INDEX

Abbot and Downing Company, 58

Abbot and Downing Company Shops (Concord), 140

Abbot, Charles Greeley, Dr., 494

Abbott, Daniel, 215–16

Abbott, Joshua, Capt., 135

Abenaqui Golf Club (Rye), 262

Abnakis, 26

Acme Needle Company, 170

Act for free school (see Education)

Acworth, 363–64

Adams, Daniel, 97

Adams Female Academy (Derry), 446

Adams, Herbert, 111

Adams House (Keene), 189

Adams House (Plainfield), 372

Advance (publication), 88

Agassiz Basin (North Woodstock), 410

Agriculture, 71–74

Cattle raising, 71–72; cereal production, 72; dairying, 71–72; herb production, 72; producer-consumer marketing, 73; relation to industry, 72–73

Aiken, Walter, 68

Airports

Concord, 450; Lafayette (Portsmouth), 260; Manchester, 444; Parlin (Newport), 348

Airways (see Transportation)

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 101, 224, 237; house of (Portsmouth), 233

Alexandria, 340

Algonquians, 26

Allen, Glover Morrill, 19

Allen House (Walpole), 360–61

Allenstown, 58, 443

Alpine Garden (Mount Washington), 298, 508

Alstead, 57, 363

Alton, 441

Alton Bay, 441, 427

Ambitious Guest, The (book), 389–92

American Guernsey Club, 219–20

American Shearer Company, 212

Amherst, 491–92

Amherst Courthouse (Amherst), 491–92

Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail, 513

Among the Clouds (newspaper), 105–06

Amoskeag Holding Company, 55

Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, 55, 195, 198–99, 204

Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation, 55

Amoskeag Mills, 49, 54–56, 61

Anderson, Samuel J., 394

Andover, 451–52

Animals, 18–19

Antrim, 464

Appalachian Mountain Club, 512, 519–20

Appalachian Trail, 512

Appleton Academy (New Ipswich), 502

Appleton Family, 502–03

Arched Bridge (Hillsborough), 464

Architects, 96

Architecture

Adam period, 91; church, 92–94; cottage, 92; earliest buildings, 89; educational centers, 95; farmhouses, 92; general types, 3; Greek Revival, 91–92; ‘jigsaw’ style, 94; mill, 96; stone buildings, 94–95; town planning, 95–96; Tudor period, 89–90; Wren period (1700–1790), 90–91

Arethusa Falls (Crawford Notch), 389

Ark, The (Jaffrey), 472–73

Art

Clock makers, 108; furniture-making, 107–08; galleries, 111–12; glass blowing, 107; painting, 108–10; pottery, 107; sculpture, 110–11; wood carving, 110

Artist Falls (North Conway), 283

Artist Ledge, 283

Artist Rock (Shelburne), 379

Arts and Crafts Shops (Concord), 139; (Center Sandwich), 416; (Nashua), 208–09; (South Wolfeborough), 441

Ashland, 317

Ashuelot, 343

Assembly House (Portsmouth), 241

Association Canado-Américaine Building (Manchester), 201

Athena (newspaper), 105, 207

Atherton Falls (Merrimack), 300

Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, 68

Auburn Town Pound, 488

Austin, F. E., 183

Austin Shops (Hanover), 183

Avalanche Falls (Franconia Notch), 324

Bachiler, Stephen, Rev., 257, 259

Badger’s Island, 243–44

Baker River region, 418

Baker, Thomas, Capt., 317–18, 451

Balanced Rock (Andover), 452; (Goffstown), 475

Bald Peak Country Club (Melvin Village), 423

Ball, Albert, 132

Ball House (Claremont), 132

Ballou City, 473

Ballou, Hosea, 99

Bancroft Farm (Claremont), 433

Banks, 60

Baptists (see Religion)

Barberry House (Cornish), 370

Barn Playhouse (New London), 431

Barns House (Hillsborough), 463

Barnstead, 442

Barnstormers, the, 112

Barracks, the (Gilford), 309

Barrington, 272

Bartlett, 387

Bartlett Boulder (Bartlett), 386–87

Bartlett House (Kingston), 483

Bartlett, Josiah, 41, 483

Bartlett Tower (Hanover), 182

Base Station (see Marsh-Field)

Basin, the (Franconia Notch), 325

Bath, 404–05

Beach Club (Rye), 262

Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 114, 462–63

Beaches

Bristol, Wellington Beach Reservation, 340; Hampton, Hampton, 261; Rye, Jenness, 262, Rye, 262, Rye North, 263; Seabrook, Seabrook, 261; The Weirs, Endicott Rock Park, 313; Warner, Winnepocket Bathing Reservation, 435; Wolfeborough, Wentworth, 439

Beaman Home (Cornish), 370

Bean’s Hill, 270

Bear Island, 424–25

Bear Notch Road, 387

Beard Brook Swimming Pool (Hillsborough), 468

Beaver Brook Cascades (North Woodstock), 411

Beaver Falls (Groveton), 333

Bedford, 490

Bedford Grove, 301

Bedford Town Hall, 490

Beebe Village, 320

Belknap (ship), 426

Belknap County, 59

Belknap, Jeremy, 18, 19, 36–37, 82, 144, 511

Belknap Ski Trail (Gilford), 309

Bellamy, Joseph, 110

Bellows, Benjamin, Col., 360–63

Bellows Falls, 57

Bellows House (Walpole), 361

Bellows, John, Col., 362

Benedictine Order, 475

Bennington, 464–65

Benson’s Wild Animal Farm (Hudson), 299

Benton, 412

Benton, Thomas H., 412

Berlin, 57, 76, 123–26

As Maynesborough, 124–25; government, 124; history, 124–25; industries, 123, 125–26; intellectual development in, 124

Berlin Symphony Orchestra, 124

Bethlehem, 397–99

Bethlehem Street, 397

Bible Rock (Warner), 437

Bierstadt, Albert, 109

Big Bear, 429

Birch Road (Troy), 500

Birds, 19–20

Bissell Hall (Hanover), 183

Blackburn, Joseph, 108

Blacksmith Shop (Francestown), 477

Blacksmith Shop (Gilmanton Iron Works), 441

Blaisdell, Isaac, 108

Blake House (Keene), 186–88

Blake, Nathan, 186–88

Blake, Samuel, 450

Blake, William, 57

Blockhouse (Littleton), 402

Blodgett, Samuel, Judge, 197

Blodgett’s Landing, 431, 437

Blunt’s Island, 268

Boardman House (Portsmouth), 235

Boott’s Spur (Pinkham Notch), 288

Boscawen, 304–05, 450

Boston and Maine Railroad, 67–68

Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, 192

Boston Road Marker (Keene), 189

Boulder Cabin (Franconia Notch), 324

Bound Rock (Seabrook), 261

Boundary lines, 7–8

Bouton, Nathaniel, Rev., 85

Bow Center, 303

Bow Mills, 303

Bowman, 382

Bradford, 437

Bradley Massacre, 135

Bradley Monument (Concord), 457

Bradstreet House (Chester), 488

Breakfast Hill (Rye), 260

Bretton Woods, 394–96

Brewster Academy (Wolfeborough), 440–41

Brick House (Amherst), 492

Brick Store (Bath), 404

Bridal Veil Falls (Easton), 409

Bridgewater, 340–41

Bridgewater Winter Club (Bridgewater), 340

Bridgman, Laura D., 176

Bristol, 338

Brookline, 494

Brooks, Van Wyck, 98

Brown, Alice, 101

Brown Paper Company Mills (Berlin), 125

Brown, William Wentworth, 126

Browne, Charles Farrar, 100, 105, 332

Buckminster House (Portsmouth), 234–35

Bullard Elm (Jaffrey), 473

Bureau of Markets, 74

Burial Grounds — Indian

Antrim, 464; Brookline, 494; Center Ossipee, 276

Burial Grounds — White

Amherst, Oldest, 492; Bath, Old, 404; Claremont, West Part, 434; Croydon, Village, 349; Dixville, 375; Dover, Cocheco, 151, Pine Hill 148, Quaker, 271; Effingham, Lord’s Hill, 413; Epsom Center, Epsom Center, 450, Hook, 450; Fabyan, 396; Hampton, Old, 259; Hancock, Old, 465; Jaffrey, Old, 472; Mason, Old, 501; Nashua, Old, 216, Old South, 299; New Castle, Graveyard, 266; Page’s Corner, Stark, 459–60; Pembroke, Old, 303; Portsmouth, Point of Graves, 232–33, St. John’s Graveyard, 239; Sugar Hill, 409; Temple, Old, 496; Walpole, 362

Burkehaven, 433

Burling House (Cornish), 371

Burnham House (Durham), 155

Burns House (Concord), 459

Bus Service (see Transportation)

Busiel, Charles A., 102

Butler, Benjamin F., Gen., birthplace site (Deerfield), 487

Butler Rock (Gilmanton), 441

Camden Cottage (Mount Washington), 297

Camp Hedding (Epping), 483

Camp Idlewild (Pittsburg), 337

Campbell, Cornelius, 116

Campbell, Eleanor, farm of (Hillsborough), 463

Camping (see Sports and Recreation)

Campton, 320

Campton Pond Forest Camp (Campton), 320

Canaan, 454–55

Canaan Street, 454–55

Canadian National Railways, 68

Canal Boat Landing (Nashua), 214

Candia Depot, 487

Candia Four Corners, 487

Candia Hill, 487

Canterbury, 305–06

Carpenter Hall (Hanover), 180

Carr, Jonathan, 468

Carroll, 328–29

Carroll County, 59

Cartland, Charles S., estate of (Lee), 449

Cascades, 292–93

Cascades, the (Franconia Notch), 325

Casilear, John William, 109

Cass, Jonathan, Maj., 167–68

Cass, Lewis, birthplace of (Exeter), 167–68

Castellated Ridge, 382, 508

Caswell, Nathan, 400

Cates Hill, 293

Cathedral Ledge (North Conway), 282

Catholics (see Religion)

Cattle raising (see Agriculture)

Cave of Lost Souls (North Woodstock), 411

Center Barnstead, 442

Center Conway, 386

Center Effingham, 414

Center Harbor, 416–17

Center Ossipee, 276

Central Vermont Airways, 69–70

Cereal production (see Agriculture)

Chamberlain, Richard, 267

Champlin Box Mill (Rochester), 245

Champney, Benjamin, 108–09

Chandler, John, 484

Chandler, Zachariah, 490

Chapin, Bela, 97–98

Charcoal Burner (Littleton), 401

Charlestown, 365–66

Charming Fare Inn (Candia Four Corners), 487

Chase House (Portsmouth), 233

Chase, Salmon P., 367–68; birthplace of (Cornish), 367

Cheney, Benjamin Pierce, birthplace site (Hillsborough), 468

Cherry Mountain Notch, 329

Chesham, 499

Chester, 488

Chester Tavern (Chester), 488

Chester Town Pound, 488

Chesterfield, 471

Chesterfield Gorge, 470

Chickering, Jonas, 501; home of (New Ipswich), 503

Chinook Kennels (Tamworth), 278

Chocorua, 116, 277–78

Christian Science Pleasant View Home (Concord), 457

Christian Scientists (see Religion)

