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The New England Glassworks was a short-lived glass-making factory located in Temple, New Hampshire in the 1780s, and one of the first glassworks in the United States. Founded in 1780 by Robert Hewes, a Boston-based businessman, the glassworks employed Hessian deserters from the British forces of the American Revolutionary War. The glassworks ...
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
The Rochester Commercial and Industrial District encompasses the civic, commercial, and industrial heart of Rochester, New Hampshire.Oriented around the city's Central Square, the 6-acre (2.4 ha) district includes the city's major civic buildings, most of which are Classical Revival structures from the early 20th century, a number of commercial buildings dating as far back as the square's ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
A stage in the manufacture of a Bristol blue glass ship's decanter.The blowpipe is being held in the glassblower's left hand. The glass is glowing yellow. As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century BC, glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers; inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by ...
Donors can pick up boxes from 4-6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18 at 1 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester. Map to over 150 Christmas lights in Rochester area We are still adding homes to our map, so please keep your ...
Stoddard is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,374 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 1,232 at the 2010 census. [3] Between 1842 and 1873, the town was home to four glass manufacturers. The glass produced by these works, now known as Stoddard glass, is noted for its deep amber colors and design. Stoddard ...
The station building was located near Route 155 and the W. H. Elliot Rose Greenhouses, which were constructed in 1901. The Elliot greenhouses provided many jobs, especially at the nearby railroad depot. Glass and greenhouse supplies, in addition to several carloads of coal, came to the Madbury Station each week.