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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CLP_the-old-hero_NH.html
The Old Hero. This is the first engine used on this road. Weight only 4 tons. Cost but $3,000.00. Was brought here in sections through the woods by ox teams from Fabyan Place. It has carried a load of 60 persons up the mountain at once and has wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM274E_stone-house_Lancaster-NH.html
John Sullivan Wells built this unique structure between 1835 and 1840.Wells brought the granite from Northumberland to construct his home. Shortly after it was completed Wells was called to Exeter to become Attorney General and the house was sold …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26XT_the-coos-trail_Colebrook-NH.html
The Coos Trail was built in 1803 from Colebrook through Dixville Notch along the ancient trail of the Abnaki Indians to Erroll where it met the Coos Road of Maine completed in 1802 from Hallowell on the Kennebec River
Marked by
The New Ham…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26IX_early-settlers_Errol-NH.html
Here lies buried the first and only settlers of Dixville until 1865, John Whittemore and his wife Betsey.
Dixville had been granted to Colonel Timothy Dix in 1805 on the condition that thirty settlers be established here within five years.
Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NGK_maynesboroughs-first-residence_Berlin-NH.html
On the knoll north of this site, William Sessions and his nephew, Cyrus Wheeler erected "the first building that could be honored with the name of house" in what is now Berlin, NH. Sessions helped clear many other farms in the area. In the 20th ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NF9_camp-stark_Stark-NH.html
In the spring of 1944 a high fence and four guard towers transformed a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp on this site into New Hampshire's sole World War II prisoner of war camp. Approximately 250 German and Austrian soldiers, most captured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NF8_the-nansen-ski-jump_Milan-NH.html
Named for Fridjof Nansen, the Greenland explorer, Berlin's first ski club formed in 1872. The club sponsored the "Big Nansen" constructed in 1936-38 by the National Youth Administration and the City of Berlin. At the time, it was possibly the tall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H40_mount-washington-cog-railway_Jackson-NH.html
Completed in 1869 for $139,500, this unique railway was built through the genius and enterprise of Herrick and Walter Aiken of Franklin and Sylvester Marsh of Campton. Over three miles long, the average grade to the 6,293-foot summit is one foot i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H02_mount-washington-hotel-bretton-woods-monetary-conference_Bretton-Woods-NH.html
Mount Washington Hotel
Standing to the east, the Mount Washington Hotel was completed in 1902 as one of the largest, most modern grand hotels in the White Mountains, one of the few built in a single campaign. Designed by New York architect Charle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZZ_first-ascent-of-mount-washington_Jackson-NH.html
Darby Field, a New Hampshire settler, accomplished this difficult feat in 1642 from a southerly approach. Partly guided by Indians and with only primitive equipment at his disposal, he is thus alleged to be the originator of all Mount Washington a…