Christus Judex (legend), 115

Churches

Christian Scientist — Concord, First Church of Christ Scientist, 139; Dover,

First Church of Christ Scientist, 151; Nashua, 216

Congregational — Ackworth, 363; Exeter, 161–63; Filswlliam, 357; Franklin, 171; Hampton, First, 259; Hancock, 465; Hopkinton, 460; Keene, First, 186; Laconia, 193; Lyme, 351; Nashua, First, 215; Newport, 347–48; Pembroke, 303; Rindge, 467; Rochester, 248; Westmoreland, 359–60

Episcopal — Bethlehem, Ivie Memorial, 398; Claremont, Trinity, 131, Union, 93, 433–34; Cornish, Trinity, 368; Hampton Falls, 257; Holderness, Trinity, 319; Hopkinton. St. Andrew’s, 460; Notchland, Joseph Stickney Memorial Church of the Transfiguration, 394; Peterborough, All Saints’, 220; Portsmouth, Chapel, 237; St. John’s, 93, 238–39

Presbyterian — Bedford, 490

Roman Catholic — Bear Island, St. John’s Church-on-the-Lake, 425; Bethlehem, Church of Christ the King, 398; Claremont, St. Mary’s, 434; Laconia, St. Joseph’s, 193

Russian — Berlin, 126

Shaker — Canterbury, 307

Unitarian — Peterborough, 220; Portsmouth, South Parish, 237

By town

Canaan, Canaan Street, 454; Effingham, Lord’s Hill, 413; Elkin, Memorial, 430; Hebron, 341; Newbury, 437; Portsmouth, North, 226, South Parish, 237 (see also Architecture)

Churchill, Winston, 371; home of (Plainfield), 371

Civil War, 55–56, 58 (see also History)

Claremont, 126–33

Claremont Town Hall, 129

Clark, Francis E., Rev., 131–32

Clark House (Claremont), 131

Clarke, James Freeman, 99, 176

Clark’s Eskimo Dog Ranch (Lincoln), 331

Cleveland, Francis Grover, 112, 277

Clifford, Ebenezer, 165

Climate, 11–12

Clough, Abner, 457

Clough, Enos M., 432

Club House of Le Joliete Snowshoe Club (Berlin), 293

Clubhouse of the Ragged Mountain Fish and Game Club (Andover), 452

Cobb House (Westmoreland), 360

Cobleigh, Addie, 402

Cobleigh Tavern (Lisbon), 89, 402

Cocheco, 143

Cocheco Falls, 141

Cocheco Manufacturing Company, 61, 62, 144, 247; buildings of (Dover), 149; (Rochester), 246

Cocheco Massacre, 150

Coe Mansion (Center Harbor), 417

Coe’s Academy (Northwood), 449

Coffin, C. Carleton, 100

Colby Academy (see Colby Junior College)

Colby Junior College (New London), 81, 431

Cold River Camp (Chatham), 283

Cold River Ranger Station, 283

Cole, Goody, 258–59

Cole, Thomas, 29, 108

Colebrook, 334

College Road, 64, 439

Colonial House (Nashua), 215

Comerford Station (Monroe), 406

Commerce, 59 (see also History, Industry)

Committee of Safety, 39, 160

Community House (Hillsborough), 462

Community House (Littleton), 400

Company of Laconia, 224

Concord, 134–41

Civil War and, 135; flood of 1936, 135; relations with Indians, 134–35; Revolution and, 135; settlement, 134

Concord Granite Quarries (Concord), 303

Concord Monitor-Patriot (newspaper), 104–05

Concord Observer (publication), 88

Concord Railroad Corporation, 67

Congress (ship), 58

Connecticut River System, 67

Constitution (ship), 58

Constitution of 1776, 160

Contoocook, 435

‘Convention of Ministers in the Province of New Hampshire,’ 84

Conway, 279–81

Conway Street, 386

Cooke House (Claremont), 367

Cooke Tavern, site of (Claremont), 367

Coolidge, J. Randolph, Mr. and Mrs., 108

Coos County, 59

Coos County Democrat (newspaper), 105

Copley, John Singleton, 108

Corbin, Austin, 348

Cornish colony, 97, 102–03

Cotton, Jenness, 5

Council for New England, 32

Counties, 39

Covered Bridges

Ashuelot, 343; Center Conway, 386; Conway, 281; Cornish, 368; Errol, Old, 294; Grovelon, 378; Stark, 378; Swiftwater Village, 412; Warner, 436; West Swanzey, 344

Cox Estate (Cornish), 371

Coy Paper Company Mills (Claremont), 433

Cram, Ralph Adams, birthplace of (Hampton Falls), 257

Craney Hill Reforestation Tract (Hopkinton), 461

Cranfield, Edward, Gov., 159, 166

Crawford, Abel, grave of (Notchland), 388

Crawford Bridle Path (Crawford Notch), 394

Crawford, Ethan Allen, 388, 392, 396, 511

Crawford House (Crawford Notch), 393

Crawford, Lucy, 388, 511

Crawford Notch, 389, 510–12

Crawford, Thomas J., 393

Cressy, Will, 437

Croly Estate (Cornish), 370

Croly, Herbert D., 102

Cromwell, Oliver, 158

Crown Point Road, 366–67

Croydon Flat, 348

Crystal Cascade (Pinkham Notch), 288

Cupola Farm (Claremont), 434

Currier Art Gallery (Manchester), 201–02

Cushing, Joseph, 105

Cushing’s Folly (Amherst), 492

Cutler, Manasseh, Dr., 288, 511

Cutt, Edward, 269; house of (Portsmouth), 269–70

Cutt, John, 35, 269

Cutt, Samuel, Capt., 269

Cutt, Ursula, 269

Cutter House (Portsmouth), 234

Cutting Yard (Redstone), 386

Dairying (see Agriculture)

Dalton, 330

Dalton Mountain Range, 330

Dam Garrison (Dover), 149

Dam House (Dover), 89

Dame House (Rochester), 274

Dame, Jabez, 274

Dana, Charles A., 100

Dana, William, 455

Danbury, 452–53

Daniels Homestead (Plainfield), 92, 371

Danish Element (see Racial Elements)

Dartmouth Alumni Council, 176

Dartmouth College (Hanover), 39, 82,172–83 Buildings, 95, 176–83; college songs, 175; early history, 173; growth of, 174; organizations of, 176

Dartmouth Outing Club, 176, 181, 512, 514

Dartmouth Outing Club House (Hanover), 181

Dartmouth Players, 113

Dartmouth Row (Hanover), 182

Dartmouth, The (newspaper), 177–78

Davenport House (Portsmouth), 237

Davis Field House (Hanover), 183

Davis House (Davisville), 435

Davis House (Newmarket), 482–83

de Champlain, Samuel, 31, 264, 509–10

de Lafayette, Marquis, 253, 348

Dearborn, Henry, 484

Dearborn Home, site of (Nottingham), 485

Dearborn House (Effingham), 414

‘Death of Chocorua’ (painting), 29

Deer Tavern (Portsmouth), 241

Deerfield Parade, 487

Deering Center, 463

Deering Community Center, 463

Department of Public Instruction, 46

Derry, 445–46

Derry Village, 446

Deschenes Oval (Nashua), 214

Devil’s Den (North Conway), 282

Devil’s Hop-Yard (Stark), 377

Devil’s Slide (Stark), 378

Dexter House (Claremont), 133

Diana’s Baths (North Conway), 282

Dick’s House (Hanover), 181

Dickson, John, 186

Dimond Hill, 458–59

Dix, John Adams, 305

Dixville Notch, 375–76

Dodge Homestead (Hampton Falls), 257

Dodge Hotel, site of (Rochester), 248

Dolly Copp Forest Camp (Pinkham Notch), 290–91

Dorr Woolen Mill (Newport), 433

Doughty, Thomas, 108

Dover, 141–52

Description, 141–42; Indian warfare, 143–44; industrial history, 144; settlement, 142–43

Dover Municipal Building (Dover), 145

Dover Point, 271

Dow Academy (Franconia), 407

Dow, Moses Arnold, 407

Dowlin House (Hillsborough), 469

Downing, John, Col., 270

Drake, Francis Samuel, 449

Drake House (Effingham), 414

Drake, Samuel Gardner, 98–99, 442

Dublin, 497–99

Dudley House (Marshall’s Corner), 483

Dugway Forest Camp (Conway), 281

Dummer, 293–94

Dunbar, Cynthia, 186

Dunbar, David, 159

Dunbarton, 477–78

Dunbarton Town Pound, 478

Dunster, Henry, monument to (Mason), 501

Dunston Country Club (Hopkinton), 460

Durand, Asher Brown, 109

Durant, Henry F., 176

Durham, 153–57, 448–49

Durkee, Ruel, home of (Croydon), 349

Dustin, Hannah, 35; monument to (Penacook), 304

Dutton, E. P., 101

Eagle Cliff (Franconia Notch), 327

Eagle Hotel (Concord), 139

Eagle Island, 424

Earl of Halifax Tavern (see Pitt Tavern)

Early Fort, site of (Ossipee), 276

Early Hotel, site of (Notchland), 393–94

Early House (Charlestown), 365–66

Early Meeting-House, site of (Nashua), 299

East Derry, 446

East Grafton, 453

East Haverhill, 421–22

East Hebron, 341

East Jaffrey, 466

East Lempster, 346

East Sullivan, 470

East Westmoreland, 359–60

Eastern Railroad, 67

Eastman, Ebenezer, 134, 170

Eddy, Mary Baker, 87, 105, 303; site of homestead (Concord), 303, 457

Edmands Path, 513

Education, 78–83

Achievements since 1919, 80; Act for a free school, 79; Act of 1647, 78–79; collegiate institutions, 82; district school system, beginning of, 78–80; evening schools, 82; first New England law, 78; first public high school, 81; junior colleges, 81–82; laws of 1680, 79; private institutions, 81; provision for blind, 82; State board of, 80; State school system, 80; teacher training provision, 81; town administration, 80; university extension courses, 82; vocational, 82

Edwards, Jonathan, 38

Effingham, 413–14

Effingham Falls, 413–14

Electric power, 60

Elephant Head (Crawford Notch), 393

Elephant Rock (Newport), 348

Eliot, John, 196, 215

Elkins, 430

Elliott Greenhouses (Madbury), 448

Elmfield (Hampton Falls), 254–57

Emerald Pool (Pinkham Notch), 289

Emerson, Benjamin D., 97

Emerson, Frederick, 97

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 472, 474

Emerson Tavern (Amherst), 492

Emery, Benjamin, 135

Emmons House (Bristol), 338

Employees’ Protective Association, 62

Endicott, John, Gov., 191

Endicott Rock (The Weirs), 314

Enfield, 455–56

English Element (see Racial Elements)

Epping, 484–85

Epsom, 449–50

Epsom Center, 450

Epsom Center First Parsonage (Epsom), 450

Ergatis (newspaper), 105

Errol, 374–75

Exeter, 57, 58, 158–69

As part of Massachusetts, 159; history, 158–60; industry, 160; settlement, 158–59

Exeter Bandstand (Exeter), 161

Exeter Town Hall, 161

Exploration (see History)

