Monson Center, NH - Ghost Town
This adventure brought us to the abandoned ghost town of Monson, NH (1746-1770). It is located on the Hollis/Milford line, but not easy to see from the street. The sign is located a bit down the trail in. This is the second ghost town we have explored, but unlike Livermore (the first one we explored) this one is preserved and maintained. There is one structure still standing, the Gould House. The rest are cellar holes, but they have a sign describing the past occupants. The caretaker, Russ Dickerman, is a wealth of knowledge about the place. It is worth the visit!
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Monson Center, Ghost Town, Milford-Hollis, New Hampshire
July 31, 2017
hike/visit of part of the town with my sister Sylvia Reitano.
From HAUNTED HIKES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE by Marianne O'Connor: ...the first inland pioneer settlement of New Hampshire... Though the village is located in the town of Milford, along the Hollis town line, the area was once part of Massachusetts. In the 1600's the Massachusetts Bay Colony awarded land tracts to distinguished citizens: war heroes, successful businessmen, etc. Those fortunate citizens organized townships in what are now Nashua, Brookline, Amherst, and Hollis. In 1673 the township of Dunstable was chartered, which included these areas and others along the Souhegan River. In 1741 a new state line was drawn and Dunstable broke off into smaller sections, leaving Monson Village in the state of New Hampshire. Monson was first incorporated in 1746 after the first settlers moved up from Massachusetts. Eventually the residents of Monson gave up their charter following years of struggle and debate about how to tax themselves for building a town meetinghouse and where it should be located. A restored colonial era house belonging to the town clock maker, Joseph Gould, stands as Monson's headquarters. Gould also served the town as a selectman, constable, and pound keeper. The house is now a small museum. ... on July 4, 1770 Monson surrendered it's charter.... Town historian, Russ Dickerman is often at the Gould House/Museum and willing to answer questions and elaborate on the history of the area.
In my ancestry I am distantly related to several who lived in Monson area...Jonathan Taylor, Jr interesting story of being captured by Indians is told by Russ Dickerman... his wife was Kezia Colburn. Esther Taylor their daughter was my 1st cousin 1x removed of wife of brother in law of 2nd cousin 4x removed Tryphena 2nd Moody (daughter of Israel Moody). She married Benjamin Wright and settled on Long Pond, now Silver Lake on property of his father in law Jonathan Taylor. Served in Rev. War as a private under Capt Reuben Dow's Company at both Concord & Lexington (1776). He built and operated a gristmill on Silver Lake which was operated by the family until it burned down in 1908.
Esther was born in ancient town of Monson.
Kezia Colburn's parents were William Colburn, Sr 1689-1769 (shoemaker, built garrison, town clerk & selectman in Monson.) and Margery French 1687-1774.
Lieut. Robert Colburn, Sr 1717-1783 was Grand uncle of wife of brother in law of 2nd cousin 4x removed Tryphena 2nd Moody. Robert was a carpenter, helped built first meeting house in W. Dunstable in 1740. His home was in Monson and he was town clerk 13 years and a selectman for 15 years.
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Exploring the colonial American ghost town Monson New Hampshire
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In this video we are going to Monson New Hampshire to explore and see what a colonial farm during the 1700s looked like. This New England village was settled in the 1730s and grew of several hundred citizens but it didn't last long. The land being so bad and rocky a lot of NH is really took its toll on the settlers and they gave up only after a few decades. The town was pretty much abandoned by 1770 just before the American revolution and has been a ghost town since.
Remarkably one original building still stands to this day in the old cleared fields and pastures and brings you right back to the colonial days. There is a museum and caretaker so if you want to visit be sure to look up the information online. This preserved New England farm really gives us a great idea of what the woods we see now looked like over 200 years ago where many of these dead roads travel through. If you ever see a cellar hole out in the woods you can think about Monson and what that site once looked like.
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A Local Ghost Town: Monson Center, New Hampshire
Most ghost towns are in the old west, but I recently discovered one less than an hour away from me in New Hampshire. The town of Monson existed from 1736 to 1770, before the American Revolution. All but one of the original houses are gone, but many stone walls and foundations remain. It's now a conservation area on the border of modern Hollis and Milford, New Hampshire.
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Back in the Summer of 2011, our last spot we visited while in New Hampshire was Monson Center, an abandon old Colonial Ghost Town. Built around the mid-18th century, Monson Center had a hard time maintaining it's township, and soon was dissolved. Currently, it is now one of the few New England ghost towns that are well preserved. However, are their ghosts along the trails, old cellars, and the Gould House? Bonus: at the end of the video, there is an interview with Paranormal Author Andrew Lake about his new book, Ghost Hunting Southern New England. Note: The Possible EVP at 15:23 is not an EVP. Turned out it was me.
