Lucy Crawford, that visitor was Timothy Nash, who lost the mitten in 1771 while climbing a tree to get a better view. Nash, who was tracking a moose that day, noticed a notch in the mountains. Perhaps he noticed the notch from the tree that claimed his mitten. Nash's discovery sparked interest. New Hampshire's governor promised a land grant if Nash could prove a horse could travel through the notch. Nash and a companion, Benjamin Sawyer, did just that. The notch became a vital route that opened the White Mountains to settlement and made trade easier between Maine and points west. The notch isn't named after Nash. That honor went to the Crawfords, who built and ran a hotel there, on the site of what is now AMC's Highland Center. And no White Mountain has been named for Nash, though he did get his land grant, and a mountain named after his missing mitten. MtKearsarge Barton mitten An 1894 New York Times newspaper article explains the naming of our Kearsarge Mountain and Village: At the time there were two Kearsarge Mountains. Article is Here kearsarge Mountain MOSES SWEETSER 1875 Moses Sweetser, 1875, Offers His Opinions and Idea of Place Names Moses Sweetser, in his 1875 "The White Mountains, a handbook for travelers; A Guide to the Peaks" , offers up a less than flattering opinion of the nomenclature of the Mountain names. Partial text Quoted directly from Chapter 6 - Nomenclature: Men of culture have mourned for many years the absurd and meaningless originations and associations of the names of the White Mountains. Beginning with a misnomer in the title of the whole range, they descend through various grades of infelicity and awkwardness to the last names imposed in the summers of 1874 - 75. The confused jumble of titles of the main peaks suggests the society of the Federal City and the red-tape and maneuvering of politics and diplomacy, rather than the majesty of the natural altars of New England and the Franconian summits are not more fortunate. The minor mountains are for the most part named after the farmers who lived near them , or the hunters who frequented their forests. The names in themselves are usually ignoble, and it may be questioned whether the avocations of a mountain-farmer or a beaver trapper are sufficiently noble or so tend to produce high characters as to call for such honors as these Other peaks commemorate in their names certain marked physical productions or resemblances, and this is certainly a desireable mode of bestowing titles. But, the farmers who christened them were men of narrow horizons and starved imaginations, scarce knowing of the world's existence beyond their obscure valleys, and so we find scores of mountains bearing similar names, and often within sight of each another. Others were christened in memory of puerile incidents in the lives of unknown and little men, or of dull legends of recent origin. Some were named after popular landlords and railroad men; some after famous foreign peaks; and some have the titles of the towns in which they stand. Others bear resonant Indian names, the only natural outgrowth of the soil and the only fitting appellations for the higher peaks. After a brief and superficial study of maps, the Editor has selected the following series of names now applied to some of the mountains in and near this region, to show at once their poverty and the confusion resultant upon their frequent duplication. . The names of hunters and settlers are preserved on Mts Stinson, Carr, Webster's Slide, Glines, Tom, Crawford, Russell, Hatch, Hix, Bickford, Lyman, Eastman, Snow's, Royce, Carter, Hight, Morse, Orne, Ingalls, Smarts, Kinsman, Big and Little Coolidge, Cushman, Fisher, Morgan, Willey, Parker, Pickering, Sawyer, Gardner, and Hunt. Probably hundreds of names in Western Maine have similar origins. There are summits named for Bill Smith, Bill Merrill and Molly Ockett and Western Maine has an Aunt Hepsy Brown Mountain. Further north where the lumbermen abound there are mountains whose popular names are so vile as to be omitted from the maps. Other groups of names are Cow, Horse, Sheep, Bull, Wildcat, Caribou,Moose, Deer, Rattlesnake, Sable, Bear, Eagle, Iron, Tin, Ore, Pine, Spruce, Beech, Oak, Cedar, Cherry and Blueberry. Some early legend or simple incident connected with them gave rise to the names Resolution, Pilot, Mitten, Cuba, Sunday, Nancy. The following names are inexplicable; Puzzle, Silver Springs, Umpire, Goose Eye, Patience, Sloop (or Slope), Thorn, Young. The last nomenclature degradation is found in the various Hog Back Mountains and in the villainous names given to the fine peaks of the Ossipee Range, which are called the Black Snouts by the neighboring rustics. A fruitfull source of confusion is the frequent duplication of names on neighboring mountains. Sometimes the same mountain has a different name depending on from where it is viewed. Out of this blind maze of hackneyed and homely names must arise the significant nomenclature of the future. This renaming must by necessity be a slow process but it has already commenced well, and by the second centennial the entire nomenclature of our New England Highlands may be reformed. Full Text available free: "The White Mountains: a handbook for travellers : a guide to the peaks" ... By Moses Foster Sweetser Chapter 6 - Nomenclature begins on page 29; click this link: Available at Google Books History of Carroll County NH " History of Carroll County NH " by Georgia Drew Merrill Published 1889. Ms. Merrill devotes Chapter XIV to how various Carroll County places got their names, beginning on page 101 . This link to the book and the page is provided here ; but you are cautioned that oft times links to external locations are sometimes changed and no longer accurate. A Google search for the book should provide the accurate link. And Now You Know And Now You Know ! Submitted by Anna Hatch Peare of Conway, NH thank you. Native American Place Names: The Native Americans of this region loved the land and were close observers of nature. They gave names to the mountains, rivers, streams, and other natural features and for the most part early European settlers kept them. Today, many places we love in New Hampshire bear the names first given to them by Native Americans. Here are just a few: Amonoosuc River ('manosek) – Western Abenaki for "fishing place." Amoskeag Falls (namaskik) – Western Abenaki for "at the fish land." Contoocook River (nikn tekw ok) – Abenaki for "to or from the head or first branch of the river." Grand Monadnock (minoria denak) – Abenaki for "the bare or smooth mountain." Kearsarge (g'wizawajo) – Western Abenaki for "rough mountain." Massabesic Lake (massa nbes ek) – Abenaki for "to the great pond." Merrimack River (mol dema) – Abenaki for "deep water or river." Mount Pisgah (pisga) – Abenaki for "dark." Nashua (niswa) – Abenaki for "two." Newichwannock River (n'wijonoanek) also known today as Salmon River – Abenaki for the "long rapids and falls." Piscataqua River (pesgatak was) – Abenaki for "the water looks dark." Pemigewasset River (pamijoassek) – Abenaki for "the river having its course through here." Saco (soko) is Abenaki for "towards the south" – (msoakwtegw) Western Abenaki for "dry wood river." Sunapee Lake (seninebi) – Abenaki for "rock or mountain water." Suncook River (seni kok) – Abenaki for "to the rocks." Umbagog Lake (w'mbagwog) – Abenaki for "to the clear water lake." Winichahanat (wiwnijoanek) also known as Dover – Abenaki for "the place where the water flows around it." Lake Winnipesaukee (wiwninbesaki) – Abenaki for "the lake between or around land or islands." Souhegan River (zawhigen) is Western Abenaki for "a coming out place." Note: The references for Abenaki place names are from the following publications: "Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar, and Place Names" by Henry Lorne Masta, 1932. "A Western Abenaki Dictionary" by Gordon M. Day, 1994. Joseph Laurent and Abenaki languages saco native More about the Abenaki Indians, Life and Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki_Indian_Shop_and_Camp A HISTORY OF CONWAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR USE IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM OF THE FOURTH GRADES IN THE CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT by BARBARA SMART LUCY List of place names of Native American origin in New England NancyStory The Nancy's Brook Story SOURCE MATERIAL: Devils Den The Devils Den on Mount Willard

fires, floods disasters Fires, Floods, Accidents & Disasters in and Near Bartlett The Harry Rogers Farm Fire - January 1980 Bartlett Hotel Fire - Peg Mill Destroyed by Fire Stillings, N.T. Tavern fire - 1879 THE GREAT FIRE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON 1908 Clarendon Inn Destroyed by fire - 1963 Oscar Brown Killed while eluding Train Constables in Bartlett and Sawyer's River 1893 Fire burns entire village business district Willey family and two hired men killed in landside - 1826 Eugene Hill killed and houses destroyed by landslide at Humphrey's Ledge West Side Road 1936 Railroad wrecks, explosions and deaths. The 1885 Store of E.O. Garland Demolished Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look Go and Look

