Yellow jacket ground nest warning!
On the south end of Lost Lake Loop Trail between Gum Tree Trail and Mill Pond Trail. Four people and a few dogs have received multiple stings. Avoid this area if you are allergic to yellow jacket bites.
Historic Cellar Hole Tour
Dunbarton is home to some of the best documented old cellar holes in New England. Join us on Saturday, September 19 at 10 a.m. for another hike to one of the historic Wonders of Dunbarton.
In 1739, Dunbarton's first white settlers, Joseph Putney and James Rogers, built log homes near the Great Meadows, moving their families here through the unbroken wilderness from Londonderry. Late one evening in 1746, the two families were warned of the approach of a marauding band of Indians and quickly gathered a few possessions and took flight to the garrison in Rumford (now Concord).
Putney and Rogers returned the next day to find their homes and barns burned, their cattle slaughtered, and all their apple trees cut down except for one. They and their families spent the next three years at the garrison in Rumford until it was safe for them to return to Dunbarton.
James Rogers was the father of the Major Robert Rogers, the famous leader of Rogers Rangers in the French and Indian War. We will tour the location of his second home site and also one of the most interesting old cellar holes in town, the Old Whipple Place in the Kimball Pond Conservation area.
Parking at the site location is limited, so we will meet at the Dunbarton Town Offices at 10 a.m. and car pool from there. The walk will total about 2 miles on flat ground and take about 2 hours.
For more information contact hike leader Margaret Watkins at margwatkins@juno.com.
Know anyone who might like to join us? Have them sign up for our email list and bring them along.
Discover the secrets of the twice buried
This month’s “hike” is more about education than exercise. Join us and the Dunbarton Cemetery Trustees for a visit to Dunbarton's Stark Cemetery, Saturday, August 15 at 10 a.m.
Who's buried here? Why the Starks of course, and the Winslows, the Lowells and a few select others who have secured a private resting place.
So what, you say. Why is this exclusive resting spot of import or interest to us Dunbarton folk?
Did you know that the deceased resting in Stark Cemetery were twice buried and that it is the final resting place of the National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Lowell?
Come along and learn more!
The Stark Cemetery is located on Mansion Road just north of its intersection with Barnard Hill Road.
For more information contact hike leader Matt Lavey at lavey123@gsinet.net or 774-5212.