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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.
JUNE Question:
MAY Question:
Where was the Red Store Tea Room?
https://www.salisburyhistoricalsociety.org/south-road-village/
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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.
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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 time in town history and the Meloons: The Meloons
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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
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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