Beautiful old photographs of the lake

[mcdude]

Originally Posted by Top-Water

Judging by the other headlines this happened at the end of WWII. User McDude has a nice photo of the fire in the photo gallery (somewhere). While I have do not doubt this happened, I'm surprised that Alton had a thousand people to be homeless.

Any exact date on this fire? Seems like the Weirs Hotel fires and The Mount Washington (boat) fire got so much more coverage back then. Must have been a pretty big event for the Boston papers to cover it.

There have actually been three fires at the campground; 1945, 1967, and one more recently.






Follow this link for a history of the campground and more information about the fires.


https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums...n+camp+meeting