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The Jenness blacksmith shop, 284 Winnacunnet Road, c. 1850 to 1890s. Prior to being owned and operated by Simon L. Jenness and his son Abbott, this was the shop of Thomas Lane, born in 1785. It was located near the west corner of the intersection…

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Hampton's famous old elm tree. This elm spread its stately limbs over Elmwood Corner at 252 Winnacunnet Road (at the intersection with Landing Road) from about 1773 until it was infected by Dutch Elm disease and cut down in 1959. The Elmwood Inn…

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A view west on Winnacunnet Road, in the vicinity of Park Avenue. The trolley cars are at Young's Turnout, a section of track that branched off briefly from the main line to allow two trolleys to pass each other. The rise of the automobile led to a…

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The Ring Swamp Cemetery on Park Avenue, c. 1896. This was the town's second cemetery, laid out in 1797, the first interment being that of Joshua Towle who died that year. The earliest existing gravestone dates from 1800, and the most recent from…

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A view west on Winnacunnet Road between 1910 and 1922. At left is the Congregational church, and opposite that is the old town hall and the Lane Memorial Library. Note the trolley tracks running along the left side of the road

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Jerome Selleck's Texaco gas station and store next to the Baptist church on Winnacunnet Road, 1940s. In the late 1800s this was the shop of tinsmith George Collum. In the 1950s and '60s it held a succession of small grocery stores.

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Cows in a field on the Edmund W. Toppan farm along Winnacunnet Road near the present site of the Galley Hatch Restaurant, before 1900. The Baptist church can be seen through the trees at center.

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An aerial view over High Street (bottom) and Winnacunnet Road (center) in the 1920s or '30s. High Street Cemetery is at lower right. Across the street and behind the Hampton Academy can be seen one of the early town dumps. The new Centre School,…

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Route one at the Hampton/North Hampton town line, looking north. Post Road bears off to the left and Route One to the right. The picture was taken from the bridge over the railroad tracks. Date is unknown but probably early 1900s.

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Rudy's Farm Kitchen restaurant, 777-779 Lafayette Road, was in business in the 1930s and '40s. The Partridge Apartments and Garden Apartments were here later, as well as Sousa's BP station. The buildings are now gone and the site is occupied by…
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