Do You Like Olde Maps ?
If you were in the Bartlett Elementary School sometimeBartlett school pic, late 50's around 1958 you may find yourself in this picture.  Click on it for a size you can actually see. Diane Dudley Osborne told me what the event was, but I don't remember now what she told me.  Maybe it was Halloween.
I recognize Ralph Clemons, Tony Schultze, Tom Kennedy, Cindy Garland, Michael Chandler, Burkes, Marcouxs, Eliason brothers, Mary Jane Davis (her Mom was the Principal), Dean Creps, Theresa Lemire and you probably know the rest...
THESE TWO WILL KEEP YOU BUSY FOR A WHILE:

1. High Quality Map of Bartlett (and other places) from the David Rumsey Map Collection; This one shows The Town of Bartlett in 1892 with many residences identified by occupant name.  It shows a river crossing in the area of Sawyers Rock.  It shows the location of the Garland Ridge School on Stony Brook, The Hilltown School on West Side Road.  Take a look and see who lived in your general area before you.   This link will take you there.


Bartlett Historical Society has a copy of the entire Atlas from which the above map was derived...donated by George Howard of Glen.

2. This 1796 Map shows Vere Royse and Tho Chadbourne as the principal owners of the majority of the Upper Bartlett and Harts Location Area.  Click Here  to see the 1796 Map.  Very good resolution.  Captain Vere Royse was a soldier and surveyor and at one time served as surveyor-general of the Province of New Hampshire.  He made charter maps for many White Mountains towns, including Chatham, Bartlett and Bretton Woods.  In 1769 He was granted 2000 acres near the Saco river between Glen and Bartlett; the land was given for his services "during the late war in North America," but Captain Royse never settled here.  The peak west of Evan Notch and nearby East Royse were named for him.  The name Royse Mountain appeared on Samuel Holland's 1784 map. Thomas Chadbourne was born in Berwick Maine,March 26, 1736, the son of William and Mary Chadbourne. His Grant of 3000 acres is part of the area today know as Harts Location. Between 1772 and 1775 Mr Chadbourne sold his grant to Richard Hart.  Mr Chadbourne was also granted acreage in Conway in 1773, where he settled and built the first framed house in that town.  He married Hannah Long of Portsmouth in January 1758 and fathered eight children.  He died on March 7, 1810.  More Information can be obtained from the book "Harts Location in Crawford Notch" by Marion L Varney published in 1997.  


  UPDATE:   MORE  OLD MAPS at White Mountain History dot Org:
Also includes The Cartography of the White Mountains By Adam Jared Apt

Twenty Five Old Maps courtesy of White Mountain History dot Org.
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