Map of Great Boar's Head and Hampton Beach in 1841.

Map of Great Boar's Head and Hampton Beach in 1841.

Leavitt, Thomas

Nudd, Thomas

Nudd, David

Nudd, Willard

Winnicumet House

Maps

Great Boar's Head

Hotels and Motels

Pines Marsh

Great Ox-Common

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 called the Pines Marsh. Much of the shoreline was, even then, a fine beach. Thomas Nudd built his home at the edge of the sand in 1826, the same year his uncle David built a hotel on Great Boar's Head. David built another hotel nearby for his son Willard which became known as the Eagle House. Thomas Leavitt owned the Winnicumet House, the first hotel to open on Boar's Head. The whole area east of the river became known as the "Great Ox-Common" after a town meeting in 1641 agreed to set apart this area for the exclusive public grazing of oxen "to the world's end." That lasted only seventy-three years, although the area retained the name much longer. Additional place names mentioned on the map are: Hendrick's, Spring Marsh, Sargent's Island Path, Sargent's island, Thatch Island, Clam Flats, Great Neck, Great Neck Creek, Mill Creek, Little Neck, Perkin's Mill, Cole's Creek, Brown's River, Nudd's Canal, Eastman's Point, and Glade Path. Homes marked on the map belong to Jonathan Perkins, Josiah Nudd, E. Johnson, James Perkins Jr., James Perkins, Thomas Nudd, Elbridge Leavitt, and Willard E. Nudd.

Hampton and Hampton Beach by Teschek, p. 2.

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