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 "Glimpses of Livermor e" Doctoral Thesis by Peter Crane 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 YOU CAN ENJOY THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT LIVERMORE: In 1993 Peter Crane wrote his Doctoral thesis titled "Glimpses of Livermore: Life and Lore of an Abandoned White Mountain Woods Community". It is probably the most extensive research project ever undertaken for the Town of Livermore. Peter has given us permission to share this PDF version of his book. It is reproduced below for our website visitors. As you will see from the Table of Contents Mr Crane has left no stone unturned in this remarkable piece of history. The work has extensive bibliographical sources, a huge index and a good majority of the thesis is devoted to interviews with folks who either lived, worked, or were in some way associated with the abandoned town. These interviews also diverge from Livermore to other aspects of life in and around Bartlett. Use the scroll bar on the right side of the box below to move from one page to the next. The TOP BLACK BORDER has some great tools too. Three ladies identified only by their first names, in the parlor at Livermore in 1911. Uncle Geo and Maxie - 1906 Perhaps George is a Morey? Read More Some of these pages are under construction

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

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

First settlers Bartlett NH 1780 to 1800 Hall and Pendexter families MORE EARLY SETTLERS - CLICK LOGO opens in new window The very early settlers of Bartlett 1780 to 1800 Page 3 Hall Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 HallFam Summary of the Hall relationships Hon Obed - Farm in upper village - Obed Hall's Tavern in upper village. Obed - Son of Hon Obed - went into business in Portland Elijah - Son of Hon Obed - studied law and left town early on Abigail - Daughter of Hon Obed - never married - was a keen business woman in Portland Hannah - Daughter of Hon Obed - Married Benjamin Gould of Conway Center. He kept Tavern for many years Maria - Daughter of Hon Obed Mary and Martha - twin daughters of Hon Obed Caroline - daughter of Hon Obed First wife - 20 years older Second wife - 20 years younger - she was mother of the children. Ebenezer L.D. Hall - Brother of HON Obed - Revolutionary war soldier - taught school - County Probate Judge Obed Hall Esq of Tamworth was Ebenezer's son Jonathan - son of Ebenezer - Life long resident of Bartlett Lloyd L Hall - son of Jonathan - at book writing lived on hall ancestral land. Sarah A. Hall - daughter of Ebenezer L.D Hall married James H. Hall of Bartlett Elias Hall - Lived in various places - kept a toll bridge and the toll gate. ALPHA MERRILL HALL , proprietor of the Pleasant Valley Hall, (later the Bernerhof) at Bartlett, Carroll County, was born February 7, 1842, Jonathan Seavey Hall - Son of Elias - Built and operated the first Summit House Hotel on Mt Washington 1852 - Contractor for upper 4 miles of Carriage Road on Mt. Washington completed in 1861 - was a well respected Mountain Guide - may have been the first to ascend Mt Washington in winter. later moved to California where he built another mountain road and hotel. White Mountain History has written a lengthy article about Jonathan which you can find ( HERE .) Find More About the Hall ancestry on this page: HALL ANCESTRY In 1790 Obed Hall's Tavern was probably located at the junction of today's Bear Notch Road and Route 302, today's park. Travel at this time was hazardous and Tavern-keepers considered themselves benefactors to the traveling public rather than businessmen. Obed's Tavern was operated at various times by William White and Benjamin Gould. Obed came to Bartlett from Madbury as an early Bartlett pioneer who became a prominent citizen. He served as Selectman, Town Treasurer, and was elected to Congress in 1810. In 1819 he ran for the Senate but did not win that election. Read the Hall Ancestry Here Mr Hall was one of two appointed as Surveyors of Highways and he was among those who petitioned the General Court in 1793 for a tax of one penny per acre to be used for the improvement of roads within the town. Obed first married a woman 20 years his senior and second time a woman 20 years his Junior who mothered his children. After Obed's death his wife moved to Portland Maine and re-married to Richard O'Dell. In addition to the Tavern Mr Hall also tended a large farm which was located partially on the property that is today's Sky Valley Motel. It was probably 100 acres or more. It was thought that he also operated a lodging establishment at the farm. Joseph Seavey Hall, son of Ebenezer was a major element in the white mountains, starting as a well respected mountain guide. He married a Crawford and was in business with a Rosebrook. He was the builder of the first wood constructed summit house on Mount Washington in 1852. It preceded The Tip Top House - built of stone - in 1853. Joseph Seavey Hall was also the lead contractor to build the upper four miles of the carriage road to the top of the mountain, completing it in 1861. Hall sold his Mt. Washington hotels and joined in the Civil War. At the war’s end, he moved to California, found another mountain, built a road up it and then built a hotel at its summit. Joseph Seavey Hall of Bartlett was one of the most important participants in mid-nineteenth century events in Crawford Notch (or the White Mountain Notch as it was known in those days) and on Mt. Washington. Yet most people have never heard of him. Read the Story at the White Mountain History web site, HERE .) Elias Hall lived in various places, he was a toll collector on the Tenth NH Turnpike through Crawford Notch as well as keeping a toll bridge. An uncle, or perhaps his grandfather, Judge Obed Hall of Bartlett, was one of the major investors, and an officer, of the Tenth NH Turnpike Corporation . Elias later removed to Jefferson where he died. ALPHA MERRILL HALL , proprietor of the Pleasant Valley Hall, (later the Bernerhof) at Bartlett, was born February 7, 1842, in that town, which was also the birthplace of his father, Elias M. Hall , and of his grandfather, Elias Hall. ancestor, lived to the ripe old age of four score, was four times married, and had a family of eighteen children. Elias M. Hall spent his entire life of seventy-seven years in Bartlett, being engaged in farming and carpentry. He was highly respected in the community, and at one time represented his town in the State Legislature. He married Clarinda J. Stillings, a daughter of Samuel Stillings, of Bartlett. Alpha Merrill Hall was educated in the district schools of Bartlett, spending his early life on the parental homestead. Subsequently he followed the carpenter's trade and also engaged in agriculture, and is now the owner of a good-sized farm, from which he cuts annually a large volume of timber. In 1898 he built the Pleasant Valley House , which is finely located and contains eight rooms, with baths and various modern improvements. He is a member of the local Grange. - Mr. Hall married, first, in January, 1869, Maria C. Charlotte (Dearing) Emery, daughter of Ruben and Charlotte (Dearing) Emery . Of this union there was one child, Herbert A., born May 18, 1870. . Mr. Hall married, second, March 12, 1874, Abbie Chase, daughter of Rufus Chase, of Madison, N. H. By her he has one child, Rufus M ., born August 2, 1877, who lives with his parents. The Hall family has been distinguished and prominent. Hon. Obed Hall, from Madbury, early had a fine farm in Upper Bartlett, and his house was a popular house of entertainment. He was a man of medium size and fine presence, and of great ability. He was member of Congress in 1811, and for many years his influence was potent in affairs. An old resident says: Ezra Keniston now resides on the place where was his home." Obed Hall had the smartest family ever raised in Bartlett, and the best-looking girls. His son Obed went into business in Portland; Elijah studied law and left town early. Abigail, a daughter, never married, but engaged in business in Portland and was a keen business woman. Hannah married Benjamin Gould , of Conway Centre. He kept tavern for a long time. The other children were: Maria, Mary and Martha (twins), and Caroline. His first wife was twenty years older than he, and his second wife was twenty years younger than he. She was mother of the children. After Mr. Hall's death she married Richard Odell, and took the children with her to Portland." Ebenezer L. D. Hall, a Revolutionary soldier, was a brother of Judge Obe d Hall, and was a man of unusual education and business qualities. He taught school, and was popularly known as "Master" Hall. He filled various town offices with ability, and on the death of Dr Willson in 1811 was appointed judge of probate of Coos county, of which Bartlett was a part at that time, and held the office until 1829. Judge James W. Weeks writes of him: "Mr. Hall was very popular as judge of probate. He was a farmer, and a man of influence. His manners were most courtly, and he possessed extremely kind feelings. Widows and orphans could trust their interests in his hands with perfect safety." OBED HALL Esq. 1795 -1873 was son of Hon. Ebenezer L. and Lydia (Dinsmore) Hall ; born, Conway, February 23, 1795 ; (Ebenezer was Obed 1st's brother) practiced, Bartlett and Tamworth ; died, Tamworth, May 21, 1873. In the war of 1812 Ebenezer Hall was in the military service for a short time, in a company of militia at Portsmouth. His early education was imperfect, and he studied law three years with Enoch Lincoln of Fryeburg, Maine, and two years with Lyman B. Walker of Meredith. He first set up in practice at Bartlett, and about 1820 changed his residence to Tamworth. He was representative in the legislature in 1840 and 1841, in which latter year he was appointed register of Probate for the new county of Carroll. That post he occupied ten years. In 1854 and 1856 he was a state senator.He was a lawyer of respectable acquirement's , but preferred to give his time and attention to politics, which did not conduce to his legal progress nor to his pecuniary profit. He gave much attention to his farm, being partial to agriculture. He was public-spirited, and in private life benevolent and kindly.His first wife was Elizabeth Gilman of Tamworth, who bore him one daughter; his second was Caroline E. , daughter of John Carroll of Maine. She left him a daughter, who outlived her father. SOURCE: The bench and bar of New Hampshire: including biographical notices ... By Charles Henry Bell Editors Note: Sorry for the lacks of pictures to go with this information. Apparently all these folks forgot to bring along their mobile phone camera. Find More About the Hall ancestry on this page: HALL ANCESTRY HallTavrn JS Hall Pendexter PendexFam 1776 Hon John Pendexter - arrived from Portsmouth NH Martha Jackson Pendexter - wife Samuel Pendexter - youngest son of Hon John and Martha - 1794 to 1883 - stayed on family homestead his entire life - Married Lydia T Meserve Joseph Pendexter - son of John and Martha - 1786 - 1855 - married Lydia Dinsmore - lived on the future site of the Langdon House - farmer Joseph's Children Solomon Dinsmore Pendexter - 1813 - 1868- married cousin, Mary Davis Meserve - farmer & Innkeeper near the future Langdon House named simply "The Solomon Pendexter House- killed by falling tree branch - two sons, John Langdon & Joseph - they died at age 19 and 24 respectively Samuel's Children - Silas M - died 1883 Betsey M - never married - died 1864 Charles Carroll - 1828 to 1881 - studied to be a surveyor - opened the family homestead as an Inn in 1874 as the Pendexter Mansion. He and his wife, Caroline Gale Pendexter operated the Inn alone tending to all it's associated duties. A much more thorough accounting of their lives may be found at Georgia Drew Merrill's book - The History of Carroll County - 1889. Starting on page 934 Here is a link to it. Pendexter THE PENDEXTER FAMILY. liketh the wilderness to bud and blossom like the rose." They made their home on the Intervale a century and more ago than they knew. Little did they think when in the bitter cold Town of Bartlett. They traveled the Long, weary miles from Portsmouth and Lee to this then almost uninhabited section, where the primeval forests were standing in all their Loftiness, where the solemn, grand, mysterious mountains seemed like sentinels to guard the way, where the wild beasts were Lurking in their fastnesses, that they were Laying the foundation of what will be a veritable garden of Eden. The Pendexters are of Norman-French origin, and were originally from the Isle of Jersey and of noble birth, the name being spelled Poingdestre. Arms: "Per less azure and or, in chief a dexter hand clenched with a cuff of gold, in base a mullet of azure. Crest, an esquires helmet. