Category: rivers

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• Bridge Up, Money Down (Henniker)

  

  1780: How much rum does it take to build a bridge during a Revolution?

  Marek

  5 March, 2013

  1770s, 1780s, construction, Contoocook, government, Henniker, revolutionary era, SOURCE=Cogswell

  bridge, Henniker, money, revolution, rum

• Colby 21: The Wait

  

  1862: Colby’s long slow journey to the front continues …

  Marek

  20 February, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Connecticut, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  civil war, Freeman Colby, New London

• Swett 4: Wheel Trouble

  

  1865: Swett’s train ride to the mountains goes smoothly … until the wheels come off!

  Marek

  10 January, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Connecticut, SOURCE=HHS, SOURCE=roadside markers, Vermont, William B. Swett

  train, well’s river, William B. Swett

• Fox Chase (Weare)

  

  This snowy tale from Little’s history falls somewhere between “hunting story” and “dream”…

  Marek

  14 December, 2012

  1700-1799, fox, hunting, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  fox, Samuel Worthen, weare

• Moose Chase (Weare)

  

  If I’ve learned one thing from reading old hunting stories, it’s this: These guys were HUNGRY.

  Marek

  13 December, 2012

  1770s, colonial, Henniker, hunting, moose, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  John Chase, moose, weare

• Young Chase at Keene

  

  Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

  Marek

  28 November, 2012

  1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, Vermont

  Keene, nh, Salmon P. Chase

• Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

  

  Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, corn, encounter & exploration, food, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, rivers, seacoast

• Drowning (Weare, 1824)

  

  Oh no, another disaster down by the Piscataquog… Or IS it?!?!

  Marek

  1 November, 2012

  1820s, death, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  1824, drown, nh, piscataquog, rescue, revive, river, weare

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)

  

  Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists… 

  Marek

  31 October, 2012

  1930s, animals, chicken, Contoocook, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, milk, mills, religion, weather

  1938, animals, bridge, clean up, damage, flood, food-temp, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, hurricane, water

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 2)

  

  More bloodcurdling details from the ’38 Hurricane:

  Marek

  30 October, 2012

  1930s, Contoocook, Henniker, weather

  1938, bridge, contoocook, damage, flood, Henniker, hurricane, rain, storm

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 1)

  

  A Henniker schoolteacher wrote this letter to her mother during the Hurricane of ’38:

  Marek

  29 October, 2012

  1930s, Contoocook, Henniker, weather

  1938, bridge, fall, flood, Henniker, hurricane, landslide, letter, railroad, teacher, trees

• Pring 02 ~ Sassafras Bay

  

  Pring’s crew find what they’re looking for on the New England seacoast …

  Marek

  25 October, 2012

  1600s, construction, encounter & exploration, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, Piscataqua, seacoast

  forest, fort, indians, martin pring, sailing, sassafras

• Pring 01 ~ Quest for Sassafras

  

  Martin Pring details his visit to the New Hampshire seacoast in 1603.

  Marek

  24 October, 2012

  1600s, animals, encounter & exploration, forestry, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, Piscataqua, seacoast

  1603, exploration, martin pring, queen elizabeth, sailing, sassafras, seacoast, voyage

• Bounds of New Hampshire (Mason Grant, 1629)

  

  This 1629 land grant by the Plymouth Company caused many headaches when everyone realized they’d ALREADY granted some of the same land to other people… not to mention the inhabitants already living thereupon!

  Marek

  23 October, 2012

  1620s, encounter & exploration, Merrimack, Piscataqua, rivers, seacoast, SOURCE=Little

  1629, bounds, company, early, exploration, grant, land, mason, plymouth, rivers

• Darby Field Climbs Mount Washington (1642)

  

  Two Indian guides lead the first European expedition to the top of the White Mountains…

  Marek

  7 October, 2012

  1640s, Dover, encounter & exploration, hiking, Piscataqua, rivers, Saco, SOURCE=Calloway, SOURCE=Winthrop, White Mountains

  abenaki, darby field, hiking, john winthrop, mount washington, mountains, rocks, weather, white mountains