Category: food

• Snow Storm (Henniker, 1804)

  

  A freak Autumn snow storm disrupts the apple and potato harvests…

  Marek

  16 October, 2012

  1800s, apples, harvest, Henniker, potatoes, SOURCE=Cogswell, weather

  1804, apple, fall, harvest, Henniker, potato, snow, weather

• To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)

  

  A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…

  Marek

  12 August, 2012

  1840s, food, Keene, mills, NH resources & industry, SOURCE=HSCC

  Colony Mill, economy, family, food, jobs, Keene, mills, work