. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . ack was completelysubmerged. Mr. Chamberlin, the engineer, the fireman, and thehands accompanying him were obliged to return to Concord onthe electric. The engine was stalled on the track opposite thestation for a week, the water at times being up to the hubs of thewheels. But little work was done in the village for two or three Contoocook river for a mile above Dustins island was aboutas grand and picturesque a sight as can be imagined. In the rearof the Harris woolen mill and in the middle of the river i
. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . ack was completelysubmerged. Mr. Chamberlin, the engineer, the fireman, and thehands accompanying him were obliged to return to Concord onthe electric. The engine was stalled on the track opposite thestation for a week, the water at times being up to the hubs of thewheels. But little work was done in the village for two or three Contoocook river for a mile above Dustins island was aboutas grand and picturesque a sight as can be imagined. In the rearof the Harris woolen mill and in the middle of the river is an im-mense boulder. Except at very high water it is never was completely submerged, however, and when the water struckit, as if maddened by the obstruction, it dashed in foam and sprayfully twenty feet above its summit. A rabbit was seen on a cakeof ice floating down the river. In Concord the intervales were completely covered, and longstretches of the track below the city were completely houses were injured seriously, and one boy, named Godfrey,. ON u < 2 w XH 5^O w ou uo 2 8o HISTORY OF PENACOOK. while out in a canvas canoe, was drowned on the intervales nearone of the culverts of the Concord & Montreal Railroad. On the east bank of the Merrimack, at a point about oppositeEast Concord, a curious as well as a wonderful ice cone was formedby the rushing waters. It must have been from fifteen to twentyfeet in height and thirty to forty feet in diameter. A photographof it was taken at the time by Kimball brothers of Concord. Oneof the latter stood by it when the negative was taken, so thosewho view the picture can see its size. It was unlike anything everseen before in this vicinity or elsewhere in New England, so far asthere is any record. Although the railroad company saved its bridges, the one overthe Merrimack was lost. It was evident early in the morning ofMarch ist that the bridge would have to go, and in consequencehundreds of people were pr
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