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|Lee in Four Centuries
Some Historical Notes Published
to Commemorate the
Bicentennial of the Incorporation of the Town
1766-1966
Ursula Baier, Editor
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lee Bicentennial .. aie 1
Photo by Douglas Armsden
Wheelwright’s Pond 2
Photo by Douglas Armsden
Early Settlement = 3
The Mast Trade 3
Photo by W.N. Durost
Rivers, Bridges and Mills
Photos by Peter Dole
Lee Red Gross Swimming School -
Photos by: top, Mrs. Everett Sackett; bottom, Luther
Lee Hill Taverns Today
Photos by: Page 8, » peter Dole; Page 9, top, Peter Dole; bottom,
Douglas Armsden
Travel, Taverns and Trade _ 10, 11
Photo courtesy Lee Tyler .
Farming in Lee — 12,18
Photos by: Page 12, top, courtesy O. 8, Barllett; bottom, Peter Dol
Page 13, top, Peter Dole; bottom, courtesy George A. Bennett
Ghurches in. Lee - 14,19
Photo by: Mrs. W. N. Durost
Lee Past and Present Population Figures and Graph — ret ES IB:
Historical Map with Explanatory Notes - 16,17, 18
Lee 4-H €lub - Pe Ag
‘The Cartlands of Lee Ao <0) 21
Photos by Douglas Arms
Care of the Poor eae 23. 29,98
Photos by: Page 22, Mrs, Everett Sackett; Page 23, courtesy George
A, Bennett
Schools .. eee 24,25,26.
Photos by: Page 2f, Peter Dole; Page 25, top and center, Mrs. Wil-
liam A. Carpenter; bottom, Mrs. Robert Libby; Page 26, Mrs. Ever-
elt Sackett .
Jeremiah Smith Grange #161 er Sees APY
Photo by Mrs, Robert Libby
Lee Fire Department 28,29
Photos by Mrs. Everett Sackett
The Railroad 30, 81
Photo courtesy Lee Tyler
List of Sponsors — 82
Photo “The Lee Room’ courtesy The American Museum
in England
Acknowledgements and Sources - Inside Back Cover
Gover photo: Lee Congregational Church by Douglas ArmsdenOne of the oldest and least altered houses in Lee. Part of this house was built (prob-
ably in the 1730's) by Robert Thompson, one of the town’s first selectmen; it was later
moved up to its present position from the bottom of the hill. (Now the home of Mr. and
Mrs, Christopher Cook—Open House No. 2)
The photographs in this book give some
idea of Lee as it is today, a quiet, attractive
and once more growing township in a love-
ly part of New Hampshire, Something of
what has happened since the first settlers
came to the area three hundred years ago,
5 through the incorporation of the town in
Lee 1766 (which we celebrate this Bicentennial
yeur) up to the present time in which we
live, is set down in the text,
Bicentennial ens tc me genes
John Seales in 1916, and we do not attempt
to reproduce this here. Instead, we have
tied to bring to life some of the everyday
events in the town’s past, selected from the
town’s very complete and interesting rec-
ordls, now housed and available for refer-
ence in the vault under the new library. We
also have drawn from the Town and School
Reports which have been published yearly
for the past hundred years, from the memo-
ries of older residents, and from the invalu-
able diaries of George W. Plumer and
others.