Author: Nancy Carnegie MerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exeter (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Exeter, New Hampshire, 1888-1988
Author: Nancy Carnegie MerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exeter (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Postcards from Exeter
Author: Carol Walker AtenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738534817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In 1904, Frank W. Swallow left behind his short-lived car dealership and began a successful cottage industry, printing his own hand-colored postcards. He was "the First to Introduce the Souvenir Post Card to One-Half of New England," according to the imprint of his trademark swallow. Many of Swallow's photographs are contained within this book, which tells a special history of Exeter, New Hampshire, between 1900 and 1940-a time when the horse and carriage era shifted to the automobile, hemlines rose a few inches, and electricity came to town. Learn about a mysteriously lost statue, hidden waterways, great buildings that burned, forgotten parades, and the famous "Swallow Girls." Most images, never before seen, are from the Exeter Historical Society's collection, and proceeds from the sales of this publication support the society in honor of its seventy-fifth anniversary.
History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire
Author: Charles Henry BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exeter (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Exeter
Author: Barbara RimkunasPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162584350X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In March 1841, as townspeople flocked to the Exeter Courthouse to view a state-of-the-art diorama of the Conflagration of Moscow, the courthouse itself went up in flames. What was dubbed the Conflagration of the Courthouse is just one of the intriguing events revisited by historian Barbara Rimkunas in this collection. Exeter was also home to a score of eccentric personalities including Dick the fire horse, whose obituary in the town paper ran longer than that of the fire chief, and the mysterious Dr. Windship, a surgeon in the American Revolution who later earned the epithet of thief, fraudster and attempted bigamist. From scandals and Scotsmen to revolutionaries and river rats, Exeter: Historically Speaking reveals the many different threads with which Exeter's vibrant historical tapestry is woven.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Historical New Hampshire
Author: America, History and Life
Author: New Hampshire Profiles
Author: Early New England
Author: David A. WeirPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books
Author: George E. Littlefield (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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