Chichester Grange will meet on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. upstairs in
the Grange Hall. The program will be Lecturer’s Choice and refreshments will
be cider and doughnuts. Please remember donations of new linens for domestic
violence shelters.
Happy Birthday to Jim Mobbs on October 1st.
Look on the shelves at the Chichester Library for some of these
non-fiction titles which were added this summer: Twentieth-Century
New England Land Conservation edited by Charles H. W. Foster;
Refinishing Old Furniture by George Wagoner; Standing Next to
History – An agent’s life inside the Secret Service – by Joseph
Petro; ESPN by Charles Hirshberg; The Education of an American
Dreamer by Peter G. Peterson; Letting Go of Anger by Ronald Potter-Efron;
Boutique Bean Pot – Exciting Bean Varieties in Superb New Recipes –
by Kathleen Mayes & Sandra Gottfried; Amish Grace – How forgiveness
transcended tragedy – by Donald Kraybill; Pruning Made Easy – A
gardener’s visual guide to when and how to prune everything from
flowers to trees - by Lewis Hill; and Roses Love Garlic – Secrets of
companion planting with flowers – by Louise Riotte.
$19,500 Awarded to Community College Students
The Community Colleges of New Hampshire Foundation has awarded $19,500
in PSNH/NASA Space Grant Scholarships for fall 2009. The scholarship program
is made possible through a partnership between NASA, the National Aeronautic
Space Agency and PSNH, Public Service of New Hampshire, the State’s largest
electric utility.
The $1,500 scholarships are available to students who are attending one
of the seven Community College System of New Hampshire colleges and are
pursuing studies of earth or space including the sciences, mathematics, math
or science teacher education, and engineering. The following students
received scholarships:
From NHTI, Concord’s Community College:
R. Lee Baker of Concord, NH
(Mathematics Education), Brian Beauman of Andover, NH (Science Education),
Natalie Cate of Londonderry, NH (Mathematics Education), Kathleen Chartier
of Nashua, NH (Mathematics Education), Joanne Goupil of Manchester, NH
(Mathematics Education), Chelsea Huckins of Northfield, NH (Mathematics
Education), Jaelle Johnson of Northfield, NH (Mathematics Education),
Melissa List of Bow, NH (Mathematics Education), Catherine Kilday of
Canterbury, NH (Science Education), Kim Putman of Chichester, NH
(Mathematics Education).
NASA and PSNH have partnered with the Foundation for the past nine years
to support the Community Colleges, enabling over 280 scholarships to be
awarded to students state-wide.
The Community Colleges of New Hampshire Foundation was incorporated in
February 2000 as a 501(c)(3) corporation. The Foundation is overseen by a
Board of Directors. The Foundation’s mission is to support the Community
College System of New Hampshire and make higher education more accessible.
Chichester Historical Society
Staniels And Bailey Road
By Walter Sanborn
There are two roads left that run off of Horse
Corner Road which I will include in this article. As you continue on Horse
Corner Road it is all down hill until it meets Dover Road. About a half mile
down Horse Corner Road from Garvins Hill Road is the junction of Bailey Road
on the right and Staniels Road on the left.
Bailey Road runs between Horse Corner Road and Dover Road where the
miniature golf course now exists. Up until the 1950’s there were no houses
on this road and was little used. In the 1936 flood the bridge over
the Soucook River on Dover Road washed out eliminating all East and West
traffic over the Soucook River.
At this time the original Horse Corner Road extended from Chichester into
Pembroke by the Alvin Moses farm and down Mill Hill over an old iron bridge
over the Soucook River and joined Dover Road in Concord where Gateway
Gardens is now located.
While the new bridge over the Soucook River was being built the State
Highway Department detoured all the East and West traffic on Dover Road over
the old iron bridge on Horse Corner Road up the Horse Corner Road and down
Bailey Road to rejoin Dover Road in Chichester. This detour continued until
a new bridge on Dover Road was rebuilt.
When the new Interstate 393 was built Horse Corner Road was relocated to
join the Dover Road on the East side of the Soucook River where it now
exists. At this time the West end of the old Horse Corner Road was
discontinued and the iron bridge over the Soucook River was removed.
As there were no houses on Bailey Road and no one by that name in that
area presently, it is unknown how this road acquired the name Bailey Road.
Just a few hundred feet beyond Bailey Road to the left off Horse Corner
Road is Staniels Road heading South into Pembroke. Staniels Road
crosses North Pembroke Road and beyond there becomes Burrough
Road in Pembroke. There were two families of Staniels who lived on
this road in the early days from whence the road acquired the name Staniels
Road. This road is partly paved but ends up as a dirt road to the Pembroke
line.
Where Staniels Road joins Horse Corner Road once stood the barn
where the horse was discovered left in the barn by a stranger and is the
location where the name Horse Corner acquired its name.
Next time will be the history of West road.