A Walk around Squantum: A Self-Guided Walking Tour Highlighting Some of the Historical and Architectural Points of Interest in the Jaffrey Village of Squantum, New Hampshire
Stephenson RB. 2012. A Walk around Squantum: A Self-Guided Walking Tour Highlighting Some of the Historical and Architectural Points of Interest in the Jaffrey Village of Squantum, New Hampshire. Jaffrey Historic District Commission; New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. Jaffrey, New Hampshire
A web-formatted version of a walking tour of Jaffrey Village in Squantum, New Hampshire. From introduction: "In the very southeast corner of Jaffrey may be found the mill village of Squantum, whose history goes back at least to 1743, the very infancy of what is now Jaffrey but then was called Rowley Canada. In that year two mills were erected, “a saw mill and a corn mill.” And there have been mills of one sort or another in Squantum ever since. It’s not a large settlement now, only about 15 houses plus an assortment of mostly modern industrial buildings. There is no church, no cemetery, no school, no inn, no store or gas station. It was a more active and busy place a hundred years ago than it is today. Squantum appears on the earliest map of Jaffrey (1850) but the origins of the name are lost in time. Much of what there is of interest in the village may be viewed by standing on the grassy Common and surveying the surroundings. To the west were the mills and today their modern successors. To the south, the houses that originally were home to the mill workers. To the north, the residence of successive mill owners." Project funding was provided in part by a 2011 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Town of Jaffrey (project number NH-11-034) administered by the New Hampshire State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 33-11-31936) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Jaffrey, New Hampshire is a Certified Local Government.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Stephenson, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 2012-09
- Publisher
- Jaffrey Historic District Commission; New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Brochures; Interpretive Tours; Interpretive Materials