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The streams of Antrim of any considerable size are few. By far the largest is the Contoocook. Its source is almost on the Massachusetts line in Rindge, an arm also coming from ponds in Jaffrey. Flowing but little east of north till it reaches the northeast corner of Antrim, its course is then northeasterly and then easterly till it flows into the Merrimack a little above Con- cord. Its mouth is about sixty miles north of its source ; and with all its meanderings and broad bends, its entire length is nearly one hundred miles. It has a fall in its whole length of over eight hundred feet.
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six miles, having but little fall in this whole distance; has a border all the way of charming and fruitful interval ; and is crossed from Antrim by three bridges. In the early days of the town, salmon abounded in this river. It retains the name the Indians gave it. Its ice formed the first highway of the settlers into adjacent towns. Hardly can a lovelier river be found in New England.
The North Branch river is the next in size. It rises in Wash- ington and flows southward into Long pond. This pond, now largely a resort in the summer, is over six miles long and from three to one hundred and seventy rods wide, terminating at the south at Mill Village, Stoddard. From this last point the river runs southward through Island pond to South Stoddard, where it turns and flows northeast into Antrim. It flows about six miles in this town, most of the way nearly parallel with the north line and about one-half a mile from it, after which it bends north- ward and flows into Hillsborough just north of Riley's Mountain ; is used at the foundry and at the Lower Village; and, again bending somewhat to the south, passes into the Contoocook almost at the northeast corner of this town. This is a wild, impetuous, noisy river, dashing over rocks ; and frequently, when swollen by rains, its roar can be heard for a long distance. Its length is about twenty-five miles, but in that short course its fall is about equal to that of the Contoocook in a hundred miles. Conse- quently the water-power on this stream is immense, capable of running a host of factories. It has capacities for great reser- voirs without great expense, is never exhausted, and offers un- surpassed advantages to manufacturers. But a small fraction of its force is now used. The fall from the top of Loveren's dam to the bridge near Benton Tuttle's is three hundred and thirty-two feet ; and for the whole distance in town, about three hundred and fifty feet.
Great brook comes next in size after Branch river, being so named by the fathers of the town. Its source is in the chain of mountains in the west part of the town, and its whole length is a little less than six miles. Two little brooks issue from the mountains, and, uniting, flow into Gregg's pond on the west ; whence issuing on the east the stream flows southeastwardly through Clinton and South Village into the Contoocook. For the purpose of a reservoir, the surface of the pond has been raised by the Water-Power Company ; the fall from the pond to
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the river is said to be four hundred and sixty-five feet, in a dis- tance of three miles. This stream and pond are fed by moun- tain springs. Several of these are believed to discharge into the pond below the water mark. As a result of this, the stream does not dry up like other streams. I have heard mill men here say they could run their mills when the wheels on the Merrimack had to stop for lack of water. Hence, the fall being so great and the water supply so regular, here are found some of the best privileges in the State. From the pond to the river, there are fourteen dams across Great brook, and still there are some ex- cellent opportunities unimproved It may be safely said that no other stream in New England of the same length affords so many, and so good, privileges as Great brook. It is not greatly swollen by freshets. Busy, laughing, hurrying, humble little river, it goes gliding, singing along, about the same summer and winter, in rain and in drought, adding greatly to the wealth of the people.
Besides these three, many little brooks may be found in all parts of the town. Cochran's brook, in the east part, is the out- let of Campbell's pond, and has a southward course of a little more than three miles into the Contoocook. On this was the saw and grist mill of Dea. Isaac Cochran. I find the old records speak of " Meadow Brook," which rises in the meadow west and northwest of Holt's Hill. and runs northeast, crossing the main road near Luther Campbell's and falling into Steel's pond, and through that into North Branch river. Salmon brook, once the fisherman's favorite, comes from the west side of Tuttle Moun- tain and flows into the Branch river near Chester Conn's, at the once noted fishing-place called the " Trout-hole." On the whole, Antrim is remarkably well supplied with water, for pasture, for dwelling, and for manufacturing purposes. Many wells twelve feet deep are never dry. Ice-cold, delicious springs of water are numerous. One on the James Nesmith farm, west of the pond, is said never to vary in temperature, being ice-cold in summer, yet never known to be frozen over in winter.
