Historic tales of windham / Derek Saffie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saffie, Derek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Hampshire--History.

New Hampshire.

Windham (N.H. : Town)--History.

Windham (N.H. : Town).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

"The natural beauty and fertile lands of Windham drew first the Pawtucket Indians and then Scotch-Irish settlers. The town's rich history is full of intriguing stories, including Wallace Fessenden's unscrupulous baseball umpiring, the return of a native son after his burial at sea in Indonesia and the poetic life of the Rustic Bard, Robert Dinsmoor. Tourism boomed as early as the 1850s, when visitors flocked to the waterside temptations of Canobie Lake and later Cobbett's Pond, where eccentric millionaire Edward Searles built his famous castle. Local historian Derek Saffie weaves together a collection of historic stories from the settlment's roots as Nutfield to the town of Windham"--Back cover.

Contents:

A look as Windham

The founding of Windham

The shipwreck of the Catherine

The great merino sheep craze

The "Rustic Bard"

The mysterious death of Reverend Simon-Finley Williams

Building North Lowell Road

Butterfield's boulder

The railroad comes to Windham

The man who saved Windham's history

Wallace Fessenden

Case of the discounted railroad ticket

Lamson's farm

A day at Granite State Grove

Edward Francis Searles

Cobbett's Pond

Chick Austin's playhouse

Greetings from Windham

Robbery!

How Windham has celebrated its history.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439656471

1439656479