Photograph of Endicott Rock in 1893 from “Commission for the Preservation, Protection and Appropriate Designation of the Endicott Rock at the Weirs in the Town of Laconia, 1893
Endicott Rock dates back to August 1, 1652, and is a New Hampshire historic site.
In an attempt to settle the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, in 1652, a party of adventurers was sent on a mission by Massachusetts to seek the northern source of the Merrimack River. Continue reading
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). Continue reading
Coös County, New Hampshire– (pronounced “CO-ahss” with two syllables)… is a county in New Hampshire, established December 24, 1803. It was taken from Grafton County, one of the five original counties of the State. is the only place name in the US that is officially spelled with a printer’s diacritical mark. Due to the limitations of typewriters and some early keyboards that lacked the ability to create this mark, many spell Coos without.
At the time of establishment, it contained the original towns of Dalton, Whitefield, Bretton Woods, Bartlett, Adams, Chatham, Shelburne Addition, Durand, Kilkenny, Jefferson, Lancaster, Millsfield, Northumberland, Stratford, Wales’ Gore, Cockburne, Colebrook, Stewartstown, Piercy, Paulsburg, Mainsborough, Dummer, Errol, Cambridge and Success. It had a population of about 3,000 in 1803. Continue reading
Yes, believe it or not. . .
New Hampshire hosts the World’s Longest Candy Counter, in Littleton New Hampshire!
Chutter General Store in Littleton New Hampshire, won a place in the Guiness Book of World Records in the year 2000 for having the “World’s Longest Candy Counter.”
The three-tiered, store-length candy counter measures 111 feet, 11-3/4 inches and holds 800 jars of sweet treats. This store touts the fact that 60 of these jar’s hold the “old-fashioned” PENNY CANDY… that actually costs only one cent each. That in itself makes it worth a trip to see this sugary sight.
Ah, this brings back such warm memories.. of the glass jars of penny candy in the corner store near my home in Manchester, NH. A 1950-60s “Morency’s Store,” at the corner of Shasta and Hall Streets, had glass jar after jar of penny candy… licorice, sweet and sour, jar breakers, taffy, you name it. Just outside the door and covering the corner of the block was a white-sand “sand bank.” When I was bored, I would borrow a metal collinder from the kitchen and if I was lucky, I could “discover” some small change that shoppers had dropped on their way to the store, by sifting through the sand.
Any “loot” found was spent instantly. Mr. Morency never complained about how long it took to decide on my purchase–that was the fun part.
So, if you have a penchant for things sweet, or you are cheap thrifty, and like to get a bang for your candy dollar… this is the place to visit.
If you have a favorite candy store, or type of candy, that seems like a “blast from the past,” I’d enjoy hearing about it.
Janice
Photo Friday: A Visit to Littleton, New Hampshire
–Other Things To Do in Littleton NH–
–World’s Longest Candy Counter–
-More Littleton NH Adventures-
Alewives… in reality they are not barmaids, nor spouses of beer drinkers…
So what are they, and how did they get their name?
ale-wife (ayl wife), Pomolobus pseudoharengus, a small river herring found along the Atlantic coast and in certain landlocked lakes of North America, especially in New England. The fish has a deep body and is heavily build forward, reportedly many years ago there was a comparison with an “alewife” the name given to a hearty seventeenth-century English alehouse keeper. “The alewife is like a herrin’, but it has a bigger bellie, therefore called an alewife, ‘A Dictionary of Americanisms, 1675’.” The Old English, “Ale-wife, “Alewife” was a landlady of an ale house, or ale stand. Continue reading
