Place names on Winni
 

Starting a thread here and hope people can add to it. I've gotten interested in old forgotten, changed, or unknown local place names on Winnipesaukee.

For example, I researched an old cottage on the tip of Meredith Neck near Horse Island and found that in the deed it was once called Stooping Pine Point. The mail boat route used to include Edgemere, Woodmere, Tuttle's Landing, Gypsy Camp, New Point Comfort, Black's Wharf, and French Cove on Bear island. The cove on the southeast side of Timber was once called Sheep Yard Cove, and Pitchwood was once Isle Margaret. Was Spindle Point ever really called Wonalancet's Arrow, or was that a realtor's flight of fancy? Dollar Island once owned by governor Henry Quinby and called Quinby Island. The tiny island at the mouth of Blackey's Cove was called Harvard Island after the Harvard rowing team camped there. There used to be a cottage called Not-a-Care Lodge on Moultonborough Neck. On recent maps there is Raoul's Cove up near Green's Basin, but on the old maps it's Rowell's Cove, which sounds more like a New Hampshire name. Do you know where Tea Rock is?

There must be hundreds of these names that don't quite fit on the lake navigation maps. What ones do you know about in your neighborhood?

Where is Tea Rock?!


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There is Polar Bear Rock in the cove behind Christmas Island (Langley Cove?)


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Place on Winni
 

At the far southwest end of Winter Harbor, just before the Cary Beach, there is a cove always known to me as "Bull Frog Cove", mainly because of the 'residents' of the Cove, and the entrance to the Cove was identified by a very large, angular, boulder, known as "Diamond Rock". Maybe these were local names created by, and passed on by, family members. Whatever the case, to me these will forever be their names.

Tea Rock
 

I believe Tea Rock is located near the entrance of Green’s Basin, in front of the old Green’s cottage.

Place names on Winni
 

Speaking of Greene's Basin...there is a reasonable sized island in Greene's Basin that my family owned (probably in the early part of the 1900s) and we used to camp on that island, having paddled from either Tuftonboro, or, all the way from Winter Harbor. We called the island 'Wyan-isle', a combination of Wyanoke and island. Wyanoke was the name of the summer camp my family operated in Winter Harbor (not a family 'camp', but a commercial business with 225 + campers and 75+ staff). We sold the island sometime before 1940.

Melvin Island
 

60+ years ago, I was a camper at Camp Belknap. The camp owned (guess they still do) Melvin Island, but everybody called it Little Huck or Little Huckleberry. We used to canoe there and sleep overnight.

Wow you paddled from Winter Harbor to Greene’s Basin?! You must have had Popeye arms! Very impressive.

Is it now Starr Island that your family owned?


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Not far from Gypsy Camp was Rockledge Cottages at the end of Meredith Neck. Does anyone remember them?

I was going to ask camp guy that too! That's a long way!!

Place names of Winni
 

When I said paddling from Winter Harbor to Greene's Basin, it was well-before my time, so I am guessing maybe there was a half-way stop over for the night and continue on the next day. I just don't know, but you all are right, it is a L O N G way from Carry Beach to Greene's Basin!

Friend Point
 

I have lots of historic places names, but great to hear from people who have a few more to add to the collection. One that I learned this week was Friend Point, on the southwestern tip of Tuftonboro Neck. No surprise that it's on Friend Point Road, but the interesting part is that the location is named after the family who owned Friend's Baked Beans, if anyone remembers that brand name. There's also a Friend Street in Wolfeboro, could be named after the same family.

Tea Rock
 

GB is correct, Tea Rock is off the tip of Gilbert Point, on the left as you approach Green's Basin. It's a large, above-waterline rock that was suitable for picnics or tea parties back in the day. At least that's what Frank Greene told me.

Dinner Rock
 

Dinner Rock, so called, east side of Welch Island. The rock juts out over the water and is large enough for several to sit on with a wide-open view.
The island was cleared in the mid to late 1800s for sheep pasture. We were told that workers would have lunch there, known as dinner back then. A lunch box was known as a dinner pail.

Alan

Yes, and they are rebuilding the house now on Friend Point. I never heard that Friend St. in Wolfeboro is named after them. My parent's used to call it "Tony's Hill".

I've also heard it called Picnic Rock. Dinner Rock has a more historic, plausible story.

Little Huck
 

Timmi-Hi 1952-1959

On the lake? Not exactly, but Kellerhaus, overlooking Weirs Bay used to be Hartland, the residence of Myron Hart. Look around inside and you can see living room, porch, etc. He also had a boat house in the Channel, boat named "Myth" and dinghy "Myth Jr". I think a 1948 28' CC (?) sedan cruiser.

People used to have names for their camps/cottages too, like Not-A-Care Lodge, Seldom Inn, Camp Inwood, Gray Gull, Rest Awhile, October Morn, Camp Itsuitus, Resthaven, and many more.

These always make me smile. A friend's family owns an island in Maine and named the camp "Hatetoquitit."

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