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clapboards, 650,000 shingles, and
The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
1,375,000 feet of boards are annu-
ally sawed; besides there are ex-
celsior mills, chair factories, grist
mill, tannery, bedsteads, wooden
ware, card hoard, and carriage
hub manufactories. A large build-
ing has been erected this Summer
(1873) for the manufacturing of
sale boots and shoes. The total
value of manufactured goods,
annually produced, is $212,000.
(See Tables.)
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $ 164,172; mechanical labor,
$41,100; stocks, &c., $53,400;
money at interest, $35,616; depos-
its in- savings bank, $ 131,225;
stock in trade, $ 28,593; from
summer tourists, $ 3,000; from
professional business, trade, etc.,
$60,000.
Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. M. A. Gates, pas-
tor ; Methodist,--; Bap-
tist, --. There are twenty-
two school-districts and twenty-
four schools. Average length
of schools, for the year, six-
teen weeks. The late Franklin
Simonds, Esq., bequeathed to this
town, $ 20,000, for the endowment
of a High School. To this endow-
ment, his widow, Mrs. Abigail K.
Simonds, subsequently added $5,
000. For the erection of the High
School building, she also gave $ 5,
000; Messrs. Gilman A. Bean and
Samuel II. Dow, $ 2,098.52, each,
George Jones, C. G. Me Alpine
and John E. Robinson, $250, each,
Reuben Clough, $20., Leonidas
Harriman and John C. Bean, $ 10.
each, and William K. Morrill,
$5. Several of the citizens gave
work amounting to $73.75, making
the whole expense of the building,
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Ground was broken for the High
School building, in May, 1871, and
it was dedicated the following
December. The first term opened,
December 4, under the instruction
of Edmund C. Cole, A. B., as prin-
cipal, and Miss Helen E. Gilbert,
as preceptress.
Libraries. Warner Social Li-
brary, 200 volumes; Warner High
School Library, 150 volumes; and
Lemuel Willis’ Library, over 400
volumes.
Banks. Kearsarge National
Bank. The Kearsarge Savings
Bank has been chartered. (See
tables.)
Hotel. Warner Hotel.
First Settlement. Warner was
granted by the government of
Massachusetts to deacon Thomas
Stevens and sixty-two others, in
1735, under the name of Number
One, and then New Amesbury. It
was afterwards regranted to sixty-
two persons, by the Masonian pro-
prietors, from which a controversy
arose, which was not finally settled
until 1773. The first settlement
Avas commenced in 1762, by David
Annis and his son-in-law, Reuben
Kimball. It was incorporated
under the present name, Septem-
ber 3, 1774.
Tornado. On Sunday, Septem-
ber 9, 1821, at five o’clock P. M.,
one of the most terrific tornadoes
which ever occured in NeAv-Hamp-
sliire, swept through the town,
leaving in its track, desolation and
death. In this calamity, four
houses and seven barns, besides
out buildings, were totally demol-
ished; flvm persons were killed,
and ten or fifteen severely wound-
ed. Every tree, bush, stone wall
or board fence in its way, was
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