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New Hampshire WWI Military: Heroes of Exeter
At Exeter New Hampshire’s town meeting of March 1919, a committee was appointed to consider the building of a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the town. They recommended a sum not to exceed $10,000 be appropriated to remodel … Continue reading
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New Hampshire’s First Woman Governor (Acting), Politician, Civic Leader, and Campaign Advisor: Vesta Maurine (Coward) Roy (1925-2002)
She was born Vesta Maurine Coward on 26 March 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, the only daughter of Percy A. & Mildred J. (Paterson) Coward. She had three siblings, Thomas, Richard, and James. In 1940 her father was an inspector in … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Politics, New Hampshire Women
Tagged acting, Co., Commissioner, Council, county, Coward, Dudley, Executive, female, first, Gov, Governor, Hampshire, Lawrence, Lowell, MA, Mass, Massachusetts, Maurine, new, New Hampshire, NH, Politician, President, Rockingham, Roy, Salem, senate, Vesta, woman
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The Baker Children of Weare, New Hampshire (1910)
Two lovely children, posed perfectly, look out from this photograph postcard. In addition to the ink script “Evelyn Baker, Oliver Prescott Baker,” there is penciled on the back, “202 North Weare NH.” The postcard is dated September 1, 1910, is … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History
Tagged baker, Bellevue, Bradford, cemetery, church, Congregational, Enfield, Ernest, Evelyn, family, genealogy, Hampshire, Lawrence, MA, Massachusetts, Maude, Meredith, minister, new, NH, Northwood, Oliver, pastor, Portsmouth, postcard, Prescott, reverend, Weare
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2016 Black History Month in New Hampshire
Today New Hampshire’s population is 93% white with African-Americans making up about 1.4% of residents (the rest being Hispanic and Asian). In the early years of the New Hampshire colony, and throughout our State’s history, the number of non-Caucasian residents … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Men, New Hampshire Women
Tagged black, black state, Bloemen, candidate, color, Congress, Cunningham, first, free, Greenville, Hampshire, Henry, history, Hudson, James, Johnson, Lawrence, magician, month, negro, new, New Hampshire, NH, opera, people, Portsmouth, representative, Richardson, runaway, singer, slave, Trail, Valerie, Vanessa, Washington
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Manchester NH’s Hot Dog Kings: The Schoenland Family
Today we still know it as frankfurter, dog, hotdog, frank, sausage, wiener, pig in a blanket, bowwow, or wiener-wurst. Growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and in many other parts of New England, we also called them Schonland’s franks. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles, Company, dog, frankfurter, franks, hot, hotdog, Kayem, Lawrence, MA, Manchester, manufacture, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, NH, sausage, Schoenland, Schonland, William, William F.
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