Trivia Challenge 2021
- The Trivia & History Challenge will present a monthly question about Salisbury in some way in print in Lifelines, on our Website and our Facebook page.
- We hope you will find the questions intriguing and find the answers interesting.
- Parents and Educators: Some topics may very well lend themselves to further research for school children’s projects and reports.
- Previous Questions with links to answers are Indexed on the following: https://www.salisburyhistoricalsociety.org/trivia-history-challenge-index/
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Do you have an interesting question and answer for the challenge? Please let us know.
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Should we make a factual error please do not hesitate to contact us.
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All additional data, images, corrections or questions are always welcome.
DECEMBER 2021
Question:
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 a four were moved out of town.
Question:
By 1967 a group of determined citizens representing many locals were fighting off an enormous project by the Federal government that would have changed Salisbury forever and they won! What was it?
OCTOBER
Question:
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 flood plain.
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 west 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.
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 Rd, North Road (actually on the eastside), 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?
AUGUST Question:
A tradition established in 1899 with 40 towns participating is one in which we continue in August here in Salisbury. What is it and why was it established?
JULY
Question:
Where was the devastating fire of 1894?
JUNE
Question:
Over time where were Salisbury’s Post offices?
Answer:
We know of four.
MAY
Question:
Where was the Red Store Tea Room?
https://www.salisburyhistoricalsociety.org/south-road-village/
APRIL
Question:
What did The Crossroads look like during the revolution?
Answer:
Prior to the Revolution and during there were a handful of homes and perhaps small businesses at 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 1960’s. Old Couch Road may have existed.
MARCH
Question:
Who were the Meloons and why were they well known?
Answer:
The Meloons were one of the earliest colonist families to live in Salisbury.
For more on this interesting topic in town history see The Meloons
FEBRUARY
Question: Who were the Haskell cousins who fought in the Civil War?
Answer:
The Haskell cousins were two African American Salisbury resents at the time of the civil war.
For more Information: The Haskells
JANUARY
Question:
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 rangeway 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 graveyard are known but not precisely.
https://www.salisburyhistoricalsociety.org/searles-hill-graveyard/
For more on Searle’s Hill