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Welcome to The East Orford History Project

Welcome to The East Orford History ProjectWelcome to The East Orford History ProjectWelcome to The East Orford History Project

Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920

Welcome to The East Orford History Project

Welcome to The East Orford History ProjectWelcome to The East Orford History ProjectWelcome to The East Orford History Project

Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920

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There's MUCH more to see, click on the "MORE" link in the top right corner!

There's MUCH more to see, click on the "MORE" link in the top right corner!

There's MUCH more to see, click on the "MORE" link in the top right corner!

There's MUCH more to see, click on the "MORE" link in the top right corner!

There's MUCH more to see, click on the "MORE" link in the top right corner!

About Us

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The East Orford History Project

Welcome to The East Orford History Project!

 

I am pleased to announce the start of an East Orford history project to write and collect histories of East Orford properties and families.  East Orford is a very important part of our lives.  Many of us have lived much or all of our time in this special place.  We have families going back several and in some cases many generations and we have deeply felt personal experiences, bonds, friendships, and cherished homesteads here.  Our ancestors and forebearers worked and sacrificed to start the building of our prosperity and current families continue that devotion.  Let's tell the story!

The Orford Historical Society has presented much at the Fall Walking Tour in  2000 and at the 2018 Summer Camp Program and Walking Tour.  Another Orford Historical Society tour showed us some of our cellar holes.  Gerald and Art Pease have provided a logging history. and Art has presented so much about residents' work for summer folk.  Theda and Glenn Pease's diaries and interviews with Art add so much more.  Art continues his invaluable research and reporting and is very supportive of this new effort.  

This new project will draw upon the records, papers, memories, stories, and photos of those of us who can relate their own property and family history, written by a family member, it is organized family by family and will start with those I know and will add, hopefully, many others as leads develop.  Reports will be in hard copy and digital.  This will be informal, not an official part of the Orford Historical Society, but with the intention that all material will be given, in stages, to the Orford Historical Society for preservation and wider distribution.  It's a chance for many properties and families to be more a part of the historical record.

I hope this sounds good to you.  I invite your feedback and participation.  Let's make this a very enjoyable project.

Buddy Durham

September 2022

manager@sunsetranchcamp.com 

An old dirt road meandering through yellow and orange fall foliage.
EOHP

Old Fashioned Gravel Roads Wind Through East Orford

Upper Baker Pond Road in autumn

Old Saw Mill, East Orford, NH--Hiostorical photo

This Site is Designed to be the First Step

 From the onset we realized we have a treasure trove of information available!  So much, in fact, that one website couldn't reasonably accommodate all the great stuff we have.  Many of our webpage sections have a button to another section, or a related website to delve deeper into the subject.   Please note, we have created USB thumb drives containing content that simply wouldn't fit here.   The USB  thumb drives are available at both Orford libraries and from developers of this website. 

Thanks for your interest, and we hope you will enjoy our labor of love!


(Photo: George Trussell Saw Mill--1907)

USB Thumb drive Available Here

Thanks to the Orford Historical Society and its members for their help, contributions, and support!

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East Orford's Summer Camps

Orford Historical Society Programs

Orford Historical Society Programs

Sleepover Camp canoe trip for camp Lauroweld in East Orford, NH

East Orford has been the home of children's summer camps since the early 20th century.

Orford Historical Society Programs

Orford Historical Society Programs

Orford Historical Society Programs

One Room School, Orford, NH

Orford had been blessed with families who treasure and preserve history.

East Orford Family Histories

Orford Historical Society Programs

East Orford Family Histories

The Chase Family, in front of a vintage automobile, East Orford, NH

Our Community--Our Families

The Davistown School

The Davistown School

East Orford Family Histories

Davistown School, East Orford, NH.  Historic One Room School

East Orford's Davistown School

Diaries & Memoirs

The Davistown School

Pease Family Diaries

Historic Tractor Photo Pease Farm, East Orford, NH

Diaries and Memoirs give a glimpse into the past.

Pease Family Diaries

The Davistown School

Pease Family Diaries

The Pease family has thoroughly documented life in East Orford.

Work

Historic Photographs

Summer Residents

Historic photo of haying in the mid-20th Century, East Orford, NH

East Orford folks have a history of working with the land. 

Summer Residents

Historic Photographs

Summer Residents

Historic Photo of Henry MacGinnis, Landscape Artist, East Orford, NH

Summer resident Henry Ryan  MacGinnis painting in his Orford studio c.1920.

Historic Photographs

Historic Photographs

The Bischoff Properties

  Mount Cube Farm, Horses and Old Barn, East Orford, NH

Mount Cube Farm barn.

The Bischoff Properties

Obituaries Over The Years

The Bischoff Properties

The stories of the people and families of the Bischoff properties, originally 

the Thomas Savage Farm.

Wills, Papers, & Deeds

Obituaries Over The Years

Obituaries Over The Years

This Page is currently under construction.

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Obituaries Over The Years

Obituaries Over The Years

Obituaries Over The Years

Obituaries from East Orford's residents and summer visitors who have shaped our community.

Atwell Hill--Orford's Neighbor to the East

Atwell Hill--Orford's Neighbor to the East

Atwell Hill--Orford's Neighbor to the East

This part of Wentworth, New Hampshire has been integral in the lives of East Orford residents.

The East Cemetery

Atwell Hill--Orford's Neighbor to the East

Atwell Hill--Orford's Neighbor to the East

Originally the Savage Cemetery, the East Cemetery in East Orford is where many of the area's forebearers are interned.

For More Information...

For More Information...

For More Information...

USB drives containing The Orford History Collection, with a 'deeper dive' into the content of the East Orford History Project are available at both Orford libraries.

Letters From Home

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For More Information...

Our growing collection of correspondence over the years from East Orford residents.

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upper Baker Pond East Orford, NH
Copywright L. Paul Tracy  2021
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EOHP—The East Orford History Project
Pease Maple Syrup, East Orford, NH
Upper Baker Pond as viewed from a perch on East Cemetary Road in East Orford, NH
Colorful fall foliage stretches out over Upper Baker Pond in East Orford, NH

AN OVERVIEW OF EAST ORFORD AND ITS EARLY HISTORY

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Did You Know?

Upper Baker Pond, East Orford, NH.
Sunset Ranch Camp.
Copyright 2022--L. Paul Tracy
Scenic waterfron

An East Orford resident, businessman, and civic leader who served as NH Governor?

***Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr.***

That the "Father of the US Nuclear Navy" visited and sent his son to camp on Upper Baker Pond?

***Admiral Hyman Rickover***       (His son attended Camp Lauroweld)

That the 1976 Nobel Prize winning author/economist & his economist wife lived here summers?

***Milton & Rose Friedman***

Henry MacGinnis in his East Orford Studio c.1920

That a future legendary football coach was a counselor at Camp Moosilauke?

***Vince Lombardi***

That a famous landscape painter who painted many scenes here, resided in East Orford many summers?

***Henry Ryan MacGinnis*** 

That an East Orford blacksmith and carpenter built many of the area's summer camp buildings?

***Warren Chase***  (He also surveyed the Orford area's section of the Appalachian Trail)

An old barn with a weathered cupola sits in front of a tree covered mountain.

That it is largely East Orford residents who have watched over our summer camps?

***Warren Chase, Maurice Chase, Charles Ladd, Glenn Pease, Stanley Chase, Don Tatham, David Bischoff,  Jim Hook, Richard Carter, Jim Carter, Ken Nutter, and many others***

A 1904 Camp Moosilauke stay may have inspired the Appalachian Trail?

***Benton MacKaye*** 

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