Greater Wolfeboro

https://i.imgur.com/oZ2Y7ds.jpg

These great old pictures create a beautiful scene of a life that will never again exist around here. The few that have memories, and experiences, they can connect to the photos are fortunate, just as we are fortunate to hear their extended thoughts.

I know this suggestion is out of the realm of the Lakes Region- but if you know ANYTHING about NYC, you owe it to yourself to read the 1970 novel (illustrated novel- and still in print!)- Time and Again, by Jack Finney.

I read this book once a year, every year, for 20 years after first receiving it from a friend. It's a peaceful respite from the pace of today's life in a beautifully written hand.

You have time- sit back, relax and get lost in this fabulous story!

Brewster was so pretty when it was an open field to the lake. Top, do you have post cards? Where are all these pictures from?

Let's see it in color....
https://images42.fotki.com/v886/phot...boro50s-vi.jpg

Boatlanding

https://i.imgur.com/scsbR5A.png

Maple Hurst Wolfeboro

https://i.imgur.com/VFt4Khp.jpg

Point Maryland

https://i.imgur.com/mt5BLSD.jpg

Vacation Perfection

https://i.imgur.com/YUGbp1i.jpg

The Wolfeboro Lakes

https://i.imgur.com/szMFawB.jpg

Lake View Farm

https://i.imgur.com/YOUyKet.jpg

Buried Treasure

https://i.imgur.com/UpQDuFz.png

Point Maryland?
 

"Point Maryland" seems to only exist on this post card. :confused: 'Never seen it on a map, or heard any mention of it.

'Good picture of Wolfeboro's "Dockside". I have an early photo taken by my family there, but there was no covered waiting area in the picture. The parked cars "speak" of the early-through-late 1940s, so this was a post-war photograph.

Beyond Rust Pond is Copple Crown Mountain, also rendered as one word--"Copplecrown".
Abandoned "Moose Mountain Ski Slope" was located there, not to be confused with Moose Mountain near Vermont.

Brewster had a nice open campus, but most has been built up. Their endowment must be impressive. :eek2: Brewster's "message" has certainly morphed since I attended. :confused:

The new (and huge) "Pinckney Boathouse" ($600,000 in 1988) really stuck out along the shoreline! NH 's architects were impressed. :rolleye2:

Who was Pinckney, you ask? IDK...:confused:

I never heard of Point Maryland either. Hmmm. Pinckney I believe was somebody who donated the bulk of the money to build the boathouse-from one of the more recent attendees-not back in the older days.

The Lakeview Farm Restaurant was where O's is now and the Inn on Main. It was just above the main building.

Main Street - 1930's?
https://images42.fotki.com/v903/phot...boro30s-vi.jpg

Horses plus Cars?
 

I would've said 1920s, back when cars had wood-spoked wheels; however, I found this at Wikipedia: :eek2:

I thought the building at the right had been constructed to house Wolfeboro First National Bank. 'Guess not...:confused: Now I wish I'd kept my savings passbook as a souvenir. :look:

Interesting photograph. I notice no railroad tracks crossing Main Street so I wonder when the Wolfeboro train terminated at the Railroad Avenue station instead of the actual waterfront location? Anyone know?

Also, wasn't there a period of time when appliances were sold at the Wolfeboro First National Bank after the bank initially moved out of there?

Sanborn Fire Maps
 

Hopefully this link will work. If not you might want to do an online search for "Dartmouth collection Sanborn Maps". these were maps done for the purpose of evaluating fire risks for insurance purposes and can have an amazing amount of information.
https://collections.dartmouth.edu/ar...a&sv=wolfeboro

It still ran across Main Street in 1914 but I couldn't find an exact date when the tracks were ripped up.

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From "Remember When...." Edited by Kathy O'Meara 1976

This section of a1928 topographical map of Wolfeboro indicates that the tracks still crossed Main Street to the Lake Station.

Someone on the forum must have a story about this place.

https://i.imgur.com/5bPvKZc.png

https://i.imgur.comusm/MSW2KZH.png

My guess is the tracks are likely embedded / flush with the street vs. the raised bed and/or formal crossings we think of today. Another example:

https://images52.fotki.com/v1211/pho...30_tiff-vi.jpg

This is an interesting photo posted by Stilljester. Does anyone have an idea of an approximate year this photo was taken? McDude says the railroad tracks crossing Main Street were removed in 1914 so we do know it's prior to 1914.

I did enlarge it and made a few mental notes; The Town does have telephone (electric) poles, there are no gasoline vehicles visible on the street (all horse drawn vehicles), and it appears to be a reduced sized steam powered railroad engine actively crossing Main Street.

I said they were still there in 1914 and the map indicates they were still there in 1928

Best Thread
 

This is one of the best threads ever. We need one of these for every town around Lake Winnipesaukee. Keep this stuff coming!

Per New York Public Library, 1907

Wolfeboro


https://i.imgur.com/jIGxbcO.jpg

Another photo of of the lake view farm

https://i.imgur.com/QQzwajM.jpg

Mirror Lake near the Libby Museum & Winter Harbor

https://i.imgur.com/pz2cnIg.jpg

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https://www.winnipesaukee.com/photop...licchurch2.jpg

Lake Wentworth 1924


https://i.imgur.com/NadzOjW.jpg

Any guesses on where this place was years ago.

https://i.imgur.com/YrOmhac.jpg

Where was this place. With my bad eyes this appears to be overlooking Alton Bay
 

Where was this place? With my bad eyes this appears to be overlooking Alton Bay but is titled Wolfeboro anyone know? Looks like Rattlesnake Island in the distance above the single car in the back ground.

https://i.imgur.com/xHiUiPM.png

It looks more like Alton to me also. I don't remember seeing a picture of that place in Wolfeboro pictures.

Tis, thankyou for the reply was hoping you would chime in. Glad you seem to think it is Alton bay too. Maybe Senter Cove Guy guy knows.

It looks like they were selling Texaco Gasoline; wherever it is......

I am wondering if it could be the cabins on old 28-you can see them from the "new" 28 on the left heading toward Wolfeboro. Are they called "Hilltop" now? Can't remember the name but Bob Gavill owns them and he is the nicest guy you could ever meet. It just kind of looks like that area to me but I could be all wrong. Just guessing.

The postcard says Wolfeboro Road Alton NH Route 28.


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Old Wolfeboro / Deleted

That fits the place I described. It would be old 28 out of Wolfeboro. If you went by Robert's Cove almost to the end of that road before you hit the new 28 that would be the location. It really looks like the area.