History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA

Plymouth, New Hampshire
The half shire town of Grafton county, is 75 miles N.W. from Portsmouth, 31 S.E. from Haverhill, and 40 N. from Concord. This town is well watered. Besides numerous smaller streams, there are two rivers, Pemigewasset and Baker's, both of which are of considerable importance. They take their rise in the height of land between the Connecticut and Merrimack, called the eastern ridge. Baker's river is 30 miles in length. The soil is tolerably good, and in general well cultivated. Holmes' academy is situated in this town, and is a very flourishing school. Plymouth was granted in 1763. The first settlement commenced in 1764. The intervales in this town were formerly the resort of Indians for hunting. At the mouth of Baker's river they had a settlement, where Indian graves, bones, &c., have been found: also gun barrels, stone mortars, pestles, and other utensils. Here, it is said, the Indians were attacked by Capt. Baker and a party from Haverhill, Mass., who...

Plymouth, a post-village and semi-capital of Grafton county, New Hampshire, near the confluence of Pemigewasset and Baker's rivers, and on the Boston Concord and Montreal railroad, 61 miles N. by W. from Con cord. Population of the township, 1290.

About 9 o'clock Sunday evening a fire broke out in a jewelry store under Cook's Hall Plymouth, and that store and another were destroyed, but the Hall in the second story and the Masonic Hall in the third were saved by the energetic efforts of the citizens who formed a line and passed buckets of water from a fish pond some forty rods distant. We have no further particulars.

Plymouth, a post-village, one of the capitals of Grafton co., N.H., in Plymouth township, on the Pemigewasset River, at the mouth of Baker's River, and on the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, 51 miles N. by W. of Con cord. It is surrounded by attractive scenery, which is visited by numerous tourists. It contains 2 churches, a first-class hotel which has 150 rooms, a state normal school, a manufactory of buckskin gloves and mittens, and a news paper office. Pop. of the township in 1890, 1852.

Plymouth, N.H., Aug. 8. - One of the worst collisions that ever occurred on the White Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad took place one mile south of here at 5:40 o'clock this morning. Three men met with instant death, several received injuries and ten or twelve passengers received a fearful shaking up. Train No. 64 the Cannon-ball express, due in Boston at 9:40, left Plymouth on time at 5:35 in charge of Conductor EUGENE BENNETT of Concord.
It is the only vestibuled train running over the road, and consisted of an engine, baggage-car and two passenger-coaches. About one mile south of here, when rounding a curve at the Keniston interval, the train rain into an extra freight northbound. The two trains met with a fearful crash plainly heard here. The engines were completely demolished, both being thrown over a twenty-foot embankment and reduced to kindling wood. The bodies of the dead were frightfully mangled and so scalded as to be hardly recognizable.

The killed...

Plymouth, a banking post-village, one of the capitals of Grafton co., N.H., in Plymouth township (town), on the Pemigewasset River, at the mouth of Baker's River, and on the Boston and Maine R., 51 miles N. by W. of Concord. It is surrounded by attractive mountain scenery and is visited by numerous tourists. It contains a state normal school and the Holderness School for Boys, and has manufactories of buckskin gloves, bobbins, and shoe-pegs. Pop. of the town in 1900, 1972.