Boys sitting in the grass at the top of Great Boar's Head, early 1900s.

Boys sitting in the grass at the top of Great Boar's Head, early 1900s.

Mitchell, George Everett

Eastman, Edwin

Follansbee, William Henry Clay

Great Boar's Head

Cottages

Boys

Dogs

Barnacle

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, both from Exeter, apparently purchased a large lot on the Head, where they built a large double house for their families. Dr. George Everett Mitchell of Haverhill, Massachusetts, also acquired some land at the point of the sharp left turn of today's Cliff Avenue, where he built two cottages. In 1899, he constructed a summer house that clung to the south side of the Head like a barnacle -- the name he gave to the cottage. This structure and another cottage were local landmarks for decades, resisting the sea's efforts to wash them away.'

Randall's History of Hampton, p.310.

1900

BT

Fitzgerald, Janet

Published

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Great Boar's Head

Cliff Avenue

Landscape