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Annual Excursion Bulletin

The Society has published a research bulletin each year for 89 years. The bulletins are referred to as Annual Excursions reflecting that in the early years in particular they provided a description of the houses, cellar holes and landmarks along specific routes which were traveled in caravan on the day of the annual picnic. In recent years the Excursions have dealt with a wide variety of local research topics including education, the churches, notable individuals, and participants in the Civil War and recently, the impact of the Boarding Houses so popular in the 1870 - 1920 eras. Most also contain a Directors Report, Necrology, and the Year in Review for organizations in the town of Sandwich. All of the excursion bulletins are available for purchase from the Society. Each bulletin is $10.00; members receive a 10% discount

 

Excursion

Year

Subjects

1st 1920 Sandwich Notch

2nd

1921

Sandwich Notch Train

3rd

1922

George M. Weed Homestead- Guinea Hill

4th

1923

Ambrose Farm, Whiteface Intervale - Intervale Farming- Bennett Street- The Loop

5th

1924

Estate of Professor Archibald A. Coolidge, Squam Lake - History of Squam Lake Road from Sandwich West to Chick’s Corner- Burleigh Hill to Coolidge Property

6th

1925

Estate of Mrs. Alice B. Moorhouse and Mr. Joseph Wentworth - Red Hill, Lower Corner Schoolhouse, Chestnut Manor, Little’s Pond- Red Hill Section

7th

1926

The Seven Mile Round - Aaron Quinby 1733 - Rock Maple Ridge - Great Oven by Weeds - Site of Old Town Hall of Sandwich - North Sandwich village

8th

1927

Village of Center Sandwich - Free Will Baptist Parsonage- Rock Maple Ridge- Durgin Bridge- N. Sandwich Ridge

9th

1928

Diamond Ledge - Hoyt Homestead - Grove Cemetery - Dale Road - Gold Mine - Diamond Ledge House

10th

1929

Little’s Pond - Potash District, First Mill - Congregational Church, East Sandwich Chapel - Flanders Road - School House- East Sandwich- Cram's Corner

 

11th

1930

East Sandwich - Range Line - “Top of the World” - Bear Camp Pond & River- Red Hill Pond

12th

1931

Whiteface Intervale - McCrillis Brick Yard - North Sandwich “Friends Meeting” House - Durgin Bridge - The Quaker Neighborhood

13th

1932

Whiteface - Weed’s Mills, Weed Family History - Whiteface School - Brown Mill,  Bennett Street, The Loop - Aunt Ruth’s Spring- Young Mountain

14th

1933

Mt. Israel, Guinea Hill - The Wiggin Farm “Stonecroft” - L.B. Chapman Place - Tappan Place - White Church

15th

1934

Plummer Pond, Plummer Hill - Elm Cemetery - Vision of John Hoag - Gifford  Camp - Indian Canoe - Militia in Sandwich- Bearcamp Valley Section

16th

1935

Sandwich Notch Region- Hon. John Wentworth - Old Road to Beede Hill - Pulpit Rock - Mt. Delight, The Gilmans, Carter Mill, Durgin Tavern

17th

1936

Holderness Road, West of Chick’s Corner - Trailside - Road to Beede Hill - Early Settlement - Burying Ground for Town Poor - Metcalf Road- Region west of Chick's Corner

18th

1937

The Ring - Sandwich Historical Society Building - Town - Daniel Beede Academy - Grange Hall - Quimby School - Center School - Baptist Church and Burying  Ground - Grove Cemetery- Center Sandwich- Diamond Ledge Road

19th

1938

Skinner Street, Main Street - Masonic Hall - Site of first Sandwich Home Industries - Post Office - Library - Mill Sites

20th

1939

Road to Squam Lake - Beede Place - Camp Hale - Big Rock - Sandwich Landing,  Beach - Eagle Cliff - Moultonboro Line - Coolidge Estate - Kusumpe Pond, Squaw Cove - Far Pastures - Hurricane of September 21 - Tappan Chair - Hodge House

21st

1940

Diamond Ledge - Chick’s Corner - Gold Mine Henry Pascoe - Electrification

22nd

1941

Religious Life of Sandwich, Part I: Churches, Baptist

23rd

1942

Religious Life of Sandwich, Part II: Churches, Friends, Methodists - East Sandwich Chapel - Brick Church,

24th

1943

Religious Life of Sandwich, Part III: Baptist Parsonage,  

25th

1944

Education in Sandwich, Part I: Schools - Districts 1 and 2 East - Beedes, Dudley, Leavitt, Dorr’s – Joseph Wentworth

26th

1945

Education in Sandwich, Part II: Schools - Districts - Quimby - Lydia Dearborn - List of Men in Service 1945 - Chestnut Manor

27th

1946

Education in Sandwich, Part III: Schools 1830-1900 - List of Teachers 1855-1881

28th

1947

Data of Excursions to 1946 - Lower Corner - The Stone Wall - Brick Store - First Well - Sandwich Reporter Printing - Isaac Adams - List of Postmasters at Sandwich Post Office 1812-1935- Sandwich Lower Corner, Resurveyed

