Images of America

Discover the history of your hometown with Arcadia Publishing's best-selling Images of America History Book series, crafted by local authors. Visit landmarks like the Yellowstone National Park, the Biltmore Estate, or Alcatraz Island without ever leaving your backyard. Hike to the rural Angwin village on Howell Mountain, time-travel to Chicago’s 1893 World Fair, or experience sports history at Fenway Park. Through iconic images of America, these local history books open a window into yesterday for eager history lovers. [View all Images of America books]

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Raymond

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Rye and Rye Beach

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Keene

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Littleton, New Hampshire

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New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes Region

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White Mountain National Forest and Great North Woods

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Farmington

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Catholic New Hampshire

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Rochester

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Manchester

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Lakes and Ponds of the Granite State

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Stereoscopic Views of the White Mountains

Early Dartmouth College and Downtown Hanover

New Hampshire Covered Bridges

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Milford

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Portsmouth Firefighting

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New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes Region

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New Hampshire Old Home Celebrations

Portsmouth Naval Prison

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Gilford

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Littleton, New Hampshire

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The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee By Rail

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The Towns of the Monadnock Region

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Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee

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Franconia and Sugar Hill

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Around Swanzey

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Raymond

9780738557397

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The winding Lamprey River snakes its way through many areas of Raymond and has played a dual role in the town's history, helping in times of fire and hindering in times of flood. Raymond began as a small farming village and grew over the years into a
bustling resort community. The town was a busy stop on the Boston and Maine Railroad line, and its accessibility aided the town in its expansion. Raymond has since evolved into a modern town with
a strong sense of historical perspective. The vintage images in this book, culled from the collections of the Raymond Historical Society and numerous local residents, document the history of this constantly changing community.

Rye and Rye Beach

9780738537337

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Many years ago, William Varrell was talking with an old carpenter's wife in Rye. "Father was the town photographer. We still have the glass negatives," she mentioned. Thus began Varrell's fascination with the old images that breathe new life into long-forgotten events and faces from Rye's past. Rye is a small town without major industries or impressive public buildings, but it has a long and colorful history. Alas, there were no cameras to record the colonial settlements, the Native American massacres, or Rye's proud role in the Revolutionary War. However, the dawn of a thriving tourist trade happily coincided with the birth of modern photography, so over one hundred years of history can be experienced through the most telling of all historical documents--the photograph. Since most old photographs were taken in bright sunlight, it is not difficult as you browse through this wonderful collection to take yourself back in time to a Rye that has in many ways disappeared. Visualize a tint of green for the fields and a swathe of blue for the sky; imagine the roar of the ocean or the clatter of a coach dashing by, and the past will come alive before you.

Keene

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Keene has a history as fascinating and diverse as it
is long. It has changed a great deal in the last 140 years, growing from a small village in the 1850s to the industrial and commercial center of the "Currier and Ives" corner of New Hampshire by the 1960s. Yet while many tremendous and sometimes tumultuous changes have taken place in Keene, the proud spirit of its people and the rural beauty of the surrounding area have remained constant, proving that a balanced combination of history and change can be a recipe for success as the twentieth century draws to a close and we enter an almost unthinkably different twenty-first.

Littleton, New Hampshire

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Littleton, New Hampshire, is listed number eleven in Norman Crampton's One Hundred Best Small Towns in America, and it does indeed have a great deal to offer. Situated between two major rivers in the heart of the White Mountains, it was incorporated in 1784 but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that the incredibly striking natural beauty of the surrounding area was discovered by the outside world.

With the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century the grandeur of Littleton's mountain scenery soon began to attract photographers to the area, and their images of the mirror-like lakes, winding rivers, dense, dark forests, and craggy mountains began a tourist boom that continues to this day.

New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes Region

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The Connecticut Lakes region is the last great frontier of the North Country. Forming the extreme northern tip of the state, it offers the only port of entry from Canada into New Hampshire. It includes Pittsburg, the most sizable township in the country-three hundred thousand acres in all-and the beautiful and wild Connecticut Lakes. Its fascinating history glistens in the two-hundred-plus images of New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes Region. Pictured are rich logging lands, a mecca for sportsmen for more than a hundred years, and waterfront camps, cabins, and lodges. From 1832 to 1836, Pittsburg was known as the Indian Stream Republic, maintaining independence from both the United States and Canada.

White Mountain National Forest and Great North Woods

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The White Mountain National Forest and Great North Woods have been described as "nature's mammoth museum." This is a land of many lakes and rivers, mountains and waterfalls, and pristine natural splendor, abundant with historic charm. The White Mountain National Forest was established by presidential proclamation in 1918. It owes its existence to the passage of the Weeks Act of 1911, which enabled the federal government to purchase land and establish a national forest in New Hampshire's White Mountains. It is one of the most visited natural sites in the country, and tourists from all over the world make seasonal visits to this recreational haven. This book takes the reader on a historical journey through the national forest, including the majesty and grandeur of the Presidential Range, Great Gulf Wilderness, Pemigewasset Wilderness, and Sandwich Range Wilderness, as well as Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, Crawford Notch, and Great North Woods.

Farmington

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Home to the world's largest bobsled--nicknamed
the "Uncle Sam"--and the birthplace of scientists,
artists, writers, and even a vice-president of the United
States, Farmington has a history as fascinating as it is
long. The efforts to create this amazing photographic
history began when members of the Farmington
Historical Society agreed upon a unique way to
commemorate the 1998 bicentennial of the town's
incorporation. By compiling this unparalleled collection
of over 200 images--many never before published--they
have achieved their goal of preserving the powerful past
of this New Hampshire community.
Beginning in the late 1700s as an agricultural village,
young Farmington encompassed a dozen small businesses
and had fifteen dwellings at its center. In subsequent
years it became a pioneer town in the development of
the shoe industry, with upwards of seventeen factories
employing over 2,000 people during peak years.

Catholic New Hampshire

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In 1855, Rev. David W. Bacon became the first bishop of the Diocese of Portland, which included Maine and New Hampshire. Between the two states, six priests and eight churches ministered to a few hundred Catholics. In the following years, Bacon founded 63 churches, ordained 52 priests, built 23 schools, and attended to a Catholic population of about 80,000. In 1884, New Hampshire became an independent diocese. By 1903, founding bishop Denis Bradly introduced over 30 missions; parishes; schools, including St. Anselm College; and charitable services. Since its inception in 1884, ten bishops selected from New Hampshire and other states have honored the Diocese of Manchester with their leadership. Throughout most of the 20th century, New Hampshire experienced growth in vocations and education. Starting in the 1970s, there was a decline of parochial students, vocations, and sacramental reception. Today, over 250,000 Catholics worship in the Granite State within 89 parishes.

Rochester

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Awakening feelings of nostalgia and community
deep within each of us, the images contained in
Rochester deliver us to a time when Hanson's Street
was but a footpath through Domincus Hanson's
garden, and Central Square was filled with bustling
businesses and the whistle of the railroad.
This new photographic history takes us on a journey
from the era following the Civil War when the town
became a city and Dodge's Hotel was a prominent
feature downtown, to the days of drugstore soda
fountains and shiny new filling stations. Over 200
views of Rochester, Gonic, and East Rochester fill the
pages of this volume, each image helping us to satisfy
our curiosity about the past and enabling us to make
connections with the fast-moving times of the present.