Flag Committee Remembers Veterans
This past week the Centre Harbor Historical Society Flag Committee (Janet Stearns, Nancy Kelley, Kay Beij, Ingrid Smith, and Denny Stringfellow) visited all the cemeteries in town. They wanted to recognize the service and sacrifice that Veteran’s have made in service of our country. A sincere and hearty thank you to all those that have or currently protecting our freedom.
Slab City – Picture of the Week
Incorporated: 1764 Origin: This territory was first granted by the Massachusetts government in 1735 by petition by Robert Hale for Captain William Raymond’s men, who were soldiers in the Canadian wars. It was know as Beverly-Canada, for their home in Beverly, Massachusetts, or Hale’s-Town. In 1748, Ichabod Robie, Meshech Weare, and others from Hampton Falls [...]
Meredith, New Hampshire circa 1900′s – Picture of the Week
Meredith was first known as Palmer’s Town in honor of Samuel Palmer, a teacher of surveying and navigation who laid out much of the land surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee. In 1748, it was one of the first towns to have a charter granted by the Masonian Proprietors. Many grantees were from Salem, Massachusetts, so Palmer’s Town was renamed New Salem. It was [...]
Castle in the Clouds – Picture of the Week
Welcome to Tom and Olive Plant’s mountaintop estate “Lucknow”, built in 1913-1914 high in the Ossipee Mountain Range with a breathtaking vista of Lake Winnipesaukee and the hills and mountains beyond. Known as the Castle in the Clouds since its opening to the public in 1959, the house is an unusual example of Arts and [...]
The Garnet Inn – Picture of the Week
On Plymouth Street stood the flat-roofed, four story, Garnet Inn. This white clapboarded vernacular Italianate style hotel was connected to the neighboring gable-roofed section of the inn by a long wooden veranda that would be lined with wicker rocking chairs. During the late 1950s, the Garnet Inn served as a summer home for many musicians [...]
