History of the Bartlett Experimental Forest at Bartlett New Hampshire. NH Bartlett Experimental Forest What's going on up in those woods? Bartlett Experimental Forest The Bartlett Experimental Forest is within the Saco Ranger District of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. It is managed by RWU-4155 of the Northern Research. Station. Research activities began at the Experimental Forest when it was established in 1931 and is 2,600 acres in size but will likely double in area with the forest plan revision that is being written. The BEF extends from the village of Bartlett in the Saco River valley at 680 ft to about 3,000 ft at its upper reaches. This particular site was chosen because it represented conditions (soils, elevation, climate, tree species composition) typical of many forested areas throughout New England and northern New York. The White Mountain National Forest , including the BEF, was purchased under the Weeks Act of 1911. In the late 19th century, the area was selectively logged for high value species, first eastern white pine and red spruce and later sugar maple and yellow birch. Logging railroads were laid and hardwood stands were clearcut for locomotive fuel. The lower third of the BEF was logged and some portions cleared for pasture. Upper portions were progressively less impacted with increasing elevation. Although fires are relatively rare, the 1938 hurricane did widespread damage. High grading resulted in more American beech, so when the beech scale-Nectria complex, or beech bark disease, arrived in the 1940s it caused substantial damage and continues to influence stand dynamics. An ice storm in 1998 was the most recent widespread natural disturbance, impacting mostly higher elevation stands. Occasional wind storms are common disturbances, but of relatively small scale. There are areas of old-growth northern hardwoods with beech, yellow birch, sugar maple, and eastern hemlock being the dominant species. Even-aged stands of red maple, paper birch, and aspen occupy sites that were once cleared. Red spruce stands cover the highest slopes. Eastern white pine is confined to the lowest elevations. In 1931-32 the Bartlett Forest was gridded with 500 permanent 0.1-ha square cruise plots spaced 200 by 100 meters apart. After an initial measurement of all woody stems larger than 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) in diameter, a majority of the plots (441) were remeasured by 1-inch (2.54 centimeters) diameter classes and species in 1939-40 and again in 1991-92. This 60-year data set includes areas (55%) that were cut for experimental purposes using single-tree selection, diameter-limit cutting, group selection, clearcutting, shelterwood, and thinning. Another 45% of the Forest has not been harvested since at least 1890. The Forest has no history of recent fires, but a 1938 hurricane did substantial damage, particularly at the higher elevations, and the area sustained severe damage from beech-bark disease in the early 1940's. Two other natural disturbances may be occurring on this Forest: red spruce decline associated with acid deposition and migration of tree species upslope as a result of climate warming. Wildlife species on the Bartlett Experimental Forest depend on the array of surrounding forest and riparian habitats on the extensively forested mountain slopes. No forested and aquatic habitats are minor components of the overall landscape. At least 15 species of amphibians and reptiles, 90 bird species, and 35 mammalian species have been known to occur in the area throughout the year. Charismatic megafauna like moose and black bear can be seen: redback, spring and two-lined salamanders and wood frogs are also found, as well as a number of raptors (red-tailed hawk, goshawk, barred owl, and saw-whet owl), a variety of neotropical migratory birds, permanent residents (crossbills and redpolls); and an array of bats, small mammals, forest carnivores (weasels, fisher, bobcat), snowshoe hare, and white-tailed deer. The most serious problem facing woodland managers in the Northeast is a lack of knowledge about the ecological relationships between wildlife habitat and forest management in northern hardwoods and associated ecosystems at various levels. This information is essential for integrating wildlife habitat maintenance and improvement with other forest management goals including timber production and maintenance of aesthetic qualities. If you would like to know more (alot more) please visit the US Forest Service Northern Research Station at this Address: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ne/newtown_square/publications/brochures/pdfs/experimental_forests/Bartlett.pdf Editors Note: This is the same place I lifted this little story from, but since our taxes are probably paying for most of it, I think it's OK 1938 Hurricane widespread damage No Horses Available? These guys have saved a lot of lugging by constructing this chute to slide the logs down hill to a central spot. Probably 1930's; Photographer Unknown. A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT THE SCALE OF THE 1938 HURRICANE: Cleaning up timber damaged by the Great 1938 Hurricane took years. The storm blew down so many trees that paper mills processed them for nine years. The blowdowns posed a dilemma: What to do with enough woody debris to nearly fill Rhode Island? And how to do it quickly enough so it didn’t set off tremendous forest fires? President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration to clean up the mess. It then took two years for the 50 CCC camps and 15,000 WPA workers in the region to finish the job. For 87 years, the Bartlett Experimental Forest has been a proving ground for almost every forestry treatment ever plausibly proposed for managing northern hardwoods. Vetting and spreading the best of these practices has been the life work of two scientists: Mariko Yamaskai and Bill Leak. Read the article at "Northern Woodlands". Northern Woodlands

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The Village Area of Bartlett First page Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 Share Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge Upper Bartlett Village in the mid 1950's. The outline of the Thermostat Factory is visible behind the cloud of smoke. Photo courtesy Alan Eliason. FOR THOSE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH BARTLETT, The Town is divided into several sub-communities and areas that in their entirety are The Town of Bartlett. The map shows the distinctive neighborhoods. Beginning at the west is The Upper Village, which is most notable for the Josiah Bartlett School. Glen is the central part of the town centering on the junction of Routes 16 & 302. Glen has several subsections, primarily Cooks Crossing (some refer to it as sucker brook) which is the upper section of the West Side Road . Goodrich Falls is the northern area that abuts the Town of Jackson. Jericho is located about a mile west of the Junction of Route 16 & 302 and it encompasses the Rocky Branch area. Intervale is the eastern part of Town beginning at about the junction of Rte 16A Resort Loop and ending at the Scenic Vista and the North Conway Town line. The westerly side of Hurricane Mountain Road up into Kearsarge is also part of Bartlett. This section begins in the upper village. there are five linked pages. Long before Attitash, there were very popular ski runs on Bear Mountain. This photo 1941 looks north towards Mt Washington. The Village was also home to Stanton Slopes, with a rope tow. It operated in the 40's and 50's. It was located in the cleared area about in the center of this picture. For a very good article about all the bartlett Ski Businesses in the early days, go to http://www.skimuseum.org 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 George Chappee, Tinker Ainsworth, Jimmy Clemons, with a not too happy looking deer. This house is on River Street near the VFW hall. Photo Courtesy of Maureen Hussey BearMtnSki StillingsFire chappeeTinker The Village was once dominated by the Railroad and most of the residents depended on it for their livelihood. The Village in those days had several restaurants, bars, a movie theatre, hotel and lodgings, a hardware store, several grocery stores and many other commercial activities. By contrast, it is a relatively peaceful village today. RRSta1908 GKHowardStore G.K. Howard Hardware Store, also on Albany Avenue. Later it was The Thermostat Factory. Going up Albany Ave towards Bear Notch Road it was just across the tracks on the left. Today there are some condo type units in the same spot. There was a building just before the tracks on the right that housed Wimpy Thurston's Grocery Store, later operated by the Jacobson's . The building looked similar to the GK howard Store but without the dormers. Today that site is an empty lot adjacent to the former Garland Inn , and as of 2019 the Hodgkins residence. 1951; Hanging out at the GK Howard Store are Vin at back left, Bucky (Rogerson?) front left, Peggy and Neal Trecarten. Granville K. Howard, Prominent Bartlett Resident Dies In the passing of Granville K. Howard on Nov. 17 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 GK HowardDies Trecarten Across the Street from G.K HOWARD'S STORE IS THE BOOKER BUILDING ON ALBANY AVENUE. It housed Garland's Store, a Barbershop operated by Claude Dearborn. The Post Office was there until it moved down the street next door to Franklin George's "What Not Shop" by the Park. No Date was provided but probably in the 1945-1955 range. Garlands was a drug store, but also sold clothing, footwear and hardware. It was later operated by Joe Briggs. A rlene Hamel and another lady had a restaurant there as did Henrietta Trecarten and Evelyn Tibbets at a later date. There was also a Bakery on the lower level. If you knew of Stan Smearer and Jenny Sweeney , among others, lived in the apartments upstairs. BookerBldg HenriettaT Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 This picture at right shows the old General Thermostat Corp Building which was owned by a Mr Frank Reingruber. He lived on the upper floor. He had patented several various forms of thermostats from 1945 to 1971. He probably employed about 30 people. His building was the former G.K. Howard Store . He operated there from the early 1950's to the early 1960's. This editor does not know where he went after his factory closed however he had another thermostat patent approved in 1971, The backside of this July 1957 card (at right) is addressed to Mr Russ Hosmer in Wilmerding Penn. and the writer is one Alan T. There is mention of the Edaville Railroad and it sounds like Alan T was a scout looking for old railroad equipment to buy. Not that it has any bearing, but Wilmerding is home to the George Westinghouse Mansion. Thermostat 1983 Bartlett Village, School in foreground, Bartlett Hotel left side: Ed Pettengill: "I found this on the internet...it said Bartlett NH Aerial photo circa 1983...based on the new wing on the school, and the school bus parked by the garage, that's accurate within a year. The new wing was built around 1980 - I was in eighth grade when they were building it - so that's the oldest the picture could be. If anyone has pictures of Bartlett from either the Bear Notch overlooks, Attitash, or Cave Mountain or Hart's ledge, please post them. Those pictures of Bartlett from overhead are great". Editors Note, this is a Roger Marcoux Photo Aerial nute This picture shows Mountain Home when the Nutes owned it and 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. They catered to guests who wanted to stay on a working farm for the summer. This picture shows the Nutes standing in front of their farmhouse. The notation on the back of the card is shown below. Nute Additions? Corrections? Mistakes? Just plain Lies? Please Tell the Website Editor Using the Contact Us Link in the Top Heading ! Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 Village Area Page 2 Anchor 7 Anchor 2

Ski History Bartlett NH Stanton Slopes - Cobb Farm Road - Bartlett, NH Here's a photo of a forgotten ski slope in Bartlett Village! Only operating for a short time until the early 50s, Stanton Slopes was located on the land of Stanton Farm, which is todays Stillings Grant Housing development. Find more information from The New England Lost Ski Area Project - Stanton Slopes This 1940 photo shows both the top and bottom of the rope tow as well as the wide snowcovered hillside. Probably one of the best photos of this site in existence. This picture and those that follow came from Dale Trecarten. Tom Lazdowski, among others, have also generously contributed to this website. This 1940 photo shows both Sanford and Gertie Trecarten who owned the property at this time. This picture and those that follow came from Dale Trecarten. Tom Lazdowski, among others, have also generously contributed to this website. This 1940 photo shows the ticket booth and the rope tow as well as the wide snow covered hillside. This picture and those that follow came from Dale Trecarten. Tom Lazdowski, among others, have also generously contributed to this website. This 1940 photo shows folks trudging up the hill. I wonder if the rope tow was inoperable on that day? This picture and those that follow came from Dale Trecarten. Tom Lazdowski, among others, have also generously contributed to this website. Early view of the Stanton Farm before a ski slope was envisioned. The buildings on the left are the original farm buildings. In the tracks of ski history Couple restores old Stanton Slopes lift shack into guest haus By Tom Eastman Reporter Reprinted here with permission from the author. — BARTLETT — The New England Lost Ski Areas Project tells the stories of New England's gone but not forgotten ski slopes. Started as a Web site, and now the subject of a recent book by founder Jeremy Davis, a member of the board of directors of the New England Ski Museum, New England Lost Ski Areas Project gives all ski-history wannabes a glimpse at what once was, when many a ski area dotted the countryside, in most cases with power services by a tractor- or Model T-powered rope tow. To date, Davis and his partners have profiled 593 lost ski areas in New England and 75 elsewhere in the organization's 11 years on the Web. One of the areas profiled on the Web site and in the book, “Lost Ski Areas of the White Mountains,” is the old Mount Stanton Ski Slope that ran in the 1930s and into the 1940s in Bartlett, on the north side of the Saco River, at what is now the Stillings Grant subdivision. Part of its claim to fame is that a young skier named Pete Seibert (1924-2002), a Massachusetts native who went on to develop the Vail ski resort in Colorado, skied there as a kid growing up in Bartlett. Seibert was born on Aug. 7, 1924, in Sharon, Mass. He spent much of his youth in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where he practiced with Austrian instructors who had left Europe as war seemed imminent. By 15, he was winning races. According to Jeff Leich of the New England Ski Museum, Seibert's father arrived in town in the 1930s to serve as a civil engineer with the Civilian Conservation Corps as they performed forestry projects in the Bear Mountain area, and the family rented the Stanton farm. As Leich wrote in an article for the ski museum, “Sketches of Bartlett Ski History,” Seibert — a member of the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame — recounted his early Bartlett skiing years in his autobiography that “we probably lived in one of the first ski-in/ski-out homes in the U.S." A few years later, Seibert joined the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, and was seriously wounded in Italy. After the war he settled in Colorado, where he worked for the Aspen Ski Patrol and qualified for the 1950 U.S. Ski Team — all this after having been told by doctors he might never ski again. He worked in the ski business, and remained intent on finding a mountain on which to start a resort that would combine fine skiing with a European style village. “Anyone who has visited Vail knows how well one-time Bartlett boy Pete Seibert succeeded in realizing his vision,” writes Leich, who resides in North Conway. • • • It's a long way from Bartlett to Vail, but on a recent blustery but sunny Saturday morning, Leich and I accepted an invitation to visit the old slope site where the young Seibert got his start. Through the go-between work of local ski history buff (and award-winning bartender) Jeff Grdinich of the White Mountain Cider Company Restaurant of Glen, we were invited by landowners Deb and Dan Holland of Massachusetts to visit the site. They had bought the lot from developer Joe Berry at Stillings Grant, which includes parts of the old Stanton Slope. The Hollands said they had sold their timeshare at the Attitash Grand Summit Resort, and, through Berry's input, had used the proceeds to buy the lot. The Hollands intend to build a home eventually on the lot, but until they do, they have come up with an interim plan/ They hired local contractor Jon Hill of Fryeburg, Maine , who last fall transformed the rotted old lift shack at the top of the slope into a handsome, free-standing guest haus. They don't plow the 200-yard drive to their renovated haus in winter, so on that blustery Saturday, Leich and I made the short trek up to the haus, where