The collections of water in Antrim are neither numerous nor great. The largest is Gregg's pond, named after Samuel Gregg, who built the mill at its outlet. The name fairly belongs to him and ought to remain. It has been occasionally called Pleasant pond, - which would be a good name if there were not so many Pleasant ponds (by name) in other towns all over the State. It
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has some shallow parts, but chiefly a level bottom, and is, as now flowed, for the most part about forty feet deep. It is a beautiful sheet of water. Has mostly a hard and rocky shore, the land rising abruptly and steeply, especially on the east. Cold water at many points, and the fact that so much more flows out than in, prove that this pond is fed by springs from below. Pickerel were first put into this water in 1800, by John Smith, who lived on the Thomas Flint place. Black bass were introduced in 1876. The ice here has been a driving-place for sleighs and heavy teams, for nearly a century. It is a great summer resort, and increasingly such ; multitudes of chowder-parties, camping-par- ties, fishing-parties, and untold picnic-gatherings, occurring in constant succession through the hot weather. Boats abound. Fishing has yielded pleasant rewards. But, strange to say, no person has ever been drowned in this sheet of water. It is about a mile long, and its greatest width is about half that distance. As presenting a scene of great beauty, as a public resort, and especially as a reservoir, it is of vast importance to the town. A view of it may be found on another page. Campbell's pond lies at the south base of Riley's Mountain and covers about twenty-five acres. It has been a favorite place for the fisherman. The outlet is Cochran's brook. It is hidden from the highway, but is a neat sheet of water, with dry, green, solid shore. Was named from John Campbell, who was the first settler near it.
Steel's pond, southeast of Branch Village a quarter of a mile, contains about twenty-five acres, and, like Campbell's, was for- merly a great place for fishing. Meadow brook flows into this pond, also Branch river, the latter issuing from the pond some twenty rods below where it enters. Was named from James Steel, who built the mills below.
Rye pond, lying partly in Antrim, partly in Stoddard, and partly in Nelson, near our southwest corner, is believed to cover fifty acres. The outlet passes north, and flows into the Branch river, near South Stoddard. This is a curious pond, being sur- rounded, like some others I have known, by a shaking surface that trembles and settles a little at every step over it, this sur- face being a net-work growth by many years of roots and grasses over water or soft mud. In such places I have run my fish-pole down easily its whole length under my feet. The cen- ter of this pond is very deep, growing shallow outward ; and a large part of it is covered in autumn by a coarse mire grass, its
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long, tall spires waving like winter rye. Hence its name. It is known to only a few of our own people.
Willard's pond lies at the east base of Bald Mountain, is quite large, estimated to cover one hundred and fifty acres, and is very deep, believed in some points to reach the depth of one hundred feet. Was named, it is said, from an old hunter who trapped along its banks, and fished and thrived here in summers and autumns, long before any settlement was made in the vicinity. In the early years of this town, large numbers of trout, weighing from one to five pounds, were taken from this pond. Its shores are covered with a very white sand. At the outlet, which flows through Hancock to the Contoocook river, is the Hatch mill, for- merly owned by Flint and others, now in a decaying condition.
A little southwest of the Center is a small body of water, cov- ering five or six acres, called the Lily pond, formerly called Lit- tle pond. "It is very deep, and is muddy at the outer parts ; being surrounded, like Rye pond, with a shaking, sinking bank of roots which have grown over the water in the course of cen- turies. Cattle caught in the mud here are said to sink very slowly yet surely out of sight. Adjacent to this pond are incal- culable amounts of meadow mud, or decayed vegetable matter, now popularly called muck, which, if accessible, would be of great value to farmers in the vicinity. Parts of this pond are covered with white lilies in summer, - whence its name. Bush- els of these are carried away every year to adorn parlors and churches. It has a local reputation as a resort for skaters, but is of no account as a fishing-place.
