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New Hampshire’s Turnpike History
When we hear the word, "turnpike," we think of our current day asphalt-covered highways, traversed by fast-moving gas-driven automobiles. Most forget ... Continue reading →
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Post Road and Post Office History
Today much of our communication is transmitted electronically. It was only a few decades ago that all of our correspondence, documents, and bills were delivered by human hand to our doorsteps. In...
View Article99 Years of History: Gypsy Tour Day to New Hampshire Motorcycle Week to...
New Hampshire is home to America’s Original Motorcycle Rally. Its a 99th year anniversary in New Hampshire in 2015, if you count sequentially from 1916–the year before the official “Gypsy Tour...
View ArticleThe Origin and History of New Hampshire’s Daniel Webster Highway
The Daniel Webster Highway in New Hampshire was originally called the “Merrimack Valley Road” and followed the course of the Merrimack River. On January 23, 1921, the Anaconda Standard newspaper (of...
View ArticleMerrimack NH Honors World War 2 Veterans
At least 207 of Merrimack, New Hampshire’s citizens were veterans of World War 2. When that war ended, a high schools student named Lester Langley built a wooden memorial, hand-painting their names....
View ArticleCow Stories: A New Hampshire Toreador of 1920
Bull fights are illegal in New Hampshire, but the animals involved in this story were cows. It happened when a flock of cows with “one track minds” congregated on the Boston & Maine line between...
View ArticleNew Hampshire WWI Military: Railroad Regiment Daredevils
The Light Railway Engineers of World War I are little known regiments composed of men initially recruited from among railroad workers. Most of the men of the Fourteenth Engineers (Rwy), my primary...
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Last Highwaymen
New Hampshire doesn’t seem like a hot-spot for highwaymen, and indeed there have not been many. In the early history of the State, travelers either did not have much coin or they didn’t travel with it....
View ArticleDerry New Hampshire’s Premier Woman Poultry Farmer: Celia (Gardner) Whitney...
History is composed of time or location-related people, events and artifacts. Usually the ones we hear or read about are touted as being famous or important from someone’s viewpoint. Yet the majority...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Missing Places: Riverside Inn of Hooksett
Riverside Inn, the focus of this story, was not the first public lodging to be famous in Hooksett. Before the American Revolution travel to this part of New Hampshire was often accomplished by boat....
View ArticleNew Hampshire Missing Places: The Uplands of Bridgewater
As most of my readers have figured out, the missing places I write about are often not truly missing–often the name has changed or a landmark has vanished from the spot. It is not uncommon for local...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Missing Places: Spring Valley Campground, near Lake...
An intriguing story on the front page of a 1911 Manchester (New Hampshire) Union newspaper caught my eye. “Living Out At Spring Valley” boasted the headline, “Picturesque Camp Not Far From Lake...
View ArticlePoultry Farmer, Civic Leader, Oldest Citizen and “Pioneer Woman”: Mary...
It seems that the history books are full of stories about how men built the towns and cities of New Hampshire, and yet these places had as many, if not more, women who contributed equally, if sometimes...
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