Fabyan, 396

Fabyan, Horace, 396

Farmer-Labor Party, 124

Farmer’s Cabinet (newspaper), 492, 493

Farming (see Agriculture)

Farmington, 53, 442

Farr Orchard (Goshen), 347

Farragut Players, 112, 262

Farrar, Parson, home of (New Ipswich), 503

Farrar Tavern (Laconia), 312

Farwell Art Collection (Claremont), 131

Fast Day, 120

Faulkner and Colony Manufacturing Company, 56, 190

Faulkner, Barry, 109, 186

Feast of Saint John the Baptist (Berlin), 124

Federal Building (Littleton), 400

Federal Constitution, 43

Federal Theater Project (see Theater)

Female Quixotism (book), 166

Fessenden, William Pitt, birthplace of (Boscawen), 305

Field, Darby, 33, 385, 510

Fields House (Exeter), 166

Fields, James T., 100–01, 224

Finley, John H., summer home of (Tamworth), 278

Firescrew Mountain Peak, 455

First and Second Meeting-Houses of the Orthodox Congregational Church, site of (Dover), 271

First Block-House, site of (Nottingham), 485

First Carding Mill, 53

First Church and Town House, site of (Merrimack), 300

First Church Boulder (New Ipswich), 503

First Church in State, 84

First Cotton Mill, 53

First forts and Indian battles, site of (Keene), 188–89

First Free Library in New Hampshire (Dublin), 44–45, 83

First Free Library in United States (Peterborough), 83

First Meeting-House, site of (Hillsborough Center), 463

First Meeting-House, site of (Hopkinton), 460

First Meeting-House, site of (Keene), 189

First Meeting-House, site of (Somersworth), 274

First Meeting-House, site of (Tamworth), 278

First Minister, house of (Epsom Center), 450

First New England law on Education, 33, 78

First Paper Mill, 57

First Provincial Congress, 160

First public high school (see Education)

First scientific expedition to Presidential Range, 511

First Settlement of Lisbon, site of (Lisbon), 402

First Shoe Factory, 53

First town government, 32

Fish, 20–21, 27 (see also Industry and Commerce)

Fishing (see Sports and Recreation)

Fishing laws, 518–19

Fiske, Samuel P., 131

Fiske’s Seminary for Young Ladies (Keene), 188

Fitzwilliam, 357–58

‘Flats, The’ (North Charlestown), 367

Fletcher, Elijah, 459

Fletcher, Grace, birthplace of (Hopkinton), 459

Floods of 1936, 49, 135

Flowers, 17–18

Flume, the (Franconia Notch), 324–25

Flume Cascade (Crawford Notch), 392

Flume Tea House (Franconia Notch), 324

Folklore, 115–20

English customs, 117; expressions, 119; local customs, 117; old-fashioned dances, 117–18; superstitions, 118–19

Folsom, Samuel, Col., 167

Forest Hills Hotel (Sugar Hill), 409

Forest Lake, 344

Forests, 9, 23–25

Caroline A. Fox Research and Demonstration, 463; College Woods (Durham), 24, 157; Fay Reservation, 321; Franconia Notch Reservation, 321–24; Harvard, 343; John Clough, 478; Monadnock Reservation, 473; Pisgah (Winchester), 24; Wadleigh, 480; White Mountain National, 24, 291, 410, 507; Yale Demonstration and Research, 345 (see also Natural Setting)

Forts

Constitution (New Castle), 244; McClary (Gerrish Island), 244; Stark (Rye), 265; Washington (Peirce’s Island), 244; Wentworth (Northumberland), 332–33

Fortune, Amos, grave of (Jaffrey), 472

Forty-Niners, the, 112, 329

Foss, Sam Walter, 224, 487–88

Foster, John ‘Bottle,’ 107

4–H Clubs, 74

Fourth Indian War (see Lovewell’s War)

Francestown, 477

Franconia, 407–08

Franconia Mountain Range, 409, 514

Franconia Notch, 321–24, 509, 511–12

Frankenstein Cliff (Crawford Notch), 389

Franklin, 169–71

Franklin, Benjamin, 259

Franklin City Hall, 170

Freedom, 413

Freeman Homestead (see Daniels Homestead)

Fremont, 486

French and Indian War (see History)

French-Canadian Newspapers, 76

French-Canadians (see Racial Elements)

French, Daniel Chester, 111, 138

Frisky Hill, 442

Frost House (Durham), 155

Frost House (New Castle), 268

Frost, Robert, 4, 103, 408

Frying Pan Lane (Stratham), 482

Fuller House (Plainfield), 372

Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 372

Furniture making (see Art)

Gage, John H., 214

Gale River Forest Camp, 328

Gardner House (Exeter), 161

Garland Tavern (Rye), 263

Garrison Hill (Dover), 152

Gast House (Charlestown), 365

General Sullivan Bridge, 448

Geographical Center of State, 317

Geographical districts, 8–11

Connecticut Valley, 8–11; Eastern Slope, 8, 9, 11; Lakes district, 8, 9, 10; Merrimack Valley, 8, 9, 11; North country, 8–10; White Mountain Region, 8, 9, 10

Geography (see Natural Setting)

Geology (see Natural Setting)

Georges Mills, 431–32

Germer, George E., 108, 501

Gerrish Island, 244

Giant Elm (Conway), 281

Giant Pothole (North Woodstock), 411

Giant’s Grave (Fabyan), 396

Gibbons, Ambrose, 32

Gibson, Elizabeth, 462

Giddinge’s Tavern (Exeter), 168

Gilford, 309–12

Gilford Recreational Area (Gilford), 309

Gilman-Clifford House (Exeter), 165

Gilman, Edward, 57

Gilman Garrison House (Exeter), 89

Gilman House, Benjamin Clark (Exeter), 163

Gilman House, Nathaniel (Exeter), 163

Gilman, John, Councillor, 165

Gilman, John, Maj., 168

Gilman, John Taylor, 160, 167

Gilman-Ladd House (Exeter), 166

Gilman, Nicholas, Col., 161–63

Gilman, Nicholas, Jr., 166–67

Gilman, Peter, Gen., 165

Gilman, Tabitha, 166

Gilmanton, 441

Gilmanton Academy (Gilmanton), 441

Gilmanton Iron Works, 441

Gilsum, 345–46

Glass blowing (see Art)

Glass Hill, 454

Glen, 284

Glen Ellis Falls (Pinkham Notch), 285–88

Glen House (Jackson), 289–90

Glencliff, 421

Glencliff Trail, 514

Glendale, 422

Glessner Woods (Bethlehem), 399, 406

Glines, Israel, 384

Goetschius, Percy, 114

Goffe, John, Jr., 196

Goffstown, 476

Goffstown Playgrounds (Goffstown), 476

Goffstown Social Center (Goffstown), 476

Golf (see Sports and Recreation)

Gonic Manufacturing Company, 246, 247

Goodell Cutlery Factory (Antrim), 464

Goodrich Falls, 284

Gordon House (New Hampton), 338

Gorges, Ferdinando, Sir, 31–32

Gorham, 291–92

Goshen, 469

Gosport, 244

Gove, Edward, 254

Gove, Sarah, 254–57

Government, 50–52

Executive officers, 50; General Court, 50–51; Judiciary, 51; local, 51–52; State Constitution, 50

Governor’s Island, 424

Gove’s Rebellion, 166

Grafton, 453–54

Grafton Center, 454

Grafton County Farm (North Haverhill), 356

Grand Trunk Railroad, 68

Granite (see Industry)

Granite Jail Block (Amherst), 491

Granite Memorial (Hinsdale), 343

Granite Quarries (Milford), 493

Grantham, 349

Grasmere, 475

Gray Stone Inn (Notchland), 388

Great Boar’s Head, 261–62

Great Bridge, 462

Great Carbuncle, The (story), 115

Great Elephant (Franconia Notch), 325

Great Falls Manufacturing Company, 54

Great Gulf (Pinkham Notch), 296

Great Gulf Shelter (Pinkham Notch), 291

Great Stone Face, The (story), 115 (see also Old Man of the Mountains)

Greeley, Horace, 97, 100, 490–91; birthplace of (Amherst), 490; memorial to (Amherst), 491

Greeley, Nathaniel, 320

Green Door Inn (Haverhill), 355

Green, Ezra, Dr., 147

Green House (Dover), 147

Greene, Charles G., 100

Greenland, 481

Greenleaf Trail, 514

Greenville, 501

Greenwood, John, 108

Grey House (Dover), 148

Grey, Robert, Rev., 148

Griffin Company, 171

Grimes, John, 465

Groveton, 333

Guernsey Island, 426–27

Guild, 433

Guillotine, the (North Woodstock), 411

Gulfside Trail, 513

Guppy House (Dover), 90, 151

Guppy, James, Capt., 151–52

Hale, Horatio, 98

Hale House (Dover), 149

Hale, John Parker, 149; birthplace site (Rochester), 247–48

Hale, Sarah J. B., 99, 433, 449

‘Halfway Covenant,’ 85

Halfway House (Jaffrey), 473

Halfway House (Mount Washington), 296

Hall of Forgetfulness (North Woodstock), 411

Hall of Ships (North Woodstock), 411

Hame-Industry (Andover), 452

Hamilton House (Lyme), 351

Hampshire Gazette (newspaper), 38

Hampstead, 484

Hampton, 259–60

Hampton Beach, 261

Hampton Falls, 254–59

Hancock, 465

Hancock, John, 465

Hanno Barn (Lisbon), 402

Hanover, 172–84

Hanover Gazette (newspaper), 174

Hanson’s Pines and Children’s Playground (Rochester), 275

Happy Corners, 336

Harkness, Edward H., 81

Harlakenden House (Cornish), 371

Harris House (Walpole), 361

Harris House (Warner), 436

Harrisonia Manor (Nashua), 299

Harrisville, 409

Hassell Massacre, site of (Nashua), 299

Hastings, 431

‘Haunt,’ the (Nashua), 216

Haunted House (Hampton Falls), 258

Haven Hill, 273–74

Haverhill Corner, 354–56

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 102, 115, 389

Hay, John, 102, 437

Haymarket Square (Portsmouth), 235

Healy Tavern (South Charlestown), 365

Heaton House (Keene), 500

Hebron, 341

Hemenway Reservation (Tamworth), 278

Henniker, 461–62

Henniker, John, 461

Herald (ship), 65

Herald of Gospel Liberty (publication) (see Advance)

Herb production (see Agriculture)

Herriman, John, 405

Hewes, Robert, 107

High Bridge (Claremont), 434

High Court (Cornish), 370–71

High Falls, 502

Highest Elevation, 283

Highways (see Transportation)

Hiking and Climbing (see Sports and Recreation)

