Not our name, but our passion
Ware’s Grove Public Beach is on Spofford Lake in Chesterfield. This public access beach has a bathhouse, life guards and kayak rentals.
There is a small fee for day use. The 739 acre lake has good water clarity and a nice sandy beach.
The Ashuelot Covered Bridge in Winchester spans the Ashuelot River and was built in 1864. A bridge was already standing at this site when the town of Winchester first began considering construction of a replacement in 1853. A new bridge was finally approved in 1864, and the present structure was opened the next year, having cost $4,650 to build. It is a Town lattice Truss bridge with a center stanchion and two shore abutments.
This marker commemorates the meeting place of the Green Mountain Boys prior to their participation in the Battle of Bennington.
General John Stark led Massachusetts and New Hampshire militia men with the aide of the Green Mountain Boys in a decisive victory against a contingent of Hessian mercenaries. This prelude to the Battle of Saratoga was instrumental in turning the eventual outcome of the Revolutionary War.
The Bennington Battle Monument is also located at the site.
Harlan Fiske Stone was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from from 1941 to 1946. He was appointed to the supreme court in 1924. He was raised in a modest farming family in Chesterfield, after primary school he attended Amherst College and then Columbia Law School. He served as Attorney General under President Calvin Coolidge before being appointed to the supreme court.
Stoddard Glass was important to the town of Stoddard from 1842 when Keene glassblower Joseph Foster purchased the molds and glass making tools of a failed local operation. This began an industry of more than three decades. The factories in the town produced common utilitarian bottles that were used throughout the New England area. Stoddard glass industry survived for 31 years in the mid nineteenth century. Most of the glass produced there was dark in color, with amber and green being the most common hues. The glass industry in Stoddard began to decline in the 1870s when gas and coal fueled glassworks in other area proved cheaper than Stoddard’s wood-fired furnaces. Also by this time chemical means were available to produce colored glass and no longer was specific sand needed to produce a desired hue.
