Category Archives: History

Formal Tea

A formal tea served by the Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm. See article about New Hampshire & … Continue reading

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Cog Railway, Mt. Washington 1930s

New Hampshire's Mount Washington Cog Railway nears the top. Photograph taken by my father, B.H. Webster, in the early 1930s. … Continue reading

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Sylvester Marsh

Inventor of the original patent used to start the building of the cog railway, and the first to obtain a … Continue reading

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New Hampshire’s Year Without a Summer

The year 1816 is known among the few old men who remember it as “the year without a summer.”  … Continue reading

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Likness of James Richard Carter

James Richard Carter was a paper manufacturer who built a summer home in Jefferson New Hampshire. His son, Eliot Carter … Continue reading

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