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit." Hon. John Pendexter and his wife Martha (Jackson) Pendexter were among the first settlers of Lower Bartlett. They came from Portsmouth, NH, probably in the winter of 1775 and 1776. Mr Pendexter resided in the town until his death, at the age of eighty-three, honored and respected. Mrs Pendexter was his fitting companion and helpmate, and worked in all ways to make their home comfortable and pleasant. She died aged ninety-two. Here in this beautiful spot they experienced many joys and sorrows: here then dispensed a generous hospitality; and here, after active and useful Lives, the evening shadows fell, and night came upon them. The following sketch of John Pendexter and genealogical record is contributed by Hon. Edward F. Johnson, mayor of Woburn, Mass.: ••John Pendexter first built a house and barn on the Intervale, and it was there his first child. Alice, was born. The location of these buildings was some five hundred feet south of the present highway to Jackson, and to the right of the driveway leading from Mrs C. C. Pendexter's farm across the railroad, down to the Intervale. A sweet-brier bush is growing near the site. The uprisings of the Saco and some of its tributary streams soon warned Mr Pendexter of the dangerous situation of his homestead; and about 1777, he removed his family to higher ground and built the nucleus of the large family residence now known as the Pendexter mansion. Here all his children but Alice were born, and in it .John Pendexter the father, Samuel Pendexter the son. and Charles Pendexter the grandson, its successive owners, have all lived and died. "At the first town-meeting of Bartlett, John Pendexter was chosen first selectman, and re-chosen the next year. He was also elected surveyor of high- ways, an office which he held for many years. In 1795 he was chosen treasurer and also chairman of a special committee appointed to lay out roads in the new town. In 1801 and in 1805 he was elected moderator and first selectman. In 1803 he was chosen chairman of a committee to sit in a convention to be held in Conway relative to a new county.' In 1806 and for several years thereafter he held important county offices; in 1820 he was chief justice of the History of Carroll County. The official responsibilities and honors thus conferred upon testimonials of his worth and abilities. appearance Mr Pendexter was about five feet ten inches and muscular. Mr Willey speaks of him as a man. who for years was especially useful in the region.' He was a very hard-working man all his life, and he would be at his work at sunrise, although it miles away from home. Self-reliant and thoroughly independent, a man of great executive ability, and one who could brook no opposition proper behests and commands. Among his family and with his employee's his word was absolute law. He enforced a strict observance of the Sabbath-day in his household, and was a very earnest, conscientious Christian. . Samuel Pendexter lived to follow to their last resting places, father, mother, brothers and sisters, wife and children, but his declining years were cheered and comforted by the widow of his son Charles. whom he loved as if she was his own child, and who reverenced, honored, and cherished him with the tender, watchful care of a daughter. Mr Pendexter inherited many of his parents' excellences. Like his father, he was an honest and industrious man. He also had his mother's loving' and cheerful nature. He was social and kindly, but quiet and rather reserved with strangers: a Democrat in polities and firm in adherence to principle. By his industry and prudence he accumulated a handsome property: by his uniform kindness he gained friends; by faithfulness in the performance of every duty entrusted to him he won honor and respect from all. He held many positions of trust; was a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. In respect to his manliness, all that was said was the great poet of an honest man maybe said of him, - the noblest work of God." To this there could be no dissent. "His religious life was a life of devotion to the cause of God lord more than sixty years, always abounding in the work of the Lord." He retained his youthful appearance and physical strength very remarkably, being able to attend church frequently in his eighty-eighth year, and but a few- weeks before his death. Charles Carroll Pendexter Samuel Pendexter Hon. John Pendexter and wife, Martha, came from Portsmouth at an early period, and settled in the south part of the town, near Conway. With his wife he traveled eighty miles in winter, she riding on a feeble old horse with a feather-bed under her, a child in her arms, and he by her side drawing a hand-sled, on which were their household goods. The Pendexter Mansion occupied the site near the Scenic Vista that now contains the Cathedral Ledge Condominium complex. In 1874, Charles and Caroline Pendexter's opened their homstead as an Inn, first simply called the Pendexter House and later the Pendexter Mansion. By 1885 Charles had died and Caroline continued operating the Inn on her own. By 1905 Caroline had remarried to Parkman Drown, a former employee. They had added tennis courts, an overflow building called The Annex and boasted of a 100 acre farm that provided nearly all their food stocks and dairy cows. By the 1920's business had declined due to increasing competition and Caroline died in 1924. Her husband, Parkman, continued along until 1932. After his death the property fell into the hands of one of his relatives but in the 1950's was sold to Jeff Foley who re named it to the Region House. Eventually Foley sold the land across the street for condominiums and the land behind for development. The building was resold to Anthony Abry who promptly changed the name to Skirolean Lodge, which was to be it's final commercial use. Within a few years the doors were closed forever. It had escaped fire which had destroyed so many others but was razed to make way for a Chinese restaurant and later by the Cathedral Ledge Condominiums, which as of 2019 are still occupying the space. Seavey This article researched, compiled and offered to the Bartlett Historical Society by Ruth Ward Abbott. The Historic Seavey Ward House Tasker The Tasker family was located in Bartlett in the late 1700’s, possibly settling there between 1780-1790. Previous extensive research has been done and is provided at this link. PendexMansion Region Seavey Ward House Tasker Samuel, Simon, and Jonathan Seavey lived in the east part near Kearsarge. Their descendants are in Conway. Frank George married Mary, daughter of Ithamar Seavey, of Conway, belonging to this family. I will dig up some more information eventually. Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey Sources: Eastern Slope Signal newspaper 1965 The Latchstring was Always Out - Aileen Carroll - 1994 Bartlett NH - Aileen Carroll - 1990 The History of Carroll County - Georgia Drew Merrill - 1889 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 Just a few notes I'm keeping for now The Pendexter Mansion about three minutes walk to the north of the station, is one of the most charming houses in this section. It, too, commands an unobstructed view of the Intervale and the mountains around it. This house, which accommodates fifty guests, was built by Mrs. C. C. Pendexter in 1872, and has always remained under her excellent management, and maintained a reputation for being homelike. An addition was made to the cottage in 1886, and other recent improvements serve to render this mansion attractive; many of its rooms are heated and the house is open the year round. Its winter night suppers for sleighing parties are famous. For regular boarders it is open from the first of May until the last of October. Samuel and Joseph. Isaac, George, and Robert Stanton lived in the Hall neighborhood, just below Ebenezer Tasker's. Richard Garland lived just above Ebenezer Tasker on the main road. There is no house on the farm. Levi Rogers lives just above. Joseph Seavey moved to New York. Elijah Seavey settled below Judge Hall. He had three daughters. Lavina married Walker George; Eliza married John Wentworth; Lucy married John George. Austin George came early from Conway and settled the farm where his son, Benjamin F., lived so many years, and now occupied by Frank George. He was an active and useful man. Peter Stillings lived below the village on the road to Judge Hall's. Samuel Stillings was the farthest resident in the upper part of the town. William White paid Judge Hall seventeen hundred dollars in money for his farm, about a mile below Hall's tavern, and it was the finest one in that part of the town. His son William went to Canada, took part in the Rebellion of 1837, returned, and died in Conway. Source: History of Carroll County, NH, edited by Georgia Drew Merrill, 1889 Transcribed by: Helen Coughlin James Rogers and sons, Daniel, Joshua, and Jonathan, lived across the Saco from Judge Hall. Samuel Fall lived near neighbor to Obed Hall. O ne of his daughters, Rebecca, married Samuel Parker, the miller: another, Judith, married an Allard and had two . Samuel and Joseph. Isaac. George, and Robert Stanton lived in the Hall neighborhood, just below Ebenezer Tasker's. Richard Garland lived just above Ebenezer Tasker on the main road. There is no house on tlie farm. Lives just above. Joseph Seavey moved to New York. Elijah ettled below Judge Hall. He had three daughters. Lavina married Eliza married John Wentworth ; Lucy married John George. ■tin G ame early from Conway and settled the farm where his son, niM.'i !•'.. Lived so many years, and now occupied by Frank George. He " ; ""1 useful man. Peter Stillings lived below the village on the o Judge Hall's. Samuel Stillings was the farthest resident in the upper own. William White paid Judge Hall seventeen hundred dollars rm, about a mile below Hall's tavern, and it was the finest tie town. His soll William went to Canada, took part in the Rebellion of 1837, returned, and died in Conway. Anchor 3

