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    The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee
    The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee
    The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee
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    The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee

    By Bruce D. Heald

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    The Lake Winnipesaukee region has a long and well-deserved history as one of the most scenic and popular areas in New England. The lake's appeal lies in its stunning mountain ranges, its fleet of steamboats, and its colorful islands and port towns. Boats have been an integral part of the region's economy since the early settlement of the area, providing transportation for work and leisure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439611975
    The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee
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    Bruce D. Heald

    Dr. Bruce D. Heald is an adjunct American history professor, Plymouth State University; Babes-Bylyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania associate professor; West Point lecturer; M.S. Mount Washington senior purser; author of over forty books and many New England history articles; fellow, International Biographical Association and World Literary Academy in Cambridge, UK; American Biographical Institute 1993 Gold Medal of Honor for literary achievement recipient; and New Hampshire General Court representative. Career journalist and farmer Steve Taylor retired after serving for twenty-five years as commissioner with the department of agriculture. He was founding executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council and a founding board member and board chair of Leadership New Hampshire from 1993 to 1998. Steve currently serves on several nonprofit boards and is a lecturer on New Hampshire agricultural history for the Humanities Council. He has served as town and school district moderator since 1980.

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      The Boats and Ports of Lake Winnipesaukee - Bruce D. Heald

      1791.

      Introduction

      Nestled among the foothills of the White Mountains lies one of the most beautiful waters in the world, Lake Winnipesaukee. This lake of 72 square miles contains 274 habitable islands, and is situated in central New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. Within the small bays and coves may be found the quaint little villages that make the region so famous.

      The lake was originally formed by the moving and melting of glaciers. An examination of a topographical map indicates that at one time the Belknap and Ossipee Mountains, located on either side of the lake, were active volcanoes. Winnipesaukee is very deep, ranging in depth up to 200 feet, and is mostly spring fed. Many of the cottages around its shores take their water directly from it without any treatment.

      The lake does freeze over during the winter months. Ice begins to form between Christmas and New Years, and breaks up about mid-April. During a very cold winter, there can be as much as 30 inches of ice over the lake. One of the favorite winter sports is ice fishing, and fishing is very good here, with salmon being stocked and taken from early spring through the summer months. Lake trout are native to these waters, and are taken from January 1st through September. Bass, pickerel, white fish, shad, and perch are all taken in their proper season.

      Winnipesaukee was known to the Native Americans, who first inhabited its shores, as the Smile of the Great Spirit, although a proper translation of the name means A Beautiful Water in a High Place. It was discovered by white settlers in 1652, when a party of surveyors were seeking the source of the Merrimack River to mark the northern boundary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The surveyors placed that line at the Indian village of Aquadoctan (which is now the Weirs) and marked it on the boulder now enshrined there as Endicott Rock.

      The beauty of the lake can not be judged from a point so high as Red Hill or the Belknap Mountain range. Its varied charms are not to be seen from one spot on its shores like Centre Harbor. They must be sought along all its intricate borders, among its intimate islands, and in boats upon its bosom. This is the way to savour the delicious bits artists love for studies—jutting rocks, shaded beaches, curving rocks, limpid water prattling upon amethystine sand . . .

      In this rare photographic journey through time I have tried to capture and explain some of the lake’s characteristics, to enrich our understanding of its people, and to preserve in print their spirit for future generations to enjoy.

      This volume has been assembled with the generosity of historical societies and many friends and neighbors who wish to preserve this legacy. There is life in this lake; a romance of early settlers and their industry on the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee.

      Bruce D. Heald, Ph.D.

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      Lake Winnipesaukee

      An aerial view of Lake Winnipesaukee, with Bear Island in the center and the Belknap Mountain Range in the distance to the right. Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest, loveliest, and most picturesque watersheet in New Hampshire. It is not difficult to understand why it holds such a high place in the affections of tourists and natives alike, for there are few lakes in all the world so superbly and magnificently endowed with the scenery, climate, history, and social life that make up this ideal place. Large in area, picturesque in conformation, and with water of crystalline purity, its shores are indented with romantic coves and harbors and are enclosed by tiers of green mountains and hills that attain their crescendo in majestic Mount Washington itself.

      A view of Lake Winnipesaukee facing Northwest. Shining like silvered glass, this great lake and its countless green islands appear to be a painted map. Here and there upon its dimpling surface glide the steamers

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