Not our name, but our passion
The Bean Cemetery is Raymond’s oldest dating back to 1750. The town of Raymond was incorporated in 1764 and the cemetery predates the incorporation of the town by 16 years.
The headstones are quite old and it is fascinating seeing the grave of a person who died two hundred years ago. What was life like in 1818 when this person died.
There are many stones to ponder as you wander the bucolic setting.
The Doe Farm in Durham is a conservation area consisting of upland forests abutting the Lamprey River.
A trail/road leads through the wood and makes it way down to the river.
Olinthus N. Doe bequeathed his farm to the town of Durham after his death in 1909. His family cemetery can be seen along the trail just past a clearing in the woods.
The Captain Reuben Hill Bridge in Lee, New Hampshire spans the Lamprey River and has good canoe and kayak access to the river.
The bridge was named after Captain Reuben Hill one of the mill owners on the river. His still extant house is the second house on the left after the bridge traveling east. On or about 1750 Reuben Hill and his wife Abigail owned farmland and mills along the Lamprey River. He built his house around 1760 and also built a stone toll bridge across the Lamprey which sadly no longer exists. He later fought in the Revolutionary War. The modern bridge is still surrounded by farmland and pasture.
There is a path on the northwest side of the bridge that allows access to the water’s edge and a short trail along the west side of the river. There are some class II rapids navigable in the spring down to the Wiswall Dam which must be portaged. All in all a good put in or take out point for springtime canoeing and kayaking.
The Wadleigh Falls area in Lee, New Hampshire is one of the oldest inhabited regions in all of New Hampshire. Native Americans began using this site for hunting and fishing 8000 years ago.
During the colonial era English settlers began using the site in 1657 and constructed the first mill on the Lamprey River in 1665.
The remains of the original dam had been breached many years ago but the natural rapids can be seen from the NH Route 152 bridge.
There is a canoe and kayak access point a short distance from the bridge.
There are conflicting sources for the age of the Blow-me-down Mill it is either 1820 or 1891 as stated on the mill itself. Located on the grounds and administered by the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire it was restored in 1990. The mill is on the Blow-me-down brook and still has the small dam extant associated with the mill. The mill at some point was converted into a home before it deteriorated ~1973 prior to restoration by the National Park Service.
