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HAMPTON: A CENTURY OF TOWN AND BEACH, 1888-1988

by Peter Evans Randall

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter
  1. The Hotel Era
    Chapter 1 photographs
    Hampton Beach, 1800-1897
  2. The Trolley Era
      Chapter 2 photographs
    1. The Exeter, Hampton, & Amesbury Street Railway; Streetcars, Casino, Bridge, and Municipal Folly, 1897-1926
    2. The State Finally Acquires the Mile Bridge
    3. Building Hotels and Cottages and Hosting Conventions
    4. The Hampton Beach Improvement Company
    5. The Hampton Beach Village District
  3. The Auto Era
      Chapter 3 photographs
    1. Breakwaters, White Rocks Island, and Hampton Beach State Park, 1927-1949
    2. Social Events, Swimsuits, and Rudy Vallee
  4. 1950-Present
      Chapter 4 photographs
    1. Seawalls, Highways, Condos, Liquor, and Leased Land
    2. Social Life: The Beach in Transition
    3. The Beach and Village Go "Wet"
  5. The Tidal Marshes
      Chapter 5 photographs
    1. The Tidal Marshes: Hay, Mosquitoes, Development, and Conservation
  6. Shipwrecks and Life-Saving
      Chapter 6 photographs
    1. Ship Wrecks and Life-Saving
  7. Boar's Head
      Chapter 7 photographs
    1. Boar's head: Glaciers, Vikings, and Erosion
  8. The Public Beach Lands
      Chapter 8 photographs
    1. Protecting and Selling a Town Treasure
    2. The Fish House Case
    3. The Bound Rock Case
  9. Utilities for Town and Beach
      Chapter 9 photographs
    1. Electricity
    2. Water
    3. Gas
    4. Telephone
  10. Maintaining Law and Order
      Chapter 10 photographs
    1. The Police Department
    2. The Local Courts
  11. Fighting Fires
      Chapter 11 photographs
    1. Fighting Fires
  12. Municipal Affairs
      Chapter 12 photographs
    1. 1886 - 1899
    2. 1900 - 1909
    3. 1910 - 1919
    4. 1920 - 1929
    5. 1930 - 1939
    6. 1940 - 1949
    7. 1950 - 1959
    8. 1960 - 1969
    9. 1970 - 1979
    10. 1980 - 1988
  13. Rural Village to Suburb
      Chapter 13 photographs
    1. Population
    2. Community Development
    3. Comparison of Property Valuation, Budgets, Population, and Tax Rates for Selected Years
  14. Public Works
      Chapter 14 photographs
    1. Highways, Sewers and Rubbish Collection
    2. Interstate 95
    3. Sewers
    4. Rubbish Collection and the Town Dump
  15. Earning a Living: Working the Land and the Sea
      Chapter 15 photographs
    1. Farming
    2. Ice Harvesting
    3. Gathering Seaweed
    4. Fishing
    5. Lobstering
    6. Party Boats
    7. Clamming
    8. Gunning
    9. Business and Industry
    10. Industry
    11. Other Early Industries
    12. Small Businesses, Shops and Stores
    13. Professions
    14. Post Office
    15. Livestock
  16. Caring for the Sick and Injured
    Chapter 16 photographs
  17. Serving Their Country at Home and in Battle: Hampton Men and Women Endure Four tragic Wars
      Chapter 17 photographs
    1. World War I
    2. World War II
    3. Korean War and Vietnam
    4. Marine Memorial
  18. Miscellany
      Chapter 18 photographs
    1. Artists, Authors, and Actors
    2. Community Celebrations
    3. Dutch Elm Disease
    4. Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
    5. The Hampton Nuns Case
    6. Stormy Weather
  19. The Lane Memorial Library by William H. Teschek (Updated for the Internet)
  20. Sports
    Chapter 20 photographs
  21. Public Education by Richard N. Livingstone
      Chapter 21 photographs
    1. Building for Education
    2. The Education
    3. The People
    4. Mirror of Society
    5. Hampton Academy and Winnacunnet High School
      Alumni Association by Arthur J. Moody
  22. Churches
      Chapter 22 photographs
    1. The First Baptist Church
    2. First Congregational Church of Hampton
    3. Hampton United Methodist Church
    4. Faith Community Advent Christian Church
    5. Hampton Beach Community Church
    6. Maranatha Assembly of God / New Covenant Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
    7. Trinity Episcopal Church
    8. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
  23. Civic, Fraternal, and Community Organizations
      Chapter 23 photographs
    1. The Lane Fund
    2. Friends of the Lane Memorial Library / The Hamptons Post 35, American Legion
    3. Oceanside Grange, No. 260 / Rockingham Lodge, No. 22, I.O.O.F.
    4. Winnacummet Rebekah Lodge, No. 26, I.O.O.F. / Hampton Jaycees
    5. Hampton Lions / Other Service Organizations
    6. Saint James Lodge, F&AM / Boy Scouts of America / Girl Scouts
    7. The Meeting House Green Memorial and Historical Association
    8. Hampton Historians, Inc.
    9. Hampton Garden Club
    10. Hampton Homemakers' Activities in the Rockingham County Cooperative Extension Service Program
    11. Salty Marsh Garden Club / Hampton Monday Club
    12. Hampton Mothers' Cicle / Seacoast Youth Center
  24. Town Officers, 1885-1988, compiled by Margaret Montgomery
  25. Veterans of Foreign Wars, compiled by Roland W. Paige
  26. About the Author