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    The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail
    The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail
    The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail
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    The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail

    By Bruce D. Heald

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    Railroads have played an integral part in shaping the identity of America, from carrying loads for industrial pursuits to connecting urban dwellers to recreational escapes in the countryside. In this volume, you will travel on the rail line that links New Hampshire's upper Merrimack Valley to the LakeWinnipesaukee region. From your window seat, you will watch beautiful, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century landscapes unfold. You will experience the diverse personalities of several whistle-stops along the way, and will visit picturesque riverside towns, such as Concord, Penacook, Boscawen, and Franklin on the Merrimack River; places on up the Pemigewasset River, like Bristol, Ashland, and Plymouth; and towns such as Tilton, Belmont, and Laconia on the Winnipesaukee River.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439637371
    The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail
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    Bruce D. Heald

    Dr. Bruce D. Heald is an adjunct American history professor, Plymouth State University; Babes-Bylyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania associate professor; West Point lecturer; M.S. Mount Washington senior purser; author of over forty books and many New England history articles; fellow, International Biographical Association and World Literary Academy in Cambridge, UK; American Biographical Institute 1993 Gold Medal of Honor for literary achievement recipient; and New Hampshire General Court representative. Career journalist and farmer Steve Taylor retired after serving for twenty-five years as commissioner with the department of agriculture. He was founding executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council and a founding board member and board chair of Leadership New Hampshire from 1993 to 1998. Steve currently serves on several nonprofit boards and is a lecturer on New Hampshire agricultural history for the Humanities Council. He has served as town and school district moderator since 1980.

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      The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee by Rail - Bruce D. Heald

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      Introduction

      The rivers of New England have been celebrated in prose and verse since they first became known to man, and among them all none have proved more strongly attractive, more inspiring of noble and appreciative sentiment, than has the Merrimack. To sing the praises of this majestic stream, the poet John Greenleaf Whittier returned again and again, lavishing upon this feature of Northern New England scenery the encomiums that Bryant similarly bestowed upon the mountains and hills of the Berkshire, the pure-souled Whittier viewing the natural charms of his loved Merrimack from every possible standpoint, and responding in varied notes of the music thus stirred within him.

      Born among the mountains that surround the Pemigewasset Valley, and holding its course in swift and most beneficent flow from Winnipesaukee to the shore of Massachusetts, this river was one of the major waterways of New England’s material agencies, as well as one of the most beautiful streams that has been bestowed upon man.

      In this state the Merrimack Valley had a significant and beneficent influence in natural and material affairs that the localities of but few watercourses can equal. It is almost uniformly characterized by rural, pastoral scenery, and its distinguishing natural qualities are those of quiet restfulness. Along its banks are towns and villages, isolated estates, institutions, and businesses, the abiding and sojourning places of populations that represented the best development and outgrowth to the life of the New England region. During the summer months, this whole valley is, par excellence, of the country, and too much cannot be said in setting forth its merits.

      Through the Merrimack Valley the railroads had planted a steel highway, and united its services as a transportation, developed and ministered agent with those naturally furnished by this watercourse. Indeed, the Upper Merrimack Valley Route, which we shall take in this volume, to its source, shall be one of reflection and reminiscence of those days gone by, but which shall endure in our hearts for a very long time.

      To preserve this legacy of the Merrimack Valley, we have tried to capture some of the characteristics of a place that give us so much pleasure.

      This rare photographic journey through time is intended to enrich our reminiscences of the early railroads, the romance of the river valley, the landmarks, and the quaint hamlets as we trek northward from Manchester, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Merrimack Valley.

      This volume has been assembled by the private collections of the authors for the sole purpose of preserving this legacy.

      Bruce D. Heald, Ph.D.

      Joseph A. Bush Sr.

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      Indian Lore and Early Settlements

      The Merrimack River Valley to Lake Winnipesaukee

      The Merrimack near to Nature. This river was a favorite byway for the Native Americans. It is said that those of the interior gave it its present name, which signified a strong or swift current, while the Massachusetts Indians call it Merrimack, meaning a place, or water, of islands, from the many beautiful islands it contains. Others give a different derivation: coming from the union of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers.

      Gardner’s Survey map of the Merrimack River, 1638. We cannot really say who first saw the waters of the Merrimack, but we are told that in 1614 Captain John Smith had heard of it. He called it a great broad river or bay, and said: The river’s name is Merrimack as I take it.

      Lake Winnipesaukee map, Boston & Maine Railroad, 1909. New Hampshire’s largest lake, covering 72 square miles with a mainland shoreline of 186 miles, is dotted with 274 habitable islands and surrounded by the foothills of the White Mountains. The lake is 504 feet

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