Category Archives: Rochester History
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Adams Jaffa Colony
1August 24, 2015 by rochesterhistoricalnh
Adams Jaffa Colony By Florence H. Smith On a rainy Sunday night in late October, 1861, a man accompanied by …
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CHILDHOOD MEMORIES, 1930’s
4July 25, 2015 by rochesterhistoricalnh
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES The 1930’s BY PRISCILLA FOWLER THOMAS 2003 Introduction I hope that these descriptions of how we lived …
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Rochester Tax Reports Inventory for 1816
2July 25, 2015 by rochesterhistoricalnh
Rochester Tax Reports Inventory for 1816 Adams, Amos Adams, Benjamin Adams, Jesse Adams, Wido. Susannah Allen, Col. Joshua Allen, Maj. …
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Rochester’s First Churches
Leave a commentJuly 30, 2014 by rochesterhistoricalnh
Part One – The 1700’s For many years, men had been cutting lumber and mast trees north of Dover …
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1914 Rochester Today with Glimpses of its Past
4July 30, 2014 by rochesterhistoricalnh
Written by Adeline Estes Wright, 1914 Rochester, a city of about 9,000 inhabitants is situated in the southeastern …
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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW SCHOOLHOUSE
Leave a commentMarch 26, 2014 by rochesterhistoricalnh
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW SCHOOLHOUSE GONIC, 1858 Excerpts typed from “Report of The Building Committee for the New …
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Asa P. Hanson Letter
Leave a commentMarch 26, 2014 by rochesterhistoricalnh
Typed copy of Asa P.Hanson letter- written to his brother at age 19 On envelope section: free …
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