Hill, 337–38

Hill, Isaac, 105

Hillsborough, 462–64

Hillsborough Center, 463

Hillsborough County, 56, 59

Hillsborough County Farm (Grasmere), 475

Hillsborough Lower Village, 468

Hilton, Edward, 32, 158, 225, 271

Hilton, William, 225

Hinsdale, 342–43

Hinsdale, Ebenezer, Col., 342

Hinsdale House (Hinsdale), 342–43

Historical Building (Hancock), 465

Historical Relics of the White Mountains (book), 115

Historical Room, Fuller Public Library (Hillsborough), 462

Historical Society Building (Peterborough), 219

History, 31–49

As a Royal Province, 35–40; Civil War, 45–46; exploration, 31–32, 33; French and Indian Wars, 35–36, 38; from Revolution to 19th Century, 43–47; industry and commerce, 33, 34, 36–37, 45–49; religion, 34, 38, 44; Revolutionary Period, 40–42; settlement, 32–36, 38; Twentieth Century, 47–49; union with Massachusetts, 33 (see also Industry, Commerce, Education)

Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Hanover), 182

Hogback Ski Trail, 169

Holbrook Farm (Swanzey), 345

Holderness, 316–17

Holderness School (Holderness), 319

Hollis, 299–300

Holman Stadium (Nashua), 217

Holmes Plymouth Academy (see Plymouth Normal School)

Holton Home (Lancaster), 332

Home for Aged Women (Portsmouth), 241

Home Nurseries (Merrimack), 301

Home of first minister (Concord), 139

Hooksett, 301–02

‘Hooter’ Farm (Hancock), 465

Hopkinton, 460–61

Horatian Tower (Keene), 190

Horse Meadow (North Haverhill), 356

Horseless Carriage, 432

Hospitality, 4

Hotel Lookoff (Sugar Hill), 408

Hotel Wentworth (New Castle), 265

‘House by the Side of the Road’ (Candia Depot), 487

House by the Side of the Road (poem), 101

House of Seven Gables (Lancaster), 332

Hovey, Richard, 175

Howe, Elias, 212–13

Hoyt, Charles H., 101, 365

Hoyt House (Charlestown), 365

Hoyt House (Sandwich), 416

Hoyt, Joseph, Capt., 453

Huckleberry Hill (Dover), 272

Hudson, 299

Hunt Homes (Nashua), 299

Hunting (see Sports and Recreation)

Hunting Laws, 519

Huntington Ravine (Pinkham Notch), 296

Hurricane Mountain Road, 283

Huse House (Manchester), 203

Hutchins, Stilson, 100

Hutchinson, Anne, 158

‘Hutchinson Family,’ 113

Hutchinson, Jesse, 113

Hyde House (Cornish), 370

Imp Face, 290–91

Independence (ship), 58

Indian artifacts, 27 (see also Indian Relics)

Indian Attack, site of (Nottingham), 485

Indian Battle, site of (Somersworth), 274

Indian Head, 321

Indian Head (Nashua), 215

Indian Hearths (Effingham), 414

Indian Leap (North Woodstock), 410

Indian Mound Camps (Center Ossipee), 276

Indian Relics

Hillsborough, 469; Hillsdale, 342; Laconia, 312; miscellaneous, 27, 29, 301, 312; Swanzey, 345

‘Indian Stream Republic,’ 335

Indian Stream War, 45

Indians

Abnakis, 26; Algonquians, 26; artifacts, 27; Cocheco, 150; Iroquois, 26; legends, 29, 312–13, 374, 470; Penacook Confederacy, 26, 28; Penacooks, 301; Red Paint People, 26; relics, 27, 29, 301, 312; Squakeags, 342

Industry, 53–59

Brewing, 223, 225; glass making, 186; granite quarrying, 58; lumbering, 57–58, 123, 125–26; paper making, 57, 363, 433; shipbuilding, 58; shoemaking, 53–54; textiles, 54–57, 128, 185, 445; wagon and coach making, 58 (see also Commerce, History)

Inn Theater (East Jaffrey), 466

Inness, George, 109

International Paper Box Machine Company (Nashua), 212

International Paper Company (Berlin), 61

Intervale, 284

Iram Camp (Hillsborough), 468–69

Iram, Henry, 468–69

Iron Kettle Spring (East Westmoreland), 360

Iroquois (see Indians)

Irving, Washington, 352

Isles of Shoals, 224, 244–45

Appledore Island, 244; Cedar Island, 244; Duck Island, 244; Haley’s Island, 244; Lunging Island, 244; Star Island, 244, 245; White Island, 244

Isles of Shoals Boat Tour, 243–45

Jackson, 284–85

Jackson House (Portsmouth), 89–90, 269

Jackson, Samuel, 203

Jacob’s Ladder (Mount Washington), 395–96

Jaffrey, 471–73

Jaffrey Cottage (Rye), 265

Jail House (Haverhill), 355

Jameson House (Effingham), 414

Janssen, Werner, 114

Jasper Cave (Berlin), 293

Jefferson, 383–84

Jefferson, Thomas, 383

Jewell, Erastus P., 193

Jewett, Ezekiel, 467

Jewett Homestead (Laconia), 193–94

Jewett, Jacob, 193

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 247

Jocelyn, Henry, 33

Joe English Hill, 477

Johnson House, site of (Charlestown), 366

Johnston, Charles, Col., 354–55; house of (Haverhill), 354

Jones House, John Paul (Portsmouth), 236

Joppa Hill, 490

Josh Billings Spring (Pinkham Notch), 289

Josselyn, John, 19

Journal-Transcript (newspaper), 169

Jumping Rock (Star Island), 245

Kancamagus, 29

Kearsarge Brook (North Conway), 282

Kearsarge Peg Mill (Bartlett), 387

Kearsarge Village, 282

Keen, Edgar, 110

Keene, 184–90

Keene, Benjamin, Sir, 186

Keene Historical Society (Keene), 190

Keene Normal School (Keene), 188

Kendall, Ezra, 464

Kendall, George W., 100

Kendall Hall (Peterborough), 497

Kenniston Tavern (Stratham), 481

Kensett, John Frederick, 109

Keyes Estate (Haverhill Corner), 355–56

Keyes, Frances P., 103

Kidder, Benjamin, 196

Kidder Press (Dover), 151

Kidderville, 376

Kilburn Crag (Littleton), 401

Kilburn Factory (Littleton), 399

Kilburn House, site of (Walpole), 362

Kilburn, John, 362–64

Kilmer, Joyce, 103, 345

Kimball, Harriet McEwen, 224

Kimball Hill (Whitefield), 329

Kimball Union Academy (Meriden), 372–73

Kimball’s Castle (Welch Island), 428

Kimball’s Garrison, site of (Concord), 459

King George’s War, 38

King Philip’s War, 35, 143, 153–54

King Ravine, 382

King, Thomas Starr, 26–27, 380, 394, 397

King William’s War, 35

Kingsbury, Elisha, 57, 363

Kingsbury, Ephraim, 57, 363

Kingston, 483–84

Kinsman Flume, 409

Kinsman Notch, 410

‘Kitchen Cabinet,’ 104–05

Kittredge, Walter, 113–14, 300

Knapp House (Walpole), 361

Knight, Artemas, Capt., 407

Knox, Frank, Col., 106

Knox, Susan Ricker, 224

Labor, 60–63

Disputes, 61–62; legislation, 62–63; wage scale, 60

Laconia, 190–94

City charter, 192; outdoor sports, 191; population, 191

Laconia Car Shops (Laconia), 192

Laconia Grant, 32

Ladd, Luther C., 338

Ladd, Nathaniel, 166

Ladd, Simeon, 166–67

Lady Wentworth (poem), 264

Lafayette (historic building) (Newport), 348

Lafayette Artillery Company, 495

Lafayette Elm, site of (Hopkinton), 460

Lafayette House (Dover), 145

Lafayette Place (Franconia Notch), 325

Lafayette Place Camp Ground (Franconia Notch), 325

Lake Shore Park, 422

Lake Tarleton Clubhouse, 354

Lakeport, 312

Lakes

Asquam, 315–16; Baboosic, 300, 491; Beaver, 411; Blaisdell, 480; Bradley, 452; Canobie, 446; Chocorua, 278; Christine, 377; Contoocook, 466; Conway, 386; Crystal, 281; Dublin, 498; Eagle, 327; Echo, 282, 327; First Connecticut, 336; Fourth Connecticut, 337; Franklin Pierce, 469; Glen, 476; Gloriette, 376; Half Moon, 442; Hermit, 288; Highland, 452; Kezar, 480; Kimball, 283; Kingston, 484; Lonesome, 325–26; Mascoma, 456; Massabesic, 489; Massasecum, 479; Merry-Meeting, 442; Mirror, 423; Monomonac, 467; Mountain, 275; Munson, 470; Newfound, 339–40; of the Clouds, 298, 508; Ogontz, 401; Ossipee, 276–77; Partridge, 401; Paugus, 312; Pawtuckaway, 485; Potanipo, 494; Profile, 326; Province, 414; Second Connecticut, 336, 337; Skatutakee, 499; Spofford, 471; Star, 508; Sunapee, 437–38; Swanzey, 344; Tarleton, 354; Third Connecticut, 337; Umbagog, 374; Waukewan, 315; Webster, 430; Wentworth, 439; Winnipesaukee, 312–13, 422, 425, 440; Winnisquam, 309

Lakeside (Lake Sunapee), 431

Lakeside (Lake Umbagog), 374

Lancaster, 330–32, 384

Langdon, John, Gov., 226; house of (Portsmouth), 226

Langdon, Samuel, Rev., 226–27

Langley-Boardman House (Portsmouth), 91

Larkin House (Portsmouth), 91, 235

Laughton, Marie Ware, 218

L’Avenir National (newspaper), 105, 195

Laws House (Sharon), 503

Le Joliete Snowshoe Club, Club House of (Berlin), 293

Leach’s Island, 268

Lead Mine Bridge (Shelburne), 380

League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, 108, 139

Lear, Tobias, 231; house of (Portsmouth), 231

Leavitt, Dudley, home of (Center Harbor), 417

Leavitt House (Exeter), 168–69

Lebanon, 349–50, 456

Lebanon Community Building (Lebanon), 350

Ledge (Mount Washington), 296

Ledyard Bridge (Hanover), 183–84

Ledyard, John, 183–84

Lee, 448–49

Lee, Ann, 87

Lee, Jesse, 86, 471

Lee, Mary, 467

Lemon Squeezer (North Woodstock), 411

Lempster, 346–47

Levett, Christopher, 510

Lewis, Edward Morgan, Dr., 157

Lewis Fields (Durham), 157

Liberty Flagpole (Portsmouth), 233

Liberty Gorge (Franconia Notch), 325

Libraries

Athenaeum (Portsmouth), 234; Baker Memorial (Hanover), 178–80; Barnes (Meriden), 372; Boscawen, 305; Bradford, 437; Carpenter Memorial (Manchester), 200–01; Dover Public (Dover), 145; First Free Library in United States (Peterborough), 83; Fiske Free (Claremont), 129–31; Franklin, 170; Fuller Public (Hillsborough), 462; Gale Memorial (Laconia), 193; Gregg Free (Wilton), 495; Griffin Free (Auburn), 29; Hamilton Smith (Durham), 157; Juvenile (Dublin), 44–45, 83; Long Memorial (Hopkinton), 460; Lyme, 351; Moultonborough, 415; Mt. Caesar Union (Swanzey), 345; Nashua Public (Nashua), 214–15; New Castle, 266; Nichols Memorial (Center Harbor), 417; Nick’s Memorial (Franconia), 408; Peterborough Public (Peterborough), 220; Pillsbury Free (Warner), 436; Public (Littleton), 400; Public (Portsmouth), 234; Richardson (Sugar Hill), 409; Rochester Public (Rochester), 249; Sheldon (Concord), 458; Social Library Company (Dover), 82; State (Concord), 138; Thayer Public (Keene), 190; Tucker (Henniker), 461; Wason Memorial (New Boston), 476

