Forum: History
06-18-2025, 10:41 AM
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People used to have names for their...
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.
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Forum: History
06-13-2025, 10:15 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,510
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...
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Forum: History
06-13-2025, 10:02 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,510
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...
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Forum: History
06-01-2025, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,510
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...
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Forum: History
04-12-2025, 02:25 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 10,081
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Forum: History
04-12-2025, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 10,081
Sunday Paper Boat on Winnipesaukee
I was researching the stops that the Uncle Sam mail boat used to make back in the 1920s, and came across this from one of Warren Huse's "Our Yesterdays" articles from the old Laconia Citizen (later...
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Forum: History
04-12-2025, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,360
Sunday Paper Boat on Winnipesaukee
I was researching the stops that the Uncle Sam mail boat used to make back in the 1920s, and came across this from one of Warren Huse's "Our Yesterdays" articles from the old Laconia Citizen (later...
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Forum: History
04-12-2025, 10:25 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,360
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Forum: History
04-07-2025, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,360
Where was "Edgemere" on Paugus Bay?
I'm looking at the old schedule for the "Uncle Sam" mailboat from about the 1920s, and I don't know where Edgemere was. The mailboat trip started from Lakeport, the first stop was Edgemere, and the...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
03-20-2023, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,084
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Forum: History
02-05-2023, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,876
Looking for old Moultonboro pictures
This winter's project is a photo history of Moultonborough to be published next fall in the "Images of America" series, including time period late 1800s to about 1960. Focusing on the built...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
10-30-2022, 09:01 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,084
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
10-30-2022, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,084
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
05-26-2021, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 7,106
Insurance for island properties
Having trouble getting homeowners/fire insurance for an island property, they say that in case of fire it would be a total loss, therefore won't issue a fire policy. There are hundreds of cottages...
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Forum: History
12-20-2020, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 18,363
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Forum: History
04-09-2020, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 10,093
Old film of Winnipesaukee
Question for the group: I found some old home movies from the 20s and 30s at the dump-brought them home because Moultonborough and Wolfeboro were mentioned on the labels on the film cans. I think...
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Forum: History
02-21-2020, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 192
Views: 221,758
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Forum: History
01-26-2020, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 18,363
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Forum: History
01-20-2020, 05:50 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 18,363
And you thought flying at the Weirs was only in...
And you thought flying at the Weirs was only in the summertime! Here we see the "Staggerwing" Beechcraft parked on the ice near the summertime location of the seaplane base. I think winter of 1936-7...
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Forum: History
01-13-2020, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 91,631
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Forum: History
01-06-2020, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 91,631
Excellent news, please let us all know when...
Excellent news, please let us all know when you're planning the fly-by so we can see it in person! If I didn't already share my book about the Weirs seaplane base with you I will be happy to send you...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 79,996
And just for fun, here's a nice view of the old...
And just for fun, here's a nice view of the old "Mount" taken from one of the seaplanes that was based at the Weirs. Judging from the wing strut in the edge of the picture, it was the "Staggerwing"...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 79,996
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 79,996
Cool, I've never seen any pictures of the deone...
Cool, I've never seen any pictures of the deone of the debris of the Weirs Cafe and the old "Mount" being removed after the fire. Here's one showing seaplanes with the fabric burned off the wings and...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 192
Views: 221,758
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