The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . change in thisfarm and family is no greater thanin many another. Some years since,lightning struck the barn and all thebuildings were burned to the ground,and have never been rebuilt. CharlesW. Johnson of Boston, the youngestof the boys, has a charming summerresidence on the shore of the lake,where he, with his family, spends allthe time possible in the vacation sea-son, enjoying it immensely. takes a great interest in thetown and unless unavoidably keptaway, takes a prominent part in
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . change in thisfarm and family is no greater thanin many another. Some years since,lightning struck the barn and all thebuildings were burned to the ground,and have never been rebuilt. CharlesW. Johnson of Boston, the youngestof the boys, has a charming summerresidence on the shore of the lake,where he, with his family, spends allthe time possible in the vacation sea-son, enjoying it immensely. takes a great interest in thetown and unless unavoidably keptaway, takes a prominent part in theOld Home Day proceedings, and forseveral years has given an originalpoem, usually written for the occa-sion. On the same road as the old John-son homestead is the Horace Brownfarm, rechristened Green Pas-tures by its present owner, WillardF. Poole, a high school teacher of FallRiver. In the large attic of the houseMr. Poole has set up an old-fashioned 214 Old Homesteads of Bridgewater hand-loom, together with the old-time swifts, reels and other necessaryequipment, and through the vacation. Ora A. Brown months he carries on interesting ex-periments in weaving. Of the descendants of the original in 1864, the son of Horace and ]\Iary(Fletcher) Brown. His paternalgrandfather, two generations back,was the second white male child bcrnin the town of Plymouth. ls\ is connected with many out-side business enterprises, being at thepresent time treasurer and managingdirector of the Asquam Transporta-tion Company, a corporation whichoperates a line of steamers on SquaraLakes, and director of the White]Mountain Telephone and TelegraphCompany. He has been county treas-urer since 1903 and holds many im-portant town offices. The Mayhew turnpike was one ofthe first roads built in town, about1805. It was for many years a stageroute, a four-horse coach passingdaily over it from the north and an-other from the south. There arenow numerous summer cottages andhotels along the old turnpik
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