"From the tragic tale of young Lizzie Bourne's death on Mount Washington to the unsuccessful one hundred-year effort to save the Old Man of the Mountain, 'It Happened in New Hampshire' takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the facinating characters and episodes that mark the Granite State's eventful past. Here you'll read about the bizarre demise of the Wiley family in a Crawford Notch avalanche and Abijah Larned's bungled bank robbery...

"A history of the early education system of one-room schoolhouses throughout New Hampshire"-- The quaint one-room schoolhouses dotting New Hampshire formed the backbone of the early Granite State education system. Education-minded communities began building these bare-bones schools in the late seventeenth century. In a modest log or clapboard structure, a single teacher faced the challenge of instructing students of all grades through farming seasons...

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 Lake Winnipesaukee region. From your window seat, you will watch beautiful, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century landscapes unfold. You will experience...

This volume records New Hampshire's observance of the 200th anniversary of the Federal Constitution. Without repeating historical information in New Hampshire and the Federal Constitution, it utilizes material uncovered by recent research to reveal heretofore unrealized influences on the delegates at the local level as well as at the conventions in Exeter and Concord in 1788. New conclusions are drawn which will help to better understand not only...

In their own words, through first person accounts, laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents paint a detailed portrait of the mill's nearly feudal dominance of every aspect of their lives and offer their response to this existence, with fierce pride and an unshakable sense of community.