Intervale Section of Bartlett

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Intervale

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This Ski area operated from the 1930's to the early 1970's. You Can read the complete story at "The Lost Ski Areas Project" Intervale Ski Slope

There you can also read about the early days of nearly all the regions ski area.

Fairview Farm was in the vicinity of Peter Limmer's Boot Factory.

Conway Reporter: Late 1890's

LOWER BARTLETT

Miss Katherine A. Abbott of Fryeburg, teacher in the high
school at Mechanic Falls, was in town this week, a guest at
the Pendexter mansion.
George E. Gale's new hotel is rapidly nearing completion and
will be ready for occupancy in about two weeks.
Lelia Gale is quite sick and is with her aunt, Mrs. Parkman
Drown.
Mr. Townsend, a Salvation Army man who has been stopping
in Dundee this winter, held a meeting in the church two weeks
ago and left an appointment for another meeting last week,
but he failed to put in an appearance.
Mrs. Richard Bachelder has been quite ill for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Obed Jefferson have moved into the house with
George P. Dinsmore, who has papered and painted, and now
they have a very pretty rent.
Pearl Pitman has returned from a visit to Brookline, Mass.
Rosewell Ward has been confined to the house for the past
week.
Fred Ashuault has been very sick with pneumonia, but is
reported a little better.
Frank Carlton and wife are sick with the prevailing bad cold.
A few more warm days and our snow will be a thing of the past.
Some member of nearly every family in this neighborhood is ill
with a cold.
The singing class under the direction of Mr. Sawyer is making
good progress. There are some excellent voices in the
school. In fact, they all sing well: We think it would be hard to
find children to beat them in whatever they undertake to do.
Wherever you go you are confronted by some little tot with an
Easter Jug.

The Eastern Slope of the White Mountains was still a vast, untamed wilderness when the original farmhouse was built on this site by Samuel Bloodgood, in 1809.

The Bloodgood farm was famous for its hospitality from the first and remained so during Samuel’s life and those of his sons and grandsons.

Among the third generation, Lyle Bloodgood had been a handsome, young and talented actor. Returning in later life after extensive travels, he often regaled his guests with tales of the state. His most exciting story was an eye-witness account of Lincoln’s assassination. He had been one of the performers at Ford’s theater
in Washington on that fatal night.It was some years before this, in the late 1830s, that the farm had in fact become an inn, the owners
setting a sign at the roadside to invite the traveling public to their hearth and board.

Dick Stimpson and wife Priscilla, operated the Intervale Ski Area from the late fifties until the early seventies. They had two children, Richie, who still lives in Intervale and Lisa who now resides in Brooklyn New York. Photos circa 1966 courtesy of Dave Eliason

CASTNERS CAMPS Most recently the location of Boarder Patrol Ski Shop. Cathedral Ledge is in the background.

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Arline "Topsy" Samuelson Arline "Topsy" Samuelson, 83, of Intervale, died on May 24, 1999 at the Clipper Home of North Conway, following a long illness. She was born on November 15, 1915 to Edward Thoyt Chamberlain and May Hadley Chamberlain of Montrose, Mass. She graduated from Lynn English High School in Lynn, Mass., and then pursued a course of fine arts at Colby Junior College in New London. She was awarded an Associates Degree in Fine Arts in June, 1935. After graduating, she attended the Scott Carbee School of Art, the Massachusetts School of Fine Arts, and the Boston Museum School of Art.

For a short time she designed greeting cards for a company in Boston. During the late 1940s and into the '50s, she was very active with the Eastern Slope Ski Club's Junior Ski Program. She was also a Den Mother for the local Cub Scouts. "Topsy" worked for many years as a salesperson at the Shop in the Woods Gift Shop in North Conway. She kept her art interests alive by teaching art to many of the area's children and adults. Her classes were held at the North Conway Community Center, and many private lessons were held at her home in Intervale. During the creation of Story Land in Glen, the late Bob Morrell hired Topsy to design many of the early attractions, including the pumpkin coach and the magic castle. From 1956 to 1961, Topsy illustrated several children's books for a company in New York. In 1989 she helped in illustrating Outdoor Explorations in the Mount Washington Valley by Ned Beecher, Tin Mountain Conservation Center.

Her family includes a son, Peter B. Samuelson of Intervale; a daughter, Brooke Samuelson of Old Saybrook, Conn.; three grandchildren, Darrah E. Grubb, Eric P. Samuelson and Kathryn Samuelson; and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church Episcopal in North Conway on Thursday, June 3 at 5 p.m. Immediately afterward there will be an open house, in celebration of Topsy's many years as an art teacher, at the North Conway Community Center. Former art students are encouraged to drop off their artwork for display at the Community Center anytime prior to the open house. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the North Conway Community Center/Topsy Samuelson Art Scholarship Fund, c/o the North Conway Community Center, P.O. Box 487, North Conway, NH 03860. Scholarship recipients will be selected by the Dollars for Scholars Program. Arrangements are by the Furber and White Funeral Home of North Conway.