Registered: July 2002 Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME Posts: 5,367
Looking south (from the bay towards the traffic circle) The card shows the four story wooden factory that dominated the square and eventually burned. It is now the site of the Gilman Museum. The factory manufactured (of all things) corkscrews! From the Town of Alton Website http://www.alton.nh.gov/About.asp
"By 1860, the Alton community had stores and industries of almost every description. Entrepreneurs and businesses flourished. Boarding houses and farms were prevalent. At the beginning of the 20th century, twenty-five one-room school houses existed throughout Alton. The most famous industry was the invention and manufacturing of the corkscrew by the Rockwell Clough Company established in 1875. By 1903 the company was producing over thirty million of these items world wide. In 1863 the Adventist Campground held their first camp meeting in Alton Bay." http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=3673
and http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=5143
and http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=5144
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Rattlesnake Gal Senior Member
Registered: November 2003 Location: Central NH Posts: 5,252
Sat February 5, 2005 4:25pm
Cool! Thanks McDude. You are certainly doing your part for preserving the history.
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