and interesting localities for tour-
ists to visit.

Manufactories. There . is one
large shoe factory in the east part
of the town, employing over one
hundred men and women, and
manufacturing annually, over 152,
000 pairs of women’s boots and
shoes, valued at $ 215,000. There
is paid for labor annually, $ 55,000.
The whole number of shoes manu-
factured, annually, in town, is
nearly 550,000 pairs, valued at
$715,000, and giving the work-
men for their labor over $ 135,
000 per annum.

Resources. Total productions
of the soil, $74,188; mechanical
labor, $ 140,300; stocks and mon-
ey at interest, $33,900; deposits
in savings banks, $51,115; stock
in trade, $21,170; from summer
tourists, $ 1,500; professional bus-
iness, $ 10,000.

Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. E. C. Cogswell,
pastor; Freewill Baptist, Rev. L.
P. Bickford, pastor; Baptist, Rev.
A. A. Chase, pastor. There are
nine schools in town, two of which
are graded; average length, for
the year, twenty-one weeks; to-
tal amount annually appropriated
for school purposes, $ 1,405.

Literary Institutions. North-
wood Academy, E. C. Cogswell,
Principal. Northwood Seminary,
William H. Cotton, Principal.
(See Literary Institutions.)

Libraries. N orthwood Social
Library, 1,000 volumes; North-
wood Academy Library, 500 vol-
umes; Rev. E. C. Cogswell’s pri-
vate library, 1,200 volumes.

Hotels. The traveling public
have long appreciated the good
hotels in Northwood; being excel-
led by no country town in the

State. It still retains its high rep-
utation in that respect, in the Har-
vey House, kept by the accommo-
dating landlord, E. C. Brown, Esq.
There is a daily stage to Epsom
depot, on the Suncook Valley Rail-
road, distance, six miles; also a
stage three times a week to New-
market, on the Boston and Maine
Railroad, distance, eighteen miles.

. First Settlements. This town
was originally the extreme north-
ern section of Nottingham, and
some of the inhabitants, in the win-
ter, would visit this locality for
lumbering, and they called it the
“ north woods.” Hence the name
when incorporated. The first set-
tlement was commenced, March,
25, 1763, by Moses Godfrey, John
and Increase Batchelder, and Sol-
omon Bickford. Colonel Samuel
Johnson came, a few years after,
and the first night he was in town
he slept between two large stones
covered over by a quilt or canvass.
Within a few feet of where he rest-
ed the first night, his bones are now
taking their last rest. It was in-
corporated Feb. 6, 1773. Septem-
ber 6, 1873, the people celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary
of the town organization of their
town, and gave a general invita-
tion to the sons and daughters, who
had left their native town, to join
them in the festivities of the occa-
sion. Over two thousand persons
met on the day appointed, and the
greetings of old friends and neigh-
bors, who had not met for half a
century, were frequent, and the
enjoyment such as few partici-
pate in in a life time.

Casualties. Within thirty years
there have been fourteen violent
deaths in town. Ten were drown-
ed, two were thrown from a car-