Welcome to The East Orford History Project
Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920
Welcome to The East Orford History Project
Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920
Photo: Upper Baker Pond From The Clough/Thorndike Farm Circa 1920
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
Upper Baker Pond Road in autumn
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)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
***Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr.***
***Admiral Hyman Rickover*** (His son attended Camp Lauroweld)
***Milton & Rose Friedman***
***Vince Lombardi***
***Henry Ryan MacGinnis***
***Warren Chase*** (He also surveyed the Orford area's section of the Appalachian Trail)
***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***
***Benton MacKaye***
Copyright © 2023 The East Orford History Project - All Rights Reserved.
Webmaster/Website Designer
L. Paul Tracy, Orford, NH
Email Contact: manager@sunsetranchcamp.com
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.