the Hollands awaited on the porch which looks west out to Attitash and Bear Mountain. Outside lay the old engine that had once powered the lift. “I'd like to get that restored some day,” said Holland, who works in the banking industry, and who — like his wife, a retired nurse — is a longtime Attitash skier and cross-country enthusiast. They have been coming to Mount Washington Valley to ski with their four now-grown children for years. Once at the haus, we were invited inside. The former lift shack is now a cozy one-room mountain getaway, with pine walls, expansive windows and a gas stove. Kerosene lanterns provide the only illumination. There is no kitchen or bathroom — hence, they frequent local establishments, and take their showers at the Attitash Mountain Village sports club across from Attitash. “We have breakfast at Bart's [Deli], and we usually have dinner at White Mountain Cider Company,” said Dan. “[Realtor] Rich Samia told us there was one lot with an old ski shack on it, that there used to be a ski slope on it. So, we went to the NELSAP Web site, learned some of the history, and Joe [Berry] drove us up here so we could have a look. We said this should be saved, because there's a lot of history here and we want it to be saved. We came up here, saw the views, and it's just beautiful — so here we are,” said Dan. Samia introduced them to Jon Hill, the Fryeburg carpenter. “We really like Jon — I think he has a real feel for what we were trying to do. He used a lot of the old materials; he used the rough-saw wood to keep it looking like the way it was built,” said Dan. Due to the site's relative isolation, Hill had to haul a generator on his pickup truck to the site to power his tools. “It was quite a project for him. He did it last fall for us,” said Dan. In making the transformation, the ever-arty and resourceful Hill added a new floor and insulation as well as new rafters. The rustic character of the old shack shines through. “There used to be a woodstove over on this side, and where it came through the roof, water had gotten in so that wall had collapsed, so he had to replace that wall, but he used wood that was pretty close to what the old wood was,” said Dan. The night before, the haus interior temperature was quite cold when they arrived, but by morning, “It was 54. Then once the sun came up, it heated up — and now it's 70 again. But it takes awhile because the building is so cold, it takes a while to heat the wood up. It will stay like this, a little cabin, and some day the grandkids will come in here and camp,” said Dan. The interior is pleasingly decorated, showing off the ambience of an Old Towne wooden canoe. Showing their love for ski history, one wall of the couple's renovated shack shows a framed painting of a vintage 1940s couple skiing. “We got that at Zeb's,” said Debbie. She and Dan were very enthralled when we two visiting ski historians told them that the inspiration for the “skiing couple” painting is a 1940s black and white photo taken of the late Toni Matt and Paula Kann, legendary Austrian skiers who made Cranmore their home after coming to America. (Matt won the legendary 1939 Mount Washington Inferno by schussing the headwall in Tuckerman Ravine, and Kann was a member of the 1948 Olympic team who later married Swiss ski instructor Paul Valar of Franconia.) “Well, that's why we invited you guys up here!” laughed Dan. They say they will use the guest haus as an adjunct to their home when they build it. • • • From there, our party of four trekked back down the hill, and drove on the development's access road to the bottom of the hill that once was Stanton Slope . At the bottom of the slope, they led us to the old ski ticket shack . Yours truly had visited it some 20 years before, and I was thrilled to see that it has stood the ravages of time — but just barely. It wasn't in good repair 20 years ago, and it certainly is leaning some now. It looks like the playful houses at Story Land, the difference being that those leaning structures at Story Land were built that way. The shack is not located on the Hollands' property, but like their haus, they would love to see it somehow preserved. “This is pretty much what we started with with our shack,” laughed Debbie, as she crawled through the trees that have grown up at the entrance way to the shack. “Jon did an amazing job for us, he really did,” she added, comparing the old ticket shack to their now renovated ski haus. Broken bottles littered the wooden floor of the open-windowed shack. As we stood at the shack and gazed uphill past a new home in the development, we could make out the Hollands' ski haus peaking above the trees in the distance. “It was a pretty good drop, I'd say,” said the ski museum's Leich, saying he had checked the NELSAP Web site prior to coming over for the visit that day. • • • The Web site contains the following information: “Stanton Slopes: Before 1938-Late 1940s: Stanton Slopes, located about a half-mile east of Bartlett, was a small ski area, of which not too much is known. In 1938, the ski area had an 800-foot tow which served a 100-foot drop (1938 N.H. Winter Sports Guide). According to the late 1940's World Ski Book provided by Wayne Silver, the area had grown to include "a 1,200-foot tow which serves the 30 acres of open terrain suitable for all grades on a 300-foot vertical drop known as Stanton Slopes." No other listings appeared after the late 1940s, so “it had probably closed by then,” writes Davis. The Web site contains some anecdotal information from current Stillings Grant resident Peter Villaume: “I happen to live on the hill that the Stanton Slopes was once. It happens to be the ‘common lands’ of Stillings Grant development. On Dec. 11th of 1999 there was a severe wind storm (100 plus-mph micro burst) that tumbled in excess of 1,100 trees in the development. This also opened up the old ski hill with one of the tow buildings showing again.This is a fairly rolling area, and could have been a real challenge to traverse before large packers were readily available.” • • • Leich says that young Seibert wrote in his autobiography that when his family moved into Bartlett “there was a rope tow in the side yard” and that he was an Eastern Slope Inn golf caddy. “Apparently he heard Lowell Thomas and Harvey Gibson talking about ski resorts down there, and that's what got him thinking about ski resorts,” related Leich to the Hollands. Leich recently gave a talk on some of Bartlett's early ski history for the Bartlett Historical Society. In that presentation and in an article he wrote for the ski museum, Leich said, “In Bartlett as in many other New England villages in the 1930s, the first significant ski trails were cut by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC cut two trails in Bartlett in the summer of 1933 — the Maple Villa trail on Bartlett Mountain in Intervale, and the Bear Mountain Trail south of Bartlett village. The Maple Villa started very near the New England Inn, and was a popular trail with ski train passengers due to its proximity to the Intervale and North Conway railroad stations. It dropped 1900 vertical feet over 2 1/4 miles, and was rated for beginners and intermediates.” The CCC's Bear Mountain Trail , Leich said, was divided into an upper and lower section by the crossing of the then-new Bear Notch Road. The upper section was for experts, with a vertical drop of 1,700 feet in less than 1 1/2 miles. “It became a quiet favorite among the White Mountain ski trails, and became the particular domain of the Schussverein Ski Club, which ran an invitational race there from 1937 until the war years,” wrote Leich. Shortly after the 1939 arrival of Austrian skimeister Hannes Schneider in North Conway, he and his instructor Franz Koessler surveyed the Bear Mountain Trail and recommended that it be rated a Class A race trail. This designation was granted by the Eastern Amateur Ski Association, and meant that the Bear Mountain joined four other New England trails — the Wildcat, Nose Dive, Taft and Thunderbolt — as venues for racing's most severe tests. Leich shared the following story with the Hollands as they gazed out from their guest haus toward Attitash and Bear Mountain the day of our visit: The legendary 1939 American Inferno on Mount Washington, he said, had its genesis at the third Schussverein invitational downhill on the Bear Mountain Trail. Leich said that early ski promoter Alec Bright wrote to the White Mountain National Forest supervisor after visiting the trail on Bear Mountain back in 1939: "Last week,” Bright wrote, “as we stood on Bear Mountain and viewed the complete snow covered beauty of Mount Washington, there was a hue and cry from the old guard that we must revive the old Hochgebirge Inferno Race, which means the old down Mount Washington Race from summit to Pinkham Notch. In a matter of weeks, Leigh related, Bright and his Ski Club Hochgebirge had organized the race that is remembered today for Toni Matt's hair-raising schuss of the Tuckerman Ravine headwall. So, there was a tie-in after all to the painting of Toni Matt on the wall of the cabin — let alone Stanton Slope and Vail. To think it all started in Bartlett... STANTON FARM Eastman Story

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BARTLETT LAND AND LUMBER COMPANY The village of Bartlett, New Hampshire, was once the center of railroad activity by the Maine Central Railroad in the eastern White Mountains. Bartlett was also the location of a large sawmill and a logging railroad which made tracks over Bear Notch and down into the Swift River valley. The Bartlett Land and Lumber Company was formed in the early 1870s by lumbermen from Portland, Maine who also accumulated about forty thousand acres of timberland. Bartlett Land & Lumber Company Research Project The Bartlett Land & Lumber Company and its subsidiary the Bartlett & Albany Railroad was owned by Frank George and C.F. Buffum, both from Bartlett, along with Charles and Horatio Jose, of Portland, ME. According to Aileen Carroll’s book, Bartlett, New Hampshire … in the valley of the Saco, in 1873, the lumber company began acquiring tracts of land on Bear Mountain and Mount Tremont. This land abutted acreage owned by the Livermore logging operation and would eventually lead to a boundary dispute that ended up in the United States Supreme Court for resolution. Aside from the main mill located on “Company Hill,” smaller mills that were part of the BL&LC mill were located along the tracks of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad. (Company Hill was located on the upper section of today’s Albany Avenue heading up the road toward the winter gate; after the gate, the road is then known as Bear Notch Road.) The mill operated until 1894 when the properties and railroad were sold to Otis Smith of Cambridge, MA and Herbert Blanchard of Concord, MA. Today, the land of the main mill is privately owned. A recent exploration by BHS member, David Atchason, and Phil Franklin located the mill site. They found that aside from a few remnants of the mill most of it has blended back into the forest. BHS has very little historical information on the Bartlett Land & Lumber Company. Scotty Mallett, our BHS railroad historian and member of the BHS Board of Directors has launched an effort to dig into the history of this company, once the largest employer in town. The Bartlett Historical Society Museum has an artifact from the site of the main mill and maps that show the layout of the mill but beyond that and what the Carroll book relates, we have a blank page that needs to be filled. How Can You Help? We are in search of any paper documentation or records from the mill, photographs of the mill operation, lists of employees, information on the smaller mill sites, family stories of relatives who worked at the mill and more information on the Supreme Court case with the Livermore logging operation. If you have artifacts from the mill or other historical information, we’d welcome that as well. If you can help and information to deepen our knowledge of the mill, please contact either Scotty Mallett at ScottyMallett@gmail.com or 603-383-3040 or Phil Franklin at Phil@BartlettHistory.org . The White Mountain History website has a very nice section about the Bartlett Land and Lumber Company. Rather than repeat it all here, You may read it and view pictures and a map at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230406074524/https://whitemountainhistory.org/Bartlett_and_Albany_RR.html (the link is ok as of Jan 2025) Kay Westcott sent us the following Newspaper clips. Thank You so Much. July 5, 1884 - Mill Destroyed by Fire Bartlett Land and Lumber Company OTHER RESOURCES: The Supreme Court Case: Bartlett Land and Lumber Company vs Daniel Saunders - April 1881 Do You have any information about the Bartlett Land and Lumber Company? Send it to dave@bartletthistory.org January 20, 1886 - Embezzlement Bartlett Land and Lumber Company

Bridges and trestles, railroad prepared by Scotty Mallett railroad historian BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... Bridges & Trestles Functionality and Architecture Meet This double span bridge is located in Glen, NH. Wendell Kiesman photo - used with permission I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Pratt Truss Bridge Since its introduction in 1844, this bridge design became part of hundreds of bridges created up to Second World War. It was designed by the Thomas Willis Pratt (1812 – 1875) and his father Caleb Pratt, a pair of American engineers, just several years after William Howe patented his famous Howe truss design. This bridge design immediately became widely used during the period when many bridges moved from wood components toward all-steel construction designs. Its most compelling feature was the ability was to span great distances using simple construction methods. It was regularly used to span anchor points that are up to 250 feet (76 meters) apart. It was most commonly used in railroad bridge construction, although it was also a preferred choice for creating other types of bridges all around the world until early 20th century. What is a trestle Bridge? With the increased use and development of railroads civil engineers had to deal with rough, unstable and often dangerous terrain and make sure that rails are adequately supported by trestle construction which was meant to be filled with solid material. When building railroad tracks across wide and deep valleys, trestles made of wooden timber were built to keep the track solid and safe high above the ground. Most trestles were meant to be temporary, allowing trains to transport materials necessary to create a solid fill beneath the tracks. On the other hand, rather than temporary, trestles were used as permanent bridge support in sections of tracks where water flow or sudden flooding could cause solid fills to become unsafe. Despite the frail looks of trestle bridges, they remained a safe passage for freight trains around the still settling the United States while exploring and populating and developing western territories. In the United Kingdom, wooden trestles were used for a relatively short period of the main use of crossing deep valleys in mountainous areas and were soon replaced by stone, and concrete viaducts with only a few wooden trestles continued to be in use into the 20th century. Frankenstein Trestle Crawford Notch about 1880. Spindly trestle supports indicate built on initial opening of the track through Crawford Notch by the P and O 1875. . Frankenstein was strengthened for heavier trains during the summer of 1905 as Maine Central RR began a bridge upgrade program from Portland to St. Johnsbury. ArchBridges Stone Arch Bridges on the Mountain Division Stone Arch Bridges were popular on Railroads and the Portland and Ogdensburg line from Portland, Maine to St. Jo hnsbury, Vermont was no exception. Between milepost 7.34 Ink Horn, Maine and heading west to milepost 100.25 Carroll stream in Whitefie ld, NH there were 9 stone arch bridges constructed. Finding the arch bridges on the line from North Conway to Crawford Notch starts at Artist Falls Brook (constructe d in 1882 by the stone masons of the Portland and Ogdensburg RR) at Milepost 59.24 and ends in Crawford Notch at Milepost 81.82 Kedron Brook with 2 being constructed. Here pictured is the st one arch bridge at Kedron Brook in Crawford Notch. The stone was available from a near by quarry along the left side of the tracks heading west towards St. Johnsbury, VT. Kedron Brook Arch was built by the stone masons of the Portland and Ogdensburg in 1875. Stone bridges all have arches supporting them. Step 2: Plan Your Bridge. Step 3: Pour a Concrete Footing. Step 4: Build Your Wooden Support Frame. Step 5: Cut Your Stones. Step 6: Place Arch Support Stones. Step 7: Reinforce Arch with Concrete (Optional) Step 8: Build Side Walls. You can find great information on construction of stone arch bridges at https//stonearchbridges.com **The picture at Kedron Brook was take with the permission of the management of the Conway Scenic Railroad. The line is the property of the State of NH and heavy fines are given for trespassing (no joke). Please enjoy the picture of Kedron Brook on this page nd do not attempt to find this on your own. Kedron Brook Bridge - Crawford Notch, NH More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right...

