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The Dalton Historical Society meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm at the Dalton Town Hall. All members and interested persons are invited to attend. If any of our visitors have any old photos, documents or stories to share pertaining to the Town of Dalton, please contact the Historical Society. There's nothing like new materials from days gone by to stimulate a conversation about the past. Some recent highlights from the Dalton Historical Society: March 3, 2009 Town Hall News Since December, several citizens have joined together as a new non-profit group, Friends of the Dalton Town Hall. Our purpose is to preserve and maintain the Town Hall as a historic landmark and gathering place for the community. We just held a fundraiser dinner on February 28th, which was very successful. We are optimistic that our efforts will be beneficial to the taxpayers and users of the Hall. The Friends of the Dalton Town Hall do not have their own website, so we've taken the liberty here to report on their progress. December 11, 2008 FUTURE OF THE DALTON TOWN HALL On December 10, members from the Historical Society met with representatives of several other groups to discuss the future of the Town Hall. A recent letter from the Board of Selectmen to the Library Trustees requested that the Library move out of the Town Hall by December 31, at which time the services to the Town Hall would be terminated. Our discussion focused on ways to raise money to pay for operating costs, and alleviate the burden on the taxpayers. We have scheduled another meeting on Friday, December 19th at 6:30 pm, at the Dalton Public Library. All are welcome to attend. For more information, email Terri at [email protected]t. or Becky at [email protected]t September 2008 This summer's weather has been the topic of many conversations. The earlier part of the season brought many weeks of rainy weather, and there was even a tornado in the Lakes Region of the state, which was very uncommon for New Hampshire. As this page is being updated, we are getting rain from Tropical Storm Hannah, which made landfall in the Carolinas, and is brushing by New England. Another storm, Hurricane Ike is in the Atlantic, threatening the Gulf Coast area. This reminds us that this month of September is the 70th anniversary of the Hurricane of '38, which struck a devastating blow (no pun intended) to the northeast. Our area was not affected with as much devastation as the coastal areas, but none-the-less, there was a lot of damage. One of our members donated these photos to the Society for our collection. While some heavy rainstorms created some headaches for the Dalton Highway Department, the State of New Hampshire Highway Department also had to contend with replacing the culvert on Route 135 through which Rix Brook flows into Adam's Pool. The Pool is known to many of us as a place where we enjoyed the cold mountain waters on hot summer days in the past. The culvert was originally placed here in 1941, when the road was relocated in an effort to "straighten out" some bad curves. When driving along this stretch of curvy road today, we can only imagine how bad it was decades ago. For several months this year, drivers had to stop at the temporary traffic lights, because the road was reduced to one lane. Time and weather had eroded the steep embankment between the road and the brook, causing an unsafe situation. After completely closing this section of road for about ten days, the necessary repairs were done, a new culvert put in, and the pool has been nicely restored. Check out these before and after pictures. The David Dana Forest is home to the Dalton Gold Mine. This mine, abandoned about a century ago, is supposed to have produced gold from its depths of about 100 feet into the mountain. Now, filled to the top with groundwater, one can only speculate if it ever yielded any profit for those who attempted to dig for the precious metal. The Historical Society has yet to find any evidence or documents indicating that gold was definitely found there, however, the lure of the glimmering yellow substance is enough to peak the curiosity of the most skeptical among us. Click here for photo. |
The Dalton Historical Society, Dalton, New Hampshire |