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Thornton Gore Hill Farming Settlement

Erin Paul Donovan — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:51:07 +0000

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Thornton Gore Hill Farming Settlement - The abandoned Thornton Gore settlement is in the New Hampshire White Mountains. Many consider Thornton Gore or the "Gore” to be the northern section of Thornton in the area of where Talford and Eastman Brooks meet. This area of Thornton Gore had a number of farms, a few mills, a school, two cemeteries, and a church. The first settlers of Thornton Gore arrived in the early 1800s. And by 1900, George James and his New Hampshire Land Company had bought up most of the land in Thornton Gore. Logging took over the area, and this hill farming settlement was gone. Farming settlements, like this one, were scattered throughout the White Mountains region during the early days, and today most have been forgotten about, and little remains of them. [Continue reading]

Updating The Culture & History Portfolios

Erin Paul Donovan — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:25:23 +0000

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Updating The Culture & History Portfolios - Every year during the month of December most of my time is spent doing “behind the scenes” work. This work (such as keywording 1000 images in the last two days) is not that exciting, but I need to complete it before the end of the year. This time of year is also when I update the image galleries....[Continue reading]

Abandoned Dug Wells, White Mountains

Erin Paul Donovan — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:15:25 +0000

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Abandoned Dug Wells, White Mountains – Today’s blog article focuses on a keyword search term. I chose one search term in this case “abandoned dug well” and searched my image archive for imagery that represents this subject matter. These keyword searches help identify the subject matter I need more coverage of. As a photographer, creating an image of an abandoned dug well that is....[Continue reading]

Sandwich Notch Hill Farming Community

Erin Paul Donovan — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:25:30 +0000

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Sandwich Notch Hill Farming Community – The abandoned Sandwich Notch hill farming settlement is in the New Hampshire White Mountains. During the early nineteenth century, thirty to forty families lived in Sandwich Notch. A few Notch farms did strive, but the rocky terrain of Sandwich Notch was poor for farming, and it is no surprise that by 1860 only eight families remained in the Notch. Many families in the area left their farms and headed West to where farming was said to be better. By the turn of the twentieth century only one person, Moses Hall, lived in the Notch year around. Now a private residence the Hall Place is the only house left on the Notch Road. Today, the cellar holes, dug wells, and stone walls that once marked the fields of this forgotten farming settlement still can be found along the historic Sandwich Notch Road. [Continue reading]