Maps: historic and current Do You Like Old Maps? If you like old maps this page is for you. The David Rumsey Collection includes high resolution maps for many areas and many time periods. I have also found other historic maps from various sources. The Harts Location Website has included an Axis-Gis map which is current. It shows property lines, owners, water and soil resources. It's a fascinating experience. THESE WILL KEEP YOU BUSY FOR A WHILE: 1. High Quality Map of Bartlett (and other places) from the David Rumsey Map Collection; This one shows The Town of Bartlett in 1892 with many residences identified by occupant name. It shows present day Cobb Farm Road crossing the river in the area of Sawyers Rock and joining Rte 302. It shows the location of the Garland Ridge School on Stony Brook, The Hilltown School on West Side Road. Take a look and see who lived in your general area before you. This link will take you there. (unpredictable off site link, slow at times) Bartlett Historical Society Museum has a copy of the entire Atlas from which the above map was derived...donated by George Howard of Glen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. This 1796 Map shows Vere Royse and Tho Chadbourne as the principal owners of the majority of the Upper Bartlett and Harts Location Area. Click Here to see the 1796 Map. Very good resolution, zoom in to see the trees (almost). Captain Vere Royse was a soldier and surveyor and at one time served as surveyor-general of the Province of New Hampshire. He made charter maps for many White Mountains towns, including Chatham, Bartlett and Bretton Woods. In 1769 He was granted 2000 acres near the Saco river between Glen and Bartlett; This encompassed the area from present Day Harts Location Town Line and Rogers Crossing. The land was given for his services "during the late war in North America," but Captain Royse never settled here. The peak west of Evan Notch and nearby East Royse were named for him. The name Royse Mountain appeared on Samuel Holland's 1784 map. Thomas Chadbourne was born in Berwick Maine,March 26, 1736, the son of William and Mary Chadbourne. His Grant of 3000 acres is part of the area today know as Harts Location. Between 1772 and 1775 Mr Chadbourne sold his grant to Richard Hart . Mr Chadbourne was also granted acreage in Conway in 1773, where he settled and built the first framed house in that town. He married Hannah Long of Portsmouth in January 1758 and fathered eight children. He died on March 7, 1810. More Information can be obtained from the book "Harts Location in Crawford Notch " by Marion L Varney published in 1997. List of Maps I Have Found: Map, Bartlett 1892, high resolution, Rumsey Map GO sometimes this site is a bit persnickety Map, Historic Lodging Establishments, Some From 200 Years Ago GO Map, State, 1796 high resolution - Rumsey Map Collection. Very detailed GO AXIS GIS MAP _ HARTS LOCATION - INCLUDES BARTLETT. THIS IS A HIGH RESOLUTION MAP SHOWING PROPERTY LINES, WATER RESOURCES, SOIL TYPES AND MORE. IT CAN EVEN TELL YOU WHO OWNS VARIOUS ADDRESSES. A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE. THIS MAP IS PART OF THE HARTS LOCATION WEBSITE WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK. MapCarta offers a large collection of satellite maps that are both zoomable and have good resolution. Carroll County Map - 1980 - Library of Congress Chadbourne Anchor 2 MT Royse Hart Ryce Bartlett Area - 1892 - collection Click the map for a large size you can see Bartlett Village to West Side Road - 1892 Rogers Crossing to Glen and West Side Road -1892- Glen to the Jackson Town Line - 1892 - Thorn Hill Road and Dundee - 1892 - Intervale Area -1892- Albany Area at Bear Notch Road Terminus - 1892 - Cobb Farm Road Showing bridge across the Saco out to route 302 - 1892 - Bartlett Area Royse and Chadbourne Received Land Grants, 5000 acres - There Wasn't Much in the way of Neighbors...or Residents 1796 Peg Mill Area - 1910 - Saco Valley Railroad 1892 Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Network - not dated - Bartlett Map with Points of Interest...Part of map is missing Library of Congress: Image 1 and 2 of Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire 1897. Click the image to go to the library and view the "zoomable" maps fire map There's always more to find

Godfrey Nicholas Frankenstein 1820 - 1873 Frankenstein Cliff and Trestle in Crawford Notch Story by Scotty Mallett - Railroad Historian Godfrey N. Frankenstein was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1820. He and his family fled and immigrated to America in 1831 eventually settling in Ohio. The 1830’s wave of emigration from Germany was caused chiefly by economic hardships, including unemployment and crop failures. Many Germans also left to avoid wars and military service. In some cases, government entities encouraged poor citizens to emigrate. Godfrey had 3 siblings, all of whom became artists. At the age of 13 he became a sign painter and at the age of 19 was a portrait painter. In 1841 he founded and was the first president of the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts. When he was 24, in 1844, he went to Niagara Falls. The grandeur of the Falls impressed upon him a new direction. Over a nine year period he would paint hundreds of scenes of the Falls all from different perspectives. Beginning in 1853 he then began a five year process to transfer the sketches to canvas. He picked 80 to 100 good drawings and copied each one to single panels that stood at least eight feet high. The end product was a roll of canvas that when unfurled was nearly 1000 feet long. Frankenstein cleverly juxtaposed scenes from different years to show the changes. In 1858 he began to show them to audiences, mostly in New York City, one at a time, like a moving picture, telling a story in the process. At fifty cents per person to see the show it was a success beyond his expectations. In 1867, Frankenstein traveled to Europe and spent two years abroad painting many mountain landscapes. Below, "The Mill Pond" in Ohio Godfrey had a great love of the White Mountains and when traveling there he stayed with Dr. Samuel Bemis (1793–1881) at his stone cottage in Crawford Notch, later known as the Inn Unique and currently The Notchland Inn, and he formed a friendship with Bemis. Dr. Bemis owned most of the Crawford Notch at that time and named the cliffs and the gulf below after his friend Frankenstein. It is said that Mr. Frankenstein painted many White Mountains scenes yet these paintings are hard to find. Frankenstein would die in 1873 at his home in Springfield, Ohio. Two years later, in 1875, when the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad built the Railroad through Crawford Notch the trestle that stands today was named Frankenstein Trestle. Godfrey Frankenstein's 1848 Painting of "Mount Washington Over Tuckerman's Ravine" can be found at this link. http://whitemountainprints.org/Godfrey_Frankenstein.html John Frankenstein painted this portrait of his younger brother Godfrey, while they shared studio space in Ohio. Godfrey Frankenstein was elected president of the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts in 1841, and was later known as "The Painter of Niagara Falls" after creating about a hundred paintings of the national treasure. Here, John portrayed his brother surrounded by plaster casts of classical sculpture and numerous thick books, the largest of which is labeled "Schiller," probably referring to the German philosopher, Friedrich Schiller. Dressed in a coat and tie, Godfrey is absorbed in his own watercolor painting. The partially painted canvas over Godfrey's right shoulder could be Angel and Child or The Dawn of Life, both unlocated works by John. This tranquil scene of an artist absorbed in his work contrasts John's later pessimistic views on his profession. After years of public neglect and struggles to secure patrons, John published a poem, "American Art: It's Awful Altitude" in which he condemned art unions, academics, patrons, and successful artists. "American Art: Its Awful Altitude" is a 112-page satirical poem written by artist John Frankenstein and published in Cincinnati in 1864. The work fiercely criticizes the 19th-century American art world, calling out successful artists, wealthy patrons, and prominent critics by name. [1 , 2 ] Key Details of the Work Author: John Frankenstein (1816–1881), an immigrant painter and sculptor working in the Midwest and East Coast. Format: A 112-page satirical and polemical poem. Themes: Attacks on commercialism, lack of genuine taste, and the petty politics driving the contemporary American art establishment. Availability: Copies are preserved in rare-book collections like the Library of Congress and digitized via projects like the HathiTrust Digital Library . [1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] If you would like, I can share more about: John Frankenstein's background as a painter and sculptor The specific historical context of the 1860s American art scene The Historical Context of the 1860s American Art Scene When Frankenstein published American Art: Its Awful Altitude in 1864, the American art world was undergoing massive upheaval driven by the Civil War, rapid economic shifts, and a changing cultural landscape. [1 , 2 ] The Impact of the Civil War: The ongoing war forced a dramatic shift in American artistic focus. Romanticized landscapes and idealized historical scenes began giving way to gritty realism, documentary accuracy, and genre paintings that captured the sobering reality and everyday life of a divided nation. [1 , 2 , 3 ] The Rise of "Art Unions" and Commercialism: The mid-19th century saw the peak influence of Art Unions—organizations that pooled member fees to buy art from select creators and distribute them via lotteries. While they democratized art ownership, independent artists like Frankenstein despised them. They viewed Art Unions as corrupt, bureaucratic gatekeepers that prioritized mass-market appeal over genuine artistic genius. [1 , 2 ] Elite Patronage and Petty Politics: Wealthy merchants and industrialists dominated art patronage, using art collections to signal high social status. The art scene was highly cliquey and territorial, run by powerful critics and institutional boards. Artists who refused to play the political game or join exclusive art clubs—like the fiercely independent Frankenstein—were systematically ignored and shut out of lucrative commissions. [1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] The Allure of Europe: The 1860s marked the beginning of an era where wealthy American collectors increasingly bypassed domestic talent to buy academic paintings and old master works from Europe. This left American painters and sculptors competing fiercely for a shrinking pool of local patrons, amplifying the bitterness of struggling domestic artists. [1 , 2 , 3 ] Sources: https://unrememberedhistory.com/tag/godfrey-nicholas-frankenstein/ http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2006/05/28/new-hampshire-when-frankenstein-roamed-the-white-mountains/ https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portrait-godfrey-frankenstein-8570

Lumbering Practices; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. BY NICK HOWE AND TAKEN FROM AN ARTICLE IN YANKEE MAGAZINE JULY 2009; SORRY THE LINK TO THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE IS NO LONGER FUNCTIONAL. By Nick Howe: In 1882 most of the White Mountains land was state-owned until the middle of the 19th century; then it was more or less given away to private owners. Timber barons headed the list of recipients: Three operators divided up the Pemigewasset Wilderness, and the Kancamagus Highway runs for its entire length on the skid ways and railroad beds they built. This was the heroic age of American history and the approach of these three men defined the choices of American enterprise then and even to this day. One tract of 75,000 acres went to Daniel Saunders, an unlikely woodsman who had a law degree from Harvard and the look of a rector in an English cathedral town. Indeed, he was a highly placed authority on legal matters in the Episcopal church, and in 1876 he started a mill town at the northern edge of the wilderness that would eventually include 150 residents and up to 200 choppers in the woods. Selective cutting is the practice of taking only mature trees and leaving the rest to grow while the choppers move on to the next mature stand. This term was not in the timber baron's vocabulary or even widely understood when Mr. Saunders went to work. He was the only operator who used this method. The Saunders family was so careful that they cut over most of their land three times and still had virgin trees standing after 41 years of work. Fire was the great enemy. The timber barons were interested in only the long trunks of the trees and thus often left behind immense piles of limbs and the slender upper sections of the trees -- what the British call "lops and tops." These vast tinder boxes could be ignited by lightning, by a careless match, or even more easily, by sparks from the wood-burning locomotives of the timber railways. It's a measure of the Saunders family's devoted stewardship that no fire ever burned in their domain. The largest of the operators was J. E. Henry, who advanced into the wilderness from the Zealand Valley in the north and then from Lincoln in the west, a company town built and personally owned by Mr. Henry. He was in business from 1881 to his death in 1912, and he was relentless. His men worked 11-hour days, which were regulated by 47 posted rules, 28 of which concerned the proper care of horses. Mr. Henry paid each of his men in person while carrying a gun on his hip, and he brooked no arguments. When one of his choppers settled up his account at the end of the winter, he saw a substantial deduction for tobacco at Mr. Henry's store. "I don't use tobacco," said the chopper, "you can ask any of the men." "That's all right," snapped Mr. Henry. "It was there if you'd wanted it." The property lines of the timber barons' vast holdings were often disputed, and these were not trivial matters. The first serious disagreement involved the Saunders operation, and it went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Local ingenuity settled other arguments. There was, for instance, the line along the height of land between mounts Carrigain and Kancamagus. It divided the Saunders and Henry holdings, and the two men did not agree on the exact location, so Mr. Henry sent the sheriff to arrest the Saunders choppers near the height of land, and he jailed them in Lincoln. Independent investigation found that the Henry choppers were at fault. Then Mr. Henry returned to thought and came up with a more subtle plan: It was said that he counted noses and then sent so many of his men to live in Livermore that they could form a voting majority and redefine the property lines. Unlike the judicious Saunders family, the Henry ideal was to mow the wilderness, to clear off the land so completely that logs could be rolled down the mountainsides to the skid ways and then hauled to his mills by train. These were not narrow-gauge railroad lines; they were full commercial width, and their location as well as the labyrinth of skid ways made for complicated undertakings. This was the work of Levi "Pork Barrel" Dumas, an unlettered French Canadian, whose instinct for location and gradient would be the envy of today's best civil engineers. While most loggers had a single-track operation, Mr. Henry built an empire with more than 20 deep-woods camps and more than 50 miles of railroad for six engines and extras he leased as needed; the trains would make two or three runs a day -- a top haul was 28 laden cars -- and telephone lines connected the camps and regulated traffic in "Henry's Woods." Mr. Henry's profligate ways led to three major fires: 12,000 acres burned in 1886, 10,000 in 1903, and 35,000 in 1907. Writers told of the "devastating efficiency" and "abomination of desolation" of the Henry operations. In the summer of 1907, the sky was darkened by smoke as if from a volcanic eruption. When the land had cooled, scientists declared that the ground was profoundly destroyed, that it was sterilized into the upper layers of bedrock, and that no green thing might ever grow there again. When the Henrys sold out in 1917, they transferred 100,000 acres largely given to stumps and ashes. The third member of this epochal trio was Oakleigh Thorne , who started into the wilderness from Conway on the east side. He was as different from the other two giants of the Pemigewasset as they were from each other; he was a cultured New York financier and a member of the Tennis and Racquet Club and the Westminster Kennel Club. He used to arrive in the North Country riding in a seat attached to the running board of his chauffeur-driven Packard roadster. Mr. Thorne began work in 1906 and would eventually build 20 miles of track. However patrician and picturesque Oakleigh Thorne might have been, he was an absentee owner: He let work out to subcontractors, and his operations were so anonymous that local residents and imported workers alike spoke only of "the Company," the very model of a modern corporate life. This did not indicate a lack of character, however, and work habits were strictly enforced: One morning the foreman lit a stick of dynamite under his choppers' shanty to hasten their way out to the cuttings. "The Company" ceased operations in 1916, the last of the rapacious Henrys was gone in 1917, and the saintly Saunders left their woods in 1927. Nature sees things in a longer span than we do. The railroad beds and skid ways laid out by Pork Barrel Dumas are still engraved on the land, and hikers still find iron artifacts remaining from those wilderness empires, but it is impossible to find any differences in the woods once claimed by such completely different men. Now it again belongs to hikers and hunters and fishermen, the same as before any of the timber barons began their immense work. -----end 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 thorne

