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Nelson's Earliest Roads

By Rick Church |

Editors Note: The images in this article may be clicked, and a larger version will open in a separate browser window. The images displaying hand writing were scanned from our town archives.
Nelson’s earliest roads were made and maintained by hand, using men and teams of oxen — the same methods that cleared farms. Road [...]

Published on July 14th, 2010 | Category: Rick Church History Articles |
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Building the Early Town: First Roads.

By Rick Church |

The charter granting Monadnock Number Six to those early proprietors required that they provide the basic necessities for the new community’s viability.  Of necessity, building roads came first.
Breed Batchellor was the town’s first resident, settling as early as 1766.  He moved into an early structure built by Josiah Billings just over the east line of [...]

Published on May 29th, 2010 | Category: History, Rick Church History Articles |
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Open House at

By ADMIN |

[ June 13, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Open House of One Room Schoolhouses and Academies

The Monadnock Historical Societies Forum, or Roundtable Forum, is hosting an open house of many of the remaining one room schoolhouses and academies in the region.  The public is invited to visit each site to learn what it was like to attend school during the 19th and early [...]

Published on May 22nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Cultural, Educational, History, Life in Nelson |
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Building A Town

By Rick Church |

The foundation of the saw mill on Center Pond Brook
Settlement in Monadnock Number Six came quickly once it got started. A list of settlers in the Masonian Papers in 1770 showed 5 settlers. In the three reports on settlement produced in 1773 and 1774 there were fifty-four different family names identified as moving [...]

Published on March 28th, 2010 | Category: History, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment
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HOTEL NELSON “REVISITED”

By Karen Tolman |

On Saturday, March 27, 7:00 pm, in the Town Hall, Nelson will again celebrate itself at the Hotel Nelson “Revisited”, in an adaptation from the 1997 original Hotel Nelson:  the wonderful musical theatre performance, written and staged by, for and about our town; and facilitated by composer Larry Siegel of Tricinium Limited.  At that time, [...]

Published on March 20th, 2010 | Category: Community Gathering, Cultural, History, Life in Nelson, Music, Projects | Leave a comment
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A Munsonville Memoir

By ADMIN |

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Published on March 16th, 2010 | Category: History, Life in Nelson | Leave a comment
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The Hotel Nelson Revisited

By Karen Tolman |

Sponsored by Moving in Step
In 1997, the people of Nelson raised funds from private donations, the Town of Nelson and the Nelson Congregational Church to sponsor The Hotel Nelson, a musical theatre that was created by, for, and about the Town of Nelson. Facilitated by Larry Siegal of Westmoreland, it was performed in the Nelson [...]

Published on January 21st, 2010 | Category: Cultural, History, Life in Nelson, Music, Nelson People, Projects | Leave a comment
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Packersfield Becomes Nelson

By Rick Church |

Editors Note: This is the latest in a series of articles about the history of Nelson. Click here show the entire article series.
Severing the Last Colonial Ties

The close of the Revolution saw a much-changed Packersfield.  Breed Batchellor, the man who was ultimately the agent of His Majesty’s Royal Governor, had fled the town in [...]

Published on December 13th, 2009 | Category: History, Life in Nelson, Nelson People, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment
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Breed Batchellor: The Enemy

By Rick Church |

For newly incorporated Packersfield, the years 1774 and 1775 saw a great deal of growth.  A census taken in 1773 reported 117 residents in Packersfield; by 1775 there were 186 people in town, and by 1790 there would be 721!  Men using axes and oxen were clearing land. Numerous roads were laid out. The early [...]

Published on November 8th, 2009 | Category: History, Nelson People, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment
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Fight over Incorporation:

By Rick Church |

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the early history of Nelson. Click here to go to the previous article.
We dont know what our early Nelson forebears looked like, but we can speculate that they might have appeared something like this.
At the proprietor’s meeting in March 1773 the town voted [...]

Published on August 27th, 2009 | Category: Educational, History, Life in Nelson, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment