Exeter
Subtitle: historically speaking
By: Barbara Rimkunas.
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781596294868
Subjects: Exeter (N.H. : Town) -- History -- Anecdotes; Exeter (N.H. : Town) -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Exeter (N.H.) -- History -- Anecdotes; Exeter (N.H.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Table of contents: title: Exeter's working waterfront; title: The Piscataqua Gundalow; title: Exeter's river rats; title: Was the String Bridge ever made of string?; title: Streets and their names : Court Street and Pine Street; title: Leather tanning in Exeter; title: The exploding cannons of Gilman Park; title: Dick the fire horse; title: Exeter Nurses Training School; title: This old outhouse; title: Scottish prisoners in Exeter; title: The mysterious Doctor Windship; title: Lewis Cass; title: In search of the Sunbeam; title: General Marston's missing statue; title: The innovative mind of Benjamin Clark Gilman; title: Daniel Chester French and the World War I Memorial; title: How to change a dump into a park; title: Exeter's uncommon dentist, Doctor Charles Gerrish; title: Doctor Alice Chesley; title: The Chestnut Street Jail; title: Scandal in Exeter, 1873; title: The Brickyard Riot of 1891; title: Crime of passion; title: Temperance and the New Englander; title: The anti-suffragettes; title: The ladies of the Frauenverein; title: George Washington stepped here; title: Robert Todd Lincoln's greatest flunk; title: Presidential visit, summer of 1889; title: War of 1812; title: The strange world of antidisestablishmentarianism; title: A day at the beach; title: Hampton Beach disaster, 1898; title: The hurricane of 1938; title: The elephant on Water Street; title: The ghosts that haunt the historian.