Bartlett NH Skiing History BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Bartlett Ski Areas past and present This Newsletter features the ski areas that have been, or still are, located in Bartlett. Scroll down to page 6 where the article begins. Ski Areas in Bartlett xxxx.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Fire Destroys Family Homestead in Two Hours The Harry Rogers Farm buildings at Rogers Crossing in Bartlett are gone. Farm and buildings established in 1780 by j. tasker. A strong wind and brutal cold didn't help matters. A bit of History First JANUARY 1980: H arry Rogers, 82, was born and lived on this family farm his entire life. Rogers lived with his niece, Betty Jackson. This is a farm that was worked by the Rogers Family for 200 years...Dating back to 1780, ten years before Bartlett became an incorporated town. The house and barns were originally built by Jonathan Tasker. (Photo at left shows Harry Rogers in brown coat and Lyman Garland, a next door neighbor, in red coat.) Jonathan Tasker was married to Comfort Seavey and settled in Bartlett on what is now known as the Rogers farm. Jonathan Tasker, Sr. was a descendant of John Tasker who emigrated from England and settled in Madbury, NH. The Jonathan Tasker family was located in Bartlett in the late 1700’s, settling there between 1780-1790.and there reared his two sons - Ebenezer and Jonathon. Jonathan, the elder, was moderator at the first town meeting held in Bartlett on July 9, 1790. Along with John Pendexter and Enoch Emery, Jonathan served as the first board of Selectmen . In addition to selectman, he also served as town clerk for many years as well as on a committee with Enoch Emery and Samuel Cotton “ to look out and locate roads.” Jonathan is believed to have died ca. 1805 in Bartlett. The Tasker family of Bartlett married into the Rogers family and the George family of Bartlett as well as the Bassett family of Jackson, among others. An 1892 map shows the property being owned by one T.S Rogers. J.C. Rogers is shown on the same map with property on the North Side of the Saco River in the Upper Village. The location is now the home of Jean Garland. John and Doug are her son's and they now live on what was the J. Nute farm in 1892. (Check the index of this website for information about the Nute's, there is even a picture of them as well as a link to the 1892 map). (The Tasker story can be found elsewhere on this website, see the link above in the main menu "PEOPLE STORIES ) The fire started about 8 a.m. and by 10 a.m. what had survived for 200 years was gone in less than 2 hours. The cause of the fire was either an electrical problem or the pipe that Harry always smoked was carelessly placed and caught the hay on fire. Still no water and something bright erupts on the dwelling portion of the homestead. About 10 a.m. and all the out-buildings except the garage are reduced to ash and rubble. All the water had to be brought to the scene by tanker truck. About 8:45 all the water on hand was used. George "Red" Marcoux was the Town Fire Chief in 1980. Water finally arrives at a time when 5 minutes seems like an hour The main house suffers severe water damage.and is deemed a total loss A little after 10: a.m., nothing left but the garage and a waterlogged main house that had to be torn down. The garage barn survived with no damage. It still stands there today, 44 years later, as a reminder of what once was. In this photo you can see Mr Rogers in brown coat wandering near the maple tree that he probably tapped for syrup at least 70 times during his life. Behind the "Army-looking" truck in the background is Betty Jackson's 1960 Thunderbird, which she bought brand new. It was rescued from the garage building, but a tractor stored in there was not so fortunate. Fire fighters on the scene. It is quite a contrast to compare the level of personal equipment the men wore then versus now. I recognize Jim Howard Jr, Buster Parker, Don Chandler and David Hayes in these pics. Can someone fill me in on the other names? Classic Title Next page, let the blame game begin. Controversy erupts in the weeks following the fire. Read the article on the next page by the Reporter Press to get the gist of the Story. I don't recall the exact outcome of this situation but I'm sure one of our readers can fill in the details of what happened. READ ON AT PAGE TWO

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Library History Bartlett, N.H. Jean Garland, The Face of the Library for 55 years, 1953 to 2008 These articles appeared in the Conway Daily Sun. Click their logo to read the article at their website. The story is reproduced here since story links sometimes get moved and no longer link correctly, if at all. Kathy Van Deursen has been leading the way since 2009 Conway Daily Sun, December 2021: By Richard Chrenko and Kathy Van Deursen, special to The Conway Daily Sun BARTLETT — While reading the book "Bartlett, New Hampshire — In the Valley of the Saco," by Aileen Carroll, we came upon the information that the Bartlett Free Public Library was established in 1896. As you will learn in this article, the library has had its “ups and downs.” The “downs” were when it was situated in two different basements. The “up” occurred when the library finally got to the first floor of the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School. In addition to these moves, over the period of about 100 years, the library moved vertically up 10 feet and horizontally about a quarter of a mile. This article has information from three main sources; the Bartlett history book mentioned above, a history of the library written by Jean Garland on her many years as librarian and comments by our present librarian, Kathy Van Deursen. The Bartlett book mentions that a Conway and Bartlett Social Library was incorporated in 1802, and by 1820 had 175 volumes. In 1896, the Bartlett Free Public Library was established in the basement of the Congregational Church, located at the blinking-light intersection of Bear Notch Road and Route 302 in Bartlett Village. We now go forward 50 years to 1946, when Jean Garland became a “fill-in” librarian when Mrs. Amadon, the town librarian at the time, was unable to be there. At that time, Jean was still attending high school, which was then located where the Bartlett school is today. The library was still in the basement of the Congregational Church and now had about 1,000 books. In winter, the library depended on a wood stove for heat. Jean became librarian in 1953 and book circulation was slightly over 2,300. A few years later, the first move came when the church put in a cement floor and central heating. It was nice to just turn up a thermostat to keep warm. In 1959, Bartlett began to send high school students to Kennett and the library moved to the basement of the school. It took some time and effort to turn the old woodworking room into a library. Jean’s desk was sometimes so overloaded with books that she had to use a grocery cart from Grant’s to handle the overflow. Low winter temperatures in the basement between 50 and 60 degrees meant wearing a winter coat while in the library. In 1964, Jean achieved a personal goal of hers, when the town appropriation for the library exceeded the town appropriation for the dump! Also in 1964, the Bartlett Public Library received the award “Outstanding New Hampshire Library.” Other programs were started, such as the Summer Reading Program. In 1968, a “4000 Footer” Reading club was the theme of the summer program. A member would receive a 1,000-foot credit for every book read. At the end of the summer the children were taken up some 4,000 foot peaks. Summer film nights were also conducted for the children. Starting in the 1960s, the public library also served as the school library and Jean was hired as a school aide. She continued her education over the years and in 1985 earned a bachelor's degree in library management. In 1985, the school and public library made an agreement to become a combined public/school library and separate budgets were established for each. In 1988 , during major school construction, the entire library of over 8,000 books had to be moved to the first-floor first grade classroom for the summer. In that location, some makeshift shelves collapsed, and books hit the floor. This was the first time the library was on the first floor, if only temporarily. At the end of the summer the library was moved back to the basement despite Jean’s concerns about the possibility of flooding during heavy rainstorms. This location also offered limited access for the community and the disabled. Jean’s fears came true when during a huge rainstorm the library was completely flooded. Attempts to remove the water and moisture and turning the heat up to 90 degrees never really eliminated the moisture problem and the library began to smell, or as Jean said, more appropriately, STINK. The smell permeated the whole school, eventually the entire library, books, furniture and shelves had to be moved again — this time to the school hallway while new carpeting was installed and then back to the basement. The library was again partially flooded a few years later. In the late 1980’s there was another school building project so the entire library was moved yet again, to the first floor room used by the preschool, involving over 10,000 volumes. Then back to the basement. In 1990, the library was moved in to a new spacious location on the first floor of the school where it exists today and where the public can enter directly without going into the school. Jean titled her history of the library, “Bartlett Public Library on the Move” which title seems very appropriate. Jean retired in 2008, and Kathy Van Deursen took over. At the time of Jean’s retirement, the library collection was nearly 23,000. Kathy took over directorship in January 2009. Her favorite story of her hiring was when Jean shared the information as to why she was chosen ahead of the other candidates. Jean said simply, “Because you were obviously a lover of the library, I have been seeing you and your children here in the library for years.” After an informal training session with Jean, Kathy took over. We use the term informal because having been the Librarian for 55 years, there was no precedent for training successors. It was a bit of trial by fire, Jean stored all her knowledge and experience in her memory and shared it through wonderful stories while keeping herself very available for support, it wasn’t easy for her to let go of her “baby.” In 2010, Elizabeth Kelsea was hired by the trustees as assistant librarian. After 10-plus years in the position, Elizabeth is a familiar face and a fixture in the library. An avid reader herself, she is always happy to talk books and introduce new authors. At the time of Kathy’s hiring the trustees were actively pursuing the establishment of a new, free-standing public library. This was always a dream of Jean’s to solve parking issues at the school, have more space for a growing collection as well as allow programming during the restricted school hours. The community was split on the project, separation of public and school, and split again on location — some wanted Glen some wanted to keep it in the village. The trustees continued to raise funds to support this move, but it quickly became clear that raising the necessary funds seemed an insurmountable challenge. At about the same time, the school offered the public library some adjacent space that allowed for expansion in the current location. The school also reconfigured the parking lot creating additional parking spaces and created a space within the building, a community room, which is available for hosting larger events. In this way many of Jean’s concerns were addressed. In addition, the library has undergone renovations over the past couple of years with the last major one taking place this past summer (2021). Once again, the library was on the move, everything traveled down the hall to a couple of classrooms while carpeting was replaced, walls were painted and the sagging book shelves were replaced. The library also purchased two new computers and a new book drop was purchased with funds from an ALA grant. As the finishing touches on the renovation take place the establishment of the Jean Garland History Collection, a special collection of New Hampshire and Bartlett history, has been given special recognition and location within the library. In 2006 ,The Friends of the Bartlett Public Library, a 501(c)(3), was established to promote and support the library with fund-raising (an annual used book/bake sale), special projects and programming. The volunteer Friends group continues in this capacity, facilitating a monthly book discussion as well as a number of New Hampshire Humanities programs, a newsletter, the Summer Reading Program for Children and the purchase of museum passes. The combined school/public library has worked well over the years and is one of only a few in the state. The location is in the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School, hours and additional information regarding the library can be found at bartlettpubliclibrary.org; by calling (603) 374-2755; or emailing bartlettpubliclibrary@roadrunner.com . Patrons have access to public computers, Wi-Fi, copiers and a fax machine as well as online access to Overdrive, and don’t forget all the books and periodicals. History Detectives: How did the Bartlett Library get to be 125? | Local News | conwaydailysun.com JANUARY 2005 LIBRARY NEEDS MORE SPACE: Jean Garland, who has been the town librarian since 1953, met with selectmen last month as well to explain the space plight. The town has had a library since 1896, when it started out in the Union Congregational Church basement in Bartlett Village. In 1953, when Garland came to preside over the periodicals, the library had 1,100 books and one encyclopedia dated 1898. By the late 1950s, the library had exhausted this space."In 1959," Garland said, "Bartlett High School closed, sending its students to Kennett High School. One of the trustees, Flora Jones, suggested we look into moving into the school basement where the school industrial arts shop had been located. The school board approved, and a newly formed Friends of the Library, library trustees and the librarian cleaned the many years of coal dust from the exposed pipes, and painted the walls. New shelving was installed, and over the next few years this space was adequate. We once again ran out of space, and over the next couple of years we expanded our space in the basement twice.Garland said the library has undergone many changes since 1979 due to construction and flooding, among other issues. "In 1980," she said, "we were in a completely renovated library; unfortunately, it was in the basement, was not easily accessible to the public and prone to flooding. Garland also recounted the school's major building project of 1989, which meant tearing down the 1930s structure and constructing a new building to meet the needs of Josiah Bartlett Elementary School into the '90s and beyond."We now had a totally new combined library finally at ground level with handicap accessibility, a public library entrance, and for a time, adequate shelving," said Garland. "The library served both the community and the school well during most of the '90s. We were, however, once again running out of shelving space, storage space and meeting space. We often had inadequate and sometimes no parking spaces for the public library patrons."Garland said space has become a huge issue over the 1/19/25, 11:24 PM Librarian said public/school library is running out of space | News | conwaydailysun.com https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/librarian-said-public-school-library-is-running-out-of-space/article_7a2fd78a-5f2a-5666-b85d-0d37b095c9b1.html 1/2 past year. The library currently has 18,850 materials with the town collection being 12,984 books and 5,903 in the school collection. This does not include encyclopedias and some reference materials."As it appears there is no room for further expansion in the school it is now time for the public library to start planning how to meet our community's needs," said Garland. "Knowing this will take considerable time and funding the trustees feel it is time to begin the process now."Garland also informed selectmen that library officials are asking the town to set up a capital reserve fund for an expansion. NOT HISTORY YET; Library Trustees: January 2025 Christine Crowe – Christine is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees, she stepped into this role when Leo Sullivan stepped down. Jacky Egan – Jacky took over the position of Treasurer at a crucial time which included the normal operating budget and the construction/renovation budget. Laura Schoen – Laura is the Secretary for the Board. Cathy Konicki – joined our board and provides valuable input on all matters especially financial ones! Deborah Eskedahl – Please welcome our newest Trustee, we are so happy to have Deb join the Board. Current Library Director Kathy Van Deursen attends every Trustee Meeting so that all problems, concerns and plans are known to all. CURRENT LIBRARY PROGRAMS: Library Reports from 1938; 1912 and 1896 BARTLETT PUBLIC LIBRARY 1938 Report Receipts Balance forward $ 46 61 Received from town 75 O00 Received from precinct 100 00 Fines 4 46 Total Receipts $226 07 Paid Out Lewis Garland $1.00 Bert Gore 4 00 Hazel Amadon 39.53 Burham Garland 1 00 Porteous, Mitchell & Braun 20.83 Hunting Co. 49 27 H. W. Wilson es Insurance 14 28 Books and material 27 89 H. R. Hunting Co. Zen O 22.81 Total Paid Out 184.36 Balance, Feb. 15, 1938 41.71 Circulation of Bartlett Library, March l, 1937 to March 1, 1938, 3575 volumes FRED L. GARLAND, Treasurer. Report of Library Trustees. 1911-1912 Balance on hand March 1, 1911, $34 74 Received from fines, : $3.00 Received from Town Appropriation; $47.80 Total Receipts $85 54 DISBURSEMENTS. Miss George, Librarian, $15 00 Express, .60 Books, 10 24 Total $25 84 Balance on hand, March 1912 $59 70 Total number of volumes in Library, 1,030 L. A. DUNBAR, C. H. GEORGE, H. R. WITHEE, Library Trustees. Report of Library Trustees. 1896-97 To the citizens of the town of Bartlett: Your library trustees would respectfully submit the following report: FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 1896. Apr. 1, Cash on hand, $ 5 42 Insurance on case, 25 00 From Town Treas., 39 30 $69 72 1896, Aug. 1, Premium on insurance for '95, $ 3 50 Dec. 1, E. L. Lowell for case, 13 00 , Printing cards, 1. 71 Money order, .08 1897. Feb. 1, Premium on insurance for ’97 3.32 Librarian, services to July 21, ’96, 15.00 Librarian, services from Dec. 1, "96, to March 1, 97, 3 75 Balance on hand, 29 36 $69 72 The library was among the sufferers by the fire that occurred last summer**, and we have collected the insurance, as you will see by the financial statement. With a view of making it possible for all the townspeople to share in the pleasure and profit of the library we have submitted a proposition to the people of the lower end, through Mr. A. B. Pratt, having for its “object the establishment of a branch at such place as they may determine. Your trustees sincerely hope that favorable action may be taken in the matter at an early date. The amount of cash on hand will be expended for books, the addition of which way make about 300 volumes. Db. A. DUNE AE B. C. SMITH, L. J. FRINK. Library Trustees. **Editor's Note: The above mentioned fire is probably referring to the fire that destroyed the entire business district at about that point in time. Fire destroys Business District 1893 GO Maybe someone has something to add? Tell me at the email link below.

