LEE... SEN! WRIES |Lee in Four Centuries Some Historical Notes Published to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the Incorporation of the Town 1766-1966 Ursula Baier, Editor TABLE OF CONTENTS Lee Bicentennial .. aie 1 Photo by Douglas Armsden Wheelwright’s Pond 2 Photo by Douglas Armsden Early Settlement = 3 The Mast Trade 3 Photo by W.N. Durost Rivers, Bridges and Mills Photos by Peter Dole Lee Red Gross Swimming School - Photos by: top, Mrs. Everett Sackett; bottom, Luther Lee Hill Taverns Today Photos by: Page 8, » peter Dole; Page 9, top, Peter Dole; bottom, Douglas Armsden Travel, Taverns and Trade _ 10, 11 Photo courtesy Lee Tyler . Farming in Lee — 12,18 Photos by: Page 12, top, courtesy O. 8, Barllett; bottom, Peter Dol Page 13, top, Peter Dole; bottom, courtesy George A. Bennett Ghurches in. Lee - 14,19 Photo by: Mrs. W. N. Durost Lee Past and Present Population Figures and Graph — ret ES IB: Historical Map with Explanatory Notes - 16,17, 18 Lee 4-H €lub - Pe Ag ‘The Cartlands of Lee Ao <0) 21 Photos by Douglas Arms Care of the Poor eae 23. 29,98 Photos by: Page 22, Mrs, Everett Sackett; Page 23, courtesy George A, Bennett Schools .. eee 24,25,26. Photos by: Page 2f, Peter Dole; Page 25, top and center, Mrs. Wil- liam A. Carpenter; bottom, Mrs. Robert Libby; Page 26, Mrs. Ever- elt Sackett . Jeremiah Smith Grange #161 er Sees APY Photo by Mrs, Robert Libby Lee Fire Department 28,29 Photos by Mrs. Everett Sackett The Railroad 30, 81 Photo courtesy Lee Tyler List of Sponsors — 82 Photo “The Lee Room’ courtesy The American Museum in England Acknowledgements and Sources - Inside Back Cover Gover photo: Lee Congregational Church by Douglas ArmsdenOne of the oldest and least altered houses in Lee. Part of this house was built (prob- ably in the 1730's) by Robert Thompson, one of the town’s first selectmen; it was later moved up to its present position from the bottom of the hill. (Now the home of Mr. and Mrs, Christopher Cook—Open House No. 2) The photographs in this book give some idea of Lee as it is today, a quiet, attractive and once more growing township in a love- ly part of New Hampshire, Something of what has happened since the first settlers came to the area three hundred years ago, 5 through the incorporation of the town in Lee 1766 (which we celebrate this Bicentennial yeur) up to the present time in which we live, is set down in the text, Bicentennial ens tc me genes John Seales in 1916, and we do not attempt to reproduce this here. Instead, we have tied to bring to life some of the everyday events in the town’s past, selected from the town’s very complete and interesting rec- ordls, now housed and available for refer- ence in the vault under the new library. We also have drawn from the Town and School Reports which have been published yearly for the past hundred years, from the memo- ries of older residents, and from the invalu- able diaries of George W. Plumer and others.