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Goodrich Falls

Article in "The Reporter" July 22, 1909 on lack of electric service and broken promises by Goodrich Falls Co. Article

to make needed improvements to their hydro power station

View from bottom of Falls Article

Two grants from Anna M. Pitman and Marcia E. Gale dated April 12, 1930 to the Goodrich Falls Electric Document

Company to erect poles for electric service across their properties. It was specified that the wires shall in no

way obstruct the flight of golf balls

Article on talk given by Helen Nute at Jackson Historical Society meeting on April 4, 1979. Helen told of her Article

childhood memories, including her grandfather's sawmill at Goodrich Falls established about 1853. The first

hydro-electric plant was built 1n

Lumbering

Photograph of logs at Edwin Gile's saw mill with Edwin Gile, Vernie Gile, Ida Abbott, Walter Eastman Photograph

(identification noted on back - others not identified)

Article in Yankee Magazine november 1972 on lumbering activity in north woods Article

Photograph of saw mill at Goodrich Falls Photograph

Article in "The Irregular" January 25, 1977 describing Peter Kelly's lumbering operations Article

Tin & Iron Mining

Variation of magnetic north on Iron Mountain in 1840 - from C.F. Pinkham's Day Book in Jackson Library Document

Taken from "Geology of New Hampshire - 1844" by C.T. Jackson on discovery of tin and iron deposits in Document

Jackson. First tin mine in the United States is in Jackson

Taken from "Geology of New Hampshire - 1878" by Hitchcock with sketches of workings at tin mine in Document

Full description, with maps and GPS cordinates, of a challenging hike to old iron mines on Description of Document

challenging hike, with maps and GPS coordinates, to old iron mines on Iron Mountain. Prepared by Dan

Copy of incorporation papers for Jackson Tin Company, American Tin Mining Company and Jackson Iron Document

Manufacturing Company

Article in Mountain Ear October 9, 2003 detailing operations of tin and iron mining. Article

Article in "Northern Light" October 6, 1981 on meeting of Saco Valley Gem & Mineral Club with description of Article

tin mine in Jackson and formation of American Tin Mine in 1864

White Mountains

Mt. Washington chronology to 1984 Document

Article in "Mountain Ear" August 11, 1978 of report by early scientists Article

"Indian Legends of the White Mountains" 1915 - by J.S. English. Presentation copy signed by the author. Book

Contains an enchanting "love story" legend about Jackson. (Donated by Anne Buchi).

Yankee Magazine - February 1995. Article by Nicholas Howe on danger and deaths on Mt. Washington Magazine

Article in "Our Towns" September 10, 1944 on history of Pinkham Notch Article

Report on resurveying the Presidentials Article

Collection of White Mountains souvenir books Book
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