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Public Meeting - November 2007 At the invitation of the Jackson Historical Society, the Bartlett Historical Society gave a presentation on Thursday, November 1st at 7:30pm titled: Past, Present and Future Jackson Historical Society (Warren Schomaker) and the Bartlett Historical Society (Bert George) stand by the BHS fundraiser quilt "Days Before Yesterday". Jackson’s Historical Society’s invitation was appreciated by members of both societies and provided the perfect venue to share information with a neighboring community. Their assistance has been welcome in the past and collaboration will facilitate future development. Leslie Mallett speaks of the early attempts at forming the Bartlett Historical Society. In 2007, grant applications grew and awards to the Society include: - Pequawket Foundation for the Past Perfect software program and a laptop computer - Henney History Fund for a multi-function printer/scanner/copier - NH Electric Cooperative for equipment to support the Life, Legends and Lore Project. October 17th at Flatbread Pizza Company in North Conway for pizza and socializing before. Every pizza sold was donated to the Society - to all who attended and to Flatbread Pizza. This program, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and geared toward an adult audience, was free and open to the public. Jeff Warner performed August 15 at the Seasons at Attitash, Route 302 in Bartlett. Jeff's Songs of Old New Hampshire, the Society's first "Humanities To Go!" program, offered the songs and stories that, in the words of Carl Sandburg, tell us where we came from and what brought us along. These ballads, love songs and comic pieces reveal the experiences and recordings and, for some, books. Songs from the railroad, lumber camps, the decks of sailing ships, the textile mills and the war between the sexes offer views of artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries. Jeff's biography can be read at his website where you can also listen to clips of his music . In years past, the histories of both Bartlett and Jackson have been intertwined with several boundary adjustments and the families who share a common heritage. The audience learned about the Bartlett Historical Society's formation, its current programs and activities and its ambitious goals for the future. Members spoke about the Past, Present and Future of their “new librarian for over 50 years. The library, under the leadership of its two books on the history of Bartlett. In the summer of 2004 Bert George, Norman Head, Leslie Mallett, Jean Garland and John Murphy met to create the Articles of Association. In the fall of that year, the Chippanock Inn hosted the first meeting. Members gathered and brought historical memorabilia, which filled three rooms. Officers were elected and goals were set to encourage and embrace programs promoting genealogy research and family history, the history of railroading, and the mapping of the cemeteries. During 2005 they worked to develop the organizational “nuts and bolts” by networking with established societies to research and build policies and procedures for accepting collections and creating a Constitution and By-Laws. The membership grew to 57 and programs were presented by Peter Crane on the history of Livermore, Marty Engstrom on his years on Mt. Washington, and Ben English on railroading in Bartlett. Year two continued the Society’s steady growth when Stoney Morrell of the Morrell Corporation offered use of a chalet, provided utility costs were assumed. With room to store and expand, intensive research to finance equipment to catalog and archive its growing collection began. The first grant was written to the Henney History Fund for a fire/water-proof file cabinet. A few “set- backs” were encountered during that first year. The chalet was broken into and the donated computer was stolen, and a furnace malfunction required several days of clean up. Member projects that year were participation in Bartlett Old Home Days festival, and in November and December 2006 the oral history project entitled Life, Legends and Lore - Village Voices became reality. Now in its third year, the Society is proud to have its own websiteatwww.bartletthistory.org . It accommodates multiple users, provides membership and contact forms, is keyword-searchable, user-friendly and affordable. It is an evolving project and features photos, sounds and links. Other 2007 projects include: - A members-created float for the Bartlett July 4th parade - Strengthening the Society’s infrastructure by addressing regulatory compliance, creating a new file system, reinforcing and expanding the policies and procedures manual - The Bartlett Historical Society newsletter grew with its popular feature, 100 Years Ago in Bartlett - News from the Villages- A two-part beginning genealogy research workshop was presented - Cemetery mapping and indexing, and the mapping and documenting of historic homes and their residing families began - The History of… project was created to explore the history of skiing in Bartlett During 2007, the Society presented programs for members and the public: - The Grand Hotels of the White Mountains with David Emerson - Tours of the Limmer Property (aka Intervale Playground and Harmony Acres,) and the Sut and Margaret Marshall horse-drawn wagon collection - New Hampshire Humanities Council programs - Songs of Old New Hampshire and Witches, Pop Culture and the Past The 2007 membership has grown to 162 members and the calendar has included 30 days of activity. Notable events in Bartlett’s history were addressed by the reading of The Historical Impact and Significances of the Railroads in Bartlett, NH by Scotty Mallett, BHS Railroad Historian, and the July 13, 1893 fire, which wiped out the center of Bartlett Village, from the Concord Evening Monitor. Presenting members agreed the future of BHS is bright. The board continues to fulfill its mission to preserve and protect all documents and items of historic value concerning the history of the Town of Bartlett, NH. In 2008, the Society will host a three-day gala, the Bartlett School Alumni Reunion, and invite all who attended Bartlett schools. The Society goals for 2008 are to increase member involvement in ongoing projects and programs; coordinate with other societies and organizations to present joint programs and events for the entire Valley; present more Humanities Council programs and field trips; and work with the schools to create history-related youth programs. 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Stories of various people and families in Bartlett NH - Morrill - Saunders - Howard Tasker - Seavey - Titus Brown - Mallett People Stories Bartlett has been home to many interesting people. Read about some of them here. Share Josiah Bartlett Mary Bartlett John Chandler Describes Bartlett High School in the 1920's Michael Chandler - Peg mill recollections Page 7 Ethan Allen Crawford Hattie & Loring Evans - (page 6) Dr Leonard Eudy Smallpox Doctor Godfrey Frankenstein Artist Phil Franklin - BHS President George Family Ellwood Dinsmore Hall Family Hebb Remembers 1930's Village Robert Morrill Monahan Family - Crawford Notch Lady Blanche Murphy Saunders of Livermore Dr. Harold Shedd Thad Thorne - Attitash Titus Brown Inn Tasker Family How Places got Their Names Sweetser's White Mountain Guide Book and Place Names From the Bartlett Historical Society NEWSLETTER INTERVIEWS: These Stories Usually Begin on Page 7 or so of the Newsletter. George Howard Interview Ben Howard Interview Gail Paine Interview Dwight Smith Interview Dale Mallett Interview John Cannell Interview Charlotte Teele Interview Bert George Interview Pt 1 Bert George Interview Pt 2 David Shedd Interview Dave Eliason Interview Peg Trecarten Fish Interview Harts Location Verland Swede Ohlson , died in 2003 at age 86. He was of Center Conway, died at home on Dec. 7. He was born in 1917 in Duhring, Pa., the fifth of six children of Fred Ohlson, a Swedish immigrant, and Anna Beckwith Ohlson. He grew up in logging camps and farms in western New York state. He was a WWII veteran serving in the elite First Special Service Forces. They were trained in snow warfare, mountaineering, amphibious assault and parachuting. He had a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Forest Service, working in Montana, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maine and New Hampshire. He was Saco District Ranger for 23 years, starting in 1957, when the Kancamagus Highway was an incomplete dirt road. His love of forest and trees was evident in the thousands of trees he planted over his lifetime, in his yard, his childrens yards and just about any place he could put one. Bits & Pieces ohlson The Glen Road, also known as the Pinkham Road, was built by Daniel Pinkham (born 1779) who was granted all the land from Jackson to Gorham in 1824. He did so at great expense to himself but greatly improved travel for the general public. Mr Pinkham was also a lay preacher with much ability. Glen Rd PromQueens 1956 Bartlett High School Prom Queens at an Event Hosted at Sky Valley. Here are historical details regarding the individuals in this photo: Individual Backgrounds Ellen & Evelyn Sanborn: Twin sisters raised in Bartlett, NH. Evelyn (Sanborn) Bailey later served as a rural route letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in the local valley and was active with the Bartlett-Jackson Ambulance Service and the American Legion Auxiliary. Audrey Ludgate (1940–2005): Daughter of Henry and Hulda Ludgate of Bartlett. She grew up locally and was later known as Audrey Helland. Donna Chappee: A long-time Bartlett resident who grew up in the village and participated in several local high school athletic programs. Sue Cook: A fellow classmate active in Bartlett local high school events during the mid-to-late 1950s. Context & Connections Bartlett High School: During the mid-1950s, students in the area attended the local school system, where many of these individuals—including Evelyn Sanborn, Audrey Ludgate, and Donna Chappee—also played on the Bartlett High School girls' basketball team around 1956–1957. Setting: The wooden platform and background wooden fencing suggest an outdoor summer event held at Sky Valley-Bartlett NH.

Bartlett NH area history The Village Area of Bartlett Page 2 Fred and Grace Garland operated Garland's Tea Room , and later it was a restaurant and ice cream parlor know simply as "Garlands" . It also had a few cabins, some of which are still there today. This restaurant operated until the early 1970's and was destroyed by fire. It was located just west of today's Post Office. In the 1948 color picture below today's Post Office would be behind the Garlands Cabins sign. The Tea Room photo is 1935ish. Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge FredGraceGarland Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 Share WhatNot The What Not Shop was operated by Franklin and Almeda George from the mid 1940's. True to it's name, the store carried practically everything one could want in those days and even had an ice cream soda parlor and a barber shop. For quite a time he also sold gasoline out front. Franklin was the Town tax collector in those days and he operated that activity from the store as well. Franklin and his wife lived right across the street in the same house that his ancestors operated as an Inn in the mid 1800's. After Franklin's death the store was operated by Dottie Howard for a few years and then by David & Debby Phanauef, who renamed it to the Bear Notch Deli. David later sold the store to The Ryans. In January of 2009 the store was completely destroyed by fire caused by an electrical problem. This photo of the What Not Shop is from the mid 1950's. Today (2024) this site is a parking lot for the church. Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 AlbanyAve 1907: Bartlett Village Railroad Square: The big white building is the Odd Fellows Hall , which has a stage and movie theatre. Next door to that is Hellen Hayes lodging house , The Maplewood. Hellen also operated The Elmcrest during the 1930's. That building is still standing and is located almost opposite the present day Villager Motel , It has been vacant for years. I recall watching Carroll Hayes butcher cattle in the barn there in the 1960's. Hellen, being an ambitious person also operated a restaurant, The Red Rooster, located on Main Street where Lydia Lansing now lives ( 2020) . The brown building (above) on Albany Avenue was a grocery store operated by the Gosselins, Joe and Myrtle and their two kids David and Sue. Mr Ryle ran a kindergarten upstairs. Mr. Wimpy Thurston Purchased the business from the Gosselins. Wimpy was one of the first real estate brokers in the area and by the mid 1950's he sold the store to Harold and Edith Jacobson and their son Arthur . Wimpy found real estate a better calling than storekeeper and he moved to North Conway and opened his office there at the Junction of Rte 16 and 302 next door to what was then The Yield House. The Jacobsons' were the last to operate a business here, which they continued well into the 1970's. After the Jacobson's sold the property it sat vacant for a time during which a zoning ordinance was enacted that made this area residential. A business no longer permitted, the building sat vacant until the Hodgkins family next door purchased it and the building was razed in the late 1990's. The land is still owned by the Hodgkins, who live next door. Next to the store is The Garland , an Inn built by Eben Garland . It also housed a drug store and jewelry store. It was sold to the Hodgkins family about 1920 for use as a private residence. It is still owned by the Hodgkins family. (photo above, right) The top picture was taken from the vicinity of the Railroad Depot building, Rail tracks are just to the left of this picture. jacobson helen hayes thurston gosselin RailroadSquare Edith and Harold Jacobson - undated photo Arthur Jacobson, 2012 Obituary HERE The Helen Hayes House where she operated the Maplewood Inn and raised her children and grandchildren. maplewood The Union Congregational Church on Albany Ave dated 1906, above and St Joseph's Catholic Church located on School Street, probably 1950's. Churchs 2 BartLumberCo Bartlett Lumber Company and Kearsarge Peg Mill complex about 1900 pegbasics FEB 12, 2016-BARTLETT — No one was injured but one of the world’s most unusual manufacturers and a major part of the town’s history was destroyed Friday afternoon when a fire leveled the Kearsarge Peg Company. Bartlett Fire Chief Pat Roberts, who said the fire was reported around 1:11 p.m. Friday by a custodian from the nearby Josiah Bartlett Elementary School, called the mill a total loss. Three people were inside the structure at the time of the fire and they managed to exit safely. Roberts said firefighters from between Tamworth and Jackson responded to the scene, adding that water and weather were both challenges. The first, he said, had to be drafted from the Saco River and then shuttled, while the second was down-right cold, with temperatures in the low double digits that froze firefighters and water alike. While the cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, Roberts was clear that the fire is “absolutely not” suspicious. Gene Chandler, who chairs the Bartlett Board of Selectmen and is also a state representative, called the destruction of the mill “a terrible loss for the history of the Town of Bartlett,” recalling how the mill had at one time been one of the town’s largest employers and also a supplier of saw dust to farms, like the Chandler’s. Kearsarge Peg Co ., Inc. was a business located in Bartlett, NH that had been in continuous operation in this location for 121 years until it was destroyed by fire in February 2016. The company prospered through the years on its reputation for quality products and timely delivery. The original product (hardwood shoe pegs and hardwood tumbling media) is still manufactured in the facility, and in fact, Kearsarge was the only manufacturer of this product in North America. The principal business of the company at its inception was the manufacture of shoe pegs. Shoe pegs were long cross sectioned hardwood shapes with a point on one end, manufactured primarily from white, yellow and silver birch, although white maple and beech are occasionally employed as well. The Kearsarge Peg Co. manufactured approximately seventy-five different sizes of shoe pegs, which varied in size from 5/16 in. long by 1/18 in. wide to ¼ in. wide by 2.0 in. long . This product was used as a component of shoe manufacturing in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and replaced shoe nails, as a means for insuring a lasting bond between the last and sole of the shoe. It was considered superior to metal nails, in that over time the wood peg would draw moisture from the ambient atmosphere and swell, forming a lock fit between these two components. Shoe manufacturing along with textiles was a major segment of the economy of New England at this time, and there were dozens of plants, which made this product in competition with Kearsarge. In its earlier years, Kearsarge exported heavily to the shoe industry in Norway, Germany, Australia and elsewhere. The use of pegs in shoe manufacturing came to an abrupt halt with the advent of the Second World War. (Exception: custom made climbing, skiing and cowboy boots). Not only did the company find that its export markets were now closed, but new developments in shoe manufacturing technology obviated the need for pegs to tie or lock the last and sole of shoes together. Lupoline, under the director of its founder Joseph Lupo of pioneered dry barrel finish or tumbling techniques in the early part of the twentieth