Lighthouses

Fort Point (New Castle), 267; Spindle Point (Pitchwood Island), 429; Whale-Back (Wood Island), 244

L’Impartial (newspaper), 105, 207

Lincoln, Abraham, 165

Lincoln House (Dover), 145

Lincoln, Robert, boarding-place of (Exeter), 165

Linen manufacture (see Industry)

Lingfield, Edward, 196

Lisbon, 402–04, 408

Lisbon Manufacturing Plant (Lisbon), 402

Literature, 97–103

Little Boar’s Head (North Hampton), 262

Little Red Mill (Campton), 320

Littleton, 399–402

Livermore Falls, 57

Livermore House (Plymouth), 319

Livermore Mansion (Milford), 493

Lloyd, Byfield, 397

Lloyd, Harry K., 131

Lloyd Hills, 397

Locke, John, 263

Lodge (Antrim), 464

Log Cabin (Hampton Falls), 258

Lolly House (Francestown), 477

Londonderry, 53, 444

Long Island, 426

Long Meadow Farms (Center Harbor), 417

Long Pond Forest Camp, 421

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 102

Lookout (Hillsborough Center), 463

Loon Island, 429

Loon Pond, 463–64

Lord House (Amherst), 492

Lord House (Effingham), 414

Lord, Isaac, 413–14

Lord Mansion (Effingham), 414

Lord’s Hill, 413

Lost Nation, 332

Lost River Reservation, 410–11

Lothrop, Daniel, 101, 247

Lotteries, 39

Lottery Bridge (Hillsborough), 468

Lovejoy Sands, 429

Lovewell House, site of (Nashua), 213

Lovewell, John, 213

Lovewell, John, Jr., Capt., 116, 207, 213, 275, 302

Lovewell’s War, 35–36

Lowell Offering (publication), 54–55

Lower Ammonoosuc Falls, 396

Lower Warner, 435

Lullwood (Milford), 493

Lumbering (see Industry)

Lyme, 351

Lyme Center, 351

Lyndeborough, 495

MacDowell Association, Inc. (Peterborough), 221

MacDowell Colony (Peterborough), 102, 110, 114, 218, 220–21

MacDowell, Edward, 102,114, 218, 221; grave of (Peterborough), 221

MacDowell, Marian Nevins, 110, 114, 221

MacKaye Home (Cornish), 371

MacKaye, Percy, 113

Madbury, 448

Madison Boulder (Madison), 279

Main, Amos, Rev., 246, 248

Maine Central Railroad, 68

Mammoth Road, 444

Manchester, 59–60, 76–77, 194–205, 475

Early history, 196–97; early labor conditions, 198; industries, 59, 60, 195, 198; racial elements, 76, 77,195–96

Manchester Historic Association Building (Manchester), 199–200

Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences (Manchester), 201

Manchester Union-Leader (newspaper), 106

Manorial homes, 3

Mansion, the (New Hampton), 339

Maplewood Casino (Bethlehem), 398

Maplewood Club (Bethlehem), 397

Marble, Annie Russell, 501

Marlborough, 499–500

Marlow, 346

Marsh-Field, 395

Marsh, Sylvester, 68

Marsh Tavern (Nashua), 213

Marshall Flower Garden (Laconia), 194

Marshall Homestead (Marshall’s Corner), 483

Marshall’s Corner, 483

Mary Had a Little Lamb (poem), 99

‘Mary Had a LittleLamb’ House (Newport), 433

Mascot Mines (Gorham), 292

Mask and Dagger, the, 112

Mason, 501–02

Mason Estate (Walpole), 362

Mason, John, Capt., 31–33, 57, 224, 225, 501

Masonian Controversy, 33

Masonian Proprietors, 451–52, 462

Massasecum Rock (see Massasecum Lake).

Mast Tree Riot of 1734, 159–60

Matthews, William S. B., 114

Maynesboro Game Sanctuary (Berlin), 293

Maynesborough, 124–25

McClary, Andrew, Capt., 450

McColley, John, 462

McCoy, Isabel, Mrs., 450

McDuffie, John, 247

McElwain Shoe Factory (Manchester), 203; (Nashua), 208

McElwain, J. Franklin, 203

McMillan, Andrew, 281–82

Mead, Edwin D., 101, 471

Mead, Larkin G., 111

Means House (Amherst), 492

Medicinal Plant Research Station, 443

Mediums’ Camp Meeting of the Two Worlds (East Jaffrey), 466

Meeting-House Green (Hampton Falls), 258

Meeting-houses

Allenstown, 443; Danville, 486; Dover, Friends, 148; Fremont, 486; Gilmanton, Smith, 3; Henniker, Quaker, 462; Jaffrey, 472; Meredith, Dana, 315; Milford, Old White, 403; Nashua, Bird, 212; New Castle, 266; Newington, 270; Sandowm, 93, 488–89; Weare, Quaker, 479

Melvin Mills, 436–37

Melvin Village, 423–24

Memorial Bridge (Portsmouth), 242

Memorial Foot Bridge (Randolph), 382

Mendelssohn Glee Club (Peterborough), 221

Meredith, 314–16

Meriden, 372–73

Merrill, Nathaniel, Capt., home of (North Haverhill), 356

Merrimack, 300–01

Merrimack Boating Company, 65

Merrimack County Farm (Boscawen), 307

Metal deposits, 22

Methodists (see Religion)

Middlesex Canal, 53, 207–08

Middlesex Company, 65

Milan, 293

Milan Hill (Milan), 293

Mile Bridge, 261

Mile Post (Hampton), 259

Milford, 58, 492–93

Milford Cabinet, 105

Milford Cabinet, office of (Milford), 493

Milford Historical and Genealogical Society, 493

Mill Village, 347

Miller, Charles R., 100

Miller, James, Gen., 496; birthplace and home of (Temple), 496

Miller, Rod, 131

Milmore, Martin, 129

Milton, 275

Milton Mills, 275

Miner, Alonzo Ames, Rev., 346

Mineral Springs (North Conway), 283

Mirror Lake, 423

Moffat, John, Capt., 240

Moffat-Ladd House (Portsmouth), 240–41

Moffat Warehouse (Portsmouth), 241

Molly Stark Gun (New Boston), 476

Monadnock Mills (Claremont), 128

Monadnock Paper Company Mills (Antrim), 464

Monday Reading Club (Claremont), 127

Monitor Marker (Nashua), 209

Monmouth, Elizabeth Harper, Mrs., 307

Monroe, 405–06

Monroe, James, 253

Monster of Monsters, The (pamphlet), 104

Mont Vernon, 494

Montalban Ridge, 508

Montgomery House (Haverhill), 355

Moody’s Cave (Star Island), 245

Moorehead, Warren King, 26

Moose Brook State Forest Camp (Gorham), 380

Morey, Samuel, 352

Morison House (Peterborough), 497

Mormon Church (see Religion)

Morrill, David L., 485

Morrill, John, birthplace of (Boscawen), 305

Morse House (Marlborough), 499

Morse, Samuel F. B., 108

Morse Tavern (Hopkinton), 459

Mortar Lot (Franklin), 171

Moses Rock, 379–80

Moulton, Jonathan, Gen., 258

Moultonborough Corner, 415

Moultonborough Neck, 416

Mount Franklin Park, 344

Mount St. Mary College (Hooksett), 82, 302

Mount Washington Summit Road, 294–96

Mountain Aejis (newspaper), 105

Mountains

Agassiz, 399; Ames, 283; Bald Face, 283; Black, 293, 356; Black Cap, 283; Caesar, 345; Cannon (see Profile Mountain); Cardigan, 454–55; Carrigain, 387, 514; Catamount, 442; Cherry, 328, 396; Chocorua, 277, 279; Cube, 352; Dearborn, 478; Fall, 364; Flume, 325; Forist, 293; Fort, 443; Grand Monadnock, 357, 467, 474, 498; Great Moose, 276; Jefferson, 381; Kearsarge, 436; Kilburn, 364; Kinsman, 409–11; Lafayette, 514; Lempster, 346; Liberty, 325; Little Monadnock, 358; Lovewell, 469; Madison, 291, 380; Middle, 283; Middle Moat, 282; Moose, 172, 275; Moosilauke, 356, 514; Parker, 387; Passaconaway, 387; Pawtuckaway, 486; Peaked, 283; Pemigewasset, 325; Pequawket, 282, 513; Pine, 292; Pitcher, 346; Profile, 327, 411, 514; Ragged, 452; Rattlesnake, 419; Sandwich, 514; Scragg, 406; Shaw, 423; Smart’s, 351, 352; Speckled, 283; Starr King, 383; Sunday, 352; Temple, 503; Teneriffe, 275; Thorn, 285; Uncanoonuc, 475–76; Washington, 381, 509–13; White, 5, 9, 10, 507–14; Whittier, 277, 414; Willard, 514

Mt. Clinton Road, 394

Mt. Crescent House (Gorham), 381

Mt. Crotched Country Club (Francestown), 477

Mt. Cube House (Orford), 353

Mt. Washington Cog Railway, 395–96

Mt. Washington Hotel (Bretton Woods), 395

Munsonville, 470

Murphy, Francis P., Maj., 203

Museums

Clock (Sunapee), 431–32; Conservation (Meriden), 373; Fitts (Candia Hill), 487; Libby (Wolfeborough), 423, 427; Morse (Warren), 420; Perkins (Center Barnstead), 442; Wilson (Hanover), 183

Art

Carpenter Hall (Hanover), III; Currier Gallery of (Manchester), III, 201–02; League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts (Concord), 139; Rodman Gallery (Fitzwilliam), 358

Historical

Dartmouth College Museum (Hanover), 29; Manchester Historic Association Building (Manchester), 199–200; Museum of New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord), 139

Natural History

Woodman Institute (Dover), 148–49

Music

Amateur groups, 113; MacDowell Colony, 114; noted musicians, 113–14

Music Colony (Bridgewater), 340

Nancy Brook, 387–88

Nancy Cascades, 388

Nansen Ski and Outing Club, 76, 124

Narrows, the (Portsmouth), 244

Nashua, 206–17

Foreign elements in, 207; history, 207–08; industrial life in, 206–07

Nashua and Lowell Railroad, 66–67

Nashua City Hall, 208

Nashua Country Club (Nashua), 299

Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company (Nashua), 214

Nashua Manufacturing Company, 54, 206, 214

Nashua Manufacturing Company Plant (Nashua), 213

Nashua Telegraph (newspaper), 207

Nashua Watch Factory, site of (Nashua), 209

National Civic Federation, 150–51

Native characteristics, 3–4

Natural Resources (see Natural Setting)

Natural Setting, 7–25

Forests, 9, 23–25; geography, topography, and climate, 7–12; geology, 12–16; natural resources, 22–25; wild life, 16–22

