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Tag Archives: Hampshire
New 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 colonial America, post roads influenced what people knew … Continue reading
Posted in History, Travel
Tagged Hampshire, mail, master, new, New Hampshire, NH, office, Post, post road, postal, postmaster, road, United States, US
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New Hampshire and the Easter Bonnet
I am not making a claim that New Hampshire invented the ‘Easter Bonnet.’ Head-gear has been worn by women as far back as the Middle Ages, and probably much earlier in both cold and warm climates. It would not be … Continue reading
Manchester New Hampshire’s Michael Prout: He put the ‘Prout’ in ‘Prout Park’
Michael Prout was an English farmer’s son, born 24 Feb 1824 in Plymouth, Devon, England. It is not known what influenced his immigration to the United States, that occurred about 1845. What is definitively known is that Michael Prout was living … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Men
Tagged about, Ainsworth, Avenue, bequest, brewer, city, Hampshire, history, Jewett, Library, liquor, Manchester, new, New Hampshire, NH, park, Prout, Prout Park, saloon, Street, Young
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New Hampshire’s Canterbury Shakers: Elderess Bertha Lindsay (1897-1990) and Gertrude Soule (1894-1988)
Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and Gertrude Soule were not the last of New Hampshire’s Shaker Colony–Ethel Hudson was the last when she died in 1992. At Christmas-time in 1978 when the radiant faces of Bertha and Gertrude were captured for this … Continue reading
New Hampshire’s Fishing, Fisheries and Firsts
“Where, in many straggling group, Gnarled and crooked willows By a chaffing streamlet stoop, And their yellow branches droop, Tow’rd its tiny billows; Near the banks are little whirls,– Whirles of fretted water,– And beneath those rings of pearls Trout … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History
Tagged dams, depletion, fish, fisheries, fishery, fishing, fishway, Hampshire, mills, Nashua, National, new, New Hampshire, NH, trouble, water power
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