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Old 10-14-2015, 07:35 PM   #1
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Default Beautiful old photographs of the lake

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.
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Old 10-14-2015, 07:49 PM   #2
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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.
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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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Any idea what bridge that is in the second photo? Water level looks very low with all the rocks.
That's the old Weirs Channel Bridge

#10 is the old Alton Bay Station before it burned
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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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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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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.
Agree on the thanks, but perhaps not the pristine thought. Look at the smoke belching from the Mount and Lady in the pictures, a lot of the clear cutting in the backgrounds, etc. Some day take a look at the history billboards near Back Bay in Wolfeboro. Based on much of the history I've read, I would not be surprised to learn that the lake is now more pristine than it might have been during the times shown in these photos.

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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.
Look at aerial images (Google, Bing, or whatever else you prefer) of Half Mile Island and the island between Half Mile and shore.
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Look at aerial images (Google, Bing, or whatever else you prefer) of Half Mile Island and the island between Half Mile and shore.
Yes, thanks shore things. I am aware of the stone bridge that leads from the shore to half mile as our cottage is directly across from 1/2 mile and I have visited that area for over 50 years. But, the bridge is leading to a boathouse in the picture. What happened to the island? Photoshopped the island out and the boathouse in?
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Yes, thanks shore things. I am aware of the stone bridge that leads from the shore to half mile as our cottage is directly across from 1/2 mile and I have visited that area for over 50 years. But, the bridge is leading to a boathouse in the picture. What happened to the island? Photoshopped the ockout and the boathouse in?
Look at Google Maps of Center Harbor. Just behind the Canoe Restaurant I believe you will see the foundation of where the dock ("bridge") and boat house once stood under the water.
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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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Wonder where they relocated that beautiful veterans statue? Thanks for sharing !
The statue sure was beautiful. I wondered the same thing myself and a little searching on the web yielded the following:

"....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."
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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


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Agree on the thanks, but perhaps not the pristine thought. Look at the smoke belching from the Mount and Lady in the pictures, a lot of the clear cutting in the backgrounds, etc. Some day take a look at the history billboards near Back Bay in Wolfeboro. Based on much of the history I've ready, I would not be surprised to learn that the lake is now more pristine than it might have been during the times shown in these photos.
We spent a lot of money improving the quality of the Lake. I hope it did some good. I believe there was an asbestos factory in Meredith that dumped the stuff into the bay, and it lies there today encapsulated in mud. We don't do that stuff anymore.
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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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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...
Amatex. Where mills falls is now. They made asbestos cloth or some such thing. The guys used to leave the factory covered in white dust.

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.

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Can someone tell me about the castle?

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Try this site for starters. Lots of information out there.
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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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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.
Very cool. Thanks!
Amazing how mother nature can rebound. I'm sure the property was impressive.
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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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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!
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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.
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Do you have any additional pictures of the lake primarily in the Sleepers Island, Smith Point area.

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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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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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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.
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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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Three girls and their pets on the porch at a cabin in Meredith, Summer of 1911. Notice the girl in the center holding the cat, intently watching the dog on the right.

Of all the photos I've seen in this string and on this site, I think this is my favorite. I love all the landscapes but nothing gets to the heart of the lakes region more than close-ups of real people carrying on in their normal lives. I love the intimacy of this scene and wish there were more like it. This photo was taken 118 years ago yet, through it, I almost feel like I'm there.
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I also love this photo...

Look at their shoes!!!
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Twenty-five years later, those shoes would have been gold...



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(Writer was from this area).



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!


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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.
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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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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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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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Another picture of the landing. Not the same quality and a little distorted. But this time looking into the landing. Note if you look closely you can see thru the building. 113 years ago. (Can anyone make out the text inside
seems one word is "Picnic" maybe)
I get the following on my cellphone:

"Excursion to Picnic Parties"

...not sure about the last word...
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Possibly Camp Lawrence on Bear Island, which faces towards the Broads.. Looks like a season area off the end of the dock to the right. The structure could be a lifeguard tower. The Camp had a similar structure when I went there in the 50's.

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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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Back when the picture was taken, you got more from your Dollar than you do now.

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Possibly Camp Lawrence on Bear Island, which faces towards the Broads.. Looks like a season area off the end of the dock to the right. The structure could be a lifeguard tower. The Camp had a similar structure when I went there in the 50's.

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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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Maybe this answers both questions.

Not quite it answers one but not the "third leg" lol. If you look at the shoes the leg of the unseen person is different from the boots the man is wearing when he has the woman on his back.
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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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Hey I said it two posts before JEEP.


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Yup, you did. Good find! Guess I got sidetracked by Barney Bear's comment.
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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.

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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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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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Thank you all for helping me figure this out. I have been trying for a little while now.

You made my day.

I never got a chance to do screen shot like I wanted to do, even though you all are sure it's Camp Tecumseh I'm not exactly sure were Camp Tecumseh (is or was).

But thank you all for helping me identify where that photo originates from.

Very cool that four of you confirmed its location.
I feel so blessed that I could identify this from a canoe trip my late husband, and sister-brother-in-law took 13 years ago when we rented in Buzzell Cove. It’s such a lovely part of the lake. But aren’t they all in their own way?!


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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?
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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."
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From that angle to the left corner of the boat house is actually looking at the “Hole-in-the Wall”


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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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The hurricane of '38 hit in September.

That mature trees are snapped off halfway up suggests a twister.
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I'm guessing this photo of the weirs was taken by a fortune teller.

Does anyone recognize any part of this image. Other than what is written on the picture no other information.

Could the house be what is now the Grand View Resort?


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Where was this place where they had the so-called "Latch Key To The White Mountains" I seem to remember it on "Parade Road" or somewhere up near there, along with a nice senic view. Any one remember where this was? I can't quite remember where it was.
Near the location of the former griddle in the middle just before the old golf driving range on the same side
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Near the location of the former griddle in the middle just before the old golf driving range on the same side
Is that farm where they sold old boats for quite a long time?
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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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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.
I'm sure you're right but the only one I have a specific recollection of is the one I mentioned. I remember that one looking half fallen down 40 years ago. Just did a quick google search and the term latchkey seems to have been used since the pretty early 1900s.
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Where was this place where they had the so-called "Latch Key To The White Mountains" I seem to remember it on "Parade Road" or somewhere up near there, along with a nice senic view. Any one remember where this was? I can't quite remember where it was.

I remember two of these signs. I know there was one on route 104, but I can’t exactly place where it was. It doesn’t seem to me it was on the boundary line, it seems it was further up 104. But that picture that you posted is haunting me.

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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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.
We used to change them every year (then maybe two?) and they alternated colors. One year they were green with white and the next they were white with green.
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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.
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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 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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This is one I need help on. I'm just not sure of its exact location. Obviously near Alton ...... but what cove is this?
Perhaps someone here knows where the "Bakeman Cabins" was.


Looks like Roberts Cove
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Yes, I totally agree with barefoot bay.
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Old image of the board walk area of the weirs before expansion of the tracks and hotels. Note the width of the street. I'm guessing this was taken before automobiles.

Look at all the open land!
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.

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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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The Mount Washinton Sundae ...................... YUMMY and I think a free one after you finish the first one............ any one remember that ??




How about the swing set down there? As a young kid and teen I thought that was one of the best ones out there.
I don't remember the swings and, sadly, I've not found any photos from my childhood—which I've been going through while clearing out Dad's house—but this is the house (to the left) as of last week.Name:  20200328_154226.jpeg
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Even though I wasn't around then, this picture emotes my remembrances of the area!

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