Intervale Station BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 Church St. Bartlett, NH 03812 More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... station The Intervale Station is 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. The Intervale Station is 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. Undated Intervale Station photo with Mt Washington setting the tone. The station as it appeared in the early 1970's Mt Washington in the background. Intervale Station researched and written by Scotty Mallett Intervale Station, located 64.4 miles from Portland, Maine, was originally named Intervale Junction. It was a junction point between the Maine Central and Boston and Maine Railroads. The information on the beginning and operations of this depot are sparse to say the least. However, what is known is that the Intervale Station was the crew change point for the famed “Mountaineer” that came up from Boston to Intervale. Once the train crews swapped, the B&M crew would stay in a caboose on a sidetrack waiting for the return of their equipment. Here is some more information from Dwight Smith, former owner of Conway Scenic Railroad: "The railroad station at Intervale, NH was served by both the Maine Central and Boston & Maine Railroads. The final Maine Central passenger train was on the date the MeC discontinued rail passenger service between Portland, ME and St. Johnsbury, VT. (1958) I’m not sure when the B&M ended service to Intervale, but the final B&M passenger train from Boston to North Conway was a RPO/Express/Coach Budd-liner about 1960. ( What's a Buddliner, you ask? Picture at right ) The MeC and B&M occasionally interchanged freight cars at Intervale, which included tank cars of petroleum products that originated in Portland, destined to Conway, NH. With the establishment of Conway Scenic RR (1974) and until the end of Maine Central service to Intervale (1958) second-hand passenger and freight cars plus carloads of coal were interchanged from the MeC to the CSRR. Today (2019) Passenger Trains of Conway Scenic Railroad running between North Conway and Bartlett, Crawford Notch, Fabyans, and the MeC bridge over the Saco are utilizing former Maine Central RR tracks that passes through Bartlett and makes connections to the former B&M tracks at “Mountain Junction” in Portland Maine." The sidings at Intervale could hold a maximum of 41 cars. There was also a freight house next to the station. The freight house is now located at the Kearsarge Cemetery, functioning as an equipment shed. The station closed on August 17, 1958. It survived as a private dwelling and in the late 1980’s it was moved off site and incorporated into a 2 storied private home in the Intervale area. P.S. We know that the Intervale Depot was located on the North Conway side of Intervale but as it was in throwing distance of the Bartlett town line and it was the first depot to be built after the year hiatus in building the line, we thought we would throw this in for free. More Railroad Pages - Menu Top Right... 1897 Petition to the Board of Railroad Commissioners for a new crossing near the Intervale Depot. B&M RR Historical Society Newsletter March - April 2008 - Memories By Ted Houghton The Intervale Post Office back in the 50's was in a little building just north of the station. The B&M track was on the west side of the station, and ended at the NW corner of the station. The PO was in a direct line with the B&M tracks, with a paved parking parking between the two. Extending about 2/3 of the way northward across the parking lot was a deep set of grooves in the pavement, about 4' 8 1/2" apart. Ted Drew, the old Postmaster, told me of their origin. One day a train didn't quite stop when it should have, and went off the end of the track, headed right for the Post Office. Ole Ted saw it coming and bailed out the side window of the PO. Fortunately the loco stopped before making it all the way across the parking lot. My folks bought an inn in Intervale in 1950, when I was 6 years old. I remember picking up guests at the Intervale station in the very early 50's, and then the B&M cut passenger service back to North Conway, so we had to go down there. A little later, service on the Conway was totally curtailed, so then for a year or two, Dad would go to Berlin to pick up folks. Several times I rode trains from Intervale or North Conway down to North Station, all by myself, to visit my grandparents who lived out in Dover MA. And then there were the ski trains . What a sight it was when the train pulled into North Conway in the morning and hundreds of skiers, with their skis over their shoulders, would trudge up Kearsarge Street to Cranmore, where they would spend the day on the Skimobile. I had some Snow Train paper (schedules, menus, etc.), which I sold on eBay a couple of years ago - went like hotcakes. It was interesting to watch the fortunes of the North Conway depot rise and fall. In the early 50's, it was fairly well kept up and was a dark green. After a paint conversion to the more modern tan and maroon, it fell into disrepair and was boarded up for several years. Then Dwight Smith, with the backing of some local businessmen, brought the Conway Scenic RR to life and beautifully restored the station. That's the extent of my recollections of B&M activity in Intervale/North Conway. My big regret is that I didn't start taking pictures much sooner. (Don't we all have that regret-ed). memoriesintervalestation Houghton Maine Central RR Newsletter 1951 William Burdwood Jr . 1951 - Grandson of Bud Burdwood - Bartlett George Peters - Section Forman at Bartlett Frank Boothby - Agent at Intervale - died Agent A.E. Garon - new at Intervale Station O.E. Henson - Engineer - Injured in accident BurdwoodJr Peters Boothby Garon There are many more pictures at the Facebook Page "MEC RR MT DIVISION". Mountain Division at Facebook