29th

1948

Biographies 1932-47 - Sandwich Lower Corner

30th

1949

Covering the Red Hill Section:Squam Lake Landing - Red Hill - Valley View Farm

31st

1950

Sandwich Scrapbook “Hutchins” - “Sandwich A Treasure House” by Cornelius Weygandt - English Tool Book 1820

32nd

1951

John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich - Harrison Campaign 1840 - Albert Boyden, Dr. McFarland - New School

33rd

1952

Governor Benning Wentworth - List of Granters - Plan of Sandwich - Origin of the Towns and Township System of New England

34th

1953

Sandwich Covered Bridges, Durgin Bridge - Sandwich Freshets - Carol Beede - Mary Hamilton Coolidge

35th

1954

Index to Excursions 1 - 30

36th

1955

Biographical Sketches of Charles Fellows, Herbert and Julia Moulton, Julia Abby Moulton, Robert S. Quinby, The Smith Family

37th

1956

Whiteface Mountain and Intervale - The Ambrose and McCrillis families

38th

1957

A part of East Sandwich, Prescott Mill - Bear Camp Pond - White  Sylvania Trust

39th

1958

Vittum Hill - Vittum Schoolhouse - Taxes - Lyceum - School Directors 1820-1836

40th

1959

Tataboro and the Mountain Road - Portraits of Catherine Hoyt, Aaron Beede Hoyt, Henry Wadsworth Hight

41st

1960

Old Crossroads of East Sandwich - Early Settlement of Old Road from Moultonboro - Site of Schoolhouse No.2

42nd

1961

Little Pond Road - Weed Mill - Congregational Church - Site Little Pond School  House - Jesse Flanigen

43rd

1962

Highlights of Sandwich Architecture - Mrs. Henry Batchelder House - Dr. Lot Cook House - Blanchard House 1815 - Col. Joseph Wentworth House 1850 - Free Will Baptist Church 1800 - Fireplaces 1810-1824

44th

1963

Salute to Sandwich: 1763-1963 - Weed’s Mills and Vicinity - Trades, Professions, Travel and Lodging; Churches and Schools; Changes and Revivals - French Bridge - Donovan Mill - Grant Place - Weed Cemetery

45th

1964

Benning Wentworth 1696 - Political duel between Benning and Governor Belcher struggle for power in the Colony - Governor of New Hampshire - Early Chimneys  and Chimney-Pieces - Red Hill Pond and Middle Road - “Top-o’-the-World” - The Severance School - Bear Camp - Elizabeth Beede Ford

46th

1965

Sandwich Today: What Goes on Here? - Lumbering, Homes and Buildings, Handicrafts, Recreation, Population 1770-1965

47th

1966

Tour of the Sandwich Historical Society Museum - Mary Senior Brown

48th

1967

Sandwich Inventories 1788 - 1820 - Our Fiftieth Anniversary - Norbert Weiner - Sandwich Commemorative Plates - Alfred Quimby Fund - The Sandwich Town and Grange Fair Association

49th

1968

Index to Excursions 31-48

50th

1969

Address given at Sandwich Historical Society Annual Picnic by The Rev. Leroy  S. Rouner 1968 - Aldrich Taylor

51st

1970

Albert Gallatin Hoit - Genealogy of Wentworth Family - Major General William F. Tompkins - Hoit Portraits 

52nd

1971

Notes on the Sandwich Scrapbook - Quaker Cemeteries - Brick Yards and Clay Pits in Sandwich - Ryvers Frank Ainger - W. Pope Barney

53rd

1972

The Woes of the Hoit Brothers - Clifton Clark Quimby - Early Cycling on Mt. Washington - New Addition to Sandwich Historical Society

54th

1973

Food and its Preparation Before 1830 - Second Congregational Church - Lower Corner Revisited

55th

1974

Neighborhood Surveyors of Highways in the 1840’s - John Wentworth - Relationship of the Governors Wentworth to Sandwich Wentworths -  Domestic Textiles - Flash Flood July 4, 1974

56th

1975

The North Star Route through Sandwich, Underground Railroad - Medicine in Early Sandwich - Geological History  of  Sandwich Area - A “Gift of China” Flow Blue and How it Was Made - Fred W. Goldthwait - Carlton Heard - Mira Hodge

57th

1976

Sandwich Association Test, 1776 - John Wentworth of Sandwich and Chicago - The Lost Cemeteries of Sandwich - Margaret Eckfeldt Greene

58th

1977

The Grant Bridge: One Century over the Cold River - Lost Cemeteries of  Sandwich Part II - Observation Tower

59th

1978

One Blood All Nations - Sandwich Anti-Slavery Petitions - Forget Not the Matron

60th

1979

Sandwich Loco Cocos List - Old Style Sandwich Politics - Index to Excursions 49-59

61st

1980

Fire! - Architectural Highlights of Center Sandwich Village

62nd

1981

Going “Down Country”, The Road to Independence: From the letters of Phebe and Caroline 1837-1843 - Sandwich Notch 1981 - The Town Wood Lot - Donald  Johnson