Nature Garden (North Woodstock), 410–11

Navy Yard (Kittery, Me.), 58

Nawellet (Indian chief), 342

Nelson, 499

Nevens’s Stone (Hollis), 300

New Boston, 476–77

New Castle, 265–68

New Durham, 442

New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics, and other Workingmen, 54

New England Council, 59

New Hampshire as Royal Province (see History)

New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 46

New Hampshire Egg Auction, 445

New Hampshire Fish Hatcheries (Warren), 419

New Hampshire Gazette (newspaper), 104

New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord), 138, 457

New Hampshire Medical Institute, 174

New Hampshire Medical Society, 43

New Hampshire Orphans’ Home (Boscawen), 308

New Hampshire Patriot (newspaper), 44

New Hampshire Pythian Home (see Thompson Home)

New Hampshire State Federation of Labor, 61

New Hampshire State Hospital (Concord), 457

New Hampshire State Prison (Concord), 303

New Hampshire State Sanitarium (Glencliffe), 421

New Hampshire Tuberculosis Association, 127

New Hampton, 338–40

New Hampton Academy (New Hampton), 339

New Ipswich, 502–03

New Ipswich Mill, 54

New Ipswich Old Pound, 503

New London, 430–31

Newbury, 437–38

Newfields, 482

Newington, 270–71

Newmarket, 482–83

Newmarket Manufacturing Company (Somersworth), 54

Newport, 347–48

Newspapers, 104–06

Nichols, Dolly, 424–25

Nichols House (Plainfield), 371

‘Nip Club,’ 167

Noone, 465–66

Noone’s Sons Company (Noone), 466

North Charlestown, 367

North Common (Nashua), 217

North Conway, 281–84

North Hampton, 260

North Haverhill, 356

North Londonderry, 444

North Rochester, 275

North Stratford, 333–34

North Sutton, 480

North Swanzey, 359

North Virginia Company (see Plymouth Company)

North Wakefield, 276

North Walpole, 364

North Woodstock, 321,410–12

Northern Railroad, 67

Northumberland, 332–33

Northwood, 53, 449

Norway Pond, 465

Notchland, 388–94

Notchland Players, 388

Nottingham Square, 485

Nutting, Wallace, 231

Oakes Gulf, 298

Ocean-Born Mary House (Henniker), 461–62

‘Ocean-Born Mary’ of Henniker, 117

Ocket, Molly, 280

Octagonal Wooden Building (Fabyan), 396

Odiorne House (Exeter), 168

Odiorne’s Point, 264

Old Bow Mill (Bow), 303

Old Colony Inn (Walpole), 361

Old Forge (Sugar Hill), 408

Old Fort, site of (Charlestown), 365

Old Gold Mine Road, 498

Old Home Day, 3

Old Homestead (Swanzey), 345

Old houses, 3

Old Man of the Mountains (Franconia Notch), 326, 509

Old Man of Seabrook (Seabrook), 254

Old Mill (Franconia), 408

Old Newington Shipyards (Newington), 270

Old Parsonage (Newington), 90, 270–71

‘Old Peppersass’ (locomotive), 395

Old Pines (Winchester), 344

Old Pound (Gilmanton), 441

Old Province Road, 64

Old State House (Portsmouth), 233

Old Tavern (Fitzwilliam), 357–58

Old Toll House (Claremont), 434

Old Town House (Bridgewater), 341

Old Town Pound (Manchester), 202–03

Oliverian Forest Camp, 421

Oliverian Notch, 421

Oracle House (Portsmouth), 235–36

Orange, 455

Ordination Rock (Tamworth), 277–78

Ore Hill (Sugar Hill), 408

Orford, 352–54

Ornithological Society of St. Anselm College, 19

Orozco, José Clemente, 179

Orozco Murals, 111–12, 179–80

Osgood House (Dover), 150–51

Ossipee, 276, 439

Ossipee Courthouse, 439

‘Ould Robin Hood,’ 143

Outdoor Players, 218

Oval, The (Milford), 493

Pacific Mills (Lawrence), 56

Page, David, 331

Page House (Page’s Corner), 459

Page’s Corner, 272, 459–60

Painters (see Art)

Paper manufacture (see Industry)

Paradise Falls (North Woodstock), 411

Paris Mansion (Charlestown), 365

Park Hill, 359

Parker, Nathan, Dr., home of (Portsmouth), 230

Parkhurst Hall (Hanover), 178

Parkman, Francis, 394

Parks

Athletic (Peterborough), 497; Broad Street (Claremont), 129; Clough (Meredith), 315; College (Hanover), 182; Corbin (Newport), 348–49; Derryfield (Manchester), 203; Endicott (Milford), 493; Endicott Rock (The Weirs), 313; Forest Lake, 330; George (Hopkinton), 435; Greeley (Nashua), 216; Haven (Portsmouth), 230; Kingston Lake, 484; Livingstone (Manchester), 301; Meeting-House (Nashua), 299; Meeting-House Green Memorial (Hampton Falls), 259; Miller, General (Temple), 496; Odell (Franklin), 171; Pine Hill (Littleton), 401; Pine Island, 444; River Brook (Northwood), 449; Robin Hood (Keene), 190; Safford (North Swanzey), 359; Sandwich Notch (Sandwich), 416; Smith (Durham), 155; Stark (Manchester), 205; Victory (Manchester), 199; Wadleigh (North Sutton), 480; Webster, 443; Wheelock (Keene), 359; Wildwood (Keene), 359; Wilmarth (Newport), 348

Parochial Schools, 81

Parrish House and Studio (Plainfield), 371

Parrish, Maxfield, 109, 371, 372

Parrish, Stephen, home of (Plainfield), 371

Parry, Edward, 230

Parson Main Monument (Rochester), 248

Parsonage (Westmoreland), 360

Parson’s Homestead (Rye), 263

Parson’s Point (Rye), 263

Passaconaway, 387

Passaconaway (Chief), 28–29, 196

Payson’s Folly (Bath), 404

Peboamuk Falls (Randolph), 381

Peck House (Walpole) (see Allen House)

Pecketts, 408

Peirce House (Portsmouth), 91, 235

Pembroke, 302–03

Pembroke Academy (Pembroke), 302

Pemigewasset House (Plymouth), 318

Pemigewasset Wilderness, 509

Penacook, 303–04 (see also Concord)

Penacook Confederacy, 26, 28

Pequawket, 278–79

Percy, 377

Percy Peaks, 377

Perkins, George Hamilton, Commodore, 435; home of (Contoocook), 435

Perley, Stephen, 192

Perry, William, home of (Exeter), 161

Pest Island, 268

Peterborough, 218–21

Peterborough Anthology (book), 102–03

Peterborough colony, 97, 102–03

Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter), 81, 163–64; architecture of, 95

Phillips, John, 163, 165, 415

Pierce, Arthur, Col., 464

Pierce, Franklin, 102, 104–05; home, site of (Hillsborough), 469

Pierce Homestead (Hillsborough), 468

Pierce Tavern (Canaan), 455

Pierce’s Island, 268

Piermont, 353–54

Pike, 421–22

Pine Cliff, 437

Pine Mountain Notch, 291

Pine Needle Ski Jump (Newport), 348

Pinelands (Center Harbor), 417

Pinkerton Academy (Derry), 446

Pinkham, Lydia, 481

Pinkham Notch, 511–12

Pinkham Notch Camp, 288

Pinkham, Richard, 153

Pinnacle (Andover), 452; (East Grafton), 453; (Hooksett), 301

Piper Trail, 278–79, 514

Piscataqua (see Portsmouth)

Pitchwood Island, 424

Pitman, ‘Molly,’ 236–37, 241

Pitt Tavern (Portsmouth), 233

Pittsburg, 335–37

Pittsfield, 442–43

Plainfield, 372–73

Plainfield Town Hall, 372

Plant, Thomas G., residence of (Melvin Village), 423–24

Plantation of Contoocook, 304

Plantation of Penny Cook (see Concord)

Platt House (Cornish), 371

Plumer, William, 484

Plummer’s Ridge (Milton), 275

Plymouth, 317–20

Plymouth Company, 31

Plymouth Normal School (Plymouth), 318–19

Poets of New Hampshire (book), 97–98

Polar Caves (West Plymouth), 418–19

Pollyanna (book), 400

Pomeroy Cove, 271

Ponds

Baker, 353; Blow-Me-Down, 370; Cedar, 294; Cheshire, 466; Crystal, 454; Cunningham, 496; Diamond, 376; Harrisville, 499; Horseshoe, 300; Island, 484; Lovell, 275; Mt. William, 478; of Safety, 381–82; Pinnacle, 301; Post, 351; Rand’s, 347; Sip, 357; South, 358; Spectacle, 349; Success, 293; Suncook, 443; Thorndyke, 473; Wilson, 359; York, 377

Poole, Fanny Runnels, 353

Porter, Eleanor H., 400

Porter, Fitz-John, Gen., 230; home of (Portsmouth), 230; statue of (Portsmouth), 230

Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, 68

Portsmouth, 57–58, 222–45

Art and literature, 224; as a summer resort, 223–24; description, 222–23; exploration and settlement, 57–58, 224–25; industry and commerce, 58, 223, 225; U.S. Navy Yard, 223, 242–43

Portsmouth Gazette (newspaper), 224

Portsmouth Historical Society, 236

Portsmouth Navy Yard (Kittery, Me.), 223, 242–43

Potter Place, 430

Pottery (see Art)

Powder House (Exeter), 167

Prentiss, John, 189

Prescott, Benjamin F., 484–85

Presidential Range, 508, 511, 513

Prichard, Benjamin, 54, 198, 502

Primeval Pines (Sutton), 480

Pring, Martin, Capt., 31, 142, 224, 264

Printing Office of Daniel Fowle, site of (Portsmouth), 230

Private schools and academies (see Education)

Privateering, 41

Proctor Academy (Andover), 451

Proctor, Edna Dean, 461

Producer-consumer marketing (see Agriculture)

Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad, 68

Profile Falls, 338

Profile Golf Club, 328

Profile House, site of (Franconia Notch), 326

Prospect Hill, 494

‘Province of Maine,’ 32

Provincial Congress, 39–40

Provincial Government, 159

Pryng, Martin, Capt. (see Pring, Martin, Capt.)