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

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

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. We 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 We Have Found: Map, Bartlett 1892, high resolution, Rumsey Map GO sometimes this site is a bit persnickety Map, Collection of 25 early maps at WM History.org (not well maintained) GO 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. 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

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

Progress of Bartlett History Museum from Catholic Church to History Museum in Bartlett, NH Church - Early History 1950's showing the upper dormer for the Reverend's room, an addition on the back and a basement entryway. The building to the left is part of the Bartlett High School. 2016 - The idea of transforming to a Museum is explored by the Historical Society Directors and the Community. 2016 - Historical Society Directors look things over and assess the needs. 2016 - The needs are great. The sacristy is where the Eucharist bread and wine are kept when not being used along with clergy vestments and parish records. 2016 - Water damage and mold is a major problem. In 2016 The Historical Society Directors must make a decision. Do we try to renovate this building??? Or do we keep looking for alternatives??? 2017 and 2018: Decision is made to move ahead and the idea is floated in front of the community. We think $450,000 will do it. Let the fund-raising begin. By 2019 enough money had been raised to begin the renovations. Phil Franklin, the BHS President, takes an active role in the work. Photo below shows hazardous material removal - everything stripped down to the framing. After the haz-mat work we had a clean frame and an environmentally safe structure August 2020: Enough money has been raised to replace the roof Completely Rebuilt August 2020: Roof is finished and more inside work can proceed We also replaced the heating/cooling and electric systems During 2022 and 2023 the inside work continued along with replacing all the windows and outside siding. And special accommodations for our handicapped members and visitors Manchester Union Leader from January 20, 1903 found under the original clapboards. It's mysterious how a 1903 newspaper found its way under clapboards installed in 1890? Thank you to Mt Washington Fabrications in Conway for donating the new railings to the front door 2023 and 2024 all the details, trim work painting and flooring get addressed October 2024: The grand opening event drew many Tom Eastman from the Conway Daily Sun was on hand to memorialize the event with pictures and a story. Read it Here in a new page

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The Morrells and Storyland In 1953 Bob and Ruth Morrell returned from military service in Germany with the idea of starting up a children's theme park, preferably in North Conway. They soon discovered that commercial real estate in that area far exceeded their five thousand dollar savings for the venture. Travelling five miles west, to Glen, they discovered a 100 acres parcel that was formerly operated as Harmon's Sawmill. They became the new owners with the expenditure of half their savings. Story Town opened in 1954, changing the name to Storyland the following summer season to avoid confusion with Storytown USA that opened the same year in Glens Falls, NY. During their first season the admission was 85 cents, children under 12 got in free. The summer of 1954 drew 15,300 visitors. (The Glens Falls Storytown is still operating but with a couple of name changed along the way, it now is called "Six Flags".) During the winters, up until 1961, Bob worked for Carroll Reed Ski Shop in North Conway. Reed thought Storyland was a bad idea and that surely it would go broke in short order. Click the picture for a larger version "Pop up" A Brief history of storyland A Bartlett success story Anchor 1 When the US Army sent Bob and Ruth Morrell to Germany in 1950, the North Conway, NH couple found something they hadn’t expected. Her name was Frau Von Arps and she created for them a marvelous collection of small, intricately designed dolls inspired by the children’s stories with which they grew up. As their tour drew to a close, Frau Von Arps suggested that when the Morrells returned home, they might want to build a small village to house their prized collection. But the Morrells had a bigger idea—a vision of bringing the characters and their stories to life in a safe and natural setting where children and their imaginations could run free. Punctuated by the kaleidoscope of flowers and emerald fields of New Hampshire’s beautiful White Mountains, Story Land was born. It was the summer of 1954 when Humpty Dumpty, the Old Woman in the Shoe, the Three Little Pigs, Peter Rabbit, and other iconic characters inhabited the site of an old saw mill. The only ride was Freddy the Fire Truck, a real fire engine that took guests on a path through the woods. Bob and Ruth were gratified when visiting parents expressed their sincere appreciation for a clean venue in a rural setting, staffed by courteous young people, where families could create precious memories. Years later, Bob once said, "We had no competition; but nobody expected this crazy idea to survive anyway." Each year, they put all their money back into the park, adding new features and improving old ones. As Story Land grew through the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, the families that visited the park grew as well. Many of the parents and grandparents who visit today first came to Story Land as children themselves, and they love to share the joy of Story Land with their children and grandchildren, returning year after year to enjoy their old favorites and to see what's new. Bob and Ruth's two children, Stoney and Nancy, had come to love and appreciate the park in which they grew up. It seemed only natural that with the passing of their parents in the 1990s, they would honor their memory and don the mantel of operations. Stoney held the reins from the mid 1980s until his own passing in 2006, when sister Nancy guided the park into a storybook marriage with the Kennywood Entertainment Company family of theme parks in 2007. SOURCE: Storyland Advertising Literature. If you prefer an in depth history of Storyland, look no further than "Storyland " by Jim Miller and published by Arcadia in 2010. A google search will find it quickly and Google Books will let you look at the first 30 pages free with a click of your mouse device. Jim Miller served as Story Land's marketing coordinator and general manager, working with the park's second generation of family ownership and other longtime cast members to share its history and outlook with guests, staff, community, and the media. He has been a manager, promoter, and student of White Mountains tourism businesses for 25 years. Story Land has continually grown for more than 50 years through economic and cultural changes that undermined many amusement parks. Parents still travel great distances for a Story Land getaway with their children, just as their own parents did, sharing a common experience that is talked about between multiple generations at family gatherings. This photograph collection illustrates the unlikely beginnings and creative entrepreneurship behind one of New England s most memorable and enduring childhood institutions." Go to the 2010 Book Signing with Jim Miller BobRuth Stone stoney OBIT Stoney Morrell, Heritage New Hampshire owner, dies same day attraction closes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARTLETT, N.H. — Stoney Morrell, who ran the White Mountain attractions Story Land and Heritage New Hampshire, has died of cancer. He was 50. Morrell died Sunday, the same day Heritage New Hampshire closed its doors for good. His parents, Ruth and Bob Morrell, opened Story Land in the village of Glen in 1954. The amusement park, which is aimed at younger children and features characters and attractions from nursery rhymes, has drawn tourists from southern New Hampshire and the greater Boston area for half a century. Bob Morrell opened Heritage New Hampshire next door in 1976 to showcase the state's history, but the attraction's attendance had fallen off. Morrell "stepped into very big footsteps after his father died," said Dick Hamilton, former president of White Mountains Attractions, of which Story Land was a founding member. "He continued to work to make Story Land one of the top-rated parks here in New England." Storyland will continue operating with the management team Morrell put in place, Hamilton said. Janice Crawford, executive director of the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, said Morrell continued to improve on the dream he shared with his parents, adding a new attraction to Story Land every year. He also emphasized traditional childhood themes and provided a safe experience, instead of following the trend of slick sets and scary rides, she said. Morell "built Storyland into a premier, stately attraction, having the courage to dismiss the neon, Hollywood and thriller rides that were in vogue," she said. Morrell was born two years after his parents opened Storyland. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 and went to Wyoming to try ranching for a while, then rejoined the family business in the early 1980s. After his father died in 1997, he carried on with Bob Morrell's favorite project, the restoration of the Flying Yankee train. The elder Morrell bought the train in 1993 from the Edaville Railroad and sold it to the state for $1. Restoration is continuing at the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln. "Stoney picked up the torch and started running with it," said Paul Giblin, president of the Flying Yankee Restoration Group. "He certainly had a great passion for tourism and thoroughly understood his dad's vision. There is much more to the train than its restoration — they saw it as a way to give people hope and inspire creativity." Morrell was generous to his hometown, donating money to establish the Bartlett Village Park and buying the fire department its first ladder truck in 2004, said Storyland spokesman Jim Miller. He also mentored many people in the White Mountain tourism industry and served on local and state boards. "He did not look for the spotlight. He was a quiet benefactor," Miller said. Morrell is survived by his wife, Foley; his son and daughter; and his sister, Nancy. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Monday. OBITUARY: Robert S. Morrell, at 78; June 23, 1998 Robert S. Morrell, the founder of Storyland, a tourist attraction in Glen, N.H., populated by Cinderella, Humpty Dumpty, and other fantasy figures, died of cancer Friday in his home in Kearsarge, N.H. He was 78. Mr. Morrell was born in Manchester, N.H. As a youth he was a ski instructor at the Eastern Slope Ski School in Jackson, N.H., and Mount Cranmore in Conway, N.H. After studying business administration at Bay Path Institute in Springfield, he served in the Army's 10th Mountain Division during World War II . In 1944, he sold insurance in Manchester, N.H., and in 1948 he opened an ice cream company in North Conway, N.H., but the Korean War halted that enterprise. In 1953, while he was stationed in Baumholder, Germany, he met a German doll maker who fashioned her creations after storybook characters and sold them door-to-door. When she told him her idea of a make-believe village based on the characters, Storyland was born. Mr. Morrell returned home and created Story Land the following summer on Route 16 in Glen with his first wife, the former Ruth Taber , who died in 1990. The attraction drew 15,343 visitors at 85 cents a head in its first year. Over the years, the park offered more than characters such as The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Cinderella, and Humpty Dumpty. A miniature train, flying wooden shoes, and a space ride added to its popularity among children. In 1975, the Morrells created an attraction for older visitors. Heritage New Hampshire featured animated displays, movies, and slides portraying 350 years of state history. The son of a railroad man, Mr. Morrell in 1993 bought the Flying Yankee, the nation's third streamlined passenger train. He eventually sold it to the state of New Hampshire for $1. The nonprofit Flying Yankee Restoration Group Inc. was formed to raise $1 million to restore it and hopes to begin carrying passengers again on July 4, 2000. Mr. Morrell served on several local boards, including the Mount Washington Valley Habitat for Humanity and the Conway School Board. He served as a citizen ambassador to China in 1994 and to South Africa in 1995 as a delegate for People to People International. Storyland is now operated by his son, R. Stoning "Stoney" Jr., who said his father's greatest asset was his curiosity. " He was relentless in his pursuit of things unique," his son said, "whether that meant finding something around the corner or something he saw on the other side of the Earth while traveling. He was a hands-on, in- the-ditch kind of boss who loved the excitement of new challenges." In addition to his son, he leaves his second wife, Miriam Andrews Morrell; a daughter, Nancy Morrell Coan of Stuart, Fla.; three stepdaughters, Carolyn Williams and Sylvia Stephenson of North Andover, and Janet Kibbee of Penacook, N.H.; a brother, Nathan of Watertown, N.Y.; a sister, Marion Morrell Owen of Colebrook, N.H.; and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are private. A celebration of his life is being planned FURTHER READING AT THE MOUNTAIN EAR CHRONICLES: The Long Road to Happily-Ever-After July 8, 1977 (SORRY - THE LINK IS GONE) by Jane Golden of the Mountain Ear Staff . Conway Daily Sun Article by Tom Eastman - 2024 Link OK as of Dec 2024 A remarkable, detailed view of Storyland as told by New Hampshire Magazine Link is good as of Nov 2023 Links Revisiting Storyland, A great collection of photographs April 2019 by Aimee Tucker Link is ok as of Dec 2024 Personal Personal Recollections A personal remembrance: In 1958, when I was about nine, my family all went to Storyland for the first time, although we only lived five miles up the street. The fire-truck caught our eye immediately and it was permissible to climb up on to it. My brother, twelve at the time, wanted to sound the siren and horn but they wouldn't work. After investigating the situation a little he announced, "I see the problem, the battery is disconnected". He proceeded to connect the wire terminals and blasted the siren and the horn. It only took a minute or two for Storyland personnel to come running and told us, in a friendly way, that we were no longer allowed near the fire-truck. This editor's Recollection: My own lasting impression of both Bob and Stoney Morrell was their ability to meet every one they encountered on the same level. There was never any suggestion, pretense or an "I'm better than you" attitude. In fact, they both had the ability to make each person they spoke with, regardless of that person's station in life, feel like their opinion was both valued and important. Their ability to sincerely listen to other people's opinions and ideas, all the while, imparting very little of themselves unless urged was truly impressive. Some were surprised to find Bob and Ruth living in a relatively modest ranch type house in Kearsarge, reflecting their low-key lifestyle. Despite their phenomenal ambition, enthusiasm and success both personally and financially, anyone meeting them would conclude that they aren't a whole lot different than me. And I think that's just how they wanted it. Lion coffee Bob Obit