It will be readily inferred from this show of mountains, streams, and lakes, rivulets and hills, that Antrim is a town of rare scenery, well named after the beautiful town in Ireland. The view of Antrim from Deering mountains is magnificent. From Meeting-house Hill, Holt's Hill, Patten Hill, or Riley's Mountain, the landscapes are with difficulty surpassed. Many dwellings are in positions from which a painter would delight to look. Along these streams and valleys are many delightful drives. In no place in the world, I think, are the autumn for- ests more gorgeous and beautiful than here. It is a romantic and comely town.
Of the geological structure of the town, there is nothing to be said as distinguishing it from the other New Hampshire hill- towns. No special examination of the soils and formations of
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this town has ever been made, of which I have any knowledge. Some State survey showed the remarkable fact that we had a small sand plain and plenty of rocks, - which had been known here for one hundred years, - beyond which nothing has been discovered by our official surveyors. Concerning these matters I am not qualified to write, nor have I had time and strength to investigate. On my first visit here, I was struck with the appearance of the rocks as generally round, coarse, and con- glomerate. Fine granite is scarce. Immense bowlders look as if dropped here and there. On the highest point of Meeting- house Hill are several rocks weighing five or six tons each, lying entirely on the surface, as if dropped from a passing chariot, or as if a bit of the sliding glacier had melted away and left them there. On the Asa Robinson farm is a bowlder weighing more than twenty-five tons, so nicely balanced that it can be rocked to and fro with the finger. One near Robb Mountain, believed to weigh twelve hundred tons, rests on a base of three feet square. A bowlder on the farm of S. M. Thompson is larger than any barn in town. I have never seen any limestone in town, nor any of the flat, slaty rocks common in my native sur- roundings. No minerals of value have been found here. There is a small body of black lead on the north side of Riley's Moun- tain, but not of great amount or value. Some sands were consid- ered superior for the manufacture of glass, and for a time large amounts of this were carried from the Nat. Herrick farm to Stoddard for black glass, so long as the mills there were in ope- ration. I have already referred to the beds of clay, one on the farm of S. M. Thompson, and another on the farm of Arthur Miller, both of good quality and vast amount, though somewhat deeply covered by soils and vegetable deposits.
The amount of decayed vegetable matter covering the rocks of Antrim is immense, and must have been the accumulation of ages. Of meadows we have abundance, besides the various intervals, of which, however, there is nothing special to say, except perhaps " Cedar swamp," in the northwest part of the town. This swamp, called " The Bog," covers about three hun- dred acres. A small brook runs through it, south, into Branch river. This whole tract was covered with large, stately cedars, all dead and bare, and almost limbless, when the first settlers came here. It is concluded that they must have all been killed at the same time, as they were nearly alike in size ; and that
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they had been dead about two hundred years, as another growth of large size, of cedar and spruce, of slow maturing, covered the ground, among which the dead cedars stood. The cause of this strange forest our fathers discovered, as it was quite plain one hundred years ago. At a favorable place the beavers had built a dam, flowing the whole bog four or five feet deep, and killing the cedars and every other tree. The spruce and hard woods soon rotted away ; but the cedar, being almost imperishable, stood till cut down by the white man's ax. This pond of three hun- dred acres may have remained half a century. Then the bea- vers' dam gave way, the bog was dry again, and after a time the new growth sprung up, and slowly grew, and itself was old when discovered. But the dead cedars were of great value, being light and sound, though probably some of them five hundred years old, and lasted more than three-quarters of a century for wood, shingles, pails, and various other wares. The new growth of cedar is not equal to the old, there being but little valuable timber of this kind now in town.