century, with some patents dating as early as the 1920’s and 1930’s. He found that “shoe pegs” made an ideal mass finishing media for smoothing and polishing plastic parts in rotary barrel finish equipment. This technology was quickly adapted by major manufacturers such as Bausch & Lomb, Foster-Grant and the American Optical Co. and others to replace tedious manual finishing methods that involved buffing. These large manufacturers of eyeglass frame and sunglass frame components were soon utilizing hardwood pegs in bulk, by the truck load and even car load for abrasive finishing and polishing operations. This continues to be the primary use for hardwood pegs and other hardwood preform shapes that the company manufactures to this day. In the early 1980’s the company management decided that there was a need to become more involved on a technical level with the finishing industry. As a result the PEGCO Division was instituted as a marketing and technical arm to more aggressively market hardwood media for other applications. It soon became apparent that there was a need to make PEGCO a technical resource for the finishing industry. Its focus became providing technical solutions to difficult edge and surface finish problems by process development in its “process laboratory” and offering turn-key equipment and abrasive supply packages as the solutions to these problems. The company’s office and manufacturing facilities are found at the same location in Bartlett, NH. These facilities are comprised of approximately 25,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space encompassed in an eleven building complex, situated on seven acres bounded by Kearsarge Street and the White Mountain National Forest. pegmill fire In the 1950's Bartlett Village had at least 5 gasoline and/or repair facilities. Franklin George had Shell gasoline in conjunction with his What Not Shop, E.O Garland had the Gulf station, The Howards operated the Texaco, Elwood Dinsmore operated the Sunoco after his railroad retirement and some Cabin Courts and Inns had gasoline for sale. These were all located within a half mile of each other. The picture below shows the Gulf station in 1950 (left side) next door to Garlands Restaurant. (right side). The Chippanock Inn is lower right. Eben Garland may have been some relation to the Restaurant and other Garlands living in the area. This Gulf station burned in the mid 1950's and was eventually rebuilt in nearly the same footprint. It survives in 2026 as Rogerson's Excavation Co. Anchor 4 Anchor 5 Anchor 11 Anchor 12 1890s–1920s : After the 1893 village fire, E.O. Garland rebuilds in the business district; his name is tied to drugs, jewelry, and a later garage, setting up the Main Street site that becomes the core “station” location. 1930–1943 : Garland’s garage functions as a repair and service hub; gasoline is almost certainly sold, but branding isn’t clearly documented yet—typical of small rural garages in this era. (Inference from commerce patterns.) 1944–1949: Garland's Main Street garage operates as a Gulf station under E.O. Garland— Meanwhile, the What Not Shop on corner of Main Street and Albany Ave begins selling gasoline out front in the mid‑1940s, it was either Shell or Mobil at various times. 1950–1959 : The What Not Shop continues as a general store with gas; ownership later passes to Dottie Howard and then the Phaneufs, and finally the Ryans, when it burned. The Garland's Main Street station branding shifts to Shell for a time before returning to Gulf. 1990 and beyond : As the commercial aspects of the Village declined, all the gas stations closed, The Hotel and the former What Not Shop burned, replaced with a small park and a church parking lot. The town also lost its peg mill, thermostat factory and grocery stores. The once bustling Village area now holds almost no reason for folks driving through to stop. Some folks like it that way. A progression of Village Gasoline Stations Sanborn 1949 Photo: Standing, Lillian Sanborn, Leon Sanborn, ??? - Seated, Ray Abbott and not sure who child might be. 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Glen NH Historic Hotels and Motels and Inns Glen Area Lodging Upper Village Area Intervale Area Glen Area Historic Lodging Map Delicate Title Share This photo dated 1952 show the central area of Glen. To get your bearings the building in the center is today's Red Parka Pub. In 1952 it was Grants General Store. woodshed The Woodshed is located about a half mile west of the junction of West Side Road and Rte 302. Originally owned by Pop Fosey, beginning about 1920, he had six tourist rooms in the main house and eleven separate cabins. In the era of Prohibition it was a well known Roadhouse serving illegal alcoholic beverages. In 1953 the property was purchased by Bill and Evalyn Gimber and they operated it as an Inn and Restaurant until 1959. A prominent feature in those days were two wooden horses that stood guard out front. The Woodshed is now the private residence of Norman and Kathleen Head, the Gimber's son. Norman is a local Realtor and the President of the Bartlett Historical Society. Source Material The Latchstring Was Always Out Aileen Carroll, 1994. Post card photos courtesy of Michael Bannon and Dave Eliason. July 1, 1943 Frank Foisey, a resident of Glen for the past ten years, died Friday at Memorial Hospital after a prolonged illness. Mr Foisey was born in Putnam, Conn 75 years ago. He came to New Hampshire in the early 1930’s for his health and for the past ten years had been the proprietor of a camp and restaurant known as the Woodshed Cafe. Services were held Monday at Putnam, after which burial was effected there in the family lot. Mr Foisey is survived by a brother, Joseph, of Los Angeles, California, by one daughter, Mrs Joseph Norbury, formerly of the Canal Zone, now residing in Glen, by a son, Fr Foisey, a missionary in Haiti, and by four grandchildren. For Victory Buy Bonds foiseyObit The Meadowbrook is just east of the Rte 302/West Side Road Junction in Glen. It was a standard 1950's style motel with a couple of cabins. It was built by a man named Schoner about 1945. During the 1970's and 80's it was owned by Dorothy "Dot" & Charlie Loeschorn. Dot was also a registered nurse at Memorial Hospital in North Conway. When they sold the property in the mid 1980's they built and operated "Whippy-Dippy", an ice cream and mini golf operation, on Rte 302 near Sky Valley Motel. (Dot died in May 2013 in Lakeland Florida). By 1990 the property was in a poor state of repair and was purchased by Bill Duggan who renamed it Will's Inn (after his son). Bill did major repairs and now Will's Inn is back on track with 23 units and a new addition directly across the street. meadowrook The Kennison's operated Saco River Cabins in Glen from about 1945 until 1969. From 1969 until 1992 Clara and Al Forbes operated the cabins. Al also operated the Sunoco Station in North Conway. These cabins were just across the street from the covered bridge. kennison pleasant valley Pleasant Valley Hall, became Pleasant Valley Farm and then The Glenwood by the Saco. Today it is known as The Bernerhoff. This Glen area Inn originally opened as Pleasant Valley Hall in 1 893. The "Hall" part of the name came about because the proprietor's last name was Hall; probably a relative of Obed Hall who operated an Inn in Bartlett Village beginning in 1790. It was operated primarily as a boarding house for teamsters and loggers. David and Marion Irving assumed ownership in 1928 and renamed the establishment to Pleasant Valley Farm. In 1937 T.H. Brooks took over and he renamed it to Glenwood by the Saco, reportedly because he so adored the big Glenwood Stove in the kitchen. Claire and Charlie Zumstein purchased the property in 1955 and renamed it to Bernerhoff, The House of Berne, which had been their hometown in Switzerland. In 1971 Claire's nephew, Herman Pfeuti, took ownership of the Inn and continued the Swiss tradition. During the 1980's Ted and Sharon Wrobleski operated the Inn using the same name. They sold it sometime in the late 1990's and the subsequent owners became over-extended and the property was sold by foreclosure auction to the Realtor, Dick Badger. His managers continue to operate the property as of this writing (Jan 2013). pine cottage The 1910 Postcard below is signed by one member of the Hall family (the original owner) to a lady in Portland Maine. tea room HallPostcard Pine Cottage was the home of Minnie Cannell who operated Cannell's Camps and Minnie Cannell's Tea Room. This group of buildings is located between Jericho Road and what is now the Massa-Schussers Ski Club. The cabins were a new idea for the travelling public and these were the second such group of cabins to be constructed in New Hampshire. (The first were in Franconia Notch near the Old Man of the Mountains.) In 1937 the Cannell's moved to their present location in Intervale across from the Scenic Vista. Read more from the Source Material "The Latch String Was Always Out by Aileen Carroll 1994 cannell camps Storybook Inn Stilphens farm The Glen Inn. This was originally Stilphen's Farm ; currently it is the Storybook Inn. The original Stilphen's Farm consisted of about 150 acres and the original structure was built in the mid 1820's. A guide-book from the 1880's lists Cornelius Stilphen's boardinghouse with 20 rooms with rates from six to nine dollars a week. Probably over the years the Stilphens had regularly taken in summer boarders as did many other farm families in that period. Stilphen's Farm was sold in 1903 to the Libbys of Gorham whose timberland abutted the Conway Lumber Company's Rocky Branch Holdings. The Libbys' logs were brought out of the woods by Conway Lumber Teams and loaded at the Maine Central Siding in Glen. The former Stilphen farmstead served as a boardinghouse for the teamsters. Fires occurring in 1912-1914 brought a halt to lumbering and the old Stilphen house was deserted until 1947 except for a caretaker, Percy Wells who did a little farming and attempted to keep the old house in a decent state of repair. In 1947 the property was purchased by Raymond and Stella Clark. They did extensive renovations and re opened it as the Storybook Inn. In 1956 they added two additional wings and shortly after that added motel type units for a total of 78 rooms. The Clark's daughter Charless and her Husband Jan Filip now manage the place. Filip update January 2020: Jan Filip sent us this up-date: Thank you for posting the article, it's quite interesting. You would think I should know these things but when we are young we don't always appreciate history like we should. My father still resides at the property. The property is open from roughly June to October and my eldest sister returns to help for the summer. At 93 my father refuses to retire so we let him run things his way. Yes the property is not in the shape it once was and the future is uncertain. The Storybook Inn was the founding business that led to the Glen Dairy Queen, the North Conway Dairy Queen, handled by my sister and her husband, Lucy and Brian Eling. The Storybook also led to the Golden Gables Inn and the Golden Apple Inn handled by me. When you walk through the basement of the Storybook Inn you can see all the rough sawn timber some of which still has bark, used for framing as well as huge slabs of granite used to make the foundation. The first expansion of rooms started in the mid 60's with 20 units being added around the outdoor pool that you see from the road. This is the building that lost 4 rooms last winter due to snow load so rebuilding the section might not be prudent. Starting in 1978 two new sections for a total of 20 rooms were added to the back of the property. Further expansion continued in 1981 when the original barn which had been connected to the back of the boarding house was removed to make room for a new kitchen and additional dinning room seats. As a 5 year old I remember being scared to walk in the back corner of the barn as it had the remnants of the outhouse. Two toilet seats leading to a black hole, always afraid you would get sucked in... The last two expansions happened in 1986 with 24 rooms being constructed in back on "Hillside" and in 1990 the indoor pool was added. The old pictures are great for a walk down memory lane. The Glen covered bridge before it was a gift shop, Glen area - Rte 16 going north goodrich cabins ellis river cabins Goodrich Falls pictures and the Hydro Electric Plant can be found at this page Charlie's Cabins was owned by Charles Edward Way (1891 to 1960) and was located on Rte 16 just north of Storyland. He had 23 cabins, a restaurant and gasoline pumps on the premises. It was in operation from the early 1930's until his death in 1960. In 1961 Robert Morrell, of Storyland, purchased the property from the Way Family and envisioned a motel built in the style of chalets he had seen in Bavaria when he was in the military. A friend of his of the 10th Mountain Division drew the sketches which Morrell later showed to Ernest Mallett . The end result was the Linderhof Motor Inn which was built by Ernest Mallett in 1966. (Source: "The Latchstring Was Always Out" - Aileen Carroll - 1994) Rona Doyle Hamilton sent us some details about the Linderhof: ( March 2026 ) " The Linderhof Motor Inn next to Storyland was built by my dad Ronald Richard Doyle and his half brother Ernie Mallett. My Dad brought his brother into real estate in Ma before they moved to NH. We bought our house on Kearsarge St in North Conway from Mr Morrell who owed Storyland. I caught the bus everyday with his son Stoney Morrell. " charlies Linderhoff Anchor 1 Linderhoff Motor Inn 1970's From 1970 to 1975 the Inn was operated by Jim and Kathy Sheehan and Anna Mae Cimbak. Jim moved along to Amoskeag Distributors Company (Miller Beer) by the end of the 1970's. Kathy died in 2007 and Jim passed away December 2022 The property was later purchased by Storyland (next door) and used as employee housing.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Intervale Area Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Swinging SKI area Dick Stimpson and wife Priscilla, operated the Intervale Ski Area from the late fifties until the early seventies. They had two children, Richie, who still lives in Intervale and Lisa who now resides in Brooklyn New York. Photos circa 1966 courtesy of Dave Eliason INTERVALE SKI JUMP ARTICLE - HERE JUMP ABENAKI The former Abenaki Indian Shop and Camp is located on the north side of Intervale Cross Road, separated from the road by the Conway Scenic Railroad . It is a parcel of land 3.8 acres (1.5 ha) in size, most of which is forested in mixed hardwoods. At the southern end is a single-story wood-frame building with a gabled roof, and a descriptive plaque set in a stone. A short way north of this are a grouping of small shingled gable-roofed cabins, set around a small clearing in the woods. Chief Joseph Laurent , an Abenaki leader from Odanak (St. Francis, Quebec ), came to the area in 1884, and established a seasonal camp on the site, which was then owned by a local hotel. Laurent and other Abenaki produced baskets and other handicrafts as a tourist attraction for the hotel guests, and sold them the wares they produced. The Abenaki were descended from the area's original Native American population, who were driven from the area during the colonial period. The shop was originally a service shed built by the Maine Central Railroad ; it was purchased by Laurent around 1900. Laurent is also credited with construction of the cottages in which the Abenaki lived. The business was continued by Laurent's son Stephen into the late 20th century.[3] Since 1985, the property has been owned by the town, which now operates it as a small park with interpretive signage describing its history. Laurent "PUMPKIN HOLLOW" No idea why it's called that but the road, while paved, and the house, are still the same (2018) . PUMPKIN The Birches was the winter home of Dick and Priscilla Stimpson who operated the Intervale Ski Area. Frank Carlton's Intervale Farm dated 1906. Left photo is 1906; Right photo is 2021. Click on the left photo for a larger version. Charles Robinson bought in the 1940's and it has passed on thru 3 generations. Still here in 2021 but the porch is gone. 1906 Photo courtesy of the Robert J. Girouard Collection BIRCHES CARLTON MAIN ST The Intervale Station was located on Intervale Crossroads. It was a popular stop for the hotels in this area such as The Intervale House, Pendexter Mansion and The Intervale Inn, to name just a few. STATION 2026 Update: Intervale post office in the middle and the train station on the right was moved up near the Kearsarge Cemetery. The old train station is located on Long View Terrace. The owners respected and kept much of the original aspects of the building! Limmer's has been located in Intervale since the early 1950s. At the request of the Bartlett Historical Society, the Limmer family graciously agreed to open their historic property on Route 16A, Intervale for a tour on Saturday, July 7, 2007. "Limmer's" are known world-wide as master boot makers. Their manufacturing business, now being operated by the third generation. The building which houses their business was at one time the stables for the Fairview. LIMMER In the 1930s the barn that was previously part of the Fairview Inn and Farm was converted to a dance hall, known as Intervale Playgrounds and later as Harmony Acres. The dance hall floor and stage still exist. Many in Bartlett still recall those Saturday night dances. Marianne Limmer, who moved first to Massachusetts as a young bride from Germany, as had the Limmer family. She told of the dance hall's dilapidated condition when they moved to Intervale, which was transformed into the thriving boot company . PLAYGROUNDS Cyrus Tasker built the original Fairview Cottage in 1854 to accommodate travelers, but it was destroyed by fire. Another version was built and it was also destroyed by fire. The Tasker family moved into a cottage on their property. They later enlarged that building and it was known as Mountain Vale Inn. The land has accommodated several buildings throughout the years; the property has been home to a country store, a gift shop, a gas station and a cabin court. throughout its history the carriage house, grain room, stable and cattle barn survived. A portion of this property is the converted tabernacle which was rescued by Tasker from Intervale Park, a religious community established at the base of Bartlett Mountain, across the street from his establishment. See more about Intervale Park below. WIZARD The Wizard Tree in Intervale. The Wizard Birch Tree has not been standing since around 1948. If you go onto Intervale Crossroads & over the Railroad tracks & go straight ahead into the developement that is there today about a 100 yards in was the Wizard Birch Tree. The people that were transfering to the Boston & Maine Railroad to the Maine Central & had a hold over went to the Wizard Birch Tree to wait for the train. There were also benches there for people to sit & wait. (This information provided by Howard Hatch, a life-long Intervale resident.) More details: Feb 2014: I just found this lengthy article about the Wizard Tree at "New Hampshire History Blog". You can read it here. In 2020 this editor found another excellent Wizard Tree article at Mt Washington Valley History blog spot . There are lots of pictures and details. Cathedral Woods, somewhere in Intervale ? THE OLD INTERVALE SCHOOL IS NOW HOME TO THE BARTLETT TOWN HALL More details about the Chinese Shop at THIS PAGE CHINESE Cannell Ray and Lydia Cannell's Store. They moved from their original location in the Glen area in 1948. They also operated the Intervale Inn House of Color operated by Les and Peg Brown. It was at the northern end of today's Rte 16A 1890's Area of todays Scenic Vista rest area. The barns became part of the Cannell property. Today's (2020) 1785 Inn is the small white building under Cathedral Ledge COLOR BERKELEY THE BERKELEY SHOP _ INTERVALE. This photo is from 1925, or thereabouts and identifies Miss W.F. Allen, who I assume was the proprietress. I have no other information for this so if you know more details please let me know. Thank you. EVANSMARKET Does anyone remember the details of this place? 