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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire, preserves the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), one of America's foremost sculptors. The house and grounds of the National Historic Site served as his summer residence from 1885 to 1897, his permanent home from 1900 until his death in 1907, and ...
Studio at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. The Cornish Art Colony (or Cornish Artists’ Colony, or Cornish Colony) was a popular art colony centered in Cornish, New Hampshire, from about 1895 through the years of World War I. Attracted by the natural beauty of the area, about 100 artists, sculptors, writers, designers, and politicians ...
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts.
Local Cornish info; Cornish, New Hampshire at City-Data.com; New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile; Cornish Fair; Corbin Park; Land Use in Cornish, N.H., a 2006 documentary presentation by James M. Patterson of the Valley News; Cornish (N.H.: Town) Records, 1821–1873 at Dartmouth College Library
Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 11, 1924) [1] [2] was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
The Kenyon Bridge, also known as the Blacksmith Shop Bridge, is a historic covered bridge spanning Mill Brook near Town House Road in Cornish, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1882, it is one of New Hampshire's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]
Marked by New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 258. Was moved across NH 111A in 2008 and restored by the town's Heritage Commission. [44] Governor Wentworth State Historic Site: 56 Wentworth Farm Road, Wolfeboro: Carroll: July 30, 2007 (WOL0025) Former estate of New Hampshire's second Royal Governor, John Wentworth. West Street Mill Building ...
Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, New Hampshire. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-4382-4. OCLC 179483796. Sanborn, Frederick (1904). New Hampshire: an Epitome of Popular Government. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin. p. 109. OCLC 1225004. Tuttle, Charles Wesley (1880).