The Irishman Who Was Denied The Right To Vote
His name was Samuel S. Lowery. He was a resident of Manchester New Hampshire, but when he went to register to vote in that city early in the year of 1854 he was allegedly denied…
Tag: NH History
Moultonborough’s Taylor House Featured In This Old House
Moultonborough’s historic Taylor House is featured as the ‘Save This Old House’ for sale in the March/April 2020 issue of This Old House magazine, the national publication associated with the popular ‘This Old House’ and…
General Stark Defended Fort William Henry -A St. Patrick’s Day Defense
Fort William Henry was built by the English at the southern end of Lake George in New York State during the French and Indian War. The French had a fort at the other end of…
Raging Rivers Flooded New Hampshire WPA Rushes In To Repair 1936 Damage
According to William P. Fahey, the New Hampshire Administrator for the WPA , “The floods in 1936 caused the greatest damage in New Hampshire’s history.” The floods came in the month of March and were…
Charges Of Violating The United States Constitution – History Repeats Itself
It is said that history repeats itself, but hopefully in studying history and considering the past we learn from it and make more educated decisions in the present. In the news recently we have heard…
The Courtship That Lasted Until The Moon Went Down
A legend can relate a story that is true or one that is not, and my source for the tale in this article as told in The Granite Monthly many years ago would not vouch…
A New Hampshire Love Story
I have not forgotten an incident from my college days involving one of my roommates. A girl he had been dating had broken up with him and soon afterwards in our dormitory room he was…
Deacon Brown – The Bible Man
In the month of January in the year 1849 Deacon William G. Brown began working under the auspices of the New Hampshire Bible Society with the task of traveling around the state selling and distributing…
The NH Mountaineers – Their Colonel Was Left Behind
The New Hampshire Mountaineers were the members of New Hampshire’s Twelfth Volunteer Regiment which served in the Civil War, otherwise known as the War of Rebellion. They were not called mountaineers because they came from…
Climbing The Branches Of A Family Tree … And Finding A Champion Of Women’s Rights
Peter Hanaford was born in 1751, being the seventh child of John and Abigail Hanaford of Stratham, New Hampshire. The grown-up Peter married Nancy Pierson, became a tailor by trade, and a volunteer soldier in…
Born In Center Harbor – John Carroll Moulton
The significance of John Carroll Moulton being born in Center Harbor on December 24th in 1810 is that he was living on a part of the land that his great-grandfather, Jonathan Moulton, had been granted…