Public Service Commission, 69

Public Song Service, 496

Pulpit Rock (Meredith), 312

Pumpelly Trail, 499

Purgatory Falls, 493–94

Puritans, 3–6

Putney Garrison, site of (Hopkinton), 435

Putney Hill (Hopkinton), 435

Quakers (see Religion)

Queen Anne’s War, 35

Queen’s Chapel (see St. John’s Church, Portsmouth)

Queen’s Garrison, site of (Nashua), 209–12

Quimby School (Center Sandwich), 416

Racial Elements Danish, 57; English, 75–77; French-Canadian, 75–77, 195; Greeks, 196; Poles, 196; Scotch-Irish, 53, 75

Radio Stations

Laconia, WLNH, 106; Manchester, WFEA, 106, 301; Portsmouth, WHEB, 106

Ragged Mountain Fish and Game Club, clubhouse of (Andover), 452

Railroads (see Transportation)

Rand Store (Rye), 263

Randolph, 381–82

Randolph Hill, 380–81

Randolph Path, 381

Rattlesnake Island, 427

Ravine House (Randolph), 381, 382

Raymond, 485

Raymond Cave (see John Clough Park)

Rearing Station (Sunapee), 432

Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 55

Red Hill (Center Harbor), 416

Red Mill (Wilton), 495

‘Red Paint People’ (see Indians)

Redstone, 386–87

Redstone Ledge (Redstone), 386

Redstone Quarries (Redstone), 386

Reed House (Fitzwilliam), 358

Reed House (Westmoreland), 360

Reed’s Ferry, 300

Religion

Baptists, 85–86; Christian Scientists, 87; early churches, 84; early ministers, 84–85; educational institutions, 87–88; Free-Will Baptists, 85; Methodists, 86; Mormons, 219; publications, 88; Quakers, 85, 144, 478; Roman Catholics, 86; Shakers, 87, 306–07; state-church system, 85; Unitarians, 86; Universalists, 86

Religious toleration, 34

Religious Toleration Act of 1819, 44

Reservations

Albert E. Pillsbury, 347; Bear Brook, 443; Fay, 321; Franconia Notch, 321–24; Governor Wentworth, 440; Lost River, 410–11; Monadnock, 473; Pawtuckaway, 486; Rhododendron, 358 (see also Forests, Parks)

Revere Bell (Hancock), 465

Revere, Paul, 253

Revolution (see History)

Rice House (Portsmouth), 241

Richmond Rearing Station, 344

Riddle, Isaac, 490

Rindge, 467

Rindge, Daniel, 467

Riverdale, 478

Rivers

Androscoggin, 123, 125; Ashuelot, 342, 344; Chocorua, 279; Ellis, 284; Falls, 257; Israel, 384; Lost, 411; Mascoma, 373; Merrimack, 60; Nashua, 206; Pemigewasset, 317, 321, 326; Salmon Falls, 246, 272–73, 275; Sugar, 127, 128; Taylor, 258

Rivier College (Hudson), 82

Roberts Farm (Dover), 271

Roberts, Thomas, 271

Roberts, Timothy, Capt., 246

Robinson Seminary (Exeter), 164

Rochester, 245–49

Early history, 246, 247; industry, 246–47; racial elements, 246

Rochester Annual Fair, 246

Rochester Common (Rochester), 249

Rock Rimmon (Manchester), 475

Rockingham Park, 447

Rocky Gorge (Wilton), 495

Rogers, John, 110

Rogers’ Rangers, 332–33

Rogers, Robert, Capt., 38, 116

Rolfe and Rumford Home (Concord), 140–41

Rollins House (Portsmouth), 231

Rollinsford, 272

Rope-Walk, site of (Portsmouth), 231

Rosebrook, Eleazar, 334, 396, 517

Roth, Edward, 115

Rounded House (Upper Bath Village), 404

Rowe-Bradley House (Walpole), 361–62

Rublee, George, home of (Plainfield), 370

Rumford, Count (see Thompson, Benjamin)

Rumford Press (Concord), 139

Rumney Depot, 419

Rumney Village, 419

Russian Easter Celebration (Claremont), 128

Rye, 260

Rye Center, 263

Rye Harbor, 263

Rye North Beach, 263

Saint (see also as if spelled St.)

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 109, 110–11, 368–69

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 370

Saint-Gaudens, Louis, Mrs., home of (Cornish), 370

Saint-Gaudens Memorial (Cornish), 368–70

Salem, 447

Salem Depot, 447

Salisbury, 451

Salisbury Boulder, 451

Salisbury Heights, 451

Salmon Brook, 213

Salmon Falls, 272

Salmon Hole Bridge, 401–02, 409

Sanborn English House (Hanover), 178

Sanborn, Franklin B., 100; birthplace of (Hampton Falls), 257

Sanbornton Fair Grounds, 309

Sanbornton Gulf, 309

Sanbornton Square, 309

Sanbornville, 275

Sandemanian Society, 227

Sanderson, James, 56

Sandwich, 415–16

Sandwich Home Industries (Sandwich), 416

Sandwich Notch Road, 320

Sandy Island, 426

Sargent Camp (Peterborough), 497

Savage, James W., 490

Sawyer, Alfred I., 147

Sawyer, Allen, 53

Sawyer House (Piermont), 354

Sawyer Mansion (Dover), 147–48

Sawyer Rock Forest Camp (Bartlett), 387

Sawyer Tavern (Keene), 470

Sawyer Woolen Mills (Dover), 147

Scammell, Alexander, Col., 154

Scammell Bridge (Durham), 154, 448

Scammon, Rachel, Mrs., 85

Schofield, John, 454

Scotch-Irish Element (see Racial Elements)

Scott and Williams, Inc. Building (Laconia), 193

Scott House (Newmarket), 483

Sculpture (see Art)

Sculptured Rocks (Hebron), 341

Scytheville, 430

Seabrook, 253–54

Seabrook Beach, 261

Seabrook Nurseries (Seabrook), 254

Searle’s Castle (Salem), 446–47

Seavey Homestead (Rye), 264

Seavey’s Island, 268

Second Courthouse, site of (Amherst), 491

Second Meeting-House, site of (Durham), 156

Sentinel Office (Keene), 189

Settlement (see History)

79 Silver Street (Dover), 147

Sewall, Judge, 134

Shad Rock (Franklin), 171

Shaker Bridge (Enfield), 456

Shaker Village, 306–97

Shaker Villages (Enfield), 455

Shakers (see Religion)

Shapleigh’s Island, 268

Sharon, 503

Shattuck Observatory (Hanover), 182

Shedd-Porter Memorial (Alstead), 363

Sheep raising (see Agriculture)

Shelburne, 379–80

Shelburne Birches (Shelburne), 380

Shillaber, Benjamin P., 100, 224

Shinn House (Plainfield), 372

Shipbuilding (see Industry)

Shipman Estate (Plainfield); 372

Shipman, Louis Evan, 102

Shirley Hill, 475

Shirley Hill Station, 475

Shoe Manufacturing (see Industry)

Short Falls, 443

Shortbridge, Richard, Mrs. (see Pitman, ‘Molly’)

Shute, Henry A., Judge, 101; home of (Exeter), 165

Sidney, Margaret, 247

Signal Tree (Swanzey), 345

Silver Cascade (Crawford Notch), 392

Silver Street (Dover), 145–57

Silversheen Fox and Fur Farm (Merrimack), 301

Ski Trails, 525–32

Skiing (see Sports and Recreation)

Skyline Farm (Littleton), 401

Slade Estate (Cornish), 368

Sleeper’s Island, 427

Smith, Coffin, 166

Smith House (Durham), 155

Smith, Jeremiah, 168; house of (Exeter), 168

Smith, John, Capt., 31, 142, 224, 244, 245, 264, 339

Smith, John H., 342

Snow Arch (Jackson), 288

Snow Cross (Franconia), 408

‘Snow trains,’ 524

Snowshoe Clubs, 195

Snowville, 281

Snuff-Box (Plainfield), 371

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 231

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 24, 512

Soil, 5, 25

Soldiers’ Memorial (Exeter), 164

Somersworth, 272–74

Sons of Liberty, 266

Soo-ni-pi Park, 431

South Acworth, 363–64

South Charlestown, 365

South Lyndeborough, 495

South Newbury, 437

South Parish Parsonage (Portsmouth), 226–27

South Ponds, 377

South Tamworth, 414–15

South Tamworth Industries Plant (South Tamworth), 415

South Weare, 478

South Wolfeborough, 441

Spanish War, 47

Sparks, Boyden, 198

Spaulding Fibre Company (Rochester), 245

Spaulding, John Hubbard, 115–16

Spence House (Portsmouth), 236

Split Rock (Hopkinton), 461

Spofford, 470

Sports and Recreation, 517–32

Camping, 520–21; fishing, 518–19; golf, 521–22; hiking and climbing, 519–20; hunting, 123–24, 518–19; tennis, 521; water sports, 522–23; winter sports, 124, 309, 436, 523–32

Squakeag Indians (see Indians)

St. Anselm College (Manchester), 82, 475

St. John’s Seminary (Center Harbor), 417

St. Mary’s in the Mountains (Bethlehem), 308, 406

St. Paul’s School (Concord), 81, 458

Stark, 378

Stark, Caleb, Maj., 460

Stark, George, Gen., 216

Stark, John, Gen., 135, 204–05, 459–60; birthplace, site of (Derry), 446; home of (Manchester), 204

Stark Mansion (Page’s Corner), 460

Stark Mill, site of (Page’s Corner), 460

Stark’s Well (Manchester), 205

State Aid Road Law, 47

State Board of Education, 80

State Board of Health, 46

State Constitution, 42, 46, 50

State Department of Agriculture, 74

State Department of Forestry and Recreation, 24

State Fish Hatcheries (Colebrook), 376; (Laconia), 312; (New Hampton), 339

State Forestry Department, Nursery of (Boscawen), 307

State House (Concord), 137

State Library (Concord), 138

State school system (see Education)

Steamboat Island, 426

Stearns School (Mont Vernon), 494

Stevens, Ebenezer, 451

Stevens House (Claremont), 131,

Stevens, Paran, 131

Stirrup Iron Brook, 307

Stobie’s Farm (Hooksett), 301

Stockwell, Emmons, 331

Stoddard, 469

Stoddard Mill Village, 469

Stone Bridge, 461

Stone Couch (Bethlehem), 406

Stone Houses (Bath), 404; (Brookline), 494; (Lancaster), 332

Stone Settle (Shelburne), 379

Stonedam Island, 424

Stoneleigh Junior College (Rye), 82, 262

Stony Brook, 500

Stratham, 481–82

Stratham Hill, 481

Stratton Flour Mill (Penacook), 304

Straw’s Point (Rye), 262–63

Stream Flow Gauge (Hinsdale), 342

Sturtevant House (Center Harbor), 417

Sugar Hill, 408–09

Sugar Loaf Ledge (Hebron), 340

Sullivan House (Exeter), 161

Sullivan, John, Gen., 154, 155, 156; home of (Durham), 155; monument to (Durham), 156

Sullivan Machinery Company, 128–29; buildings of (Claremont), 132

Sullivan Memorial Bridge, 154

Sullivan Railroad, 67

Sullivan, Roger, 437

Sullivan 7-20-4 Cigar Factory (Manchester), 204

Sullivan Toll Bridge, 271

Sulloway Mills (Franklin), 171

Summer Manse (Hill), 338

Summit House (Mount Washington), 296–97, 396

Sumner House (Claremont), 434

Sunapee, 432

Sunapee Harbor, 432

Suncook, 302

Sunken Forest (Rye), 262

Sunset Hill, 282

Sunset Hill House (Pecketts), 408

Superstitions (see Folklore)