Cooks Crossing Bartlett NH 03812 BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Cooks Crossing We were recently asked how COOK'S CROSSING came to be named. Norm Head just happened to know the answer. I grew up and still live just up the road from your house (assuming it’s the first shingle style cottage going down the West Side) and am quite familiar with it. The Cook family once owned all of the land that now surrounds your cottage as well as the acreage where The Seasons Condominiums are now. The last Cook family member I knew was Roland Cook who lived in an old farmhouse in the middle of what is now The Seasons Property. I remember his house was reached by a long driveway and was surrounded by pine trees. Mr. Cook worked at Mt. Cranmore and was killed one day on his way to work. The accident happened near the present location of Milford Flooring in Intervale. As you know, there presently is an overpass over the railroad tracks, but the overpass was not always there. Before my time, the road used to just go over the tracks without the benefit of an overpass and vehicles proceeding W or E on Route 302 would have to stop for train traffic. The tracks would thus “cross” the road. Since the Cook family owned most of the land around there and Yankees like to give locations local names, it became known as Cook’s Crossing. The name still shows on many maps and locals still know the reference. It retains its name but I suppose as time goes by, the name may fade away. Another example of a named crossing is where the tracks cross the road just west of Attitash. That is known as Rogers’ Crossing after Harry Rogers and the Rogers family who used to have a farmhouse just over the tracks on the right. Sadly, that house burned flat (and quickly) on a cold and very windy morning. That land as well as the adjoining land where the former town dump was located is now owned by Joe Berry's Company. Hope this helps, glad to try to answer any other questions you might have. Hard to believe that I may be becoming one of those “old timers” that we used to refer to. Editors Note: In recent history some folks refer to this area as "Sucker Brook", which probably refers to a small seasonal stream in the area. Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge Photo of Edith and her sister Dena Cook on the front lawn of their house at Cooks Crossing, June 26, 1955. In this view we are looking East on West Side Road. We think this is at the first house on the right. In the Cooks Crossing area, Seth and Pearl Towle and, from left to right: Vivian Robertson (Eastman) -Mildred Locke (Kelley) - Merlene Locke (Hatch) - Marie Frechette and Floyd Robertson Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge snowmobile On November 22, 1927, Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin was issued the first patent for a snowmobile. Eliason built the prototype in a garage behind the general store he ran. Using bicycle parts, ¼ of a radiator from a Ford Model T, and skis that were rope controlled, the first snowmobile was born. Over the next 15 years, the snowmobiles went into production with continuous refinement and development. 40 were built and sold with no three exactly alike. http://www.eliason-snowmobile.com/phase/phase1.htm NOTE: Carl Eliason is not any relation to Dave Eliason who edits this website.

Sawyer River Railroad History, Abandoned town of Livermore NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Sawyer River Railroad at Livermore, NH Sawyer River Station at Junction of P&O Railroad: 1908 on the left and 1971 on the right. 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 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

Anchor 1 Anchor 2 The Shackfords' at Livermore and a 1977 Reporter Press article written by Janet Hounsell in 1977. 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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Janet Hounsell Janet Hounsell, 83, of Conway, N.H., died Sept. 3, 2009 From 1971 to 1983, she was a reporter-photographer for the former North Conway (N.H.) Reporter. She also was a columnist for the then-Laconia Evening Citizen and contributed to the Conway Daily Sun, Carroll County Independent of Center Ossipee, and the Berlin Reporter. all in New Hampshire. She leaves her husband, Carl; a daughter, Carla Marie; three granddaughters. source material: Hounsell, Janet Macallister GO BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 See a You Tube video where Tom Monahan shares his recollections of Livermore during the 1940's and 50's. Here's the link 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

BACK TO SIGNAL CONTENTS the signal covers the sled dog races GO BACK TO SIGNAL CONTENTS PAGE Chinook Memorial Sled Dog Race in Tamworth Ends in a Raging Blizzard Belford Lombard Dr Lombard Wins Annual Sled Dog Championship Race GO BACK TO SIGNAL CONTENTS PAGE JR PROGRAM It Must be Thursday - School is Dismissed for 495 Students to Partake in the Eastern Slope Ski Club Weekly Lessons at Cranmore Cross Country Skiing is Interesting Again. They Say it is Not Expensive, Fashionable or Competitive-----YET. Obviously "They" were not Fortune Tellers. Ski Touring Local Jackson Teenage Bounty Hunter Bags a Bobcat and gets $15 for his Effort. BOBCAT Beginner There's Hope for the Beginners at Iron Mtn House, Spruce Mt Lodge and a Couple of Other Very Forgiving Inclined Slopes Anchor 3 Anchor 4 GO BACK TO SIGNAL CONTENTS PAGE

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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

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.

