History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; (1903) (14778120451)

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Title: History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Concord (N.H.). City History Commission Lyford, James Otis, 1853-1924 Hadley, Amos Howe, Will B
Subjects: Concord (N.H.) -- History
Publisher: Concord, N. H., The Rumford Press
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library



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emont, N. H., Railroad company wasorganized, to combine the properties of the Sugar River, the Con too- CONCORD AS A RAILROAD CENTER. 897 cook River, and the old Concord & Claremont companies, all havingbecome a part of the Northern Railroad system. The bare mentionof these changes in style and ownership will convey some idea of theworriment and loss encountered by those who in the early daysventured their money in building these roads. In July, 1878, the Contoocook River line was extended eighteenand a half miles to Peterborough, by means of the Peterborough &Hillsborough Railroad company. To this extension the city ofConcord, as a corporation, made, on April 7, 1877, an outright giftof twenty-five thousand dollars, as it had, on October 10, 1868, givenfifty thousand dollars, to the Sugar River extension to Claremont. Under the direction of the Concord Railroad company, about1852-53, James A. Weston and John C. Briggs made surveys for a One of the First Cars. The Steam Moter.
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railroad from Con-cord to Pittsfieldby a line across theinterval ascendingto the elevatedplain by the gully next SOUth Of Sugar Style of Cars, 1903. Ball or by another east of EastConcord village. If Judge Up-ham had remained longer in fullcontrol of the Concord company,this idea doubtless would havecome to fulfilment. The Concord Street Railway was incorporated June 26, 1878,and organized July 12, 1880, with Daniel Holden, John H. George,Moses Humphrey, Lewis Downing, Jr., Samuel C. Eastman, andJosiah B. Sanborn as its first directors; shortly afterward Benja-min A. Kimball was associated with them. Moses Humphreyjit the Opening of Line to Penacook. 898 HISTORY OF CONCORD. age of seventy-three years, brimful of courage, was active in itsorganization, and became its building agent, afterward its president.The original purpose of the company was to build a narrow gaugerailway on the highway, to be run mainly by horse power from thesouth end of Main street to the village of West Concord