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. ParkIntervale INTERVALE PARK COLONY, was established toward the end of the 19th century by Dr. Charles Cullis of Boston. It was directly across the street from the Fairview. This group of religious people had their summer homes on the crest and slopes of a foothill of Bartlett Mountain. Prayer meetings were held daily and one day in seven was set aside for prayers for the sick. The summer was spent in devotional exercises and in the glorification of God. The group held its first convention in August of 1884. As the colony grew they added a dining hall, tabernacle and several other buildings. Dr Cullis' residence was destroyed by "and incendiary fire October 23, 1889 and the dining hall set on fire". We might assume this language means an arsonist set the fires. When Dr. Cullis died in 1892 the group lost momentum and was abandoned. The buildings fell into disrepair but eventually Cyrus Tasker of the Fairview rescued the tabernacle and moved it across the street to use as a carriage house. It was still standing in 1994 when my source book was published. SOURCE: "The Latchstring Was Always Out - Aileen Carroll - 1984 "Bartlett New Hampshire, In The Valley of the Saco - Aileen Carroll - 1990 Cullis In 1870 Charles Cullis acted in two areas. First God began speaking to him about moving from the middle of Boston to an outlying rural area. TB treatments were changing after a famous study showed that improved nutrition and environment made a significant difference in recovery rates. He also began to be stirred about praying for physical healing. He asked a woman who was in one of his consumptive homes, Lucy Drake (later Osborn) , whether he could pray for her. She had large tumor that kept her bedridden. She was healed and walked three miles that day. Cullis published a book of hymns title "Faith Hymns" in 1870. In 1871 Cullis added a monthly children's publication called "Loving Words." In the summer of 1873 Cullis and his wife traveled to Europe, with William and Mary Boardman, to visit faith homes they had heard of, including the one started by Dorothea Trudel. He felt challenged to begin to pray for the sick. He showed such a gifting in this area that his ministry swelled with people wanting to know more. Cullis, unlike some in the healing ministry, did not oppose medical help and still continued his practice during those years. In fact, the money he made from his medical practice was often expended on the poor in the homes, leaving his own family with the barest necessities. In 1874 William Boardman wrote a book based on Cullis' journal and "Consumptive Homes Reports" titled "Faith Works" which gave Cullis national and international prominence. In 1875 Cullis returned the favor and wrote a book about the Boardmans called "Work for Jesus: the Experience and Teachings of Mr. and Mrs. Boardman." In 1874 Cullis also wrote a book about the love of Christ called "The King of Love." In 1879 Cullis published "Faith Cures, or Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick." Carrie Judd (later Montgomery) read about Cullis' work and requested prayer for her healing. Cullis became a controversial figure in Boston over "Faith Cure", and many denominations became antagonistic, due to cessationist theology. However, he began to receive attention from all over the world, as he taught and showed that God still healed and did miracles. In 1881 Cullis began to hold "faith-cure" meetings on a regular basis and in 1882 a "faith-cure" home was built, based on Dorothea Trudel's model. His Willard Tract Repository produced his own works on faith healing, and many from other healers. In 1881 he published a follow up to his earlier "Answers" titled "More Faith Cures: or Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick." Then in 1885 he published "Other Faith Cures; or Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick." He also published the book "Dorothea Trudel, or, The Prayer of Faith." which had his name on it as an author, but was a translation from a German work by an unidentified author. In the mid-1880’s Cullis began holding "Faith Conventions" in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. In fact A. B. Simpson attended one of these meetings in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and had a major healing experience. R. Kelso Carter was healed when Cullis prayed for him and became a friend and supporter. Cullis purchased land in Intervale Park, New Hampshire so he could hold conventions of his own that did not have to work around other ministries' schedules. In 1883 Cullis wrote a book to promote his new convention site called "Intervale Park." He brought in guest speakers, who had healing ministries, from all over the US and Europe. The conventions attracted a lot of media coverage, both positive and negative. The conventions would end with a general healing service led by Dr. Cullis, who prayed over hundreds people, in healing lines. Through Cullis' direct influence, by the late 1880's, there were over 25 "faith homes" in the US being run by various ministries. The majority of these were associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance which Cullis' teaching had so strongly impacted. Another hymnal was produced called "Songs of Victory" in 1889, probably in support of his conventions. Finally in 1892 a series of sermons were published called "Tuesday Afternoon Talks". By any standard the work that Cullis was handling was enormous. From 1864 to the 1890s the Consumptive Home had taken care of 2000 critically ill patients, the vast majority of which had been brought to a saving knowledge of Christ. He was constantly meeting with supporters, writing, teaching, publishing, visiting the poor, handing out tracts, and holding summer conventions. His life of prayer was central to his vision and ministry. Dr. Charles Cullis collapsed and died on April 18, 1892 at the age of 59. The Consumptive's Home continued to operate for another 25 years, eventually handling over 4000 patients. Still Cullis' lasting impact was his teaching on having faith in God, and the revelation that we could believe God for our salvation, provision, and healing. SOURCE: Biography for Dr Charles Cullis Cullis, Charles (1833 – 1892) – Hahnemann House Trust Dr Charles Cullis 1833-1892 bartMountain In case you were asking yourself, "exactly where is Bartlett Mountain?"

A Timeline of Livermore 1864 to 1965 1864: An In-Law of the Saunders', Nicholas G. Norcross , who was known as The New England Timber King, had been very active in deepening and widening the Pemigewasset and Merrimack Rivers to make them suitable for floating timber to his mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. He purchased 80,000 acres of land then known as Elkins Grant, which would later become Livermore. Upon the death of Mr Norcross, the Saunders brothers, (Daniel, Charles and Caleb) successfully obtained the rights to Elkins grant and created the Sawyer River Enterprise. 80,000 acres of land is an area about 10 miles long and 12 miles wide. I have found little documentation about exactly who Mr Norcross bought this acreage from, although Jasper Elkins acquired the land through an act of the N.H. Legislature in 1830, so presumably it would have been from Mr. Elkins or his estate. JULY 7,1874: Daniel Saunders at age 52, and his brother Charles, age 50 in 1874, Nathan Weeks, William Russell and Caleb Saunders Incorporated the Grafton County Lumber Company and work began on access roads along the Sawyer River. 1875: The Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad completed its route through Crawford Notch, thereby opening up the Sawyer River area for egress in and out. Entrepenorial minds immediately went to work and the Saunders Family saw an opportunity. JULY 2, 1875 the State Legislature approved an act to Incorporate the Sawyer River Railroad, 1876: The first mill was completed...and burned in the same year. Another mill was immediately constructed and it's cost was listed at $150,000. JULY 11, 1876: The Town of Livermore is Incorporated by the State of New Hampshire. The Town holds its first meeting with Benjamin Akers, John Tewksbury and Charles Saunders officiating. 1877: The Saunders' begin laying the rails for the Sawyer River Railroad. The CW Saunders Locomotive had been purchased new the previous year from the Portland Company, Eastern Railroad. Originally about one and a half miles of track was installed, up to the mill site, but as time went on the Rail Line had about 9 miles of track laid into its vast holdings. SEPTEMBER 1878: The first marriage was recorded in the Town of Livermore between Elden Boynton and Julia Lucy. 1878: Rapid Growth ; The N.H. Business Registry claims 48 residents in 1878 and 200 residents in the following year. An increase of 200% ! Four children were born in Livermore during this time period. 1880: The census for that year shows 103 people living in 18 separate buildings, consisting of men, women and children. The town was very family oriented with one third of the population being children. Occupations included millworkers, watchman, laborers, teamsters, blacksmiths, two coal dealers and three engineers. In this year the Livermore Mill operation reported a net income of $12,400 or 28% of gross receipts. 1880: This year also marked a smallpox epidemic that swept through the area resulting in the death of 6 townspeople. These 6 people were buried in the nearby woods and a stone monument records the spot. Another story tells of as many as 40 people being buried in this spot. Some were buried while still alive, although in a comatose state. 1881: The Village was granted a Post Office with William G. Hull appointed Postmaster. APRIL 1881: The land dispute between Saunders and Bartlett Land and Lumber Company is argued in the United States Supreme Court. Saunders and Abbott argue the case. Read the case. 1885: The town lists one school with 28 students attending. The school is valued at $151.00. The annual school budget was about $145.00. The school later (1924) went on to be "the best school in the State", thanks to Mr Saunders efforts. it had not only electricity and heat, but typewriters, movie projectors and the education many received there was the equivalent of college level courses. 1886: Saunders sells a portion of their holdings to The New Hampshire Land Company with George P. James as its President. This tract was located "on the other side of Mt. Carrigain" on the Pemigewassett River. 1890: The Saunders name disappears from the Town records that indicate ownership of the various enterprises and is replaced with George P. James, who had been previously listed along with the Saunders names. At this time the name Livermore Mills begins usage and we are to assume that ownership of the mill had changed to Mr James. MAY 22 1891: Charles Saunders dies in Lowell at the age of 67. Daniel and Daniel's son, Charles G. Saunders continue overseeing the Livermore operations. 1895: The Postmaster William Hull relocates to his home town of Plymouth and is replaced by G.S. Payne. Mr Payne was also a Selectman, Tax Collector and Town Clerk at various times. He was to die in 1911. 1895: George P. James sells his Livermore interests back to C.G. Saunders. 1898: Telephone service comes to livermore. George Staples is the Telephone agent in Livermore. 1900: The census for this year shows a population of 191, however the proportion of children was substantially reduced from the previous census. 1901: Through out the 1880's and 1890's there was constant legal action between the abutting property owners and in 1901 these disputes finally ended with more than half of Livermore being annexed to Lincoln by an act of the State Legislature. 1906: Ownership in Livermore was distributed among six primary owners, Publishers Paper Co, International Paper Co, The estate of George H. Morey and one Estella L. Lancaster. However, Livermore Mills remained the largest single owner. The Saunders heirs also owned property. 1910: Census showed 64 individuals in 11 separate households. The proportion of children had greatly increased since the 1900 census and it appeared there were fewer single individuals present. 1910: The fire tower atop Mt. Carrigain was constructed, although little more than an open platform. It had a cabin for the watchman and a telephone line down to Livermore. It was amongst the first fire towers in the State. It was listed as inactive in 1948. (Off-site link to Fire Tower Photos) 1911: The Weeks Act authorized the Federal Government to purchase private lands for the purpose of preservation. 1912: C.G. Saunders, Daniels Son, mortgages Livermore Mills to Gideon M. Sutherland. The three Saunders sisters re-purchased the mortgage and mill in 1919, the same year it was destroyed by fire. 1912: Daniel Saunders is 91 years old and still a presence at Livermore, 1914: The valuation of Livermore acreage and buildings is 470,000. ($1.00 in 1914 is the equivalent of $10.50 in 2009 dollars, so to put that number in perspective the 2009 equivalent would be nearly five million dollars.) APRIL 19, 1917: Daniel Saunders dies in Lowell at the age of 95 FEB 19, 1918: Daniels Son, C.G. Saunders dies at age 70 in Boston of a heart attack. Charles willed nearly his entire estate to his three sisters, Annie, Mary and Edith Saunders. The responsibility of running the mill and acreage passed to one Clinton I. Nash. Nash was an officer for the Saunders interests from 1902 to 1936. His name however does not appear on any town census until 1920, nor did he have any previous experience running a lumber mill. 1919: Livermore Mills is completely destroyed by fire. 1920: Census counted 98 people . 65 of these lived in 12 households in the Village and the rest lived out in the logging camps. Of the population of 98 only 8 of them had been at Livermore ten years prior. 1920: The C.W. Saunders Locomotive left the tracks and fell into the Sawyer River, thus ending it's usefullness. It was replaced with "Peggy", a Baldwin built Locomotive, and was purchased from the Henry Lumber Company which operated in the Zealand area. 1920-26: Management of the mills slowly deteriorates without the Saunders influence and economic hardships and unexpected disasters contribute to its six year decline. In addition to the costly replacement of the mill, the Locomotive also had to be replaced. It has been said that Clinton Nash was not a "Lumber kind of guy"; Some folks wondered why he had even been put in charge of an operation he seemed to know so little about. In some readings Nash is referred to as an "agent of the Saunders Sisters" who also knew very little of the lumber business. Nash however had been employed by Saunders since 1902 and was also a personal friend of the Saunders. Perhaps the Sisters chose him to represent their interests only because he was a trusted friend. 1922: The mill rebuilding which started in 1920 was completed. 1924: A new school was completed and furnished at a cost of $3323, which would be $350,000 in 2009 dollars. There were two teachers for the 20 or so students in attendance. This tends to support the claim that Livermore had one of the best schools in the State. NOVEMBER 1927: A massive flood causes serious damage to both the mill and a good portion of the railroad bed is completely destroyed. The mill is never reopened after the flood. The railway closes completely in 1928. JUNE 22, 1928: Big Jim Donahue dies in North Conway at age 60. He had been at Livermore since 1888 and served at one time or another Mill Manager, Postmaster, General Manager of the Town, Railroad Agent, Selectman and Town Clerk. MAY 1929: Clinton Nash, acting on behalf of the Saunders sisters, approached the Forest Service about the possibility of selling their holdings at Livermore. Low pulp prices and high operating costs made the mill operation impossible. The Town taxes were also becoming an onerous burden to the sisters. FEBRUARY 1930: Pauline Gardner was the last birth registered in the Town of Livermore. Although they were residents of Harts Location and the birth occured at Memorial Hospital in North Conway it is not clear why the birth was recorded in Livermore. 