The Hall family ancestry in Bartlett NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Hall Ancestry Find More About Obed Hall in our "Early Settlers Section: OBED HALL ET AL John Hall, the immigrant ancestor, HALL was, according to his own deposition, born in 1617. He first appears in New England in Charlestown, where he was made a freeman May 6, 1635. He removed to Dover , New Hampshire, where his name appears on the tax list from 1648-49 until 1677, and often in land records. In 1652 he lived at Dover Neck, next to the meeting house, the lot on the southwesterly side which reached to the river and embraced a spring which is still flowing and is called Hall's spring. He was first deacon of the First Church of Dover as early as 1655. He was lot-layer as early as 1657 and as late as 1674. In 1658-59 he was one of three to lay out the town bounds between Lamprey and Newichawannock rivers , and to run the north boundary. In 1663 he was on a committee to lay out the highway from Lamprey river to the waterside. He was selectman in 1660, and was occasionally "commissioner to end small causes;" grand juror in 1663-66 and 68: "clerk of ye writs" for the court in 1663-68 and 69; town clerk in 1670-75-79 and other years. In 1677 Deacon Hall received a lot of twenty acres on the west side of Back river, which had been laid out to George Webb in 1642. He gave to his son Ralph by deed February 1. 1685-86, one-half the house and land, and the other half at his death, this deed was proved as his will May 4, 1692, and recorded February, 1694-95. He married Elizabeth . Children: 1. Sheba , baptized January 9, 1639-40. 2. John, born in Charlestown, September 21, 1645. representative to the New Hampshire legislature, 1694-95-96; died 1697. 3. Elizabeth , born September 4, 1647, died young. 4. Elizabeth , born November 2, 1648, died young. 5. Nathaniel , taxed in 1680. 6. Ralph, mentioned below. 7. Grace (?) , born May 16, 1663-64. (II) Ralph Hall, son of John Hall (1). was heir to his father's homestead at Dover's Neck. July 11, 1694, he lost twenty acres of land at Fresh creek in a lawsuit with Richard Waldron. Richard and Elizabeth Pinkham gave him a quitclaim deed to land in consideration of the sum of ten pounds. He was auditor in 1702 and constable in 1705. He died November 13, 1706. He married (second). May 26, 1701, Mary Chesley, daughter of Philip Chesley. In 1713 she, with her sister Esther, wife of John Hall , quitclaimed their father's plantation at Oyster river. She married (second), February 26, 1717-18, John Fox, and quitclaimed her share in the estate of her first husband, to John Hall, son of the first wife. Ralph. John and James Hall were administrators of the estate of their father Ralph, March 4, 1706-07. The estate was divided between seven sons, the eldest getting a double portion, and fifteen pounds to Jonathan who was "weak and sick." Children of the first wife: 1. John, born about 1685. settled in Somersworth, New Hampshire, married, August 9, 1705, Esther Chesley, sister of his stepmother. 2. James, died before 1735. 3. Jonathan . 4. Isaac, removed to Massachusetts. Children of the second wife: 5. Benjamin, born June, 1702. 6. Ralph , born about 1704, married Elizabeth Willey , of Lee, New Hampshire. 7. Joseph, born March 26, 1706. mentioned below. (III) Joseph Hall, son of Ralph Hall (2), was born at Dover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1706, and died November 14, 1782. He married, December 19, 1734, Peniel Bean . Children: 1. Anna , baptized July 29, 1735, married (first) Reuben Daniels , of Wolfsboro ; (second) Philip Kelley, of Wakefield . 2. Mary, baptized May 23, 1736, married Paul Hessey , and had four children. 3. Joseph, baptized November 5, 1738, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, baptized August 22, 1742, resided at Wakefield . and married widow Patience Taylor , of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. 5. Abigail, baptized October 7, 1744. 6. Samuel, baptized March 19, 1748. 7. Hannah, baptized April 2, 1749, married (second) Reuben Long. 8. John , baptized November 2, 1752. 9. Peniel, married, March 19, 1775. John Scribner , of Wakefield. IV) Joseph Hall, son of Joseph Hall (3) , was baptized November 5, 1738, and resided at Bartlett, New Hampshire. According to the federal census of 1790, Joseph Hall was the head of the only family of this name in the town of Bartlett. He was in the Revolution in Captain Joseph Parsons' company. Children: 1. Joseph, born about 1760. 2. Dorcas. 3. Nathan. 4. Betsey. 5. Rev. Elias, mentioned below. 6. Josiah. 7. Polly. 8. Benjamin. (V) Rev. Elias Hall, son of Joseph Hall (4), was born at Falmouth. (Portland), Maine. August 16, 1777, and died at Jefferson, New Hampshire, October 16, 1851. He removed to Bartlett, New Hampshire, when young and was educated there in the district schools, and studied for the ministry in the Free Baptist denomination and was settled in Bartlett for many years. He married (first), about 1798, Hannah, daughter of Richard Tina, who died April 29, 1801, aged twenty-nine years. He married (second) Polly Hubbard, who died at Bartlett. February 5, 1813, aged twenty-eight years. He married (third) Hannah Seavey, born April 22, 1790, died August 26, 1839, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cummings) Seavey, of Bartlett. He married (fourth) Sarah (Mead) Chase, widow. Elias Hall removed to Shapleigh. Maine, where he preached in the Free Baptist church. As a preacher he stood in the foremost ranks of his denomination ; as a man he was kindly, sympathetic and charitable, attracting many friends ; of large heart and high character. Children of Rev. Elias Hall: 1. Samuel, born at Bartlett, December 24. 1799, died at Meredith, New Hampshire, about 1870. 2. Ivory, born at Shapleigh, Maine, February 23, 1801, mentioned below. 3. Hannah , born at Shapleigh. October 15, 1803, died at Bartlett, New Hampshire, about 1860 ; married Barzilla Emery . 4. Dorothy, born at Shapleigh, January 6, « 8on , died November, 1880: married Isaac Nute. 5. Elias Merrill , born at Bartlett, New Hampshire. .March 3, 1808, married Clarinda Stillings, and had Charles Mitchell (married Melissa Hall ), Loami, Elmira. 6. Elmira, born May 17, 1810, died 1816. 7. James Hubbard , born at Bartlett, June 16, 1812, died at Gorham, Maine, about 1870; married Sarah Ann Hall, daughter of Judge Hall, and had Betsey, Sarah Ann, Mary, and James. 8. Timothy Emerson, born June 9, 1814. died about 1818. 9. Alvah , born April 10, 1816, died at Stamford, Connecticut, June 23, 1881 ; married, at New York City, Sophia E. Pettigrew, daughter of Robert and Helen (Boistreage) Pettigrew; children: i. Sophia Virginia, married William N. Beach; ii. Ana Byrd, married Albert C. Hall; iii. Alice, married William B. Duncan ; iv. Isabel McRae . MORE ABOUT THE OBED HALL FAMILY HERE Garland Ridge Cemetery and the so-called "Hall Maple Tree". As of 2019 it is about 190 years old. MORE DETAILS: (1757-1828)HALL, Obed, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Raynham, Bristol County, Mass., December 23, 1757; moved to Madbury, N.H., and thence to Upper Bartlett and engaged in agricultural pursuits; subsequently became an innkeeper; surveyor of highways in 1790; member of the board of selectmen 1791, 1798, 1800, 1802-1810, 1814-1819, and 1823; member of the State house of representatives in 1801 and 1802; appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Gov. John Taylor Gilman; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); member of the State senate in 1819; died in Bartlett, Carroll County, N.H., April 1, 1828; interment in Garland Ridge Cemetery, about two miles south of Bartlett; reinterment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present. New Hamphire Post Offices and Postmasters - 1816 Obed Hall 2d is also listed as a Bartlett Postmaster in 1816 and he earned $4.34. SOURCE: Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gwen Hurst - It seems Obed 1st was the uncle of this Obed. OBED HALL 2nd. 1795 -1873 Son of Hon. Ebenezer L. and Lydia (Dinsmore) Hall ; born, Conway, February 23, 1795 ; (Ebenezer was Obed 1st's brother) practiced, Bartlett and Tamworth ; died, Tamworth, May 21, 1873. In the war of 1812 Mr. Hall was in the military service for a short time, in a company of militia at Portsmouth. His early education was imperfect, and he studied law three years with Enoch Lincoln of Fryeburg, Maine, and two years with Lyman B. Walker of Meredith. He first set up in practice at Bartlett, and about 1820 changed his residence to Tamworth. He was representative in the legislature in 1840 and 1841, in which latter year he was appointed register of Probate for the new county of Carroll. That post he occupied ten years. In 1854 and 1856 he was a state senator.He was a lawyer of respectable acquirements, but preferred to give his time and attention to politics, which did not conduce to his legal progress nor to his pecuniary profit. He gave much attention to his farm, being partial to agriculture. He was public-spirited, and in private life benevolent and kindly.His first wife was Elizabeth Gilman of Tamworth, who bore him one daughter; his second was Caroline E., daughter of John Carroll of Maine. She left him a daughter, who outlived her father. SOURCE: The bench and bar of New Hampshire: including biographical notices ... By Charles Henry Bell I have an answer to the headstone question at the Garland Ridge Cemetery in Bartlett sent to me by Ruth Abbott: Hannah Seavey Hall: (b 22 April 1790 d 26 August 1839) Hannah Seavey was born in Bartlett NH in 1790. She was the daughter of Joseph Seavey and Abigail Comings. Hannah was 11 years old when her mother, Abigail died. She was“brought up” by her relative .Elijah Locke Seavey (1774 - 1860) Hannah married Elias Hall in 1813 (his third marriage) They had 10 sons and one daughter. She was a tall framed women with thick long brown hair. It was believed that consumption hastened her death. Her grave was near a little maple tree on one side of the cemetery. The maple is no longer small after all these years. Her headstone was a plain slab that her son Dudley and Joseph put there after they were men and earning money. Elijah Locke Seavey is buried nearby Hannah’s grave with both of his wives, Lucy Bassett and Mary D. Meserve Harriman. This picture was taken May 2010 courtesy of Ron Ward. This is in the Garland Ridge Cemetery in the north-west corner near the maintenance shed. This tree was "a small maple" in 1839, so it is approximately 180 years old. Too bad it couldn't tell us all the things it has seen during that time. MORE DETAILS: The following information was sent to me by Cheryl Hall: Subject: Mystery Question: Hannah Hall buried in Garland Ridge Cemetery Message: I hadn’t visited the Bartlett Historical Society web site in awhile so I was delighted to see that information on the Halls in Bartlett had been added to the site. After visiting Bartlett in the summer of 2007 for the purpose of genealogy research on the brothers, Obed, Ebenezer and Linus Hall, I discovered the Bartlett Historical Society on line, and I have been a member since that time. Over time I have had several excellent email conversations with Marcia Dolley and I have been delighted by the wonderful gifts of information that she has provided. There were two distinct Hall families in Bartlett. Joseph Hall, who appears in the 1790 census for Bartlett was a descendant of John Hall of Dover, NH (for which you have the Hall Ancestry posted). Obed Hall who also appears in the 1790 census for Bartlett was a descendant of Edward Hal l of Rehoboth, MA (I’ll see if I can put something together for you). Although some Hall researchers suspect that it could be possible, there is absolutely no proof that these two Hall families were related. When I visited Bartlett in 2007, I spent a fair amount of time at the Garland Ridge Cemetery viewing the headstones of the two Hall families buried there. I also found Hannah’s headstone and took a photo of it. I read the headstone as follows: Hannah wife of Elias Hall died Aug 26, 1839 AE 49 yrs Hannah was the third wife of Rev. Elias Hall. She was Hannah Seavey, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cummings) Seavey, of Bartlett. Hannah would have been born in 1790. Research that I have found online since my visit to Bartlett supports that Hannah Seavey was the wife of Elias Hall, and that she died in 1839, not 1830. It was their son, (not Obed Hall’s son) Joseph Seavey) Hall who was instrumental in the building of the first Summit House on Mt. Washington in 1852. See: http://www.bartletthistory.org/bartletthistory/lodgingvillage.html#obedhall Thanks for providing such a great, and informative, web site! I look forward to additional family information appearing on your site as it becomes available. Also found Roland Hall is living in Keene and that particular branch of Halls' originally came to Bartlett from Maine and are not related to the earlier Halls' of Bartlett. OTHER INFORMATION IN THIS WEBSITE: Obed Hall's Tavern ; (1757-1828)HALL, Obed Joseph Seavey Hall of Bartlett was one of the most important participants in mid-nineteenth century events in Crawford Notch (or the White Mountain Notch as it was known in those days) and on Mt. Washington. Yet most people have never heard of him. Read the Story at the White Mountain History web site, HERE . ---------------- Find More About Obed Hall in our "Early Settlers Section: OBED HALL ET AL 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

