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Cottages along the beach north of Plaice Cove show damage from a storm in the 1930s.

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Storm damage along Ocean Blvd south of Great Boar's Head from a storm on September 12, 1950

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Stagecoach belonging to Leavitt's Hampton Beach Hotel, ca. 1899. This hotel was located on Great Boar's Head and the stagecoach was used to ferry tourists from the train station in town out to the hotel before the electric trolleys were introduced.…

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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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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 Samuel D. Lane farm, 567 Lafayette Road, ca 1890. Gus Parker, a farmhand, is pictured with oxen and cart.

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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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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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The rock seawall at North Beach is being eroded by a storm on September 12, 1950. Great Boar's Head can be seen in the background.

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L-R: Unknown couple with Bethel (Barnett) Palmer and Richard Leavitt Palmer. Beth and Richard were married in 1944.
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