63rd

1982

The Mills of Sandwich - The Marston Family in Sandwich - The Mauch Family in Sandwich - Map of Sandwich

64th

1983

The Elliott Family  in Sandwich - The Pearson Family in Sandwich

65th

1984

Weed’s Mill, North Sandwich - Birch Interval and Fellows Hill - Cornelius Weygandt’s New Hampshire - The Beede Family in Sandwich - The Pohl Family in Sandwich

66th

1985

Sandwich Fair 75th Anniversary -  Mt. Israel Grange - The Bryant Families in Sandwich - The Lear Family in Sandwich

67th

1986

Sandwich Home Industries’ Sixtieth - An 1850 Journey to Sandwich - The Bryant Families in Sandwich II - The Hambrook Family in Sandwich

68th

1987

The Perry's and “The Studio”, Diamond Ledge Road - Our 70th Anniversary  - Elected Officials of the Historical Society, Members of the Historical Society

69th

1988

Moses Hall Place, Sandwich Notch  - Sandwich Notch Revisited - “New” Notch  Residents?

70th

1989

Fred George Quimby - North Road and Wallace Farm

71st

1990

The Schoolhouse at Lower Corner - The Burrows Family - Early Carroll County, Illinois - The Lure of the Prairie: A Sandwich Migration - Lambs ‘R Us Trip to England

72nd

1991

The Center Sandwich Post Office: 1828-1991 - Tappan Chairs and Their Makers - Sapping in Sandwich - Place Names of Sandwich, N.H. Part I - A Bird’s-eye  View of the 1980’s in Sandwich, N.H.

73rd

1992

Place Names of Sandwich, N.H. Part II - The Simeon Mason Homestead - The New Sandwich Honor Roll Monument - AyottesDesignery - Excursion  Bulletins’ Errata

74th

1993

The Baptist Meeting House 200th Anniversary - Isaac Adams: Inventive Genius - Alice Blanchard Moorhouse and Her Family - Far and Away: Some Thoughts on the Guinea Hill Farms

75th

1994

Index: Excursions 59-68 (1979-1988)

76th

1995

John Colby , Sandwich Evangelist - The Health of Sandwich People in the Nineteenth Century - A History of The Sandwich Cemetery Trustees’ Duties

77th

1996

The New Hampshire Troubadour and Sandwich Memories - Memories of a General Store - Horses Were Dangerous - “Lilac Farm”, “October Farm” and “Briar Farm”

78th

1997

Bearcamp Pond History - Whiteface General Store - The Quaker Neighborhood Revisited

79th

1998

West Sandwich Route 113 Landmarks - West Sandwich Narrative - West  Sandwich Interviews - Denley Emerson Recollections - Was It Arson? 

80th

1999

The Story of a Sandwich Farm, Working on the Boats of the Asquam Transportation Company, Camp Hale: Approach to Their Centennial Year, Camp Hale: The Early Years

81st

2000

Weedfield (1904-1948), The Brick House, Katherine White, Early Days in Sandwich

82nd

2001

Elisha Marston’s 200 th Birthday, The Elisha Marston House Construction, The Sandwich Generals, The Town Team Part I, Pete Burnham, Juniper Farm, Early Years at Chestnut Manor, Sandwich general Store and Endeavor Café

83rd

2002

240 Years of Activity at Mead Base, The Town Team Part II, Leonard Boyd Chapman, Mail Boat Service on Squam Lake, Sandwich Aquatic School

84th

2003

Corporal Lewis Q. Smith (1832-1913), The Austin Quinby Journal (1862-1864), The Semmes and Winslow Families, Electric Railway to Sandwich, Friends of Phil and Kathryn

85th

2004

More on the Lower Corner School Store, The Golden Age of Boarding Houses, Ferncroft Footnotes, The Corner House, Sandwich Bed and Breakfasts: Davies, Leiper, Olafsen 

86th

2005

The Chapman Wildbird Sanctuary, Charles Davis 1882-1948, Leander Pierce and His Son Frank, The Creameries, Shoe Making Industry in Sandwich, Brickyards in Sandwich, Stage Coach Days Hereabouts, The Sandwich Road Oil Mess 1979, The Alfred Quimby Fund

87th 2006 Sandwich Home Industries, The Store at Cram’s Corner, Old Home Week, Long John Wentworth, Jane Durgin, Mehitable Beede Wiggin, Save Sandwich Notch, Old Road to Whiteface Intervale, The Old Highway
 88th 2007 Sandwich in 1917, Old Home Day 1919: Dedication of the World War I Memorial, The Hadley Family in Sandwich, Harvesting Ice from Squam Lake and Beyond, First Eagle Scouts in Sandwich, From the Archives: Dudley Leavitt and Daniel Greenleaf Beede, 2007 Exhibition - Love and Loss in Sandwich: 100 Years of Wedding Gowns.
 89th 2008 The Second Congregational Church, The Great Wall, Isaac Adams' Bed-and-Platen Steam Powered Press, Early Hikes in the Sandwich Area, A Few Stories of Leisure in Sandwich, The Sandwich Saddle-ites, From the Archives.

               

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