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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H03_alderbrook_Bethlehem-NH.html
Alderbrook developed around a sawmill built by H.C. Libbey in 1877. The Village grew to include a post office, a dozen company-owned houses, a boarding house, school and railroad station. The mill employed as many as 40 to 60 men and cut as much a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G40_eastern-brook-trout_Lincoln-NH.html
The fish you see in this pool are Eastern Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis), sometimes called Speckled or Native Trout, but best known as Squaretails.
Found throughout New Hampshire they thrive in the clear, cold waters of the northern park of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3Z_franconia-notch-state-park_Lincoln-NH.html
This 6,500 acre park is often called the Flagship of the New Hampshire state park system.
Called a "mountainous defile" by early settlers and travelers, this valley today is one of America's great parks. Some two million people from all over the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3Y_a-bit-of-history_Lincoln-NH.html
The land you see as you stand here all lies within the township of Lincoln, granted on January 31, 1764 to James Avery and others and named after Henry Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln. The original grant contained 32,456 acres. Settlers did not beg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3X_the-flume_Lincoln-NH.html
This narrow gorge 700 feet in length with walls of granite 60 to 70 feet high was formed thousands of years ago when magma, filled an east-west fracture in the side of Mt. Liberty. Erosion resulting from water flowing over this lava dike through t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3W_franconia-range_Lincoln-NH.html
The mountains you are looking at are part of the Franconia Range and like the rest of the White Mountains are among the oldest in the world. They date back to a period in geological time more than 400 million years ago when this area was covered b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FMO_wildwood_Easton-NH.html
In this area of Easton (formerly part of Landaff and before that, Lincoln), the settlement of Wildwood once stood. At the turn of the 20th century Wildwood was a center for the "slash and run" logging of Mt. Moosilauke. The Village included a scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FMN_bath-bridge_Bath-NH.html
Erected in 1928, this riveted steel Warren truss span was built to replace a wooded span destroyed in the 1927 flood. This efficient truss design is based on a series of equilateral triangles with verticals added for strength. Boston Bridge Works …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F0E_stream-gaging-in-new-hampshire_Plymouth-NH.html
This is the site of the longest continuous stream gaging in New Hampshire. Daily measurement of the level of the Pemigewasset River was begun here in 1886 by the Locks and Canals Company of Lowell, Massachusetts, which controlled flowage in the Me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F0D_smith-bridge_Plymouth-NH.html
Named for local farmer Jacob Smith, the first bridge at this site was begun before 1786 and completed with the aid of a lottery authorized in that year. In 1850, contractor Harmon Marcy of Littleton, N.H. built a new bridge at a cost of about $2,7…