SOMERSWORTH – This week I want to take you back just over 50 years to July 9, 1964. That was a day like no other in both Somersworth and South Berwick. The news that would shock both communities came first in the form of a bank robbery but that would not be where the story […]
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SOMERSWORTH – “Neighborhood” is a word we are starting to hear a lot in recent months, which got me thinking about the neighborhoods of old that are often referred to in the Summersworth Historical Museum by Somersworth seniors. There was the Brickyard, the Hill, Smokey Hollow, The Plains, Long Swamp, Bloody Corner, The Pines, New
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If you were anywhere near Maple Street, Somersworth, this past Saturday, Oct. 2, you might have been forgiven for looking back as you passed the Forest Glade Cemetery. The Summersworth Historical Society could be found there with a host of some of Somersworth’s dearly departed citizens. Those citizens had decided to grace the cemetery which was
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The other day I could be found at the Somersworth Market Basket and it was there that I was struck by just how many pumpkin spice products there are on the market nowadays. They were seemingly everywhere. Now at the risk of upsetting people, I have to admit I don’t actually like pumpkin spice but
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One of my most cherished memories with my grandmother was when I was about 5 years old and she took me to see the Wizard of Oz, my first ever movie experience. Of course, it would not be my last but my love for that particular movie has never waned and to this day, I
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It’s been 100 years since the building that takes up a large portion of Main Street in Somersworth was completed and it has stood the testament of time over all those years. Although its uses may have changed over the years, most of us that recall the days before 2015 when the iconic General Electric
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It’s easy to think that hydropower is something new, but the truth is without hydro, Somersworth as we know it today would not exist. It was a form of hydro power that powered the mills without which Somersworth would likely have never evolved into the industrial hub that it would become by the mid 1800s, thanks
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SOMERSWORTH – Jules Bisson Park, like all our city parks, has an interesting history. For anyone who is not sure where the park is located, it can be found on River Street and Indigo Hill Road, behind Emerald City Laundromat on Main Street. The park itself first came into the hands of the City of
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Mast Point Dam today is a park owned by the city of Somersworth and open to all residents, but it was not always that way. The history of the dam itself is as old as Somersworth as we know it, thanks to the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. In 1823, entrepreneur and quaker Isacc Wendell would
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There was a time in Somersworth where cars were something that only the rich could afford and public transport ruled the streets, quite literally. That public transport came in the form of street trolley cars and for nearly 40 years the trolleys would be the chosen and often the only mode of transport in the
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