History of the Bartlett Experimental Forest at Bartlett New Hampshire. NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Bartlett Experimental Forest Bartlett Experimental Forest What's going on up in those woods? 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

Ski History Bartlett NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 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 HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 "Glimpses of Livermor e" Doctoral Thesis by Peter Crane Some of these pages are under construction Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces YOU CAN ENJOY THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT LIVERMORE: In 1993 Peter Crane wrote his Doctoral thesis titled "Glimpses of Livermore: Life and Lore of an Abandoned White Mountain Woods Community". It is probably the most extensive research project ever undertaken for the Town of Livermore. Peter has given us permission to share this PDF version of his book. It is reproduced below for our website visitors. As you will see from the Table of Contents Mr Crane has left no stone unturned in this remarkable piece of history. The work has extensive bibliographical sources, a huge index and a good majority of the thesis is devoted to interviews with folks who either lived, worked, or were in some way associated with the abandoned town. These interviews also diverge from Livermore to other aspects of life in and around Bartlett. Use the scroll bar on the right side of the box below to move from one page to the next. The TOP BLACK BORDER has some great tools too. Look at the PDF here... Three ladies identified only by their first names, in the parlor at Livermore in 1911. Uncle Geo and Maxie - 1906 Perhaps George is a Morey?

Bartlett NH area history Share 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. Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5

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

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 The Cave Mountain House The Howard Hotel The Bartlett Hotel CaveMtHouse First Hotel on This Site: The Cave Mountain House 1892 to 1905 - 13 years Historic Lodging Map THE CAVE MOUNTAIN HOUSE: 1890 - 1905 was originally the summer home of one of the Jose brothers, owners of Bartlett Land and Lumber Company. The Hotel was purchased by Edgar Stevens in 1892. His specialty was entertaining the guests both at the Inn and with excursions through the mountains. Mr Stevens was a fabulous story-teller and enjoyed personally escorting his guests on wild rides through the mountains. The Inn's rooms were advertised as large and airy, with electric lights, hot and cold running water, and excellent views from most rooms. There was also a large farm connected with the hotel that provided fresh eggs, meat and vegetables. All this could be had for prices ranging from $7 to $12 per week. (in perspective, an average family earned about $35./ month in 1895) . On May 1, 1905 the Cave Mountain House and barn were totally destroyed by fire which started in the kitchen and a defective chimney aided in the ensuing inferno. The insured loss amounted to $10,875. This editor has found no information about what Mr Stevens did for the next nine years before his death in June 1914 at age 70. His grave is at the Fish Street Cemetery in North Fryeburg, Maine. The site remained empty until 1912 when the Howard Hotel was built on the same site. EDGAR AUGUSTUS STEVENS, proprietor of the Cave Mountain House at Bartlett, was born December 16, 1844, in Shelburne, N. H. . Edgar A. Stevens obtained his education in the common schools of Shelburne, after which he assisted his father on the farm until after the breaking out of the Civil War. Enlisting in 1863 in Company A, Eleventh Maine Volunteer Infantry, which was subsequently a part of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, he participated in the battle of Ball's Bluff, the engagement at Hatcher's Run, where he was wounded in the foot, and at the siege of Richmond. He was honorably discharged from the service in 1866 as Orderly Sergeant. During the next three years Mr. Stevens was employed in a saw-mill at Berlin, N.H., and was later fireman for two years on the Grand Trunk Railroad. position on the Portland & Ogdensburg Rail Accepting in 1871 a similar road, he was employed as fireman until 1873, when he was promoted to the position of engineer, which he retained for twenty-one years. Coming to Bartlett in 1892, he purchased the Cave Mountain House, a small hotel containing but twelve rooms. This he has enlarged to a house of thirty-four rooms, with good accommodations for fifty guests, and has further improved it by putting in steam heat and electric lights. A pleasant host, attentive and accommodating, he has won an excellent patronage, many people of note visiting the house each summer, among whom may be mentioned Edward Everett Hale and family, the Rev. Mr. White, of Brookline, Mass., the Rev. Mr. Fay, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and numerous others. Mr. Stevens was a member of Ossola Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has held all the chairs; of Grant Post, No. 91, G. A. R., of Glen, which he has served as Commander; and of the Masonic order, in Fraternally, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree. In 1873, Mr. Stevens married Abbie T. Lewis, of Conway, and they had two children, namely: Bertha May, born November 12, 1879, who is a student in Wellesley College; and Blanche Louise , born May 1881, a graduate of Brewster Academy, who is now fitting herself for the profession of a music teacher. Stevens JOSE HowardHotel The Howard Hotel 1912 - 1947 - 35 years GKHowardObit The Howard Hotel Circa 1912 The Cave Mountain House burned in 1905 and was rebuilt as The Howard Hotel. Owned by G.K. Howard and managed by William Irish it opened on July 1, 1912. It was a first class hotel in its prime. Every room on the second and third floor connected with a bathroom, hot and cold water, and a room telephone to the front desk. The dining room seated 75 people. It provided drivers. The Howard enjoyed a long successful life and by the 1930's the rates started at $5.00 per day and $25.00 per week. These rates put it on a par with most of the other first class hotels in the area. See the original 1912 sales brochure for the Howard Hotel Below In December 1947 The hotel was purchased by Matt Elliot and Reland T. Hart and renamed the Bartlett Hotel. Matt operated the Hotel until his death in 1985. Considering Matt was there for 38 years there is scant information about him. In 1985 the Hotel was purchased by the Arthur and Chip Yannone of Brockton Massachusetts. They began a renovation of the hotel but in the winter of 1989 the Hotel was destroyed by fire caused while thawing frozen pipes. Source credit: The Latchstring was Always Out Aileen M. Carroll - 1994 Photo Below is G.K. Howard; Photo at right shows Mr. Howard and John O'Connell Granville K. Howard, Prominent Bartlett Resident Dies In the passing of Granville K. Howard on Nov. 17, 1949, at his home after a brief illness, Bartlett has lost one of its outstanding citizens. Born in Hartford, Vt., in 1864, he was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1886 and always kept up his interests in the activities of the college. In 1887 he married Nellie Bailey of Landgrove, Vt ., and two years later he moved to Bartlett. From that time until his retirement in 1946 he was active in business, conducting a general store. In 1912 he built the Howard Hotel, which is now known as Bartlett Hotel. Mr. Howard held many town offices, having served as selectman and as a member of the school board. He was instrumental in forming the Bartlett Water Precinct of which he was treasurer for 51 years. Always interested in the welfare of the town, one of his last acts was to give a plot of land opposite the hotel for a public park. For many years he was active in Osceola Lodge, I. O. O. F., and was recently awarded his 50 year pin. His counsel and guidance will be missed by the many people who always found him a friend in time of need. Funeral services were held on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Bartlett Congregational Church.- The Reporter, Thursday, November 24, 1949 -pg 1 oconnell gk howard The Howard Sales Brochure Opening July 1, 1912 brochure The Howard - Circa 1930's The Bartlett Hotel 1947 to 1989 - 42 Years The Howard Hotel was purchased by Matt Elliott and Realand Hart in 1947. They renamed it the Bartlett Hotel. Unlike Mr Stevens of the Cave Mountain House and GK Howard of the Howard Hotel, this editor has found scant biographical or personal information about Elliott or Hart. Mr Elliott had a son, Edward M. Elliott, "Bert" who was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1957. His mother was Lottie Rounds Elliott and it seems she lived in Lynn, Ma. while Bert spent most of his younger years in Bartlett with his Dad, graduating from Kennett High School in 1976. Bert died of cancer in 2023 at Lynn, Ma. Mr. Hart eventually sold his share to Mr. Elliott but this editor has yet to find the details of that transaction nor what Mr Hart did subsequently. Matt operated the Hotel until his death in 1985 at which time it was purchased by the Yannones of Brockton Massachusetts. However, its days were numbered since in the winter of 1989 the Hotel was destroyed by fire caused while thawing frozen pipes. Source credit: The Latchstring was Always Out Aileen M. Carroll Fire Bartlett Hotel Circa 1970 Bartlett Hotel Circa 1950 Aftermath - March 1989 - Fire started at the left side from thawing frozen pipes. Hebert's Seafood Restaurant had been in the building for only a year or two. Sources: Incidents in White Mountain history - by Rev. Benjamin G. Willey https://www.ancestry.com › genealogy › records › levi-chubbuck_91882748 "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill brooklyncentre.com › trees › getperson Bartlett NH - In the Valley of the Saco - Aileen Carroll - 1990 Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains - circa 1860 REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF The State of New Hampshire • BOSTON - NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 15 COURT SQUARE 1902 Lodging Preface Upper Village Area Glen Area Intervale Area Historic Lodging Map