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 Tourism - Hotels & Lodgings in Bartlett We have compiled a sizable quantity of information about how the tourism industry developed in Bartlett. From subsistence level boarding houses to large elaborate hotels, Bartlett has seen them all come and go over the years. Pick your section of town from the links to the right. Chose the area of Town to find the individual establishments that were (or are) located there. Hotel Bellevue Lodging Preface Upper Village Area Glen Area Intervale Area Historic Lodging Map The Cave Mountain House - The Howard - The Bartlett Hotel - the story as we know it, all on one page. 1890 to 1989 The Bellevue Hotel at Intervale and the Barnes family 1872 to 1936 We have identified more than 50 inns and hotels that operated in bartlett over the years. Some have more information than others. Abenaki, the (Upper Bartlett Village) Bartlett House (the) 1856-1892 Beechwood (the) 1977-present Red Apple Inn Bellhurst Bellevue (Intervale) Bide-a-Wee 1920-1941 Broadview (Intervale 1924) Cannells Camps Castner’s Camps 1930-1950? Cave Mountain House (the) 1890-1905 Cedarcroft 1892-1953 Centre Bartlett House Joseph Mead Charlie’s Cabins 1930-1960 Cole’s Camps 1935-Present Better Life Cabins Comstock Inn Country Squire Motor Lodge 1966-present Dunrovin’ 1910-1945 East Branch House 1810-1898 Elmcrest 1930-1940 Elmwood Inn Elms (the) Emerson Inn - burned in 1948 Fairview Cottage 1854- Forest (the) Forest Inn Fosscroft 1928-1950 (replaced the Langdon House Garland (the) 1905- Gateway, the 1890-1990 The Target/Abenaki Glendennings Camps 1932- Glenwood by the Saco Goodrich Falls Cabins Hampshire House Headlands, the (intervale) Howard (the) 1912-1989 Intervale House, the 1860-29. Linderhoff Motor Lodge 1966-1995 Lone Maple Cottage 1930-1960 Langdon House 1880 - Maple Cottage 1920-1950 Maple Dale Cottage 1928-1959 Maple Villa Matthews Inn 1938-1942 - Formerly Pitman's Annex Meadowbrook 1945-Present Wills Inn Mt Surprise Cottage (Kearsarge) Mountain Home Cabins 1931-present Mountain Rest 1809-present New England Inn Norland Cottage North Colony Motel 1974-present Obed Halls Tavern Old Fieldhouse, the 1964-present Pequawket House 1854 Perry's Rest 1934-present Pines (the) 1925-Present Bartlett Country Inn Pine Cottage Pitman Hall 1905-mid1930's Pleasant Valley Hall 1893-present Red Apple Inn Riverside Roselawn 1910-1926 Saco River Cabins 1935-1992 Forbes Silver Springs Cottage 1900- Silver Springs Tavern 1930-1990 Sky Valley Motel 1950-present Spruce Knoll Tea Room & Cabins Stilphen’s Farm 1810- Sweets Farm Inn 1920-1938 Swiss Chalets 1965 - present Target, the (later the Abenaki) Tasker Cottage Thompson’s Inn 1918-1990 (Later The Chippanock Titus Browns Inn 1810 Upper Bartlett House 1854- Villager, the 1972-present Wayside Inn of Sam Stillings William Whites Tavern Willow Cottage Inn 1910-1925 Woodbine Cottage Woodshed the 1920-1971 (Earlier Fosey's Roadhouse)

