Beautiful old photographs of the lake
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I was doing research in the Library of Congress website on Winnipesaukee and came across a slew of great images, attached. The clarity is impressive.
If you look closely often in the lower left corner there is often a description of what the image is about. These pictures are from all over the lake. |
That is awesome, thanks for sharing!
Any idea what bridge that is in the second photo? Water level looks very low with all the rocks. |
Very interesting...I too wonder about that bridge. Could it be the Weirs?
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Thank you for taking the time to post these. It is hard to imagine how pristine the lake was in the early days. We are all fortunate to enjoy our beautiful playground.
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Thank you for sharing these with us !
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#10 is the old Alton Bay Station before it burned |
Great find. I am trying to figure out the loction of photo #16.
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If #2 is the Weirs Bridge then #16 is looking the same way while on the bridge.
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Wonder where they relocated that beautiful veterans statue? Thanks for sharing !
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Centre Harbor
Thank you for posting. I never knew there was a stone bridge leading out to a boat house in Centre Harbor. I'll have to check out photos looking up towards town that I have.
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Thanks Just Sold. I can see something there that seems to be rectangular in shape. Google maps hasn't updated their maps in the northern part of the lake yet, so its hard to see on real close-views. But I think you are right. Wonder what happened to the boathouse? Might be an interesting shallow dive spot.
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Wonderful! Thank you for sharing these.
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"....the statue, which was dedicated in 1894 in honor of Laommi Bean, a Weirs Beach farmer who was killed in the Civil War. Today, the sign is long gone, and the statue was struck by lightning and destroyed in 1931." |
statue destroyed
According to the History page on the NHVA:
1894 A beautiful civil War Soldier statue and water trough in honor of Laommi Bean of the 8th Regiment was erected at the base of New Hampshire Ave. 1931 A lightning strike destroyed the Civil War Soldier statue and water trough Edit: oops, just saw the Airedale1 post after sending this. |
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I would hope the Lake is more pristine today...
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Those are great pictures! It makes me sort of wish I was around in those times...the huge Inn in Center Harbor was just amazing! I sure wish these old places were still around...Just seeing everyone getting ready to off load at Bear Island is quite a sight, too! I can just imagine the thrill of knowing that your journey had finally come to fruition...Ah, the slower, laid back days...
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I worked at the Tulsa gas on the corner during high school Many years ago, like in 1967, we stopped at an asbestos mine in Canada and I brought back a piece for school. Good times. |
Can someone tell me about the castle?
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Kimballcastle
Try this site for starters. Lots of information out there.
http://www.kimballcastle.com/castle-history.html |
Lots of photos and postcards of the Castle on Photopost http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...=11482&cpage=1
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Thanks Tally and Dude--wish I were a millionaire and could purchase and rehab such a beautiful property!
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Fantastic photo's, Thanks for posting.
The photo's of the old Mount Washington at the Weirs shows what appears to be Governors Island in the back with a steep slope that is bare with a structure/ house on top. Interesting. |
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The structure on Governors Island in the background is the summer residence of the German Ambassador to the US. A distant relative of mine was a caretaker there. I believe there is more information somewhere on this site.
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that would be HERE
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Amazing how mother nature can rebound. I'm sure the property was impressive. |
Great Stuff
Thanks for posting these great old pictures. I'm going to check out that Library of Congress website.
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Great picture in Meredith
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Great & classic photos! Thanks for sharing.
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Diver1111, have you found any more photos specifically of the lake area of the Alton/Gilford line area? That would be on the south side of the lake just south of Rattlesnake Island.
Thanks for letting me know either way! |
Sorry I have not. If I did I will post them.
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thanks so much for posting these beautiful pictures.
Loved the one of Bear Island Landing. |
Do you have any additional pictures of the lake primarily in the Sleepers Island, Smith Point area.
Thanks, Bill |
Sorry I do not recall seeing any. However you may want to go to the Library of Congress/LOC website and dig deeper. Quite remarkable what they have online.
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isn't it sad that those amazing old hotels are all gone now?
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News to Us
We never knew that there was, once, such a large hotel in Center Harbor. Very impressive! 🐻
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Barney, did you ever see picture of the old hotels in Wolfeboro? They were also amazing!!
