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7 May, 20185 March, 2025 Marek 1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markers

Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

"Once a sovereign nation"...

10 January, 201710 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid...

5 December, 201610 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

Hannah Dustin in the Snow

A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre...

4 December, 201610 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

Hannah Dustin (1697)

"Famous example of frontier heroism." (sic)

10 January, 201329 March, 2015 Marek 1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Connecticut, SOURCE=HHS, SOURCE=roadside markers, Vermont, William B. Swett

Swett 4: Wheel Trouble

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

1 December, 201230 December, 2012 Marek 1850s, death, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markers

In Goshen, It WAS a War…

Now here's something interesting we couldn't help but notice about the John W. Gunnison roadside historical marker in Goshen...

30 November, 201230 December, 2012 Marek 1990s, Claremont, politics, SOURCE=roadside markers

Historic Handshake (Claremont, 1995)

In a way, this might be one of NH's strangest Highway Historical Markers...

28 November, 201212 September, 2022 Marek 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, Vermont

Young Chase at Keene

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

28 November, 201228 December, 2012 Marek SOURCE=roadside markers, Wanted: Your Artwork!

(Slightly re-touched photo from recent LFAD tour of NH Highway Historical Markers...) Send us your "LIVE FREE AND DRAW" image via the CONTACT page... B&W ink or color, PHOTOS are great, too. Any size (preferably at least 800 pixels wide or larger!)... Just include the phrase "Live Free And Draw" and some kind of connection … Continue reading Wanted: Your Artwork!

26 November, 201212 December, 2012 Marek 1810s, 1830s, 1850s, death, education, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markers

Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)

A roadside marker in Goshen hints at stories & mysteries from the Wild West... Upon first read this roadside marker's story seems almost straightforward. But dig a little deeper... and I suspect there are potentially a couple of action-packed graphic novels hidden in here: Like probably most "rugged individualist" log-cabin school teachers who go on … Continue reading Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)

14 November, 20125 May, 2015 Marek 1840s, graves & memorials, Pittsfield, SOURCE=roadside markers

Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England. At the time, Moses Norris Jr. would have been serving on the Executive Council of NH. (He served as a Democratic US Senator from 1843-1847.) This roadside marker is now a … Continue reading Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)