Sutherland, David, Rev., 37

Sutton, 480

Swanzey, 344–45

Swanzey House (Claremont), 132

Swazey Parkway (Exeter), 167

Swift House (Orford), 91

Swift River Road (Conway), 280

Swiftwater Village, 412

Table Rock (Dixville Notch), 376

Tall Clock (Claremont), 131

Tamworth, 277

Tamworth Theater (Tamworth), 277

Taylor, Anthony, 452

Tebbet House (Dover), 147

Temple, 496

Tenney, Samuel, Dr., 166; house of (Exeter), 166

Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike, 510–11

Textile manufacture (see Industry)

Thaxter, Celia, 20, 101, 224; home of (White Island), 245

Thayer, Abbott H., 101, 498

Thayer School of Civil Engineering (see Bissell Hall)

The Weirs, 313–14

Theater, 112–13

Amateur dramatics, 112–13; Federal Theater productions, 113; summer groups, 112

Third Meeting-House, site of (Nashua), 299

Thirteen Mile Woods, 294

Thompson, Benjamin, 140–41, 154, 156

Thompson, David, 32, 142–43, 224–25

Thompson, Denman, 101

Thompson Home (West Swanzey), 344

Thompson’s Falls, 282, 289

Thoreau, Henry, 394

Thornton, 321

Thornton House, site of (Derry), 446

Thornton, Matthew, 300

Thornton’s Ferry, 300

Thousand Streams Fall, 288

Three Mile Hill, 409

Three Mile Island, 425

Ticknor, William D. 100

Tilton, 308–09

Tilton Arch (Tilton), 308

Tilton Junior College (Tilton), 81, 308

Tilton School (Tilton), 308

Timber Island, 428

Tipping Rocks (Shirley Hill), 475

Tip-Top House, 297, 514

Topography (see Natural Setting)

Tory Hole (Claremont), 433

Towle, David, 104

Towle, Robert, 104

Town House (Peterborough), 219

Town meetings, 33

Town Pounds

Auburn, 488; Chester, 488; Dunbarton, 478; Durham, 156; Gilmanton, 441; Manchester, 202–03; New Ipswich, 503; Sanbornville, 275

Tracy Memorial Building (New London), 431

Traill, Robert, 236

Transmitting Station, WFEA (Manchester), 301

Transportation

Airways, 69–70; bus service, 69; highways, 64–65, 68–69; history of, 253; on Lake Sunapee, 438; on Lake Winnipesaukee, 313; railroads, 66–68, 69; seaplane service, 70; turnpikes, 64–65; waterways, 66

Travena House (Lisbon), 402

Treaty of Portsmouth, 48, 243

Trees, 16–17

Tremont Square (Claremont), 127, 129

Trestle (Crawford Notch), 389

Troy, 358–59

Troy Town Hall, 359

Tuck Drive (Hanover), 183

Tuck, Edward, 138; birthplace of (Exeter), 164

Tuck Memorial House (Hampton Falls), 258

Tuck School of Administration and Finance (Hanover), 180

Tucker, William Jewett, 176

Tuckerman Ravine, 288

Turnpikes (see Transportation)

Twice-Told Tale (story), 389–92

Twin Houses (Hillsborough), 462

Twin Mountain, 328, 397

Tyler, Benjamin, Col., 128

Tyler Place (Claremont), 433

Tyng, William, Capt., 36, 196

Uncle Sam House (Mason), 502

Union Village, 275

Union with Massachusetts, 33

Unitarians (see Religion)

U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (Nashua), 217

U.S. Forest Service, 24

United Textile Workers, 62

Universalists (see Religion)

University extension courses (see Education)

University of New Hampshire (Durham)

Buildings of, 157; general description, 82, 153; history of, 156–57

University of New Hampshire College of Agriculture, 74

Upper Ammonoosuc Falls, 395

Upper Bath Village, 404–05

Varney-Ham House (Dover), 152

Vermont boundary, 41–42

Vermont Central Railroad, 67

Vermont Valley Railroad Corporation, 67

Verrazano, 509

Vessel Rock (Gilsum), 346

Vickers, Deborah, 379, 383

Vilas Bridge, 364

Vilas Pool (Alstead), 363

Villa Augustina (Grasmere), 475

‘Vinegar Bible,’ 239

Virginia Charter, first, 31

Vocational education (see Education)

Wadleigh’s Falls, 448

Wager, Phillip, 86

Wahowah, 143, 150

Wakefield, 276

Waldron, Richard, Col., 270

Waldron, Richard, Maj., 134, 143, 144, 149, 150, 270

Waldron’s Garrison, site of (Dover), 149–50

Walker Home (Cornish), 371

Walker, Timothy, Rev., 139

Wallace, E. G., 247

Wallace, Edwin, 247

Walpole, 360–64

Walpole Inn (Walpole), 361

Walpole Society for Bringing to Justice Horse Thieves and Pilferers, 360

Walton House, site of (New Castle), 267

Wapack Trail, 496

War of 1812, 44

Ward, Artemus (see Browne, Charles Farrar)

Warner, 435–36

Warner House (Portsmouth), 90–91, 237–38

Washington, 469

Washington, George, Gen., 40, 160, 167, 233, 242, 253

Washington House (Pittsfield), 443

Water-power, 47, 60

Water resources, 22–23

Water sports (see Sports and Recreation)

Water Street (Nashua), 214

Watering Trough (Walpole), 362

Waterloo, 436

Waternomee Brook Cascades (North Woodstock), 410

Waterville Forest Camp (Waterville), 320

Waterville Valley, 320–21

Waterville Valley Road, 320

Waterways (see Transportation)

Waumbek Methna, 510

Waverly Magazine, 407

Weare, 53, 478–79

Weare House (Hampton Falls), 257

Weare, Meschech, Gov., 257, 478; monument to (Hampton Falls), 257

Webb Hill, 500

Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 7, 45

Webster Bridge (Franklin), 171

Webster, Daniel, 54, 98, 99, 165, 169, 175; 318; birthplace of (Franklin), 308; bust of (Franklin), 171; first law office, site of (Boscawen), 305; home of (Boscawen), 307–08; homestead (Boscawen), 305

Webster, Ezekiel, 305

Webster Hall (Hanover) (see Dartmouth College)

Webster Place (Boscawen), 307–08

Weeks House (Greenland), 90, 481

Weeks, John W., home of (Lancaster), 330

Wehanownowit, 159

Weirs, The, 313–14

Weld Homestead (Cornish), 368

Wellman Home (Cornish), 368

Wellswood Inn (Hampton Falls), 254

Wendell Farmhouse (Rye), 264

Wendell House (Portsmouth), 227–30

Wendell, Isaac, 273

Wentworth, 419

Wentworth, Arioch, 272

Wentworth, Benning, Gov., 37–38, 173, 182, 265, 267, 455, 461

Wentworth Gardiner House (Portsmouth), 231–32

Wentworth Golf Club (New Castle), 265

Wentworth Home for Aged People (Portsmouth), 231

Wentworth, John, Gov., 38–39, 40, 53, 64, 93, 165, 231, 317, 439, 440, 517

Wentworth, John (Long John), 100, 415

Wentworth, Joseph, 273; house of (Somersworth), 273

Wentworth Manor (Dover), 272

Wentworth Mansion (Portsmouth), 264–65

Wentworth Mansion, site of (Wolfeborough), 440

Wentworth, Mark, 294; house of (Portsmouth), 227

Wentworth, Steven, 274

Wentworth, William, Elder, 152, 272

Wesleyan Theological Institute, 88

West Andover, 452

West Campton, 320

West Claremont, 433

West Henniker, 462

West Lebanon, 456

West Ossipee, 277

West Peterborough, 497

West Plymouth, 418–19

West Rindge, 467

West Side Road, 280–81

West Stewartstown, 334–35

West Swanzey, 344

West Thornton, 321

West Wilton, 495

Westmoreland, 359–60

Weston Observatory (Manchester), 203

Westport, 344

Weygandt, Cornelius, 103

Wheeler House (Orford), 353

Wheeler, John, 174

Wheelock, Eleazar, Rev., 173, 174

Wheelock, John, 174

Wheelwright, John, Rev., 84, 158–59

Whip and Spur (newspaper), 106

Whipple House (Portsmouth), 236

Whipple, William, Col., 383

Whitcomb House (Portsmouth), 236–37

‘White Cap Society,’ 168–69

White Hills, The (book), 26–27

White, Horace, 334

White Horse Cliff (North Conway), 281

White Lake Camping Ground (West Ossipee), 277

White Ledge Forest Camp (Conway), 279

‘White Mountain School,’ 109

White Mountains (see Mountains)

White’s Tavern (Londonderry), 444

Whitefield, 329–30

Whitefield, George, 38, 85, 155

Whitehouse, Nicholas Varney, 247

Whiting Dairy Milking Parlor (Wilton), 495

Whittier, 414

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 148, 257, 258, 260, 277

Whittier Maple (West Ossipee), 277

Wier-Buckley House (Jaffrey), 472

Wiggin Tavern (Hopkinton), 460

Wild Life (see Natural Setting)

Wilder Chair Factory, site of (New Ipswich), 503

Wilder, Peter, 108

Wildwood Forest Camp (North Woodstock), 411–12

Willard House (Francestown), 477

Willey Camps (Crawford Notch), 389

Willey, Samuel, 389

Willow Brook Inn (New Ipswich), 503

Wilmot, 452

Wilmot Flats, 430

Wilson, Henry, 440, 442

Wilson, James, 446

Wilson Road, 371

Wilson, Samuel, 502

Wilson Tavern (Wilton), 496–97

Wilton, 494–96

Wilton Center, 495

Winchester, 343–44

Wing’s Tavern (Pequawket), 278

Winnipesaukee Mail Boat Trip, 428–29

Winnipesaukee Steamer Trip, 424–28

Winnisquam, 309

Winter Carnival (Hanover), 181

Winter Harbor, 427

Winter Sports (see Sports and Recreation)

Winthrop, John, Gov., 510

Wolf Trap (Center Ossipee), 276

Wolfe Tavern, site of (Somersworth), 274

Wolfeborough, 439–41

Wolfeborough Center, 439–40

Wolfeborough Home Industries, 441

Wonalancet, 29

Wonalancet Kennels (Tamworth), 278

Wood Island, 244

Wood, Leonard, Major Gen., 344

Wood, Walter A., 501

Woodbury, Gordon, 106, 490

Woodbury Homestead (New Boston), 477

Woodbury Mansion (Bedford), 490

Woodcarvers (see Art)

Wooden Bridge (Bath), 404

Woodman, Annie E., 148

Woodman House (see Woodman Institute)

Woodman Institute (Dover), 148–49

Woodruff Smith Sanctuary (Meriden), 373

Woodstock, 321

Woodsville, 405

Woodsville Cottage Hospital (Woodsville), 356

Woodsville Junction, 405

Woolson, Constance F., site of birthplace (Claremont), 133

Worcester, Joseph E., 97, 490

World War, 48

World War Memorial (Jaffrey), 466

World War Memorial (Manchester), 199

Wyandotte Mill (Rochester), 245

Wyman, Isaac, Capt., 189

Wyman Tavern (Keene), 189

Ye Cock and Kettle Inn (Seabrook), 254

York Pond State Game Refuge, 377

Young, Brigham, 219

Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, 132

Zealand Forest Camp (Fabyan), 396

Zealand Notch (Bethlehem), 396, 414