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

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 Church St. Bartlett, NH 03812 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 10th Mountain Division 'Tales of the 10th' Features Familiar Faces MARTY BASCH, NH.com September 1, 2006 Young eyes peer from faces in the black and white photographs. Wavy hair or piercing looks, they are faces of men in their youth during a time of war. From training on the slopes of Colorado to the battle with the Germans on Italy’s Riva Ridge, the photos are of the men of the 10th Mountain Division and the names are linked to skiing in the valley and beyond. Name s like Herbert Schneider, Thad Thorne, Nathan Morrell, Robert Morrell and Brad Boynton are among those that fill the pages of “Tales of the 10th: The Mountain Troops and American Skiing” ($20, New England Ski Museum) It is written by North Conway’s Jeffrey Leich, executive director of the New England Ski Museum. “Hundreds of 10th veterans are influential in the ski business,” said Leich. “These guys were influential as well as hundreds of others.” The book is a glimpse into World War II and the evolution of the 10th, how it attracted some of the best skiers of the time, how they trained in Camp Hale, how they fought and the impact these men had on postwar skiing and mountaineering. Packed with photos and a bundle of stories, the book also provides a look into the history of war and skiing, from the a pair of Birkenbeiners skiing a two-year old Norwegian king Hakon Hakonsson to safety in 1205 to the ingenious Finns who battled the Russians in the Russian-Finnish War. The Schneider name is synonymous with Mount Washington Valley skiing. Hannes Schneider, who’s likeness is captured in a Cranmore statue, was a World War I mountain trooper. Son, Herbert, who sports a mustache, crossed arms and a huge smile in one photo, was given a Bronze star for his participation in combat during World War II. After the war, he returned to North Conway, eventually running Cranmore’s Hannes Schneider Ski School and becoming part owner. Thad Thorne was a platoon sergeant and spent much of the war in Luzon and then Japan. He spent more time in the Army, including a stint in the Korean War. In time, he served seven years as Wildcat’s first ski patrol director and then moved on to the development of Attitash, working his way along the ladder as operations manager, general manager and president. As a ski consultant, he aided in the plans for Loon and Wilderness in Dixville Notch. Peter Limmer served with distinction, at Roosevelt Field in Amarillo, TX and Maxwell Field in Cortland, AL, and attained the rank of Staff Sergeant and crew chief of 6 B-29’s in the Strategic Air Command. Pete's brother, Francis Limmer served with the famous 10th Mountain Division. After training at Camp Hale, CO, he saw action in the mountains of northern Italy as a Lieutenant, and was present at the Battle of Riva Ridge. Both men joined their father’s famous boot making business upon returning home in 1946. They were avid outdoorsmen and very involved in their local community, and stewarded the family trade through the early 1990’s. A shot of Brad Boynton in Tuckerman Ravine graces the book’s pages. Before the war, Boynton was a ski instructor in Jackson, along with future 10th Division members like Bob Morrell and Arthur Ducette. Boynton was one of the founding members of the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. Bob Morrell started up Storyland in the late 1950’s while Nate Morrell continued to be active with the 10th after the war, serving for many years as chairman of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division. In one photo, the photographer is photographed. A lone skier schusses down the south slope of Homestake Peak in Colorado. The skier is Winston Pote, a U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer. He went on capture much of the New England skiing landscape, Tuckerman Ravine in particular, in his pictures. Bob Monahan, who chose the training site at Camp Hale in Colorado, later went on to found the Mount Washington Observatory. “One of the things that changed American skiing about the 10th was they took all these eastern skiers and put them in the Colorado Rockies in Camp Hale,” Leich said. “After the war, one could make a case, that without that the development of skiing in Colorado could have been slower.” Looking ahead, a number of 10th veterans are expected for the Schneider Cup at Cranmore March 12 and 13. Leich is planning to orchestrate a book signing with them. Also, research is underway for a spring exhibit at the New England Ski Museum focusing on the Civilian Conservation Corps and its trails. Seventy-five years ago the CCC began cutting trails and ski areas sprung up around many like Cannon and the Taft Trail, the Tecumseh Trail at Waterville Valley and Wildcat’s Wildcat. Bits and Pieces 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 stillings fire schneider thorne boynton morrell pote monahan The last time this editor looked for this book it was available most locally at this link: https://www.newenglandskimuseum.com/tales-of-the-10th/ 2008, paperback, 128 pages, 140 b&w photographs and illustrations by Jeffrey R. Leich Based on the Museum’s 2000 exhibit, this visual history tells the story of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II, the unique unit conceived by New England skiers and recruited from the ranks of civilian skiers by the National Ski Patrol. Three regiments of mountain troops trained extensively in skiing and mountaineering in the Colorado Rockies, then compiled a distinguished combat history in Italy. Its veterans had an important influence on the postwar development of American skiing. 2nd edition, revised and expanded since 2003 edition. LimmerFrancis