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MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CONTAINING VARIOUS SCRAPS AND REMNANTS WORTH GATHERING UP AND PRESERVING.
MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION.
FROM the rate that families have moved out of town since I have kept a record, I conclude that about six hundred and twen- ty-five families have moved out since our first settlement, or about three thousand persons. Many of these lived here but a short time. For ten years past, more families have moved into Antrim than have left ; but from 1825 to 1865, emigration was constant and large. In 1832, it was said that one-third of the church in Alexandria were from this town. A colony went out from this town and founded Antrim, Minn. All over the known world the sons of Antrim have gone. It is believed their descend- ants may be found in every State and territory in the United States. I have had letters from several families in Canada. Many have traversed foreign lands. Some have gone as mis-' sionaries. Were all the living descendants of the Antrimites on the spot, we should have a large population, and perhaps be chartered as a city.
And within our own limits there have been certain movements of the people requiring notice. As late as 1826, there were thirteen families west of the pond, forming a school-district and having forty scholars, and a population at times of nearly one hundred. It was considered the wealthiest part of the town. They were all church-going people, and made a long procession on their way to and fro. They had a neat school-house and thriving farms. Now this population is nearly all gone, and most of the buildings and farms are deserted.
Also on the west of Robb Mountain there was quite a popula- tion which has disappeared. So on the north side of Tuttle Mountain. An old road, or path, led from near Chester Conn's corner along the side of the mountain, striking the old Stoddard road again west of the first High-Range school-house. On this mountain path, and near it, were six dwellings, with large fami- lies, making a prosperous neighborhood, sending more than thirty scholars to school, having good though rocky farms, and
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raising great flocks of sheep. Now no 'vestige of these buildings remains, no trace of the road ; and nothing but old pieces of wall, and clumps of apple-trees around half-filled cellars, give any indi- cation of the stirring, thriving households that were once happy there !
On the High Range west of Reed Carr's, where- now the road is thrown up, dwelt, at one time, Jedediah Tuttle, James Steele, Robert Mckean, Robert Burns, Zaccheus Dustin, and John Wal- lace. There, also, was the High-Range school-house. But the Keene road took travel away from them, and gradually these good farms were deserted. The new school-house on Keene road was built in 1867, and the old road thrown up soon after.
The movement of all the families from Meeting-House Hill has been referred to elsewhere. But while these farming com- munities have disappeared, the villages have been built up, and land in the vicinity of villages has been taken up. There are now upwards of two hundred and ninety families in Antrim, - more than ever before, though smaller than fifty years ago. The wealth and population of the town have been increasing for the past ten years. The table of population will show a rapid increase from 1775 to 1800 ; a small increase from 1800 to 1825; and then a small decrease till 1870; and again considerable gain, - recently about forty per year.
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one family.
1830
1,309.
1767
two families.
1840
1,225.
1777
twenty families.
1850
1,143.
1786
289.
1860
1,123.
1790
528.
1870
904.
1800
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1,158.
1810
1,277.
1880
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From Jan. 1, 1809, to Jan. 1, 1852, Mr. Whiton tells us there were seven hundred and eighty deaths in Antrim, about eighteen and one-seventh per year. From Jan. 1, 1868, to Jan. 1, 1880, there were two hundred and cight deaths, about seventeen and one-third per year. Reasoning from these, we conclude the deaths in Antrim since its settlement are about 1,580. The oldest person was Mrs. Buswell, aged ninety-nine years and two months. More than twenty have been upwards of ninety years of age. One hundred and twenty-four, and perhaps a few others, have been between eighty and ninety years of age. The average
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age of those dying here within my record is fifty-three years. Most of the settlers of the town reached a good old age. Mr. Whiton tells us, that, in the early years of his ministry, an im- pression went abroad that Antrim was more unhealthy than the adjacent towns. But certainly our record for longevity is quite remarkable. The deaths in 1879 were one out of every eighty ; and this is about the average for recent years. Can any town show a better record ?
