Nesmith Library

Exeter, historically speaking, Barbara Rimkunas

eng

contains biographical information

illustrations

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non fiction

Exeter

Barbara Rimkunas

historically speaking

Exeter's working waterfront -- The Piscataqua Gundalow -- Exeter's river rats -- Was the String Bridge ever made of string? -- Streets and their names : Court Street and Pine Street -- Leather tanning in Exeter -- The exploding cannons of Gilman Park -- Dick the fire horse -- Exeter Nurses Training School -- This old outhouse -- Scottish prisoners in Exeter -- The mysterious Doctor Windship -- Lewis Cass -- In search of the Sunbeam -- General Marston's missing statue -- The innovative mind of Benjamin Clark Gilman -- Daniel Chester French and the World War I Memorial -- How to change a dump into a park -- Exeter's uncommon dentist, Doctor Charles Gerrish -- Doctor Alice Chesley -- The Chestnut Street Jail -- Scandal in Exeter, 1873 -- The Brickyard Riot of 1891 -- Crime of passion -- Temperance and the New Englander -- The anti-suffragettes -- The ladies of the Frauenverein -- George Washington stepped here -- Robert Todd Lincoln's big flunk -- Presidential visit, summer of 1889 -- War of 1812 -- The end of the established church -- A day at the beach -- Hampton Beach disaster, 1898 -- The hurricane of 1938 -- The elephant on Water Street -- The ghosts that haunt the historian