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What would you choose?
Amazing photos. I feel certain I've seen some of them in prior strings over the years but never with such clarity.
As a conversation starter I'll sometimes ask someone what they would choose if they had a choice of: 1. Going back in time 100 years and spending a week exploring the Lake Winni region. OR 2. Going forward in time 100 years and spending a week exploring the Lake Winni region. I'd choose to GO BACK in time. What a trip it would be to see the mostly natural lake shores, the towns that have since developed into small cities or resorts, and the little hamlets on the northeast side of the lake that perhaps haven't changed so much in all that time. I'd stay away from the future since maybe I'm afraid of what I'd find. What would you choose and why? |
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Photo of three girls...
I also love this photo...
Look at their shoes!!! |
Even later, Better Shoes—Yet...
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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....4,203,200_.jpg (Writer was from this area). :look: |
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I met the author last Patriots Day. He was giving a talk about his experiences before during and after the war. Wonderful gentleman and a very interesting read! Sent from my iPhone using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
With the jeans and scarf she's right in style for 2019, but there's not a lot of girls who were wearing jeans in those days.
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These are fabulous! Oh, to go back and see the lake at that time. Thank you for sharing.
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That's s a structure around 10' tall. Kinda of large for a nav aid.
Maybe an outhouse...Although it's built over the water. |
looks more like a ticket booth of some sort
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Here's a little closer look. Yes, maybe a booth. Looks like the top facing square might be a hinged door/dutch window?
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How these individuals are dressed just makes me sweat looking at the photos!
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Re Pic in post #64
Thanks for the close up. If the lady is 5' tall, this structure could be 15' tall. I agree with a vending or ticket booth of some sort, but I would have expected signage. Perhaps a panel or two fold down and there is signage on the inside?
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Maybe....
Perhaps the structure is related to the Bear Island House, the hotel located up the road from the dock area. Note the luggage aboard the Mount Washington. 🐻
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I think a light house would be located so it was visible from all directions.
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"Excursion to Picnic Parties" ...not sure about the last word... :confused: |
Camp Lawrence
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Not YMCA Camp Lawrence
The only land mass near the waterfront area on the east side of the camp is Dollar Island which is much smaller than the land seen is this photo. 🐻
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Camp Tecumseh For Sure
You can see Elkins boathouse in the middle of the picture and the Bald Peak Colony Club beach on the right. That’s the Ossipee mountains including Mt. Shaw and Bald Knob.
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Nestle?
Check for the bottling plant to be sure!
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Peek-a-boo
Upon enlarging the photo, it appears that the person behind the lady is another lady. 🐻
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Not to mention, the "third leg" isn't wearing black boots!
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Re: picture of Weirs Beach diving board & raft
As I looked more closely at this diving board I see a very large black inflatable raft that the whole affair sits on. Looks like dead ringer for the one I found out in Weirs Bay a few years ago. I dove it and filmed it as usual and posted it some time ago..
It could well be the same one I found or at least made by the same company. What I found out there was the largest rubber raft I've ever seen-at least 25 feet long minimum and to this day I remain curious about what it was originally used for and of course, how it ended up way offshore. It had big steel rectangular handles on it and I estimate the side tube diameter when it was inflated to be easily 3 feet. I'm always impressed with the great historical material Forum members come up with and the variety of it covering a large range of topics. |
Beautiful old photographs of the lake
Regarding the picture of the floating dock. I believe it is taken near the shore next to One mile island. A rock outcrop on the right might be Little One mile and the “shoreline” on the left to be Half-Mile Island. The Danes had and still have shore property in that area and a large floating dock would have been within their means. One other thing, is the boathouse on the opposite shore directly in the center of the picture might be Colonial Pines Resort.
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Winnisquam 1964
That photo is definitely Lexington Drive (O'Shea's Industrial Park).
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Yes, that’s it Top-Water. Do you remember stopping at our dock and giving me some O-rings and worms and showing me how to rig them? Still use the method today. Thanks again.