Bemis NH at Crawford Notch , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , BEMIS at Crawford Notch Idyllic scene on the Roosevelt Highway at Bemis, perhaps 1920's. Dr Bemis's stone house is seen at left. Notchland and Samuel Bemis By Rick Russack From the website "White Mountain History.org" . You can read this article there if you can find it. Since many "off-site links" go bad over time this editor has taken the liberty of copying parts of the story below. By the time Samuel Bemis died in May of 1881, he owned nearly 6,000 acres in Hart's Location. His most visible, and lasting legacy, is Notchland, the granite mansion he designed and built, using granite quarried on his own land along the Sawyer River. He would eventually own Abel Crawford's Mount Crawford Tavern , he allowed the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad to build their railroad through Crawford Notch on his land for one dollar, he was a progressive farmer who won awards for his apples and produce, he owned a sawmill, he gave his name to Mt. Bemis, he named other landmarks for friends, most notably Frankenstein Cliffs for the artist Godfrey Frankenstein, and he will always be remembered as perhaps the first landscape photographer in this country. Samuel Bemis was born in Putney, Vermont in June, 1793. Young Samuel learned clock and watch making from his father. Samuel moved to Boston, in 1812, and found work as a clockmaker. Bemis was of a mechanical and inventive mind. He made a surveying instrument, designed a "painless" tooth extraction tool for a dentist friend, and substantially improved upon the false teeth of the day. He became a dentist in early 1822. He made his first trip to the White Mountain in 1833, staying at Ethan Allen Crawford's Old Moosehead Tavern. Bemis visited the White Mountains every year thereafter, with Abel Crawford's Mt. Crawford Tavern becoming his destination after 1836. As time went on, Bemis frequently loaned money to Crawford, and Crawford's son-in-law, Nathaniel Davis, taking a mortgage on their Mt. Crawford Tavern in return. Abel Crawford died in 1851 and Davis took over running the tavern. By 1855, Davis's health and financial condition had deteriorated to the point where he could not continue running the tavern and he asked Bemis to foreclose on the mortgages, which he did. It was a friendly transaction; Bemis and the Crawford and Davis families remained friends. Bemis was one of the first, if not THE first, American landscape photographer. On April 15, 1840 he purchased one of the first daguerreotype cameras sold in this country and immediately began to experiment with the new process, taking his first image just four days later. He took his first photograph in the White Mountains in June of that year and continued creating photographs in the area until 1843. Roughly half of his surviving daguerreotypes are in the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY with the others are in public and private collections. In addition to being remembered for his photography, he will long be remembered as the builder of the amazing granite mansion, Notchland, in Hart's Location. He designed the building and supervised its construction in the 1860s. It took about a decade to build and he was finally able to move in on Christmas Eve, 1870. The mansion, as Dr. Bemis called it, is entirely of stone. Even the posts in the basement are cut granite and the fireplace is supported on granite lintels supported by granite posts. The sills are granite. Bemis quarried the granite on his own land, from a quarry along the Sawyer River. It's in the woods today, but the evidence of the work done there is clear. A full telling of the Samuel Bemis story could fill a book. In addition to watchmaker, dentist, and daguerreotypist, his list of accomplishments is long. Dr, Bemis was a friend of Godfrey Frankenstein, prominent painter of the White Mountain School of Art. Bemis named the Frankenstein Cliff after his friend. A Frankenstein portrait of Bemis hangs in Notchland today. Bemis was an investor in several railroads and cooperated with the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad when they were building their railroad through Crawford Notch. He gave them a right-of-way over his land and allowing the construction crews to live in the old Mt. Crawford Tavern. Samuel Bemis died a wealthy man in 1881. He owned his mansion and several thousand acres in Crawford Notch. He never married and left all his property to George Morey, his long-time friend, caretaker, and manager of his farm. Dr. Bemis is buried in a small cemetery behind his home. Morey's daughter-in-law, Florence, eventually become the owner of the property. She operated the house as The Inn Unique, a small hotel. After her death, it was vacant for several years, and is now, once again known as Notchland, and open to the public as a Bed and Breakfast Inn and restaurant. The Bemis House in Crawford Notch, Later Madam Morey's Inn Unique, and Now The Notchland Inn. It was constructed from granite quarried on the site over a ten year period beginning in 1860. Read the entire Dr. Bemis story at White Mountain History,Org. HERE (it will open in a new window) (Link OK, Dec 2024) As a side note to the reference "Madam Morey", Merle Burke of Bartlett worked for Florence Morey and said, "When he was twelve, I called Mrs Morey 'Madam' -- not knowing any better. Luckily she didn't hear me. But, after I said it, I thought my two Uncles, Pep and Jake and my grandfather Joe were going to snatch me bald-headed and pull my ears out. I learned a lesson that day! I read one time in the Conway Daily Sun, where someone said that she liked to be called 'Madam.' Well, I knew her for a long time and, I never knew of anyone ever calling her Madam to her face!!" REF: In Marion Varney's "Harts Location in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire's Smallest Town", published 1997, there is reference to the title, "Madam" on page 136: "She commenced her long reign as the Madam of Harts Location, as she preferred to be known, in 1928 when she was elected Town Clerk and Selectman." Since the author, Marion Varney, was a neighbor of Florence Morey there must be some truth to this statement. Two Paintings by Godfrey Frankenstein. The details of this artist could make a whole side story. He was enamored with Niagara Falls. READ WHAT I FOUND ABOUT HIM HERE A view looking west. The Dr. Bemis house at left. Crawford's Tavern is at the right. The cleared area has since grown into a forest. Rare 1870's photo of Crawford's Tavern at Bemis (left) and the Bemis Mansion on the right. Appears to be recently after a flood. The donor believes the picture was taken in the late 1870's. Photo Credit: Judith V. Hoell. Madam Morey's Inn Unique. She named and operated the Inn after it was bequeathed to her and George Morey, who had been Dr. Bemis' caretaker. She was also a N.H. State Representative. After Madam Morey's death the Inn was unused for a time. I n the 1980's it was purchased by John and Pat Bernardin who re-modeled eleven of the guest rooms and opened for business. They subsequently sold the business to it's current owners after their son's suicide. In the mid 1990's the Inn was purchased by Ed Butler and Les Schoof, along with their Berners, Crawford and Abby. As of this writing (2015) They still operate it as The Notchland Inn. You can see their current endeavors at website, where they have included a short history of the Inn. Unique Butler Schoof Bernardin Moosehead BemisHousePic RosseveltHiwyPic BemisPaintings Frankenstein BemisBio Morey CrawTavern1860