Monson Center History at 1:13
Monson Center at 4:49
The Gould House at 5:30
The Trails at 8:53
Ghost Hunt at the Gould House at 16:41
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Milford NH Open For Business 2017 (Part 1)
Part 1 of a seminar bringing together experts from the Town of Milford and the private sector to answer questions about starting, xxpanding or re-locating businesses in the Milford NH area.
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The Ghost Town Monson Center in NH.
CC The Huntress traveled to The Ghost Town Monson Center in NH. This show is part of CC's LIVE series. Here is a brief History of the town and what happened to it. This is taken from svlt.org. The township of Monson was one of the earliest inland colonial settlements in New Hampshire, although at that time it was part of Massachusetts. It was chartered on April 4, 1746, and contained about 17,000 acres. Among the first permanent settlers of Monson was the Nevins family, who purchased land in Monson in July of 1737. In 1770, after struggling with how to tax themselves and failing to agree on a location for a center meeting house, residents of Monson relinquished their charter. The land was divided equally between then-Amherst and Hollis. Join CC as she investigations LIVE and communicates with the spirits that still reside in Monson Center, NH. Video guy Bob A. of CC Carole Productions.
Lost village of Monson - Hollis NH - 1700’s
Explored July 23rd 2018
A beautiful day to hike these historical woods. In searching for remains of the past I found so much more ~
Monson Center is considered by leading archeologists to be one of the most significant archeological sites in all of New England. Many of the original foundations of the homes that were built in this late 1700s village are preserved. Link to all the info can be found here:
In regards to the grave i found.
???????? So sad.. I believe he took his own life out in these beautiful woods. Out of respect I researched & posted his info below & learned that a beautiful soul came here to stay in these woods for all eternity.
Rest in peace buddy... you sounded like you were holding the hand of God. A special human being and i want to share you with the world. (Should of known this kid was a picses) compassionate soul yet tortured.
Relatable...
Nicholas Alexander (Niko) Dalbec, 22, died December 17, 2013. Nicholas was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire on February 22, 1991, and grew up in Milford. A graduate from Milford High School, Class of 2009. Son of Doreen Dalbec and Jean Dalbec, a loving brother to Sierra Dalbec and Christopher Condon.
▪️ Aside from being a loyal brother and son, he was also the greatest friend someone could have. Nick held such a unique energy and view of the world, which he expressed in many different ways. His art told stories of another place, beyond this earth. His photography showed the beautiful perspective at which we should view the world. His pottery was always perfect. His writing professed truth and wisdom, a glimpse into the private world between here and there. A natural born artist, Nick was at peace in a world of creation. He experienced the greatest moments of euphoria surrounded by nature, and has always been one to suggest an adventure. Nicholas held spiritual beliefs, and knew that life was precious. He was good at every new task he took on, and would always lend a hand to someone who may need it. Those who knew him, knew him as kind, gentle, compassionate, and silly with the most contagious laugh. Nick has a smile that could brighten anybody’s day. He always looked for the positive in every situation. Nick had wanted to spend his life helping others; he was a truly deep, empathic soul. He is remembered for many things, one of the most profound being his ability to show others what true excitement and passion was.
