The Hampton Beach Casino: 115 Years Old and Going Strong in New Hampshire
My interest in the Hampton Beach Casino was renewed recently when I read the following article, dated 9 April 1898 from the Portsmouth Herald. “CASINO AT HAMPTON BEACH–The Exeter Street Railway Company...
View ArticleNorth Conway New Hampshire: Hotel Randall–Before It Was Eastern Slope Inn
Built prior to 1864 on the spot where Eastern Slope Inn now sits, was first a small summer boarding house of Jonathan Melvin Seavey, a Conway NH carpenter. In 1864 this structure was sold to James T....
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbit: Who Let the Shaker Cows Out of the Barn?
In 1863 the cows of Canterbury New Hampshire’s Shaker Village would have been “kept in one of forty-six stalls, in two rows facing each other, with a wide passage between them. Each animal, has its...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: Exhibiting at Chicago World’s Fair and Columbian...
You have probably heard of, or know about, the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. I have too, but had no idea that New Hampshire was included in more than one exhibit there. New Hampshire Commissioners were...
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