Goffstown Reborn

by Dubrulle, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781596296497
• ISBN10: 1596296496
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-27
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Like many rural New England towns, Goffstown has suffered agrarian hardships, sent soldiers off to war, experienced fluctuating demographics and produced larger-than-life leaders, such as Governor David L. Morril and Samuel Blodget. Throughout the twentieth century's great waves of industry, tourism and shifting social values, Goffstown has cultivated a special knack for reinvention and earned a sterling reputation for friendliness. From eighteenth-century border disputes to the first Old Home Day; from the Saint Anselm College fire to the Pumpkin Regatta, over three hundred years' worth of Goffstown's history springs to life with Dubrulle's deft touch.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Shovetown: The Town that Wasn't	p. 15
John Goffe and the Founding of Goffstown	p. 23
Dueling Congregations	p. 31
Goffstown Fights the American Revolution	p. 37
The Enterprising Samuel Blodget	p. 45
Goffstown Brings Mills to the Merrimack	p. 49
Goffstown Embraces the Idea of "Township"	p. 55
Murder!	p. 67
The Civil War Comes to Goffstown	p. 73
Goffstown's Industrial Age	p. 81
The War of the Town Halls	p. 89
Baptism by Fire	p. 95
The First Old Home Celebration	p. 103
Edmond Pinard, Land Developer	p. 111
Summer People	p. 115
Winter People	p. 125
Goffstown Becomes a Suburb	p. 129
The Giant Pumpkins Are Coming!	p. 137
The New Villa Augustina	p. 145
Epilogue	p. 153
Sources	p. 155
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