Cellar Site Tour

Here are links to a number of the resources we mentioned during our tour of the Page and Hadley Mill at Kimball Pond and the William Beard house and barn site at the Stone Farm.

Kenyon’s Grist Mill video — Just remember, ours did not run on electricity like the one in the video. There was a whole complicated water-powered drive system that turned the water wheels to power the gears, mill stones and saw blades at the Hadley Mill.

Granite Splitting Tools and Techniques handout

Dunbarton population trends

Hadley Mill photograph

William Beard home photograph

Stories of the Stone Farm

Discussing the Hadley & Pages’s Mill Worker house site at Kimball Pond. The house burned in 1880.

Judy Stone explaining the history of the Stone Farm. Her family has lived on the farm for five generations.

The scale of the barn foundation is apparent in this photo of Conservation Commission members Darlene Jarvis and Drew Groves.

Dunbarton cellar site tour

The Dunbarton Conservation Commission is offering a tour of 2 historic cellar site locations in town on Saturday, September 13. The tour will feature the Page & Hadley Mill site (circa 1771) at Kimball Pond and the William Beard farm (circa 1793) at the Stone Farm on Stone Road.

Those interested should meet us at 9 a.m. at the Kimball Pond boat launch on Kimball Pond Road. The tour to the 2 sites will take approximately 2 hours and will not require much, if any, walking.

The tour will take place on Saturday rain or shine.

Page & Hadley’s Mill

A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes

A presentation by Adair Mulligan

Tuesday, September 9, 6:30 p.m., Dunbarton Upper Town Hall

Dunbarton, like most of Northern New England, is full of reminders of past lives: stone walls, old foundations, a century-old lilac struggling to survive as the forest reclaims a once-sunny dooryard. What forces shaped settlement, and later abandonment, of these places?

Join us for a presentation by Adair Mulligan who will explain the rich story to be discovered in what remains behind. Mulligan is Executive Director of the Hanover Conservancy and has worked in the conservation field for 40 years.

This program, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through a grant from New Hampshire Humanities Council; Humanities to Go! And the Dunbarton Public Library.

Dunbarton is home to more than 200 old cellar and mill sites mapped and documented years ago in a town history called Where the Winds Blow Free.

The Dunbarton Conservation Commission in partnership with the Dunbarton Historical Awareness Committee will lead a walk to several cellar sites in town on Saturday, September 13.