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Article: The lost villages of New Hampshire; Abandoned mill towns dot White Mountains
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- July 30, 2006
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About a half-mile off the Tripoli Road in Woodstock, a rusty axle
straddles a stone foundation next to Eastman Brook. In the late
1800s, it held a water wheel that powered an adjacent sawmill.
The people in the village of Thornton Gore used it to cut and
plane boards to build homes, barns and schoolhouses. The wheel has
decayed and crumbled into the brush below, just as the houses it
helped build have fallen in on themselves and disappeared, leaving
only cellar holes.
There are dozens of villages like Thornton Gore in the White
Mountain National Forest, abandoned by settlers in favor of
homesteads in the West, life in New Hampshire's growing cities or a
steady wage in factories to the south. ...