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In Times Past
This blog highlights the history of the Upper Valley towns of Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Wed and Gone To Housekeeping
Journal Opinion, July 1, 2020 WED AND SET TO GO: This mid 19th century couple are ready to go to housekeeping. Local weddings at th...
Going to Summer Camp
Early in the 20th century train-loads of campers arrived in the Upper Valley for summer residential youth camps established by pioneers in...
Local Libraries: Small Town Perfect
The quaint yet elegant George Peabody Library is named after the famous philantropist who gave it to the village of Post Mills. When it op...
Driving the Middle Way: Log Drives on the Connecticut
Area residents sometimes joined the river-side encampment for a Sunday dinner. (Bradford Historical Society) Van Dyke log drive c 1...
School Bells: Academies and Seminaries 1790's-1890's
From the earliest years of the Upper Valley, leaders of the towns felt that it was important to establish institutions for educating studen...
Barn Dance Nights
Built in 1906, Densmore's Casino on Fairlee's Lake Morey featured dancing to named orchestras and a view of the late. It was desc...
Smell of the Sawdust
NOW A SUPERMARKET. This planing mill, part of the Newman Lumber Company operation was destroyed by fire in 1978. The site has been used...
The Horseless Carriage Arrives
Below top: ELECTRIC VEHICLE: In 1895, the United Opinion predicted that electric-powered vehicles would be "the fad of the future.&qu...
Under the Auctioneer's Hammer
"Having Sold My Farm" was a normal message for farm auctions flyers. In this 1908 case, the farm property and homestea...
October 1759 Rogers Rangers
Robert Rogers, known among the Abenakis as the White Devil was a skilled frontier fighter who led his Rangers against the native village o...
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