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

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Thanksgiving History The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention. The traditional "first Thanksgiving" is the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. The Plymouth celebration occurred early in the history of what would become one of the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. The celebration became an important part of the American myth by the 1800s. This Thanksgiving, modeled after celebrations that were commonplace in contemporary Europe, is generally regarded as America's first. Elementary school teacher Robyn Gioia has argued that the earliest attested "thanksgiving" celebration in what is now the United States was celebrated by the Spanish on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. The original feast in 1621 occurred sometime between September 21 and November 11. Unlike our modern holiday, it was three days long. The event was based on English harvest festivals, which traditionally occurred around the 29th of September. After that first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists, Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Indians. In 1623 a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers. Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating thanksgiving after the harvest. During the American Revolution a yearly day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress. In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom, and by the middle of the 19th century many other states had done the same. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a day of thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November, which he may have correlated it with the November 21, 1621, anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod. Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941) Abraham Lincoln's successors as president followed his example of annually declaring the final Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. But in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with this tradition. November had five Thursdays that year, and Roosevelt declared the fourth Thursday as Thanksgiving rather than the fifth one. In 1940 and 1941, years in which November had four Thursdays, he declared the third one as Thanksgiving. Although many popular histories state otherwise, he made clear that his plan was to establish it on the next-to-last Thursday in the month instead of the last one. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought an earlier Thanksgiving would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would help bring the country out of the Depression. At the time, advertising goods for Christmas before Thanksgiving was considered inappropriate. Fred Lazarus, Jr., founder of the Federated Department Stores (later Macy's), is credited with convincing Roosevelt to push Thanksgiving back a week to expand the shopping season. However, many localities had made a tradition of celebrating on the last Thursday, and since a presidential declaration of Thanksgiving Day was not legally binding, it was widely disregarded. Twenty-three states went along with Roosevelt's recommendation, 22 did not, and some, like Texas, could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Critics termed Roosevelt's dating of the holiday as "Franksgiving". Proclamations - 1789 - 1793 - 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation [New York, 3 October 1789] By George Washington, the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. George Washington Proclamation of Thanksgiving Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She wrote, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution." The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth. By the President: Abraham Lincoln William H. Seward, Secretary of State Source: Selected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler. Proclamation of Thanksgiving Josiah Bartlett - 1793 Josiah Bartlett was Governor of New Hampshire. In 1793 , just a few years after the First Amendment was ratified, he issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation. Remember how you hear that our early founders were atheists or deists? Read the proclamation and decide if he sounds like a deist. For one thing, he refers to "...the knowledge of and reverential love and regard to the One God and Father, of all,..." He also closes by using, "...in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety three..." The many favors the inhabitants of this State have been made the subjects of in the court of the current year, call for a public return of sincerer gratitude and praise to that Being from whom all our mercies flow; – And the Legislature having appointed Thursday the Twenty First day of November next, to be observed as a day of public Thanksgiving throughout this State: I have thought fit, by and with the advice of Council, to issue this Proclamation, exhorting the people of every denomination to dedicate said day to the duties of thanksgiving and praise, and to devote a reasonable part thereof in their respective places of public worship in a social manner, with grateful hearts and united voices in returning our most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for the unmerited favors He has been graciously pleased to confer upon us in the course of the present year now drawing to a close. In a particular manner, that He was graciously pleased to appear for us in the course of the summer past when, by reason of a severe and early drought, the hope of the husbandman seemed likely to be cut off and we were threatened with a great and general scarcity of the necessary fruits and of the field, that in the midst of judgment He remembered mercy and by sending plentiful showers of rain, the decaying and almost dying fruits of the earth were greatly revived; and that He has been pleased so to order the latter part of the season, that we are still blessed with a competent supply of the most of the necessary fruits of the field. That He had been pleased to continue to us the inestimable blessings of civil and religious liberty. That notwithstanding the tumults and confusions of the contending nations, we still enjoy the blessing of peace and good government. That we have been favored with a general measure of health, and that no waiting and pestilential disease has been suffered to prevail among us. And together with our thanksgiving, let us entreat the Father of Mercies, to continue us the blessings we now enjoy, and bestow upon us all further needed favors. That it would please Him still to have these United States under His Holy protection and guidance – that He would inspire those who have the management of all our public affairs with all that wisdom, prudence and integrity that is necessary to the faithful discharge of their important trusts, that all their determinations may tend to promote the real happiness and prosperity of this great and rising Republic, and that all people may be disposed to afflict in carrying such determinations into effect. That it would please God to over-rule the tumults and confusions among the nations, in such a manner as shall subserve to His own Glory and the best good and happiness of mankind, and that in His own due time, He would calm the angry passions of the contending nations and say to them, peace, be still. That God would be pleased to look down with an eye of compassion upon the whole human race, and dispel those clouds of ignorance, superstition and bigotry that overspread so great a part of the world, and that the knowledge of and reverential love and regard to the One God and Father, of all, and a true benevolence and good will to their fellow men, may pervade the hearts, and influence the lives of all mankind, and all Nations, Languages and Tongues be brought to join in singing, Glory to God in the highest, on Earth Peace and good will to men. It is recommended and expected, that all persons abstain from all servile labor and such recreations as are unbecoming the solemnity of said day. Given at the Council Chamber in Exeter, the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety three and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United states of America the Eighteenth. Josiah Bartlett.

