The Last Music Lincoln Heard
Played by a guy from Kensington
Amoskeag Canal
Some of it is still there
Bound Rock
Looks like it move
Here is a list of stories you will find in this book. Each is identified by subject and the place the story happened.
Church in Nashua 1679
Scary place
Universalist Creed
Formed in Winchester, NH
To Market in Winter
Easier than in summer
The Lost Child
In Walpole
The Freewill Baptists
Their oldest church is in New Durham
A Dream of Death
In Hollis
The Salamander
A scary story from Penacook
The Big Elm
In Langdon
Barnstead Bones
Under the church porch
A Place Called Rattlesnake
In Penacook
The Concord Townhouse
Before there was a Statehouse
The Year Without a Summer
Warner in 1816
Killed by Lightning
On Deer Street, Portsmouth
The Pair –of-Pants Table
In Hebron
Belling the Rat
In East Concord
Railroad Accidents in Concord
In the mid-eighteen hundreds
Gilford Roundball
Before there was baseball
The Not-Confederate Flag
In Marlow
The Devil’s Gold
In Greenville
The Willey Slide
Scariest story ever
Monadnock Lead Mine
Up near Colebrook
The Dead Pig in Keene
What to do about it
The Ashland Mill
And Freeman Sanborn
Atkinson Academy
Oldest co-ed school in America
Benton Buys Substitutes
And the town pays
Brentwood
It means, “burnt wood”
The Old Bristol Cannon
It blew up
The Cheshire Turnpike
Four cents to go through Langdon
Chesterfield
And the Chesterfield coat
The Civil War Riot
In Freemont
The Concord Gas Company
You’ve passed it a thousand times
Conway
Named for Henry Conway
The Loveliest Village of the Plain
Auburn
The Croydon Taxpayer
Returned in a stone boat
The Dublin Library
First free public library in NH
Dunbarton
A lot of history here
Hinsdale Post Office
The oldest in America
The Keene Raid
The gang from Gilsum
Milford-Pepperell Baseball
The fix was in
Mont Vernon
First in America
Peterborough Fire Company
The equipment is still there
Biggest Explosion Ever
Portsmouth blows up point
Moving the Raymond Meeting House
People prayed not to do it
Swanzey
Not Swansea
Thornton’s Ferry
Yah, the guy who signed The Declaration
The Second Vicksburg
Hooksett
Warner
For Jonathan Warner of Portsmouth
The Best One-dollar Whip
In Manchester
Death of Isaac Bachelor of Bethlehem
What a way to go!
Back From the Grave in Newmarket
Literally
Wrestling the Bear
In Conway
General Louis Bell
Manchester’s GAR Hall
John T. Benson
Wild animals in Hudson
Sam Brown in Hell
OK, Tamworth
The Burnham Hanging
Fun in Haverhill
Bates’ Bait
In Gilford
Chewin’ in Church in Lebanon
And no spittoons
Chorcorua
Named for an real guy
Cocheco Mill-girls’ Strike
First ever in our history
Copperheads in Nashua
The mob descends
Wentworth’s Last Friend
Dr. Cutter in Portsmouth
The King of Chester
Lord Timothy Dexter
John Brock of Goshen
Killed by a “quack”
Judge Dudley of Raymond
An honest man
Emancipation in Concord
They didn’t like it
Hampton Falls Farmers’ Club
Guano-a-guano
A Bridge Lost to Romantic Passion
At Bellows Falls
Ebenezer Hinsdale
Founded the town
U. S. President Jenness of Strafford
Almost
Lafayette in Warner
Not a dry eye in the house
The Lightning Dance
In Wentworth
Murder in E. Major
In Wilton
Rev. Parker Died Right Here
In the road in Derry
Boos Booze
In Alton
Roger’s Corner Murder
In Greenfield
The Instant Parade
In Derry
Governor Smyth
And Lincoln in Manchester
Dottie Sparks
Swimming in the Swift River
The Beer Bottle Spire
In Hampton Falls
Spiritualism on Sunshine Lake
In Jaffrey
Hanged for Mittens
In Goshen
The Barber thief
In Portsmouth
A Mean Shaped Head
In Plainfield
Daniel Webster
In Temple
Naughty Benning Wentworth
At home with Martha
First Murder in Hillsborough County
Guy from Hollis did it
The Dead Man Moves
On the Portsmouth docks
The Real “Plupy” Shute
The Exeter Lawyer
Revenge for Woody Woodpecker
In Milford
Bradford Springs Hotel
No alcohol
Fast Day
Only in New Hampshire
Mother’s Ice Box
In Milford
Sauerkraut Slicer
Dad’s biggest failure
Milford Snow Sculpture
Anatomically correct
Hitch-hiking
It’s not done any more
Not a Bloody Attack
But it looked like one
Gage Girls Road in Bedford
Who were the Gage Girls?
Fritz’ Favorite N.H. Things
Good stuff
Stories from Fritz’
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