(Seems like we all could take a lesson from this beautiful soul)
Donald Hall - Farming History in New Hampshire (4/111)
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US Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928-2018) published essays and anthologies of both poetry and prose including String too Short to be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm, and Ox-Cart Man, a children's book which won the Caldecott Medal. [Listener: Kendel Currier]
TRANSCRIPT: Where I lived, it was a suburb of New Haven, Connecticut, called Hamden, and there were sections. My father had grown up in Whitneyville, which was named after Eli Whitney who had an arms factory there and built workers' housing which was Whitney's village. This was in the 18th century - 1795, 1798. So Whitney's village became Whitneyville, which is where I grew up, and Springland [sic] where we lived mostly was two miles away. More recent houses built in the '20s before the crash, and... the house that we bought, we bought in a bank forclosure. I say we, I mean I had nothing to do with it - I was eight years old - but... it... they were set in this place and people near each other, as I've said in Connecticut, resembled each other. Up here the diversity was so extraordinary. Some of my cousins lived in shacks. Some lived in trailers then and still do and others relatively prospered and we'd all been to church together, all classes, nobody very rich I guess. On the... on a Sunday... and there were festivities. New Hampshire has, still has in a diminished way, a wonderful annual holiday - Old Home Week or Old Home Day - and it started... it was planned by the governor in 1898, by the governor of New Hampshire, and I think it's peculiar to this state. It's evidence of the diaspora - beginning even before the Civil War but... but accelerating greatly after it, the farms... farms began to be abandoned. People moved in two directions - people moved down to the mills, textile mills in New Hampshire, they were within a few miles. There were mills in every town but textile mills were the big ones - Concord, Manchester. Along the Merrimack River which originaly supplied the water power for the mill. People went there and they could work just 12 hours a days for six days a week and make a living and that was astonishing to a lot of the farm kids that you could work that little and make a living. My gramp worked in a mill in Andover which is just four miles down the road, which was a mill to make hames, the wooden part of the inside of a horse collar. He had to quit because the sawdust got in his lungs and stopped him. But that was six days a week, 12 hours a day. And when at some point, around the turn of the century, that mill started giving half day off on Saturday, the old folks in town said, 'That ain't a week's work'. Well, the... the diaspora is what I was speaking of. The other people of course went west, and that began early - I mean people started going west in the 17th century, but it accelerated, and west meant Vermont, New York State. New Hampshire is a series of little mountains and little valleys, no room to spread out, very good... very little good earth, good soil for growing things. Along the Connecticut River, on both sides of the river, there are the alluvial plains, which is where now the cows still gathered for... to produce cheese for us - there's a lot of good cheese made around here - but the farms that... well the... kind of this farm, were farms that were not set up for prosperity but for independence and liberty. And the governing idea of late 17th, early 19th century farmers here was to be a little nation of one, a nation of one family - a man, a woman and a whole lot of kids usually - and they were independent, and they made their own food. They didn't need much money, and that ideal and glory of liberty and independence, separateness, anti-commonwealth really, was a governing ideal. And much of that notion exists today and it tends to help the corporations which is something which wasn't part of it to begin with because the corporation is theoretically an individual. It lasts in the so-called right wing politics of New Hampshire today. The farms emptied out. When I was a kid up here, when I was 10, 12 years old, my gramp and I would be off in the wagon and he'd point into a little clearing, and say, 'That's where the Barns's house used to be', and sometimes we'd walk in, and there was a cellar hole, and maybe a standing well, but generations of families had lived in these places. Many burned down, but many were simply left, abandoned, and the families died out or went to the mills or went west and farmed on a larger scale, and eventually farmed with machines of course. And it meant that when... it was easy... easy to transport milk, it became too expensive to make milk at this kind of farm, and... and so on. It was always too expensive to grow any quantity of wheat. [...]
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Monson NH
Video taken of the abandoned town of Monson NH. It lies next to Milford NH and Hollis NH.
Abandoned Quarries - Milford, NH
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Today’s adventure brought us to Milford and Amherst, NH to explore some abandoned granite quarries. Milford, NH is also known as the Granite Town due to the large amount of granite that came from there. The granite pillars around the US Treasury building came from Milford. You can see what they look like if you look at the back of a $10 bill.
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Abandoned Train in Barnett New Hampshire
Have to thank Marlo C. After a very long drive with The Muscle Russell and The Cameraman. We made it to Barnett New Hampshire tomorrow to check out an old abandoned train. The Conway Rail Co. bought them and left them there to rot. We found some other interesting things in the White Mountians. So I hope you enjoy
Abandoned Monson State Hospital Buildings
The fences went up in 2014, too bad I couldn't get closer. Thanks for watching
Their are 72 abandoned buildings associated with the hospital but today i'm only checking out a few badly damaged ones. Most are in okay condition and are boarded up
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Abandoned Paddock Mine - Lyman, NH
Today’s adventure took us to the abandoned Paddock Mine in Lyman, NH. It was one of the largest copper mines in the state. There are two shafts, we hiked all the way to the end of Shaft One, Shaft Two starts out going straight down in to the ground. We would have needed ropes to descend into it and it was soaking wet from storm that had passed. We may come back and try that shaft again sometime. Overall the mine was a very cool place to explore. We did see two hibernating bats
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Haunted Places In New Hampshire
A guide to some of the most well known haunted locations in New Hampshire, USA. If you have visited any of these locations, feel free to comment below with .
There are many haunted locales in New Hampshire. This is a list of ten of the most haunted. In order they are. 1. Madame .
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Under the NH State Hospital
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