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 The Cave Mountain House The Howard Hotel The Bartlett Hotel CaveMtHouse First Hotel on This Site: The Cave Mountain House 1892 to 1905 - 13 years Historic Lodging Map THE CAVE MOUNTAIN HOUSE: 1890 - 1905 was originally the summer home of one of the Jose brothers, owners of Bartlett Land and Lumber Company. The Hotel was purchased by Edgar Stevens in 1892. His specialty was entertaining the guests both at the Inn and with excursions through the mountains. Mr Stevens was a fabulous story-teller and enjoyed personally escorting his guests on wild rides through the mountains. The Inn's rooms were advertised as large and airy, with electric lights, hot and cold running water, and excellent views from most rooms. There was also a large farm connected with the hotel that provided fresh eggs, meat and vegetables. All this could be had for prices ranging from $7 to $12 per week. (in perspective, an average family earned about $35./ month in 1895) . On May 1, 1905 the Cave Mountain House and barn were totally destroyed by fire which started in the kitchen and a defective chimney aided in the ensuing inferno. The insured loss amounted to $10,875. This editor has found no information about what Mr Stevens did for the next nine years before his death in June 1914 at age 70. His grave is at the Fish Street Cemetery in North Fryeburg, Maine. The site remained empty until 1912 when the Howard Hotel was built on the same site. EDGAR AUGUSTUS STEVENS, proprietor of the Cave Mountain House at Bartlett, was born December 16, 1844, in Shelburne, N. H. . Edgar A. Stevens obtained his education in the common schools of Shelburne, after which he assisted his father on the farm until after the breaking out of the Civil War. Enlisting in 1863 in Company A, Eleventh Maine Volunteer Infantry, which was subsequently a part of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, he participated in the battle of Ball's Bluff, the engagement at Hatcher's Run, where he was wounded in the foot, and at the siege of Richmond. He was honorably discharged from the service in 1866 as Orderly Sergeant. During the next three years Mr. Stevens was employed in a saw-mill at Berlin, N.H., and was later fireman for two years on the Grand Trunk Railroad. position on the Portland & Ogdensburg Rail Accepting in 1871 a similar road, he was employed as fireman until 1873, when he was promoted to the position of engineer, which he retained for twenty-one years. Coming to Bartlett in 1892, he purchased the Cave Mountain House, a small hotel containing but twelve rooms. This he has enlarged to a house of thirty-four rooms, with good accommodations for fifty guests, and has further improved it by putting in steam heat and electric lights. A pleasant host, attentive and accommodating, he has won an excellent patronage, many people of note visiting the house each summer, among whom may be mentioned Edward Everett Hale and family, the Rev. Mr. White, of Brookline, Mass., the Rev. Mr. Fay, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and numerous others. Mr. Stevens was a member of Ossola Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has held all the chairs; of Grant Post, No. 91, G. A. R., of Glen, which he has served as Commander; and of the Masonic order, in Fraternally, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree. In 1873, Mr. Stevens married Abbie T. Lewis, of Conway, and they had two children, namely: Bertha May, born November 12, 1879, who is a student in Wellesley College; and Blanche Louise , born May 1881, a graduate of Brewster Academy, who is now fitting herself for the profession of a music teacher. Stevens JOSE HowardHotel The Howard Hotel 1912 - 1947 - 35 years GKHowardObit The Howard Hotel Circa 1912 The Cave Mountain House burned in 1905 and was rebuilt as The Howard Hotel. Owned by G.K. Howard and managed by William Irish it opened on July 1, 1912. It was a first class hotel in its prime. Every room on the second and third floor connected with a bathroom, hot and cold water, and a room telephone to the front desk. The dining room seated 75 people. It provided drivers. The Howard enjoyed a long successful life and by the 1930's the rates started at $5.00 per day and $25.00 per week. These rates put it on a par with most of the other first class hotels in the area. See the original 1912 sales brochure for the Howard Hotel Below In December 1947 The hotel was purchased by Matt Elliot and Reland T. Hart and renamed the Bartlett Hotel. Matt operated the Hotel until his death in 1985. Considering Matt was there for 38 years there is scant information about him. In 1985 the Hotel was purchased by the Arthur and Chip Yannone of Brockton Massachusetts. They began a renovation of the hotel but in the winter of 1989 the Hotel was destroyed by fire caused while thawing frozen pipes. Source credit: The Latchstring was Always Out Aileen M. Carroll - 1994 Photo Below is G.K. Howard; Photo at right shows Mr. Howard and John O'Connell Granville K. Howard, Prominent Bartlett Resident Dies In the passing of Granville K. Howard on Nov. 17, 1949, at his home after a brief illness, Bartlett has lost one of its outstanding citizens. Born in Hartford, Vt., in 1864, he was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1886 and always kept up his interests in the activities of the college. In 1887 he married Nellie Bailey of Landgrove, Vt ., and two years later he moved to Bartlett. From that time until his retirement in 1946 he was active in business, conducting a general store. In 1912 he built the Howard Hotel, which is now known as Bartlett Hotel. Mr. Howard held many town offices, having served as selectman and as a member of the school board. He was instrumental in forming the Bartlett Water Precinct of which he was treasurer for 51 years. Always interested in the welfare of the town, one of his last acts was to give a plot of land opposite the hotel for a public park. For many years he was active in Osceola Lodge, I. O. O. F., and was recently awarded his 50 year pin. His counsel and guidance will be missed by the many people who always found him a friend in time of need. Funeral services were held on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Bartlett Congregational Church.- The Reporter, Thursday, November 24, 1949 -pg 1 oconnell gk howard The Howard Sales Brochure Opening July 1, 1912 brochure The Howard - Circa 1930's The Bartlett Hotel 1947 to 1989 - 42 Years The Howard Hotel was purchased by Matt Elliott and Realand Hart in 1947. They renamed it the Bartlett Hotel. Unlike Mr Stevens of the Cave Mountain House and GK Howard of the Howard Hotel, this editor has found scant biographical or personal information about Elliott or Hart. Mr Elliott had a son, Edward M. Elliott, "Bert" who was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1957. His mother was Lottie Rounds Elliott and it seems she lived in Lynn, Ma. while Bert spent most of his younger years in Bartlett with his Dad, graduating from Kennett High School in 1976. Bert died of cancer in 2023 at Lynn, Ma. Mr. Hart eventually sold his share to Mr. Elliott but this editor has yet to find the details of that transaction nor what Mr Hart did subsequently. Matt operated the Hotel until his death in 1985 at which time it was purchased by the Yannones of Brockton Massachusetts. However, its days were numbered since in the winter of 1989 the Hotel was destroyed by fire caused while thawing frozen pipes. Source credit: The Latchstring was Always Out Aileen M. Carroll Fire Bartlett Hotel Circa 1970 Bartlett Hotel Circa 1950 Aftermath - March 1989 - Fire started at the left side from thawing frozen pipes. Hebert's Seafood Restaurant had been in the building for only a year or two. 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 Lodging Preface Upper Village Area Glen Area Intervale Area Historic Lodging Map

Our Most Recent Views Posted Feb 2024 Have Patience while pictures materialize Photos Page 1 Photos Page 2 Photos Page 3 Photos Page 4 Photos Page 5 Photos Page 6 Photos Page 7 The south face of the museum building painted with its 2nd coat of white A view from School Street of the resided and landscaped front of the museum building The back of the museum building, resided and painted; the new exit door is installed also Sodality of the Holy Rosary stained-glass window back in place after a complete refurbishment Two of the nine new Marvin windows with the new siding and paint. Stained-glass window commemorating Bishop Denis Bradley in its lightbox and backlit by an LED panel First coat of blue finish paint has been rolled onto the walls; ceiling painting is complete Coat of white paint has been applied to the entire building – view from the choir loft toward the stage (former altar) area View from the stage area toward the front of the building – white primer paint covers everything. The museum renovation is really showing progress now. We decided to get a quote from Bruce Frechette as he’s Bill Duggin’s go-to painter. Bruce came back with a very reasonable offer, cut his rates per hour and said he’d get a crew in the building quickly to start the painting. Sheetrock wall covering has been installed throughout the building DONATE TO MUSEUM NOW Three stained-glass windows in lightboxes, backlit with LED panels – they shine as though being lit by daylight Trim Work: The major project of installing the interior trim is underway – shown is the wainscoting installation in progress Triangle of stained-glass showing the Holy Rosary window (in natural light) plus Bishop Bradley and Father Lacroix windows (both with LED backlighting) Sanding All of the original flooring that will remain exposed has been sanded and prepared for painting (a dark gray as it once was painted) – the stage area shown here was coated with varnish at one time Vinyl plank flooring has been installed in the foyer; this plank flooring was also installed in the ADA lavatory and curator’s work space Four beautiful chandeliers have been installed and add a dramatic effect to the entire room. Exit Area 5 Vinyl plank flooring is shown in the back exit area, notice the fir door installed also. Trim Work 2 This photo shows the wainscoting being installed on the walls of the stage area; the original church has wainscoting and a chair rail around the outer walls; we’re recreating that image If you looked at all the pictures, beginning in 2016, (on the pages shown at right) you know that we have come a long way on this journey. When we started in 2016 this entire concept seemed like a nearly impossible undertaking. Looking back now, 8 years have elapsed and remarkable progress has been achieved thanks to the dedicated leadership of Phil Franklin, the generous endeavors of many people, including Bill Duggan and crew as general contractor, and strong financial support from the hundreds of donors who shared our enthusiasm. A big thank you goes out to all of you. We are not quite finished but the grand opening is definitely in sight. See our list of items that need to be completed. And, of course, cash donations still work! DONATE TO MUSEUM NOW Photos Page 1 Photos Page 2 Photos Page 3 Photos Page 4 Photos Page 5 Photos Page 6 Photos Page 7 Intro to Your Museum Church - Early History Coming Attractions Museum Floor Plan Progress in Pictures Museum Gifting Levels How to Donate Museum Donor Form

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