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Three boys and a dog pose sitting in the grass atop Great Boar's Head in the early 1900's. Of the cottages in the background, Peter Randall's history has this to say, 'In 1898, attorney Edwin Eastman and County Treasurer William H. C. Follansbee,…

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The Samuel K. Bell estate on Great Boar's Head, early 1900s. Randall's history of Hampton (p.311-2) writes that after a 1904 auction of property on the Head, 12 to 15 cottages were built, "with the finest one constructed on the tip of the Head by…

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The Windham, the Boar's head cottage of the Worledge family, 1907. On the porch are Ethel and Marion Nudd and Mrs. Ella Worledge and her daughter Helen (later Helen Worledge Hayden). In later years Mrs. Worledge opened her cottage to summer boarders,…

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View north from the tip of Great Boar's Head. The new Boar's Head Hotel at left was built in 1901 and burned in 1908. North Shore Road (now Ocean Boulevard) stretches north along North Beach in the distance.

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Selling World War II war bonds at the bandstand in front of the Hampton Beach Casino. The man with a receding hairline, standing on the bandstand just to the left of the pole, is Ralph A. Moulton, owner of the Moulton-Janvrin Hotel.

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A portion of the large 1841 map of the town of Hampton which hangs in the meeting room of the town hall. Shown here is the area of Hampton Beach from Great Boar's Head south to the area of the present main beach, which at the time was a barren area…

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The Union House, before 1890. Located at the north comer of Lafayette and Winnacunnet Roads, this hotel was built about 1816-17 by Josiah Dearborn on the site of Leavitt's Tavern, which began operation in the mid-1700s. First called Josiah Dearborn's…

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The Lafayette Road bridge over the Taylor River, near the border with Hampton Falls, ca. 1896. The Hampton Causeway Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808 to build a permanent road over the marshes to Hampton Falls. For a number of years it was a…

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An aerial view, looking west, of the newly created Tuck Field, Founders' Park, and Meeting House Green, ca. 1930. The southern end of Lafayette Road crosses the top of the picture, forming a triangular intersection with Park Avenue and Drakeside…

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Lafayette Road looking south from the intersection with Winnacunnet Road, early 1900's. General Jonathan Moulton's house is in the distance. In 1922, this house, one of Hampton's most historic sites, was moved 150 feet southwest from its pictured…
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