1930: Census counted 23 people living at Livermore. The mill is closed and deserted but the Town Store is still open. AUGUST 15, 1931: Livermore Post Office is closed. Clinton Nash was the Postmaster at this time. FEBRUARY 1934: John Monahan died at Livermore. He had been a resident of Livermore for 45 years. 1936: The last families remaining at Livermore were the Monohans, Codys, Donahues, and Platts. A few individuals also remained, Murray, MacDonald, Clinton Nash and Sidney White. According to a letter from Ellsworth Morton (right column, this page) Wayland Cook brought the last locomotive out of Livermore. Another source says the last locomotive was sold by the U.S. Forest Service and removed in 1947. APRIL 1936; A CCC camp was established near the Sawyer River Station. The camp ceased operation in October of 1937. OCTOBER 7, 1936: After a lengthy transaction with the US Forest Service, The Saunders sisters sold their 29,900 acres of land for $10 per acre. The sisters retained about 12 acres and the right to utilize their mansion until their deaths. JANUARY 31, 1937: The Town Report for that year contained no operating budget for the next year. The Selectmans Report (Platt, Donahue, MacDonald) simply stated that the majority of the town had been taken by the Federal Government and very little taxable property remained. The Town would be officially unorganized. 1940: The census this year shows 4 inhabitants, Clinton Nash, Joseph Platt, William MacDonald and a fouth unidentified person. 1941: The school house building is used as a storage shed for the Mt. Carrigain Fire look out tower. AUGUST 1942: Annie Saunders dies at age 84 of kidney dysfunction. SUMMER 1944; The Government auctions off the boarding house, equipment at the sawmill, and a two story dwelling. 1946: Joe Platt and Bill MacDonald are the final inhabitants of Livermore, acting as caretakers. Stories say they did not speak to one another. While one had a car, he would not take the other into town with him for groceries, made him walk. In this year Joe Platt burns down the old Blacksmith shop as it had become a public nuisance. 1947: The Forest Service sells the old Baldwin Locomotive. Some folks contend there are still remnants of an old locomotive "half-buried" way up in the woods. AUGUST 1949: Edith Saunders dies at age 84 of cancer. Bill MacDonald and Joe Platt leave Livermore. Bill MacDonald buys the house that is now "the main house" at the Villager Motel. (There was no motel there at that time). He lived there until his death in the mid 1950's. Platt may have returned to his home town at Twin Mountain. Another account says that Bill MacDonald had moved to Bartlett in 1943 and became a road worker for the Forest Service. AUGUST 31, 1951: The Town of Livermore was officially disenfranchised and ceased to exist as an incorporated town. 1951: The 12 acres of land that had been retained by the Saunders sisters was conveyed to Clinton Nash. 1952: According to Ellsworth Morton (letter right column, this page --->) he attended an auction at Livermore. At that time Jim Clemons of Bartlett Village purchased the contents of the post office, and perhaps the entire building. 1953: Clinton Nash returned to Livermore in the spring to find that the Forest Service had auctioned off all the furnishings in the mansion, despite the fact that they didn't own it yet. Another story says that Nash held the auction himself. 1953: The mill and equipment is dismantled and moved to Bartlett Village, up on the left side of Bear Notch Road, by another lumbering outfit that went bankrupt before they could operate it as a mill. I am told it is still there, although I don't recall ever seeing it. 1955: Homer Emery of Jericho purchases the School House for $79. Much of the School house is now part of his home in Jericho. Homer also purchased a large quantity of bricks, also used to build his home, from Clinton Nash for 3 cents each. Mr. Nash and Homer became friends since Homer had been one of the few people to ASK to take things from the property...most people just drove in and took what they wanted. There is some question as to whether Homer also bought the lot that the school house occupied. The matter has never been pursued. OCTOBER 1963: Clinton Nash sold his Livermore holdings to Robert and Bessie Shackford of Conway for $2800, which was substantially less than other offers he had received, but Nash wanted a "local" person to own it...not "someone from the outside". At that time the mansion was still standing along with a two car garage and a stable building. Mr Shackford built the little cabin that is there today from salvaging the other buildings. APRIL 1964: Clinton Nash dies of heart failure. 1965: The Shackfords experience continuing and horrific vandalism at the Saunders Mansion and most of what folks didn't steal were senselessly destroyed by "the hippies", After auctioning off what folks would buy he burned the building. AUGUST 1992: Robert Shackford died. Here is an interesting story we received sometime around 2014 by e-mail. It sounded like Mr. Morton would like us to share it with you: Hi to all in Bartlett, From Sanbornton. I attended the Bartlett village school from 1947 to 1952. Lucille Garland, rest her soul, would let me sleep everyday after lunch. This went on until the Christmas Vacation of first grade when my mother managed to adjust my sleeping habits. I imagine there was more than a little embarrassment on the part of my father Raymond who was the high school principal. A memory for Bert George: My father would give me 5cents each day at noon so I could go to your fathers store to buy The Boston Post. The paper cost 3 cents and each day I was allowed to keep the change. In later years my father called the two cents change transportation charges. But it didn't end there. After I had saved enough to do serious damage to the candy supply at the store it all came back to Franklin George. Oh what memories I have of Bartlett . I remember getting in trouble at Newton Howards store when I picked up an orange and put it in my pocket. No one saw it happen, but my mother found it in my coat and I was back to the store in a hurry with that orange. That was about the time of the big Brinks robbery in Boston and I was somehow headed for a big time career in crime in my mothers mind. A .few years later Newton died in the house that was behind the Bartlett Hotel. A Mr. Lane lived in the house and ran the hotel. His grandson is John Chandler, a cousin of Gene and nephew of Alice Davis. I was invited to spend the night there with John as he was up from Massachusetts to visit for a few days. When bedtime came I was shown to a room upstairs and was in bed when I made a remark about the huge four poster bed. It was then that I was told that I was in the bed used by Newton Howard. I only vaguely remember going down the stairs, but I was headed home in my night clothes.I could tell my memories for several pages, but I thought you might get a laugh about some contemporary Bartlett history. My main purpose in this Email is to correct some mis-information written by a Jeremy Saxe with regard to Livermore and the Sawyer River Railroad. According to the account in your website which is the same as the account on abandoned railroads.com, the village of Livermore was wiped off the face of the earth starting in 1935 and completed two years later. Now we know that is not true, because I remember going there as a kid with my Dad to fish in the river and looking into the house owned by the Saunders family. We went to an auction there I believe in 1952. Jimmie Clemons bought a lot of stuff including the interior of the Post Office .Maybe he bought the whole building. At the time of the auction there were two men who lived in Livermore . They did not speak to each other so the story went. The NH Legislature voted to allow the town to revert to a status whereby it no longer existed as a legal entity in 1952. I dont write to be a nit picker rather to set the record straight. Soon the people who remember Livermore will be gone and misinformation will become reality and history. Do you remember Fred Washburn? He lived up the road about halfway between Franklins store and the crossing. He worked for the railroad and was also a plumber around the village. I remember Wayland Cook , who was my neighbor, telling me when I was an adult that Fred brought the last locomotive out of Livermore . The year was about 1936 which fits the timeline of the Federal takeover Thanks for taking the time to hear me out. Time to get ready for that storm coming tonight. Ellsworth Morton PS: I inadvertently used the name of Newton Howard when I should have used G.K Howard as the man who owned the store and the Bartlett Hotel. It did not seem right to me at the time but overnight I figured out my mistake. I believe Newton was a son or nephew of G.K. Thank you, Ellsworth Morton MortonTimeline Rebuilding RR tracks after flood - undated The Company Store The Millview Cottage - 1909 Carragain Landing - 1910 Remains of the Engine House - undated 1909 - Floods and fires were a constant threat "Waterworks Bridge" The School House - 1910 - One of the best equipped schools in the State at the time The Company Store and The Saunders mansion - undated "Carrigain Camp - 1907" “Photo courtesy Ron Walters” "Sept 1910: Greens Cliff Camp" Long Johns drying in the tree branches. Undated: Fire damage to the mansion upper floor Street scenes compared. 1910 with activity and the mansion. The 1969 inset shows only the stone wall remaining. 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 Residence of "Big Jim" Donahue. He was the overall Manager of Livermore and during his tenor from 1890 tp 1924 he held nearly all job descriptions at Livermore at one time or another. He served as Town Selectman and other offices as well. In the early 1920's he and his wife acquired "The Pines" Inn as well as a grocery store in Bartlett Village area. 1968 - Unidentified building being razed. (Perhaps the barn) Photo courtesy of Ben and Judy English. A Note About Photo Credits: This editor has been collecting photos from various sources for the past 20 years. Many have come from EBay auction sites, magazine and newspaper articles or directly from the original owner. If the source is known, appropriate credit is given. If you find any images on this web-site that you feel "belong" to you, I will gladly provide proper credit, although I may have acquired it long before you obtained it. No disrespect or infringement is intended and please accept my apologies if appropriate. 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Livermore NH Legal Issues Saunders v. Publishers' Paper Co. et al. (District Court D. N.H. Sept 17, 1913) Elkins Grant/Borderline Dispute. View at Google Books Bartlett Land & Lumber Co. v. Daniel Saunders. United States Supreme Court April 1881 View Here 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

Native American Indian Religion Native American Indian Religious Beliefs Native American religious beliefs center on a holistic worldview where spirituality is deeply interconnected with daily life, nature, and community rather than separated into a distinct "secular" sphere. [1 , 2 ] Core Beliefs Interconnectedness and Kinship: Adherents view the world as a web of relationships where animals, plants, rocks, and celestial bodies are considered relatives and living entities. [1 , 2 ] The Creator or Universal Force: Many tribes recognize a supreme creator or all-powerful universal power—such as Wakan Tanka among the Lakota or Manitou among Algonquian peoples—alongside many localized spirits. [1 , 2 ] No Sacred-Secular Divide: According to the Encylopaedia Britannica overview of Native American religions , traditional practitioners do not separate everyday activities like farming, law, or healing from spiritual obligations. [1 , 2 ] Oral Tradition: Creation stories, moral values, and tribal histories are passed down through generations via storytelling and elders rather than fixed holy texts. [1 , 2 ] Key Practices Vision Quests: Individuals often undertake solitary fasts and communion with nature to seek personal spiritual guidance or guardian spirits. [1 , 2 ] Ceremonies and Rites: Communal events, such as seasonal dances, the Sun Dance, or the use of sacred ceremonial pipes, maintain balance and give thanks to the natural world. [1 , 2 ] Spiritual Leaders: Medicine men and women act as healers, counselors, and intermediaries between the human and spiritual realms using traditional herbs and rituals. [1 , 2 ] THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS Inferming!ed with many superstitions, the Indians had some really beautiful beliefs. Having no written word, Or any special teachers of religion. if was the privilege of anybody fo add a myth to the accumulating folklore whenever one could be thought up would seem explain natural phenomenon. The belief in a • 'Great Spirit," how. ever, was universal and he was generally pictured as a great and loving father whose extended arms bore up a nd encircled the universe. When the sun shone and gentle showers came, he was though} to be smiling; when fierce storms and intense cold Materialized, he was frowninq, or had turned his face away from his favorite children. It was he who had peopled The air, the forests and the rivers and lakes with countless spirits; some good and some evil. The evil spirits had +0 be propiiiated by presents and sacrifices or they would cause pain, sickness or the failure of crops. The good spirits could be appealed to in time of stress, as they were always glad to help the red men in their hour of need. Finally. Great Spirif had prepared for his children ' 'the Happy Hunting-Grounds•• where all were fo go after death. The kind father had made here a beautiful land of vast and magnificent forests and plains. towering mountains and crystal lakes and streams, alive with game and fish. was here that the red deer. bear and all other wild animals went when they died and they were as plentiful as the sands on the shore. The good Indian lived in this beautiful land forever with his wife and papooses; his lodge was always plentifully supplied with food and game and of sorrow he knew no more. The bad Indian. on the other hand, would return from the chase empty-handed, or else lose his way in a labyrinth of paths. He would suddenly come upon vast fields of corn and when he hungrily reached to pluck an ear, it would all dis- appear before his sight. Finally in despair he would cry out in anguish and then his more fortunate brothers would lead him home and feed him. and his punishment would be the deep chagrin all good hunters feel in being compelled t0 partake of another's bounty after failing in the hunt them- selves. The wild animals and birds in that happy land suffered no pain when killed by red men, but on the contrary shortly came back to life again and were as happy as ever. So if was that when not being actually chased, They held no fear of the Indians and would . come right up to them and feed out of their hands. Perpetual spring prevailed in this fair region, tempered only by gentle showers, and rude storms and cold were never known. The many groves were filled wi+h singing birds. and the music of falling waters was heard on every hand. In the beginning the red men dwelt in *his delightful country with the Great Spirit. buf they became So boisterous and full of play *haf they permitted the Great Spirit no rest on account of Their noise. Besides this, as there were no evil spirits or dangers to be encountered There, they had no chance to develop bravery and d exterify. So the Great Spirit decreed thaf they must pass a brief period on earth, as a sort of kindergarten, before passing to their real home in the Happy Hunting- Grounds. He accordingly made a huge basket and in he placed all the red men, first carefully cover- ing if So fhaf They could not look out and see the frail over which he took them, and Thus stray back before f heir schooling was finished. He f hus brought *hem fo earth, but he promised them that after they had acquired courage and skill. they would be allowed to come back to their real home and would dwell there for ' •so many moons That all the needles on the greatest pine would not fell them. So confident were The red men of The fruth of this promise. fhaf They held no fear of death, and when about to die, would sing a death-chanf in which they related all Their valorous exploits and expressed their firm belief in shortly meeting *heir dead friends in the Happy Hunting-ground. Often they mentioned the hope of soon sifting beside the great council fire that was greater than the mountains,' • meaning by this the Aurora Borealis. All pain and suffering was caused by evil spirits, and so the Indian never voiced a com- plaint or cried oui in anguish if it possibly could be be helped because he did not intend to give his enemies fhe pleasure of knowing they were succeed- ing in their efforts to harm him. Then, foo. he argued. did no} The very animals in the foresi suffer The agony of hurts and wounds in silence? Knowing the wounded deer and bear sought soli- fude in the depths of the brake and there silently awaited death, the red men feli They should surely be as brave as Their dumb brothers. Hence. if be- came the dignity of a good warrior fo suffer the most excruciating torture the stake with only a smile or a Taunt ai his executioners.