DEATHS BY VIOLENCE.
The first was that of Asa Merrill, killed by a fall in Dea. Aiken's mill in 1781. The next was that of James Dinsmore, by a fall from the old meeting-house, June, 1786. Gideon Dodge, brother of John Dodge, Esq., of Bennington, was killed by the fall of a tree west of the pond, in 1815. A few others have been killed by falling trees or limbs. Thomas and William McClary were frozen to death ; eleven have been drowned ; two have been killed by accidental shooting ; there have been about twelve sui- cides in the hundred years ; and several have been found dead in house or field, but probably not dying by violence. But all these put together do not equal the deaths by war, noted in the military records. A woman from Lyndeborough, by name of Wil- kins, who stopped awhile at Capt. Thomas Jameson's, in the east part of the town, said she would die rather than return to Lynde- borough ; but no attention was paid to it, and it was thought she' had returned. She left July 4, 1812. The next spring it was found she had not returned to that town, and the people here turned out at once to hunt for her. Her body was found in a decayed condition, April, 1813, in the woods, on the spot where now stands the barn of William Duncan. The remains were gathered up, and carefully buried in the field near by. Mr. Dun- can has placed a stone to mark the spot. Her age was about fifty.
EXTINCT NAMES IN TOWN.
Of the two hundred and eighty-nine people here in 1786, almost all were Scotch. Some names are found in both English and Scotch, but such are rare. The Scotch names of the early families now remaining are Dinsmore, Carr, Wallace, McIlvaine, Campbell, Jameson, Duncan, Christie, Thompson, Cochrane, Hop- kins, and Boyd, - twelve in all. The descendants of many other
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Scotch families are here still, but under different names. Only one family of " Macs " (McIlvaine) are now here, though once Antrim had twelve; viz., McAllister, McAdams, McAuley, Mc- Clure, McCoy, McClary, McDole, McKeen, McFarland, McIlvaine, McMaster, and McNiel. It may be added that the whole Scotch colony had many other familiar names with this prefix, such as McMurphy, McDuffee, McGregor, Mclaughlin, McClenche, Mc- Clurg, McCollum, McConihe, McQuestion, and McBride, showing that the " Mac " clan were largely represented. The Scotch names that have disappeared from Antrim are Allds, Gregg, Dunlap, Steele, Bell, Nesmith, Gilmore, Miltimore, Lynch, Warren, Gordon, Moor, Dickey, Templeton, Alexander, Aiken, Stuart, Todd, Wier, Orr, Houston, Caldwell, Walker, and possibly others, besides the " Macs " referred to above. Smith, Nichols, and Wilson are both English and Scotch, but the old Scotch families of these names are all gone from town. About two- thirds of the people now in town are Scotch, or have in part Scotch blood in their veins.
INDIANS.
But little can be said, positively, concerning the aboriginal inhabitants of Antrim. The Pennacooks lived and hunted here, beyond question, but had mostly disappeared on the arrival of the first settlers. There is good reason to believe that the cele- brated fighter of the Indians, Capt. Lovewell, about 1722 crossed the town of Antrim in quest of savages, going as far as Wash- ington, the mountain where he encamped there bearing his name to this day. It is possible that some misfortune connected with this expedition of Lovewell may explain the English graves found on the Artemas Brown place, referred to elsewhere. Indian graves were found on the Arthur Miller farm. Indian corn-fields were found on the Goodell farm. An Indian stone pipe, neatly and even ornamentally constructed, was found on George F. Parmenter's farm. Numerous Indian relics have been discovered here and there. Appearances of Indian graves may still be seen in the pasture west of South Village. No dep- redations by Indians were ever made upon the whites in this town, most of this tribe having died or gone to Canada before our settlement. April 26, 1746, a party of savages made an attack on Hopkinton, on account of which the first settler of Antrim withdrew to a place of safety. The Contoocook seems .
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