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BARTLETT, The Town is divided into several sub-communities and areas that in their entirety are The Town of Bartlett. The map shows the distinctive neighborhoods. Beginning at the west is The Upper Village, which is most notable for the Josiah Bartlett School. Glen is the central part of the town centering on the junction of Routes 16 & 302. Glen has several subsections, primarily Cooks Crossing (some refer to it as sucker brook) which is the upper section of the West Side Road. Goodrich Falls is the northern area that abuts the Town of Jackson. Jericho is located about a mile west of the Junction of Route 16 & 302 and it encompasses the Rocky Branch area. Intervale is the eastern part of Town beginning at about the junction of Rte 16A Resort Loop and ending at the Scenic Vista and the North Conway Town line. The westerly side of Hurricane Mountain Road up into Kearsarge is also part of Bartlett.    
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DEATH OF HOWARD RAMSEY.State Of New Hampshire. In Board Of Railroad Commissioners. Concord, November 30, 1898. Investigation at Concord, N. H., November 29, 1898. Drew, Jordan & Buckley appeared for the road. Witnesses : William Yates, engineer, Bartlett, N. H.; I. E. Currier, fireman, Bartlett, N. H.; Levi Henry, conductor, Bartlett, N. H.; L. G. Nute, undertaker, Bartlett, N. H. Howard Ramsey, a man of whose antecedents nothing has been learned, was employed in the month of September, 1898, by the lumbermen at Livermore station. On the tenth of that month he was in Bartlett, where he purchased several bottles of whisky and a bottle of Paine's Celery Compound. At about 6.45 o'clock on the evening of that day, as the engineer of freight train No. 163 from Lunenburg to Bartlett was running into the Bartlett yard, he saw upon the track in front of him a paper which the wind had blown up. A moment later, when he was within about forty feet of the paper, the wind subsided and it fell down, disclosing in front of it a man sitting between the rails, who was instantly struck by the locomotive and killed. The investigation which followed showed that the man was Mr. Ramsey, who had evidently become partially intoxicated, and, while making his way back to Livermore, had sat down upon a tie and fallen asleep or become unconscious from the effects of the liquor he had drunk. The bottles of whisky which he had with him were undoubtedly done up in the paper which the engineer saw, and which he had probabl}removed in order to take another drink. They were found broken near his body. All that can be learned about him is that he had worked at Livermore as above stated. H. M. PUTNEY, For ihe Board
The Lady Blanche House, on West Side Road in Bartlett, is the site of Bartlett's only New Hampshire Historic Marker. The saga of Thomas and Lady Blanche Murphy is the foremost love story of the White Mountain Region.
information about Lady Blanche Murphy  Upper Bartlett Village in the mid 1950's. Click the picture for a larger version in which the outline of the four story Honeywell Thermostat Factory is visible behind the cloud of smoke.
Jeff Leich, Executive Director of New England Ski Museum, writes of the
Photo courtesy of Alan Eliasonearly history of skiing in Bartlett An excerpt from that book is shown below. Click on the link above to check out the entire book and complete contents of this story.  Attitash opened in January 1965, calling itself "the red carpet ski area" for its customer service focused on limiting lift lines by limiting ticket sales. In an quietly dropped by the end of the decade. Phil Robertson, perhaps recalling the success Cranmore had in developing an entirely new form of ski lift with its Skimobile, became an advocate for a cog monorail ski lift at Attitash. In early 1967, a full-size model was installed at the base, and the line of the track was eventually cut to the summit. "Reality set in" when construction planning started, recalled Thad Thorne, and the uncertain prospects of obtaining financing and Forest Service permission for the expensive, unproven experiment caused its quiet abandonment. Growth at Attitash continued with the summer Alpine Slide in the mid-1970s, the installation of snowmaking after several snowless winters in the early 1980s, and the expansion to Bear Peak in the 1990s. |
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