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Answering topwaters question re picture with dock. Having been a long time camper at Camp Tecumseh, Moultonborough Bay. I am nearly positive that that is the Camp dock, with Poplar Island in the front, and what we used to call the Bald Peak boathouse on the opposite shoreline. It wasn't floating. Very long crib dock.
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Top-Water. I am 100% on it being Camp Tecumseh. They have an alumni web page with photos over the years. There is a near duplicate in the 1940's section.
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So...
Did the Senter House and the Colonial Hotel exist at the same time- doing the same type of business? Beautiful places! Edit added: Same building- different names? |
Thank you.
I guess I got confused by the Senter House picture caption "Opens June 24, 1893", and the link notation, "The town became a popular destination in the 19th century, and around 1830 the Senter House opened on the site of the present-day library." |
From that angle to the left corner of the boat house is actually looking at the “Hole-in-the Wall”
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Truck
The truck in front of Irwin's looks like a 1978 or 79 Ford 4wd F-150.
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Sorry Top-Water, I was scrolling down on my phone and it must have stopped just right (or wrong). I didn’t even know there was a second photo until I read your reply and scrolled back to see what you were talking about. mea culpa
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That was the hurricane of 1938 apparently. It hit NH hard.
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Maybe a "Cell" or Weak Tornado?
The hurricane of '38 hit in September.
That mature trees are snapped off halfway up suggests a twister. |
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"Welcome" signs
I believe the "Latchkey" signs were "Welcome to Meredith" type, so there were multiples, one on Rt 3 near the Meredith/Laconia line, just past Tamarack, one as you come down the hill to the docks and one on Rt 25 on the Center Harbor town line. There may also have been one coming southbound on Rt 3. I don't recall one on Rt 104 or Parade Rd, but I traveled those roads rarely.
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The other one I remember very clearly. It was on route 25 just before you cross into Meredith. I was living in Brookhurst at the time and the sign was always my way of knowing that I was turning ahead. |
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There's a big "Latchkey" sign on a red garage in Meredith, on the left as you head down Pleasant St. going toward Meredith Neck. Here is another Latchkey image. The Post Office had a National Air Mail Week promotion in May, 1938 and towns could design their own logo to be used on airmail letters for that week only. This is what Meredith came up with. There were about 50 towns in NH that had their own "cachet" envelopes, kind of a collector item nowadays.
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www.mhsweb.org has a large old Meredith bit key sign on the side of their building that you can see here in their photo.
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Looking at the LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE license plate created from seven 1970's dark green & white NH plates ...... don't you think these old license plates were a better look than today's NH plate.
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Top-Water , I googled Meredith New Hampshire latchkey signs. There were two articles, one from the Laconia Daily Sun and the other from New Hampshire Business Weekly. In September 2018, marking Meredith 250th year, new signs were erected at all four spots. The only picture they had showed the sign on route 25 as you leave Center Harbor to enter Meredith. It did not say exactly where the other signs were.
I do not know how to send a link. But, Annie Paquette, made all the new signs and put them up. I’m not up there now, but there must be someone that can verify the location of the signs now. I hope this helps. |
It’s the sign on route 104 that is haunting me. I can see it looking like the photo that you posted, I just can’t pinpoint exactly where it is.
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I've seen those oxen before...
I believe they are in Meredith Bay just northwest of the old shake mill that processed them into what most people call shingles. They would pull logs into the mill from that conveyor.
Now of course it's the location of Church Landing. |
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Yes, I totally agree with barefoot bay.
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I stopped by the Weirs the other day to find the home on Baker Ave. my family used to rent and it's sad to see how many of those homes, and the old hotel, are rundown and not maintained. We always visit in the summer when it's busy and the focus is on fun, so I hadn't noticed how bad it was. Sent from my SM-G950U using Winnipesaukee Forum mobile app |
The only places I really remember from my youth are the pier, roller rink, arcades, Frankensundae, Kellerhaus, the Trading Post (with the Indian statue), the hotel (where we'd watch fireworks from the porch and play pool in the game room, my brothers turning the pocket bumpers around so as not to pay), and the little store under the bridge walkway with crunchy plain donuts. I don't even really remember the beach.
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Even though I wasn't around then, this picture emotes my remembrances of the area!
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