Rattlesnake Gal
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Location: Central NH
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Following is the relevant paragraph from the small history of the Lee Settlement passed on to me by DCR:
Eventually, Mr. Plant acquired all the property around the Park (Ossipee Park, which he bought in 1911) except the Lee homestead, which included 150 acres. The Lees were not interested in selling at his offered price as they had been offered $500 more by a relative. Mr. Plant was so disgruntled by his being unable to purchase this last hold on the mountain community that he put up a 20 ft spite fence several hundred feet in length which blocked the view of the lake from the Lee's home.Buildings (part of the Weelahka Hall complex of Ossipee Park) within sight were splashed with black paint (and painted with "hideous figures" of several kinds). This, and other things (other things could have included a death in the family - I don't know about that), finally made the Lees sell, at their price, the property they had owned since 1748. They moved to Moultonboro Falls on the Sheridan Road November 1, 1913. The house they moved to is where Martha Oliver now lives. William Henry Horne ( who had an interesting business relationship with Robert Frost in the summer of 1895 at Ossipee Park - Frost, a very young man then, spent the summer there in Horne's dipalidated house; Horne tended to live with the Lees more than at home) led the cow from the mountain home to the new home at the falls (over 6 mi.). He was 80 years old, having been born January 18, 1833. - Comments in parenthesis are DCR's.
Thank you DCR for all of your informative posts!
The Mountain People of Moultonboro can be read at the Moultonboro public library, where there is a lot of information about the Lee community and the significant outgrowths that developed from it, namely Ossipee Park and the Plant estate. It can also be purchased at the Moultonboro General Store (an interesting place to visit in itself for history buffs), which is right across the street from the library.
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