December, Several old buildings in town were once built elsewhere and moved. Which ones are they, and where did they come from? Some were built here and stayed here, one was moved into town, and four were moved out of town.
Answer: We know of 13 examples Moving Buildings.
November, By November 1967, a group of determined citizens representing many locals was fighting off an enormous project by the Federal government that would have changed Salisbury forever, and they won. What was it?
Answer: The project was to flood the lowlands, dividing Salisbury from Warner, creating a massive recreational lake. Blackwater Projects
October, Who was Sinkler Bean?
Answer, Sinkler (likely Sinclair) Bean was a very early settler of the portion of our town that is now in the floodplain. There was another branch of the Bean family that settled in South Road Village.
From the History of Salisbury by John Dearborn, 1890:
“The second graveyard of age, named for the donor of the land, is situated near Union Meeting House in the western part of the town. Sinkler Bean gave the land, provided the people would clear it up, fence it, and give him space in the yard south of the gate, which is used by the Bean family. The Maloons are buried at the right hand, just as one enters the gate from the east. They are buried near the eastern wall.
September, what is the origin behind some road or pond names? Do you know the answers? We know a few.
We know these: Mutton Road, Gerrish Road, Stirrup Iron Brook, Old College Road, Searle’s Hill Road, North Road (actually on the east side), and Smith’s Corner.
But what about Flag Hole Road? Hensmith Road? Battle Street? Rabbit Road? Walker Pond? Montgomery Road? We found the answer to Wilder Pond. Do you know it?
Answer: Mutton Road: A well-traveled road in its day connecting Salisbury to W. Boscawen (now Webster) to Hillsborough
August, A tradition established in 1899 with 40 towns participating, is one that we continue in August here in Salisbury. What is it, and why was it established?
Answer, Old Home Day
July, where was the devastating fire of 1894?
Answer: South Road Village
June, Over time, where were Salisbury’s Post offices?
Answer: Post Offices
May, Where was the Red Store Tea Room?
Answer: South Road Village
April, what did the Crossroads look like during the Revolution?
Answer: Before the Revolution and during there were a handful of homes and perhaps small businesses in the area of the crossroads of Rte 127 & Rte 4, South Road Village. The road configuration was different.
Movement into town came from Rabbit Road in Boscawen (which included Webster) and perhaps continued up Bacon Lane towards the Center Rangeway (Bog Road?), making it a “cross rangeway.
Coming in from the east and west was the South Rangeway.
An early north-south road that extended between Boscawen and Andover, roughly Rte 4, may have existed, except it did not exist in the area between the Fire House and the Crossroads until the 1960s. Old Couch Road may have existed.
March, who were the Meloons, and why were they well-known?
Answer: The Meloons were one of the earliest colonist families to live in Salisbury.
February: Who were the Haskell cousins who fought in the Civil War?
Answer: The Haskells’ two African American cousins were Salisbury residents at the time of the Civil War.
January: What is the mystery of Searle’s Hill?
Answer: As the colonists moved northward and inward from the coast, the earlier designers of our town (proprietors of Kingston, NH) planned for the Center Rangeway to be the first main road in town. This is in part called Searles Hill Rd. A meeting house, graveyard, school, and several homes existed on the range in the Searle’s Hill section. The church was disassembled, and the graveyard stones were knocked down, but those in the graveyard were not moved. The reason for the destruction of the graveyard is speculation, but not really known. The locations of both the meeting house and the graveyard are known, but not precisely. Searle’s Hill Graveyard
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