Hill Town Cemetery The Hill Cemetery is an enchanted little spot located on Upper West Side Road. It is approximately 2 miles from the Bartlett end of West Side Road. Many of the headstones appear to be exceptionally well cared for, or more likely, they have recently been replaced. These photos taken in 2010. Other times I have been there the maintenance has been better. Most stones are unreadable or covered in moss. CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP That's West Side Road directly below the cemetery. When leaves are gone there is a nice view to the east and the river. Sarah Seavey 1854-1937 Nathan Hill 1858 - 1938 Eunice Ann Hill 1853 - 1928 Children Dorothy 1871 - 1873 Alice 1881 - 1898 John 1878 - 1938 CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP ELSIE Wife of Lewis Abbott Formerly wife of Freeman Burbank Died 1891 Age 81 Yrs HILL Dorinda 1846 - 1934 Anna George 1864 - 1893 Cyrus E 1867 - 1936 HILL Husband - No Inscription Wife - Octavia 1878 - 1903 Alice CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP JOHN - Son of Jacob Died ??18 Samuel Drown - died 1887 His wife is pictured below Samuel Drown was a prominent citizen of Bartlett. Married to Abigail Cook. Samuel William Drown was born on 4 April 1829, in Eaton, NH. His father, James Drouin, was 19 and his mother, Rachel Hill, was 21. He had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Mary Abigail Cook. He died on 6 July 1887, in New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 58. The location overlooks the West Side Road. I can imagine 80 years ago, with fewer trees, it probably enjoyed a fine view down the valley and Saco River. The cemetery site is accessible by a small driveway however, be advised that exiting back onto West Side Road, the visibility is very poor. It might be wise to seek nearby parking and hike back to the driveway, or hike up the little hill pictured above. Samuel Abigail Rick Garon ‎ sent us this information about his Great Great Grandmother who lived on the West Side Road in the 1850's. His description below: "Don't know if this means anything, but these are picture of my great great grandmother, Mary Abigail Cook Drown, born in Porter, Maine in 1830 to William Cook and Abigail Bickford. She was the wife of Samuel William Drown. She died in 1923. One picture was taken of the house on West Side Road. Don't know who the child is. possibly my grandmother who was born in 1902. But there were other children of that age in the family at that time. Click on any picture for a larger size in a new window. Many older stones are difficult to read or completely moss covered. Those with a need to know can probably carefully scrape away the vegetation covering the name and date. Anchor 2 Anchor 3 Anchor 4 Anchor 5

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Share Sports & Skiing History in Bartlett Thad Thorne, 2010 est, Thad was the Gen Manager at Attitash for a couple of decades. Thad Obituary Long before Attitash, there were very popular ski runs on Bear Mountain. This 1941 photo looks north towards Mt Washington. A Few Local Videos Links to skiing stories on our other pages Other Sports Activities on THIS Website: Attitash and Bear Mountain Stanton Slope-Cobb Farm Rd Eastern Slope Signal Various Articles Intervale Ski Area Junior Ski Program ESSC Big Bear Ski Area Articles Signal - Various Winter Topics History of Bartlett Skiing (N.E. Ski Museum) Ski Jump at Intervale Ski Area circa 1962 Do You Have Any Pictures or Stories That Should be on This Page? Tell us Here bannon Mike Bannon - Longtime Ski School Director at Attitash and many other local areas. Ski Areas Promotional Map and Guide - Winter 1953-54 Courtesy Wendy Brown Bridgewater This is about 1957: Front l to r: Audrey Ludgate, Evelyn Sanborn, Donna Chappee, Rita Clemons, Carla Bailey Back l to r: Gail Stewart, Frieda Smith, Celia Lane, Sal Manna, Margaret Taylor, Caroline Johnson, Lois Henry. — chappee Other Sports Activities on THIS Website: Attitash and Bear Mountain Stanton Slope-Cobb Farm Rd Eastern Slope Signal Various Articles Intervale Ski Area Junior Ski Program ESSC Big Bear Ski Area Articles Signal - Various Winter Topics Bartlett High School Girls Basketball 1950 Bartlett High School Boys Basketball 1950 This photo came to us without a date but we estimate it to be 1947 to 1949 era. 1952 Cheerleaders; Clemons, Dorset, Howard 1953-54 Girls Varsity Basketball: 1st Row: Chappee, Ward, Dorset and Bailey 2nd Row: Ludgate, Taylor, Mr Manna, Perkins, Clemons This Photo came to us undated but we estimate it 1948 to 1950 era Other Sports Activities on THIS Website: Attitash and Bear Mountain Stanton Slope-Cobb Farm Rd Eastern Slope Signal Various Articles Intervale Ski Area Junior Ski Program ESSC Big Bear Ski Area Articles Signal - Various Winter Topics Carl Eliason with first snowmobile. (No relation to Dave Eliason) MORE SPORTS ARTICLES & PICTURES

Dan Saunders Bio 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 HON. DANIEL SAUNDERS Quick Summary of Saunders Family: The Saunders Family came from England in 1637 and went on to be the major players in the establishment of the mills in Lawrence and Lowell Massachusetts by recognizing the water power available on the Merrimack River. Their original company was The Merrimack River Water Power Association , which included Caleb Abbott, Arthur Livermore and John Nesmith. Daniel and Charles Saunders, the names associated with Livermore NH, were both prominent Harvard educated Boston Lawyers and were involved with The Essex Corporation and Shawmut Mills, still in existance today. Daniel was born in 1822 and Charles in 1824. Charles married into the prominent Norcross family of Lowell and Daniel married Mary Jane Livermore, also of Lowell. The Town of Livermore was probably named in her honor. Since both brothers were actively engaged in their legal professions it is questionable how much time they actually spent at Livermore. There is reference in Peter Crane's book that Daniel was often at Livermore in his later years and his family spent summers there. Daniel was also the Mayor of Lawrence, Ma in 1860. Daniel had five children, three of which were daughters, who remained unmarried. They are sometimes referred to as "the spinster sisters" who occupied the Saunders Mansion at Livermore. Read the whole story below, OR, view it at the original source, HERE . (Starts on page 858) Daniel Saunders Biographical Sketch Source Material Boston Biographical Review HON. DANIEL SAUNDERS, senior member of the law firm of Daniel, Caleb & Charles G. Saunders, of Lawrence, Mass., was born in Andover, Essex County, October 6, 1822, the eldest son of the late Hon. Daniel Saunders, founder of the city of Lawrence. He is of early New Eng- land Colonial stock, being a lineal descendant of William Saunders, who, we are told, came from England in 1636, and in 1645 took up land at Mitchell's Eddy, on the Haverhill side, in the town of Newbury, Mass., where he was a permanent settler. James Saunders, the grandfather of Daniel, the special subject of this sketch, was born in Salem, N.H., July 12, 1751, and died in Stanstead, P.O., December 14, 1830. On November 15, 1774, he married Elizabeth Little, who was born March i, 1755, in Newbury, Mass., a daughter of Henry Little, and died in Salem, N.H., April 13, 1838. Henry Little also was of English extraction, and the representative of one of the old and prominent families of Essex County, an ancestor, several generations removed, having been the original owner of a Newbury farm that is still in the possession of his Little descendants. James Saunders and his wife had a family of twelve sons and one daughter. One son died in infancy, and one at the age of sixteen years. The ten sons remaining and the one daughter all married and reared children. One son, Caleb Saunders, became an early settler of Illinois, while three of his brothers located in Eastern New York. One of them, Henry Saunders, M.D., was for many years a prominent physician of Saratoga; another. Major William Saunders, a resident of Ballston Spa, was an officer in the War of 1812; another son, Samuel, was a carpenter on board the famous old ship "Constitution" in the same war. The Hon. Daniel Saunders was born in Salem, N.H., June 20, 1796, and when a young lad began working in a woolen-mill as an employee in the lowest department. He gradually became familiar with all branches of the industry; and, when ready to establish himself in business, he purchased a mill in North Andover, on the Cochicewick Brook, and later bought another in Concord, N.H. Becoming convinced in his mind that some time in the near future the falls in the Merrimac River between the present cities of Lawrence and Lowell would be utilized by manufacturers, he began in 1832 to verify by a personal inspection surveys which had previously been made for another purpose, that of estimating the expense of building locks and canals so that the river would be navigable for large boats of merchandise. His examinations still further convincing him of the possibility of the development of a large manufacturing district in this section, he sold his large mills in Concord and North Andover, and invested every penny he could lay his hands on in lands bordering on the Merrimac, in order that he might control the water power. Consulting then with his son Daniel, the subject of this sketch, as to the best means of calling the attention of the public to this most desirable location for mills, they decided to build a manufacturing plant themselves. In 1837, therefore, his legal adviser, the Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, then' a member of the General Court, secured for him an act incorporating the "Shawmut Mills" to be erected in Andover, not saying in what part. In the charter granted, the name of Saunders was not used, those of Caleb Abbott, Arthur Livermore, and John Nesmith only being apparent. Prominent manufacturers near by were then told of the grand water power. Samuel Lawrence and others of Lowell investigated the matter, and found two good places for damming the river, one at Peters Falls, the other at Bodwell's, the location of the present dam. The Merrimack River Water Power Association was soon after formed, with Daniel Saunders as president and manager of the company, which consisted of Mr. (afterward Judge) Hopkinson, Samuel Lawrence, John Nesmith, Daniel Saunders, Jr., Nathaniel Stevens, and Jonathan Tyler. The president of the company originated a plan for bonding the lands in the vicinity of both falls; and, when the present site was selected as the most favorable point for operations, the neighboring farms were purchased at a reasonable price. His own real estate, which he had previously bought, he sold at the original price plus simple interest on his investments, although, had not his high sense of honor forbidden him, he might have asked and received almost any sum. A large portrait of the Hon. Daniel Saunders, upon which is a tablet stating that he was the founder of the city of Lawrence, was presented to the city by his sons in April, 1888, and now graces the Akiermanic Chamber of the City Hall. On June, 1821, he married Phebe Foxcroft Abbott, who was born February 8, 1797, in Andover, Mass., and died March, 1890, in Lawrence. Her father, Caleb Abbott, was three times married ; and of his three unions there .were fifteen children. The maiden name of her mother was Lucy Lovejoy. Daniel and Phebe Foxcroft Saunders had five children, namely: Daniel, born October 6, 1822; Charles, who was born in June, 1824, and was extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber in Lowell until his death in May, 1891; Martha, who died in childhood; Martha, the second, who also died at an early age; and Caleb, born September 4, 183S. On May 3, 1845, the parents removed from Andover to Lawrence, and, having settled on the farm previously purchased, there spent their remaining days, the father's death occurring October 8, 1872. Daniel Saunders, the younger, studied law with the Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, and was for some years closely associated with his late father in his various enterprises. He continued his law practice all the time, however, and is now at the head of one of the best known legal firms, of this section of Essex County. He was Mayor of Lawrence in i860, at the time of the fall of the Pemberton Mills. In commemoration of his distinguished services, in the care of those wounded at that time and the relief of the families of those killed, he was presented by the citizens of Lawrence, irrespective of parties, with a magnificent silver service, which he prizes as one of his most valuable treasures. He served a year as Senator, and also he has represented the city in the lower branch of the State legislature. saunders sisters The Saunders Sisters Were Mary, Annie and Edith. They spent much of their time at Livermore during the warmer months. Their home base was at 116 Stackpole Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. That street number is now part of the Lowell General Hospital parking lot. 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