Fritz Wetherbee: Steamboat on Lake Spofford

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IN THE MIDDLE OF FEBRUARY 1498 – A FIRE-HIDING RAILWAY TRAIN ENTERED BRATTLEBORO IN VERMONT, FOR THE FIRST TIME AND EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. PRIOR TO THIS TIME THERE WERE RIVER SCOWS APPLYING THE RIVER CONNECTITCU BETWEEN BRATTLEBORO AND HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. THESE FREHTIG BOATS EACH WERE CAPABLE OF TRANSPORTING TSHI TO OBTAIN 30 TONS OF MATERIAL CALLED, GRANITE BRICKS. EACH FARM PROCEDURE WAS DIRECTED BY EACH ROWER. HAD A SQUARE SAIL UPSTREAM. IT WAS BY PAUL A BARGEMAN, WALKED THE LENGTH OF THE BOAT PUSHING HIS PLE INTO THE BED OF THE RIVER. WHEN THEY WERE RAPIDS OR SAND BARS THE BOATS WERE TREATED THROUGH THESE SHALLOWS BY BUFS, OR HORSES OR STOPPED. WINCH. RIVAL TO TRAIN, WELL SR, KILLED THE BARGE INDUSTRY ON THE CONNECTICUT RIVER, AS IT DID ON THE MERRIMACK RIVER AT THE SAME TIME. NOW PEOPLE IN I NEW YORK AND THE CONNECTICUT COULD TAKE THE TRAIN TO BRATTLEROBO IN THE SUMMER, GET OUT OF EARTHY TOWN AND BOY, WELL? AND THE NEAREST LIKE BRATTLEBORO STATION. DOES IT JUST FEEL SWAFFORD LAKE? LAUGHING, IT’S ONLY NINE MILES FROM THE STATION. NOW THERE ALREADY WAS A LAKE OVERLOOKING SPOFFORD IN 1831. AOCAL ENTREPRENEUR NAMED EP PIERCE HAS BUILT AN ADDITION TO THE MILYFA FARM AND IT IS OPENING. WELL, HE CALLS IT A TAVERN. SIR. PIERCE WAS A FIERY ABOLITIONIST AND A TEETOTALER. HE GIVEN HIS TAVERN THE OXYMORONIC NAME OF THE HOUSE OF LAKE TEMPERANCE. WITHOUT OVERMER BOWS. PIERCE PROPOSED A SAILBOAT. HE OFFERED TO HIS GUESTS TOURS AROUND THE LAKE. HERE IS SON, BENJAMIN INHERIT THE SQUARE AND BENJI. THE RENOWNED PROPERTY, THE HEWOUSE LAKEVI, AND IT HAS PUT IN A BAR. WONDERFUL OLD BUILDING IN PROGRESS, NOW IS THE HOME OF THE HISTORIC CHESTERFIELD SOCIETY. IF YOU KNOW THIS AREA, YOU HAVE NO DOUBT PASSED THIS BUILDING AT THE JUNCTION OF UTROE 9 AND 63 AFTER RWA CIVIL TOURISM HAS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED. THE PROSPECT HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1872, THE CHESTERFIELD HOUSE THAT BUILT SEVEN YRSEA LERAT AND ABOUT THIS SAME TIME THE VERY FITRSM M BOLT CALL. THE BUSINESS HAS BEEN LAUNCHED. THE BOAT COULD AND DEAD CARRY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE ON AN AROUND OF THIS LITTLE LAKE. FROM NEW A, GE THE AGE OF THE STEAM WAS HERE T

Fritz Wetherbee: Steamboat on Lake Spofford

One of NH’s premier tourist lakes, I’ll tell you the story

Updated: 9:14 AM EDT November 3, 2021

One of NH’s premier tourist lakes, I’ll tell you the story

One of NH’s premier tourist lakes, I’ll tell you the story