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Washington is the first town incorperated under the name of George Washington. Washington has the first Civil War Monument erected in N.H. Washington has the first Sevent Day Advent Church in the world. Washington has the Highest Town Center in the State. The elevation is 1,538.667 feet. Washington has the highest year-round maintained road in N.H. Washington has 26 lakes and ponds . Washington's Meeting house has been in continuous use for over 200 years.

Portrait of a Hill Town , "It served as a school for over 60 years, then as a reunion spot for some decades...." There is an interesting account of it as well as two photos, starting on page 105 of that book, and a map (page 103) showing its location. As described by the writers of the older 1886 " History of Washington " book, Squire Thomas Penniman was noted "both for his generosity [to the town] and for his operation of a potato whiskey still..." The museum possesses several of the primitive school seats from the Penniman School and they are on display in our District #5 School House in East Washington.

Last fall we had two lovely old autograph books given to us along with a book of poems from the early 1900s. Autograph books seemed to be very much in style and popular in the later 1800s. These rather small books were a way of collecting sentiments and signatures of friends. We have several in our collection; one belonged to a man, all the others to ladies. The earliest is one of those given to us last fall, with dates from 1843 to 1854, in a book belonging to Paulina Ingalls. The other belonged to Katie L. Crane, with dates from 1878 to 1891, and has some very fancy penmanship and drawings in it. The book of poems is entitled "The Wayfarer" and some investigation revealed that the author, Charles E. Walker, grew up in East Washington. He and his twin brother William E. were born in Hillsborough on July 14, 1849. Charles was adopted in infancy, after his mother's death, by Isaac N. Gage of East Washington, where he remained until he was 21. His brother was taken into the family of his grandfather, William T. Fisk, of Webster. Both of them became well educated and ended up working for the same publishing house in Boston for over 30 years.

Nellie's uncle, Solon Newman, ran a photographic studio in Hillsborough starting about 1868. The studio was taken over by Charles McClary from 1871 to 1875 and subsequently passed through seven other proprietors, mainly through family connections, until it was sold in 2002. One proprietor, William H. Manahan, Jr., ran the studio for over 50 years, from 1899 to 1953, when it was turned over to Cyrus Phelps. When the business was sold in 2002 the negatives, numbering close to 100,000, many of them glass plates, were donated by Donald and Catherine (Phelps) McCulloch to the Hillsborough Historical Society and now comprise what is called the Manahan-Phelps-McCulloch Collection. I have been working as a volunteer cataloging, organizing and scanning this collection and, although it seems reasonable that one or both of these pictures might have been taken in that studio, we have not been able to establish the studio connection of either picture with certainty.

The cost of constructing the Croyden Turnpike is documented in the firm's record book and totaled over $35,000. The Turnpike was about 35 miles long and much of the construction was done by farmers along the way. A list of "payments" to these men is also contained in the company's records, but according to one authority some of these men were shareholders of the Corporation who "worked out their subscriptions to the stock by building each a section of the road." W. R. Nelson in the History of Goshen (1957) relates the personal recollections of Alfred Booth, who worked on the "great project" as a young man: "Day after day the construction crew, comprising men and the proportionate number of ox-teams, pushed along, ditching, widening, filling. Marshes were 'corduroyed' with logs laid closely together, side by side. One day Mr.

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