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Old 10-25-2009, 04:51 PM   #1
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Default Location of Edgerly Farm?

I picked up this postcard on e-bay recently thinking that it was Nestlenook Farm (near Governor's Island) but it is actually a place called Edgerly Farm. The e-bay description specifically says that it is a Lake Winnipesaukee card but I don't recognize it at all. Can anyone speculate as to the location of Edgerly Farm? Postcard is unmailed but dated August 1, 1911.
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:05 PM   #2
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There is an Edgerly School Rd in Meredith.... Maybe same family?
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:37 PM   #3
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Alan G. Edgerly

HAMPTON FALLS - Alan G. Edgerly, 80, of Hampton Falls, died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, at his home.

He was born in Newburyport, Mass., on Oct. 30, 1925, the son of the late Carleton J. and Hazel. (Shaw) Edgerly A lifelong Hampton Falls resident, he grew up on the Edgerly Farm, in the home where Harbor Lights is now located.

Mr. Edgerly was a graduate of Hampton Academy and attended St. Anselm's College in Manchester.He was a veteran of World War II, serving as a navigator with the U.S. Army Air Forces.

Mr. Edgerly worked on his family's farm and as a sheet metal worker.He worked for the former Hampton Metal Shop and later for Palmer & Sicard, now of Exeter.


http://www.harbor-lights.com/

http://www.nhtroubadour.com/new-hamp...s-town-common/

Possibly the same building hard to tell
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:55 PM   #4
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I really think it is the Edgerly farm in Tuftonboro just above 19 mile bay. The house is still there and it looks like the picture-sort of. The windows on the right are still there, I think.
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Tis, you are probably right here is a link to some more cards, some of the views are the same but they do say Winnipesaukee. Some say Mirror Lake.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=edg...ukee&_osacat=0
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Everything I'm finding says Mirror Lake, too. If you pull up those ebay postcards on the link provided by TomT and take a moment to read thru them all, it's all "Mirror Lake"...

This might be of interest...


Here's one excerpt (typos are not my own - this is a copy/paste)
from: "The Granite Monthly, New Hampshire Magazine", 1903:

John A. Edgerly.
Chairman Committeeman Agricultural College.

ence. Returning to Tuftonborough,
after teaching a few terms, he engaged
in farming and later in the summer
boarding business, " Edgerly Farm "

having now become well known among
the many summer visitors who flock to
that part of the lake region. He is a
Republican in politics, by which party
he has been elected a member of the
board of selectmen and to minor town
offices and finallv to the legislature.
He has also been on the board of edu-
cation. Mr. Edgerly belongs to none
of the secret societies except the
Grange. In this he has taken all the
degrees up to and including the
seventh, that of the National Grange.
He has served as master of Tufton-
borough Grange, No. 142. He has also
been lecturer, overseer, and master of
( larroll County Pomona Grange, and
district and Pomona deputy for the
State Grange. Mr. Edgerly is a mem-
ber of and takes an active part in the
works of the Second Christian church
of Tuftonborough. He has been an
indefatigable worker in the interest of
his town and the surrounding region,
having been especially influential in
the establishment of a steamboat line
between The Weirs and Melvin Vil-
lage. He was married to May C.
Blake of Moultonborough, December
25, 1880. They have one child, Ed-
win B., now a student at Brewster
academy, Wolfeborough.



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The boarding house is also listed in several books by Boston & Maine RR as a place of interest/place to stay.


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Additionally... there's an Edgerly Cemetary HERE and I would guess that the farm was very close by... a satellite map shows quite a bit of clearing to the right of that marker, if you zoom in a bit. I've not be able to determine if the building is still there or not, as the Registry of Deeds for Carroll County does not have an online database.
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In the summer of 1964, I was a milkman for the Brewster Dairy in Wolfeboro and one of my routes that summer took me to Edgerly Farm off route 109 in Tuftonboro. The elder Mr. Edgerly had a unique way of letting me know what he wanted delivered. He would tape the side panel of an old container of what he wanted delivered in his side window. If he wanted 2 quarts of milk, there were 2 side panels in the window. Unusual but effective.
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His name WAS John. I believe John II and Gyme Lynn still live there. daughter and son -The current John has his house for sale, it is kind of in back and to the right of the picture.
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....well.....thanks guys! You're the best!

tis: assuming I wanted to take a "now" shot for a "now and then"-type comparison....on what road in Tuftonboro might I begin my search?

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....well.....thanks guys! You're the best!

tis: assuming I wanted to take a "now" shot for a "now and then"-type comparison....on what road in Tuftonboro might I begin my search?

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Go up 109 out of Wolfeboro, past Pier 19 Store and just a little way on the right is the place. There is a building out front where Terry and John used to have a farm stand. It is only a few houses past the store. John II built a newer house out back where his wife Terry had a hairdressing shop. GymeLynn and Steve (Berry Appliances) live in the house out front which I think was part of the house in the picture you have. It looks maybe from the picture they made two house out of one? I don't know. But I would be curious if you figure it all out. As I said, bay windows look like they might still be there.
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Edgerly was Sheriff of Carroll County at one time.

My Grandfather, an MD, rented at the Edgerly Farm as a "base" to scout for a Winnipesaukee lakefront property to buy. (My Grandparents had just sold "Doctor's Island" on Sebago Lake, Maine—which I believe has been renamed).

They bought a two-building spot on the Lake that is...today...the site of the Melvin Marina!
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John Edgerly and his wife owned a mobile home park on the lake in 19 Mile bay. My family first moved a mobile home ther ein 1967 and stayed until about 1988. His daughter (Gyme?) and Son In-law Steve own, or owned a house to the left of the Edgerly house. The picture does indeed look like the Edgerly house, though I have not seen it in perhaps 20 years!

The Edgerly cemetary is adjacent to the property along Rt. 109 just north of Union Wharf Rd. on the right.
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Edgerly was Sheriff of Carroll County at one time.

My Grandfather, an MD, rented at the Edgerly Farm as a "base" to scout for a Winnipesaukee lakefront property to buy. (My Grandparents had just sold "Doctor's Island" on Sebago Lake, Maine—which I believe has been renamed).

They bought a two-building spot on the Lake that is...today...the site of the Melvin Marina!
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Talk of Doctor's Island, that's where my grandparents spent their summers as kids. Do you have any info about that era?
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There were/are 3 generations named John Edgerly, two of whom are still living. Father to the senior John Edgerly (now late) was Ned Edgerly. Ned ran the boarding house in the picture's foreground. It's been torn down 25-30 years. The far house which appears attached, is actually a separate building and is home to Steve Berry. It is still there.
The Edgerlys rented mobile home sites with lake access, across the road on the west side of Route 109 in a park they called Edge O' Lake.
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In my first post, I should have helped clear up the Mirror Lake confusion regards the Edgerly Farm. The Edgerly property which was, as I mentioned, once also on the west side of Route 109, had frontage on Winnipesaukee at 19-mile bay.
That area of Tuftonboro was and is serviced by the Mirror Lake Post Office. Therefore, the mailing address of the Edgerly Farm was Mirror Lake, New Hampshire. Tuftonboro has 3 post offices within its borders. The Mirror Lake address would show up on old postcards of or from the Edgerly Farm.
None of the Edgerly property was on the shore of Mirror Lake.
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