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Milton, once a parish of Rochester, became an official town in 1802, when Lt. Elijah Horn established the first public meeting house at his home on Plummer’s Ridge. For years a quiet farming community, Milton became a booming mill town when the area’s ice industry experienced tremendous success in the 1880s. The Milton Ice Company, one of five such businesses in town, shipped up to 100 carloads of ice to Boston every day. The town’s location as a halfway mark between Boston and the White Mountains also made it a popular stopping place for travelers. In Milton and the New Hampshire Farm Museum, Sarah Ricker takes us on a visual tour through this historic town, illustrating the town’s progress in rare images that date from the 1880s to the 1930s. View landmarks in the central areas of town, including West Milton, Central Milton, and Plummer’s Ridge, and the various mills that have fostered the community’s economic growth. As you leaf through the pages of this book, you will take an amazing trip back in time to the early days of this close-knit community. Along the way, you’ll discover the Jones Farm—before it became the New Hampshire Farm Museum—and meet such prominent citizens as Robert Edmund Jones, the man who perfected Technicolor. ... Read more

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Small Town, NH History
Arcadia press has a great formula taking historic photos and captions to create local history books.It was interesting seeing the early buildings and people and events of Milton in New Hampshire.The captions supplement the photos but are a bit limited in their information in this Arcadia book.It was arranged in a topical fashion rather than chronologically.

Visual History of my Hometown
This book gives an excellent overview of early small town history.The author gives us insight into the lives of Miltons residents and takes us on a visual tour of our hometown. It's wonderful to see how "our"houses have changed over the past century.The chapter on The Newhampshire Farm Museum made me want to tour this amazing set of early farmbuildings again, with new eyes. Miss Ricker made me feel like I knew EmmaJones.Excellent book, Highly recommend. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : CassellPublication date: 1905Subjects: Zoological Society of LondonNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Photographs with captions identify modern farm machinery. ... Read more

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The young Argentine artist, Marianela Forconesi, discusses the culture and landscape of Argentina and describes a painting she made while spending time on a farm. ... Read more

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Report on excavations at this major palaolithic site which have shed much light on the climate, geology, and flint technology of Quaternary Britain. Thanks to the team's careful sequencing and artefact refits, we now have a clear picture of environmental conditions, and of the palaeolithic life-way in this part of Britain. As John Wymer says, 'we are now beginning to sense Palaeolithic people in a Palaeolithic landscape'. At Barnham, this means a picture of pleasant climate, fresh water complete with pond tortoises, ducks, frogs and fish, nearby woodland, and huge beasts such as elephants and rhinos. Never before has East Anglia sounded so exotic. ... Read more

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This is a guide through America's farming past. It provides a list of farm museums by state. ... Read more

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Chapters: Didcot Railway Centre, Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Mapledurham Watermill, River and Rowing Museum, Charlbury Museum, Pendon Museum, Virtual Museum of Computing, Abingdon County Hall Museum, Witney and District Museum, Champs Chapel Museum of East Hendred, Wallingford Museum, Dorchester Abbey Museum, the Oxfordshire Museum, Vale and Downland Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Didcot Railway Centre, located in the town of Didcot in the English county of Oxfordshire, is based around the site of an old engine shed which became redundant due to the nationalisation of the UK railways, as well as the gradual switch from steam to diesel power. The Great Western Society was offered the use of the site and took it over in 1967. The society has a comprehensive collection of Great Western Railway (GWR) locomotives and rolling stock. There are two short lengths of running track, each with a station at both ends. The shorter of the two lengths the 'branch line' has a wayside halt-type station named Didcot Halt at one end while at the other end is the transshipment shed dating from broad gauge days, when it was used for transferring goods from broad to "narrow" (ie standard) gauge rolling stock and vice versa; it has been carefully moved and reconstructed from its original site nearby. This is where the broad gauge ( in (2,140 mm)) Firefly replica, completed in 2005, can normally be found. The other length of track has a prefabricated concrete station platform (from Eynsham) at one end next to the entrance, and a newly built platform at the other end. Long-term plans include the reconstruction of the Brunel-designed building from Heyford station on this platform. The site retains many original GWR features including the engine shed, turntable pi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1165279 ... Read more

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Chapters: Goodwood Plantation, Torreya State Park, Tallahassee Museum, Bellevue Plantation, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Dudley Farm. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Goodwood Plantation -The plantation home is now a historic house museum known as Goodwood Museum ... Read more