History of the West side Road area bartlett, nh Drown Family - Pitmans Arch - Pendexter BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 West Side Road WestSideRd The West Side Road begins in Glen, passes through what is known as Cooks Crossing, past Dick Plusch's "Goat Farm". Then down the hill and around the bend to what was once known as Hilltown. It follows the bank of the Saco River, then past the historic Lady Blanche House and continuing along past the Lucy Farm and on into North Conway.. The "Goat Farm" was owned in the early to mid 1900s by Severo Mallet-Prevost. Calista Allan and her second husband, Tom Allan, took care of the Goat Farm when the Mallet-Prevosts were away (they were summer residents). Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge 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. Notice her house on the maps that you posted." Drown A bit fuzzy but readable (maybe) if you put on your specs. Olive Drown 1909 Mary Abigail and husband, Sam, are buried in the Hilltown Cemetery on West Side Road. Sam's headstone is readable while Mary's is probably one that has faded away. See the details of Lady Blanch at THIS PAGE Blanche The Hilltown area on the West Side Road remains only in memories. There are still one or two cellar holes to be seen and a couple of houses probably of a later vintage. The Hilltown Cemetery is a spot you drive by frequently but difficult to find. It is on the West Side Road, on the right about two miles from the Bartlett end. Look for sharp corner just before the road goes down hill to the river. There's a driveway with a bamboo patch and faint remains of an old house foundation. (Very dangerous driveway to exit...visibility very poor. May be advisable to park somewhere else nearby and walk back to the driveway). We have a few pictures taken at the Hilltown Cemetery a few years ago that can be seen at this link. HILLTOWN CEMETERY We bet you have never heard of the 1936 Hilltown Landslide on West Side Road. Resident Eugene Hill was killed. SLIDE "History Repeats Itself. Slide at Willey House - Crawford Notch, NH". Kearsarge SEE MORE SLIDE PICTURES EASTMAN Recalling the great killer slide of March 1936 Slide killed watchmaker Eugene Hill 73 years ago this month Tom Eastman - March 28, 2009 BARTLETT — Spring floods are nothing new, but the one that hit the North Country in March 1936 wreaked more havoc than usual and ended up killing West Side Road resident Eugene Hill in the area of Bartlett known as Hilltown. Local historian Dan Noel, who has been battling cancer, recently forwarded The Conway Daily Sun a telling of the tragic tale by an eyewitness who traveled to the devastated site after the slide that caused Hill's death the morning of March 12, 1936. He believes the eyewitness account may have been written by the late Buster Parker, of Bartlett. Other information was gleaned by looking at microfilm of the March 12 and March 19 editions of the now defunct Reporter newspaper of North Conway in the Henney History Room of the Conway Public Library, as well as interviewing Brian Hill of Lower Bartlett, nephew of Eugene Hill, a watchmaker who lived alone when the fatal disaster struck. On a gloriously sunny first day of spring on Friday afternoon, March 20, West Side Road resident and town father Chet Lucy took time out from his maple sugaring operation to show a reporter exactly where the slide happened farther north up the road 73 years ago in the Hilltown enclave of Hill family members. “My father [Arthur O. Lucy], was involved in the story, as he was part of the rescue effort,” said the still winter-bearded Lucy, a former Conway selectman whose family Conway roots go back some 250 years. “I was born in 1926, so I was 9 years old at the time, and it was quite a thing.” We drove north past the Lady Blanche House, around a bend in the road, and down to the flat area below Pitman's Arch to a section across from the Saco River and the home of Chuck Kalil the heart of the former Hilltown area. To our left on the west side of the road were two houses, a barn and a trellis at the base of a cliff. “Just like the Willey Slide that you know about [in Crawford Notch in August 1826], the slide came down over there and divided, leaving the Colson house standing where that white house is now,” said Lucy, who, like Noel, is a lover and keeper of local history. The river flooded the road but it was the slide that came into Eugene Hill's house and killed him, according to accounts from that era. “The road used to be lower than it is now. The state built it higher,” said Lucy, wearing his wool green and black plaid spring-chores jacket. The following account of the slide was reported in the Thursday, March 19, 1936 issue of The Reporter, a week after the March 12 disaster: “Though flood damage in northern Carroll County has been light compared with that in other parts of New England, this locality was mentioned in headlines and broadcasts through the tragic death of Eugene Hill and the dramatic rescue of several survivors of the slides at Hilltown, on the West Side Road from North Conway to Bartlett. "Last Thursday morning at about 8 o'clock, slides of snow and ice crashed against the northwest corner of the home of Eugene Hill, ripping out the corner of the house and burying its owner, who lived there alone, under several feet of ice and debris. A similar slide tore out a part of the lower floor of the second house to the north, belonging to Nathan Hill, carrying Mrs. Sarah Seavey, 83, Mr. Hill's housekeeper, across the road and burying her up to the armpits in snow, ice and wreckage.” The Reporter account verified Chet Lucy's recollection that the slide divided around one of the homes, just as the August 1826 slide in Crawford Notch had divided around the Willey homesite in that famous White Mountain disaster: “As freakish as most disasters,” noted the Reporter, “the house between the two, occupied by Webster Colson, was undamaged. Mr. Colson, together with his wife, son and daughter, at once started for Bartlett for help, and reached there after considerable difficulty, due to parts of the road that were submerged. Rescue parties finally started for the scene of the disaster. the first truck was from Main Street Garage, North Conway, and included Henry Thompson, Myron Hanson, Dr. McDonald, a selectman from Bartlett, and others. James Waldron, forestry superintendent of the Saco River CCC Camp at Glen, was in Bartlett at the time, and followed close behind with two trucks and his crew of about 20 boys. The North Conway truck was unable to reach Hilltown, but the two higher CCC trucks, after considerable difficulty, were able to reach the scene of the disaster where they found Mrs. Walker, daughter of Mrs. Seavey, trying to extricate her with a small coal shovel. Seavey was removed from the wreckage and, after receiving temporary treatment from Dr. G. Harold Shedd (of ski bone doctor fame when skiing took hold in the region), and two nurses from Memorial Hospital (Gladys Carter and Doris Haley), she was taken by stretcher and boat to the home of Arthur Lucy, along with Nathan Hill and Mrs. Walker, who were uninjured.” The following day, Sarah Seavey was taken to Memorial Hospital as a precaution. Nathan Hill, meanwhile, 94, was returned to the Lucy's home for two weeks until the waters subsided. Dan Noel, who first brought the tale of the disaster to the Sun's attention, provided a copy of a letter written by an unidentified first-hand witness and participant of the rescue effort. “I came across the letter the other day. I don't recall how I came across it to begin with, but I thought it made for an interesting story that you might want to use,” said Noel, a lifelong collector of White Mountain history and professional photographer whose clients in the past included Yield House and Cranmore Mountain. Arriving at the scene on foot after much difficulty driving on West Side Road in the flood waters, the witness gave the following account: “We immediately went to the residence of Gene Hill where we found the house completely filled with ice clear to the rafters. We all started digging in the ice and we first found the arm of Gene which held the stove poker, evidently had just filled the stove when it happened. We dug the body out of the ice.” The eyewitness went on to say that Hill was a jeweler, and that they found watches strewn across the area. “As each one was tagged,” he wrote, “they were put in a pail and taken to Fred Hanscom, town clerk of Bartlett.” The Reporter added a paragraph or two, adding to the mystery of whatever happened to Eugene Hill's belongings: “Mr. Hill, a watchmaker by trade, had been partially crippled for the past 20 years, and had lived alone since the death of his mother a few years ago. Soon after the disaster, several watches and other articles of jewelry, were recovered from the ruins. Relatives, however, voiced their suspicions that he also had a box containing money and this was finally found on Saturday after considerable search by Harold Hill of Kearsarge and turned over to Bartlett officials for safekeeping.” On their departure, the party encountered Dr. Shedd, Ms. Carter and Ms. Haley. “Both nurses [were] carried across the brook by Walter Lock of Glen, and Dr. Shedd was in the process of being carried across on Walter's back. Walter accidentally stubbed his toe and, both got a ‘Yankee Dunking.' When we arrived back to the Rocky Branch Bridge and crossed it, the bridge dropped into the stream at once [behind the rescuers, Dr. Shedd and nurses Carter and Haley]. The following day the road was [plowed] out by the Bartlett town tractor.” Meanwhile, according to Henry Hatch, who was another rescuer, “Arthur Lucy took Ellsworth Russell and Cedric Colbath with him from Conway Supply Co. R.F. Harmon was also in the party who went to Hill Town [sic] and I believe were the ones or part of the crew that dug Mr. Hill out of the debris. I believe they took Eugene Hill out by canoe to the road at Lady Blanche House and then by various means, got to Conway and back by East Side Road to Furber Funeral Home.” The funeral home was operated by Arthur Furber, and was located behind what most recently was D.J.'s Bedding and Outlet and which for a number of years served as Brothers II, across from the Up Country . Chester Lucy remembers that part of the tale. He said his father, Arthur O. Lucy, co-founder in 1933 of Conway Supply , and others transported the body by rowboat and then truck to Smith-Allard Farm on the West Side. There, they met Furber, who transported the body across the river on the bridge and to the funeral home. “My father told my mother Irene to call Arthur he didn't have to say his last name [Furber]; she knew who he was talking about and let him know that they were coming by canoe. Arthur didn't catch on exactly what she was talking about at first, so my father said, ‘Just tell him we're coming and to meet us at the railroad bridge!’ Eventually she got Arthur to understand that my father was bringing some cargo ... a body!” said Lucy this week. Nathan Hill, meanwhile, couldn't go back to his home during the high waters, so he spent two weeks with the Lucy family in their home, a house that was lost to fire in 1942. “In Conway Village,” wrote Janet Hounsell in her book, “Conway, New Hampshire 1785-1997,” “The main damage was loss of water. Friday and Saturday [after the Thursday flood] there was no mail in or out, and residents of Oak Street left home for higher ground. Thursday night, houses near the Saco River Bridge were evacuated. Cellars were flooded and Thursday the water pipes where they cross the Swift River ruptured, so the village was without water except for rainwater.” Hounsell added further information on Arthur Lucy's role. “When Arthur Lucy, of the Conway Supply Co., learned there'd been an avalanche at Humphrey's Ledge, he took three millworkers and started off to help with the rescue work. By auto, boat and snowshoes the crew reached the spot. They worked until the body of the victim was located. Lucy brought the remains by boat and toboggan to Conway.” The Reporter's March 19, 1936 account said that due to the high rains, "The East Branch Bridge in Intervale (today's Route 16A in the days before what is today's Route 16 was built) was menaced by high water, the West Side Road was impassable and the flood caused a washout in a fill near the Lady Blanche House and in spite of temporary repairs, it subsequently washed out completely. "The Lady Blanche house is isolated. There is now no means of getting to Bartlett. The village of Conway is now practically surrounded by water, and various low spots are flooded, including the athletic field and the ground in front of the B&M station." Another flood hit the following week just as The Reporter was going to press on March 19, 1936 proving that spring and floods are constant companions in the valley of the Saco. Photo Below on West Side Road near Hilltown HILL Eugene SEE MORE SLIDE PICTURES ARCH Pitman's arch on west side road OCTOBER 1885: A cavern has been accidentally discovered in Humphrey’s ledge a few miles from North Conway, which is attracting much attention. It has an entrance 20 feet wide and 12 feet high, and is located in what has been heretofore considered an almost inaccessible section. The cutting off of a heavy timber growth resulted in the finding of it. Those who have examined it say that in wildness and picturesqueness it is far superior to the celebrated cave at “Cathedral” ledge in the immediate vicinity. The cavern has been named “Pitman’s Arch,” in honor of Lycurgus Pitman of North Conway. Lycurgus Pitman (1848-1908) — of Conway, Carroll County, N.H. Born in Bartlett, Carroll County, N.H., April 9, 1848. Republican. Member of New Hampshire state senate 2nd District, 1887-88; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904. Died in Carroll County, N.H., November 11, 1908 (age 60 years, 216 days). Relatives: Son of George Winthrop Maston Pitman and Emeline (Chubbuck) Pitman (1822-1889); brother of William Pitman (1855-1940); married to Lizzie I. Merrill (1852-1891); nephew of Joseph Pitman (1823-1908); grandson of Joseph Pitman (1788-1875). Political family: Pitman family of New Hampshire. About 1890 Lycurgis undertook the building of a road to the area above the arch at great expense to himself. The road was extremely steep and its exact location is unknown as of this writing. More information about the Pitman family in Intervale can be found at this link. This 1909 picture shows a foot bridge that crossed the Saco River in the vicinity of Humphry's Ledge on the West Side Road. It was a popular short-cut for folks staying at the Hotels in Intervale for access to Cathedral Ledge, Echo Lake and Pitman's Arch. This editor assumes it must have been replaced every year after high water. Click TOP picture for large size. Saco River and West Side Road. Looking South near Hilltown. You can find this same spot today. A popular swimming spot. Click Picture for a larger view. Footbridge More West Side Road coming later Anchor 3

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Lady Blanche Murphy Lady Blanche Murphy A Notable Woman's Story Background Lady Blanche was the eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough from Rutlandshire, England Born in March 1845 into a noble family with wealth and rank Her family name was Noel, belonging to one of Britain's proudest aristocratic families The Noel family had held the title since 1682 The Romance Met Thomas T. Murphy, who was hired as an organist in her father's private chapel at Exton Hall Lady Blanche, who had a sweet singing voice, would practice with Murphy after services They fell in love despite their social class differences Her father, the Earl, initially dismissed warnings about their relationship In March 1870, she eloped with Murphy "for dear love's sake" Life After Marriage The couple married in London before moving to America Her father disowned and disinherited her, forbidding her return In New York, she became known as a brilliant magazine contributor Father Hecker, a Catholic Priest, helped the couple, securing Murphy a position as organist in New Rochelle She wrote for various publications including The Galaxy and Catholic World Later settled in North Conway where they built a small house near Humphrey's Ledge Death Lady Blanche passed away in Portland Her funeral was held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Bishop Healey as celebrant She died just before her 36th birthday Her father, the Earl of Gainsborough, died a few months after her death, never recovering from the shock Her husband continued to live in their small house after her passing The article presents a romantic yet tragic story of a noblewoman who gave up her privileged life for love, adapting to a new life in America as a writer and common citizen. historic Marker pictures Bartlett New Hampshire's Author, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata (Noel) Murphy (1845-1881) by Janice Brown on Fri 21 Jul 2006 Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel was born 25 March 1845 at Exton Hall in England, daughter of Charles George Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough and Lady Ida Harriet Augusta Hay, and godchild of Queen Victoria. She died 21 March 1881. She married 6 March 1870 to Thomas P. Murphy. Although one source says he was "an Irishman," Thomas Murphy was probably born about 1847 in England and died 11 Oct 1890 (the census states his parents were also born in England). As the story goes... Lady Blanche fell in love with a "commoner," Thomas Murphy, the organist for the church on her father's estate. One story states her father did not approve, but allowed the marriage to take place in their house. A second source states she eloped with him. At any rate, they did marry, and moved to the United States, settling in a "cottage" in Bartlett, New Hampshire. This cottage is located on the east side of West Road, about three miles north of its intersection with Route 203 (in Conway NH), and one half mile north of the Conway-Bartlett town line. He taught music at the Kearsarge School for Boys, nearby in North Conway. (Another source states he was an organist in a local church. Perhaps he did both). Lady Blanche was a writer who contributed short stories, many of them travel logs, to various publications including "Harper's," "The Atlantic Monthly," "The Galaxy," and "Catholic World." Reportedly she also furnished sketches of her travels to "Lippincott's Magazine." They did not appear to have any children. Apparently either this love story between a grand lady and a commoner, or Lady Blanche's unique writing ability (or both) was sufficient for the location of their "cottage" in Bartlett New Hampshire to gain a New Hampshire "historic" marker (number 109). INFO FROM MAIN ARTICLE IN THE COW HAMPSHIRE BLOG. -Ancestry of Lady Blanche (Noel) Murphy- -Lady Blanche- -Brief Biography of Lady Blanche Murphy- -New Hampshire Historic Sign: Lady Blanche House- -"A Day at Pisa" by Lady Blanche Murphy- -Lady Blanche Murphy Stories - Cornell University Library- -GoogleBooks: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography--Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel Murphy- 1880 UNITED STATES CENSUS 1880 United States Federal Census > New Hampshire > Carroll > Conway > District 16 Murphy, Thomas P. W M 33 Music Teacher England England England [b abt 1847] Murphy, Blanche W F 32 wife Keeping House England England Keywords: writer, woman, New Hampshire, New, Hampshire Posted to: Main Page New Hampshire Women N.H. Historical Markers Mountain Ear Article February 2011: Bartlett Historical Society Presents…Dick Goff and the Lady Blanche House by Rachael Brown Norman Head of the Bartlett Historical Society and Dick Goff, present owner of the Lady Blanche House, stand in the newly renovated kitchen, but still in keeping with the originality of the house February 03, 2011 The Lady Blanche House has captured the attention of many for over 200 years. So much so, in front of the house, there is a New Hampshire historical marker commemorating its namesake Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel and the English commoner Thomas Murphy whom she married. Lady Blanche bought the home in 1890. Since then there have been another 21 owners. The present owner is Fryeburg native and local business owner, Dick Goff. Norman Head of the Bartlett Historical Society ran into Goff at Patch's Market in Glen one day and asked if he'd be interested in telling the history of the house and the Lady Blanche story. Goff agreed and here's what he had to say. "This is my home that I share with Glen Heath. She and I had been talking about this house for four years before purchasing," says Goff. Goff purchased the house in the spring of 2006. The home sits on 32 acres on West Side Road at the foot of Humphrey's Ledge with an open field and the Saco River as its backyard. The view is so spectacular that a photo viewing the house from the river through the trees looking at Humphrey's Ledge won the photo contest in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, says Goff. It's not only the view that attracted Goff and Heath, it is the rich history, the story of who built the house, owned the house and the young couple who only lived there for a short time. "Glen and I would look at each other and say; 'Though Lady Blanche only lived here for 11 months her tentacles reached to Boston, Providence and New York,'" says Goff. Lady Blanche was born to the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough in 1845; English nobility. Living in the lap of luxury at the time, her father built a chapel on their estate and hired a young Irishmen, Thomas Murphy, to serve as the organist. As the story goes, the pretty, talented, woman of her convictions, Lady Blanche, fell in love with the handsome commoner. The two eloped and set sail for America, Lady Blanche never to see her family again. "Lady Blanche came to this country traveling in the steerage compartment of a ship. She had a lot of grit. She and Murphy bummed around New York. They had no money and hadn't eaten for 24 hours. She sold her earrings for a loaf of bread and said it was the best meal she ever had," explains Goff. The couple found themselves to North Conway through a clergyman they knew. Murphy was hired to teach music and French at the Kearsarge Schools for Boys. Goff says the school was located near where TD Bank is in North Conway. "She (Lady Blanche) loved it here. She would walk to Artist Falls. Even though she was disinherited from her family, her mother's sister left her some money and with that she purchased what is now the Lady Blanche House," says Goff. The home was originally called the Ledge Farm. "She was a good writer and fell in love with the country," says Goff. Their time here was short-lived. Lady Blanche only lived in the house less than one year until her death at 36 years of age. Murphy continued to stay here after she died. He kept the farm but he went to a boarding house in North Conway. He then found his way to Boston where he died and is buried at Calvary Cemetery. When Lady Blanche bought the farm, the house was already 90 years old," says Goff. Goff continues; "Samuel Willey built the house in 1790." Willey moved somewhere in Bartlett in 1825. Editors note: Samuel moved to the Willey House location in 1825. Here's that story. It was Wiley's family that was caught in the landslide that occurred at the site of the Willey House in Crawford Notch in 1826. Goff says the Lady Blanche House then went to a Mr. Thompson and then others with mostly English sounding names. The Wyatt (of the Wyatt House in North Conway) family was the 18th owner. Goff purchased the house from the last owner Gaylord R. Briley. Days of researching divulged deeds and ownership information. "Glen spent three or four days at the library and the registry in Ossipee. She actually got stuck in the year 1840," says Goff. In 1839, Carroll County was part of Grafton County. Grafton was later tri-sected including Coos and Carroll. At times it was difficult to research because the language back then was different, says Goff. Heath had to spend time in Lancaster to learn about the early history. "We didn't leave any stone unturned. You really have to know what you are talking about or you'll get caught," says Goff. Goff and Heath aren't leaving any stone unturned when it comes to renovating their home. "The house was in disrepair and tired when we moved in," says Goff. He tells about the orange shag carpet and the lilac tub and flush. "I couldn't give those away," he says laughing. After two and a half to three years of renovation, the downstairs is just about finished. All 45 windows in the house were replaced. There is a new roof. The floors were badly slanted, they put up a steal beam to lift the house, says Goff. A new foundation was poured for the side porch. The orange shag carpet is gone and hardwood floors have been brought back to life. Of course the lilac tub and flush are history replaced with colors of the times. The kitchen was gutted and a cook stove added that helps heat the area. Goff and Heath have worked to keep the house original. "When we renovated we tried not too alter," says Heath. Goff tells about the paneling in the great room. The light colored wood had turned a dirty dark brown from years of neglect. "We put on face masks and gloves. We took each and every panel down, marking them all and stripped in a lye mixture to bring them back to life," says Goff. The panels are now a rich tawny color and back to their original state. Goff and Heath love the house. "I love living here," says Goff. "I have always loved old houses and knew about the mystique a surrounding this house. It is really nice that someone local can buy this and keep it in the family," he adds. February 2014: I just acquired this article from the December 8, 1883 issue of The Kennebec Reporter Newspaper in Gardiner Maine. It's an article written by A.A. Smith and gives a delightful account of the life of Lady Blanche Murphy who went from Aristocrat to Pauper in pursuit of her ideals. It is in PDF format. Read it Here Thursday June 23rd, 2011 was the Lady Blanche open house by invitation to the Bartlett & Jackson Historical Societies. There were somewhere in the range of 45 +/- people there, Dick & Glen had prepared a very nice table of goodies for everyone. T his article by Norman Head I did a short intro and brief explanation on the history of Lady Blanche for the benefit of those who were unaware of the actual history and then Dick led a tour of the house and gave more detailed history. With the exception of Dick & Glen, there were only about 7 people from Bartlett there and all the rest were from Jackson. Realizing that any date could have a conflict with people’s work or personal schedules and the weather was not the best, it’s a shame that we couldn’t have a larger representation of people from Bartlett, since this treasure lies in our very own town. Everyone raved about the house and its history and all the Jackson folks kept remarking how appreciative they were to be invited and how nice it was that the two societies were working so well together. So it was a feather in all of our caps. I have been conversing, via e-mail, with a couple of ladies (Annette Oliver and more recently Meryl Hart) who are members of the Exton, Rutland History Group. Exton Village is in the Exton Parish Council in Rutland County, Leicestershire in England where Exton Hall is located, which was the childhood home of Lady Blanche and is the present home of the Earl and Lady of Gainsborough. Ref: Exton and Horn Parish Council The current Earl is the sixth Earl and Lady Blanche’s father was the second Earl of Gainsborough, so here we are four generations later discussing the same family. The family used to own the entire village and all the houses in it, which were occupied by employees or tenants of the Earl. The family has, over the years, sold off some of their holdings, but still own a number of properties (incl Exton Hall, a mammoth castle) and about 6,000 acres of land. They also have other holdings in the UK. The Harts happened to be visiting relatives here in the U S and inquired about the possibility of her seeing the Lady Blanche house. The owners, Richard Goff and Glenora Heath, were delighted to hear of Mrs. Hart’s impending visit and on June 24th, we gladly welcomed Meryl Hart, her husband Paul and their son and daughter-in-law Jonathan & Ellen and their three children for a personal tour of the Lady Blanche house. Mrs. Hart is affiliated with the Exton, Rutland History Group. Her mission in that group is working on their Graveyard Survey, which is similar to a cemetery mapping and indexing project here. We all had a lovely visit and exchanged stories about Lady Blanche and Thomas Murphy, their elopement and arrival in the United States and then their difficult travels that finally brought them to North Conway and Bartlett. The Harts regaled us with stories about their classic English village with its thatched cottages and the history of Lady Blanche’s family. The house that the Harts live in in Exton was built in the 16th century ! Mrs. Hart told us that the history group’s first Graveyard Survey was done for the Protestant cemetery and they did such a great job that Lady Gainsborough asked them if they would do a similar project for the Catholic cemetery, which they gladly accepted. This is where, in the process of their research, they came across the name Lady Blanche, daughter of the Second Earl of Gainsborough. Once their intrigue set in, they started researching on the internet, googled Lady Blanche, found their way to the Bartlett Historical Society website and their timing was perfect as we had just completed our program on Lady Blanche. Of course, we have to brag here a little bit and give kudos to our webmaster, Dave Eliason, who made the website so easy to navigate and the information so interesting. Good job Dave ! One of the stories that Mrs. Hart shared with us was that after doing their work on the Catholic cemetery and discovering all the information about Lady Blanche, she received a very rare invitation from Lady Gainsborough to come to Exton Hall. While there, she took them into the family crypt and showed them the caskets of Lady Blanche and her parents. The rest, as they say, is history. Just think; all this history, a connection between two small villages on different continents, a visit from a European historian, an invite to visit their village and a very rare invitation to meet the Earl and Lady of Gainsborough---all because a local bought a house of historic significance and a small historical society thought it would be a good idea to do a program on it. We should all be very proud and pleased. We have a number of pictures and I audio taped as much as I could. I will get this on a CD. Written by: Norman Head Norman Article SECTION A - GAINSBOROUGH FAMILY MEMORIALS - Lady Blanche final resting location 1883 Newspaper MtEar Article final resting area Exton Hall, the home where she grew up and the Lady Blanche Murphy House where she lived with Thomas Murphy 1895 photo BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812

BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 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