Last Updated January 18, 2012

Archeological Sites and Structures

Updated January, 2010

01A-100 1 1750 Lamson dairy/John Carr foundation
01A-400 1 1855 granite post junction Windham,Derry,L'Derry
01C-210 5 1856 Schoolhouse #4 site
01C-2500 5 1855 B&M RR cattle pass
02A-1100 2 1860 George Seavey mill site
02A-348 2 unknown stone structure/potato cellar
03A-955 2 1840 Site of Windham Depot postoffice
03B-270 8 1825 Bissell Camp-----demolished 
03B-209B 7 1780 Mitchell Pond dam
03B-900A 2 1724 Site of John Dinsmore farm
03B-1001 3 unknown old dam at Wilson's Pond
05A-1 11 AND 6 N/A Butterfield Rock (golf course)
05A-1023 5 unknown Stone tomb on farm of Armstrong; destroyed
      in 1994. Site was originally part of 5A-1000
06C-1 11 unknown stone foundation, unidentified
07A-500 12 1909 Gov. Dinsmore tablet; Searles wall
07A-501 12 1850 Parker Cemetery; Rt 93
07A-602 12 1805 Jonathan Parker/S.Harris cellar; Rt 93
07A-625 12 1811 John Dinsmore cellar /J.Hawkins
07A-669 7 1850 Bahan/D.Abbott cellar
07B-30 12 1775 George Wilson cellar
08A-30 8 1850 Seavey Mill and dam
08B-1 13 1850 Witch hazel factory and dam
08B-850 8 1805 est stone bridge over Flat Rock brook
08B-3000 4 1853 Schoolhouse #7 site
08B-4300 8 N/A Windham town forest;includes other sites
08B-5715 4 1760 McKeen cellar
08C-20 13 1850 Brown's Mill pond and dam
08C-38 13 unknown underground cellar for storage of
      Gould Witch Hazel
08C-101 13 N/A Area of Town's earliest settlement
08C-102 13 1848 Cole's granite quarry (RR)
09A-500   1808 Clark Farm
09A-1300 5 1850 site of Cromwell farmhouse; razed 1987
09A-1700 9 1750 W.Campbell (site of "Poor Farm"
09A-2400 9 1733 Henry Campbell mill site; Beaver Brook dam
11A-475 16 1857 Schoolhouse #6 site
11A500 16 1861 D.C. Anderson site (razed )
11A-590 16 1861-est Town pond-relocated 1861
11A-700 11 unknown site of Victorian Sidehall house
      with attached barn
11C-1 11 unknown site of JH Dinsmore
11C-12 17 1850 Dinsmore foundation
11C-125 17 N/A Indian Rock
11C-300 12 1750 Dinsmore/Parker cellar; Handschumaker
11C-1000 16 1811 site of center chimney cape built by  
      Rev Samuel Harris;demolished Dec 11,1986
      to construct "Village Green" shops
11C-1010 16 c.1826 razed 1997 for shops; 29 Indian Rock Rd
11C-1101 16 1740 nail factory site; site of saw mill/dam 1775
      site of tannery 1824 (Alexander Park)
12A-21 12 1900 Handschumaker (German hotel)
12A-500 12 c.1900 Searles Wall and tower
12A-500A 12 N/A Catamount Rock; many large surface stones
12A-532 17 1730 Lt. Samuel Morrison site
13C-1 12 1745 Robert Dinsmore site
13C-121 13 1740 John Cochrane site; stone arch bridge
13D10 18 1800 Simeon Duston site
13D-30 13 1800 est J.N.Brown site
13D-120   1785 Libbeus Gordon house and barn
      demolished for new Rt 111
13K-37A 13 N/A earth berms
14A-1 9 1824 James nichols-site of store
14A-5 9 1854 D.Abbott
14A-6 9 1850 Edward Titcomb site
14B1500     1794 London Bridge Rd. and causeway
14B-1700     built by men and teams of oxen
14b-2200     road reconstructed 2008/2009
14B-2300     Still called London Bridge Rd
14B-2400      
14B-3200 14 1750 Willam Gregg site
16B 28 16 N/A Indian site; hammerstone found on shore 
      of Cobbetts Pond
16L-350 16 unknown Collins Brook Bridge;Collins Brook Rd
16L400   1857 original schoolhouse #6
16P-370 16 N/A site of charcoal mounds
17G-26 17 1735 Alexander Park site
17H-1   c.1826 originally was Bradley's store then Klemm's 
      Country Store; burned 1997; now 
      McDonalds and Mobil station
17I-300 17 1830 John Brown site
17I-400   18th century site of Johnson's barn; demolished c. 2003
17J-310 17 N/A Pulpit Rock/Crow's Nest Cobbetts Pond
18L-303   1945 Hemeon's Garage;Ernie's garage;razed 2008
18L-502 18 1915 Stone Arch Bridge on Canobie lake
18L-650 18 1850 Granite State Grove on Canobie Lake
      encompasses thru 18L-675
19A-120 14 unknown Beaver brook bridge/Bridle Bridge Road
19A-300 14 1772 Deacon John Anderson site
19B-100 14 1852 Rei Hills site
19B-2000 19 1820 Wm Campbell site
19B-2010 19 1850 G.C.Webster cellar
19B-3005 19 1747 Gearge Davidson site/stone dam
19B-4001 23 1750 Beaver Brook bridge/dam at Castle Hill Rd
20B-60 24 18th century Hadley cellar; filled in
20B-64 24 1837 Artemis Baldwin site
20D-300 16 1850 site of H.Anderson house; razed 1996
20-D800 16 1857 site of Schoolhouse #6
20D-350     Gage Lands
20D-1550      
20D-1800      
20D-2000      
20D-1600     sheep pens
21A-35 20 1790/1833 Fessenden's Milland dam site;
21B-42 25 1820 John Emerson site
21C-10 20 NA Indian site/arrowhead found in garden
21C-152 21 NA Indian family site/stone tools and pottery
21C-3 20 1868 F.A.Varnum cellar; filled in
21C-85 21 1853 Schoolhouse #2 site
21D-1 20 1852 Post office site; also Golden Brook Bridge
      and Fessendens mill and dam site
21D-3 20 NA Fessendens Mill Pond (in use)
21D-106 21 1839 Rev.Calvin Cutler site
21D-150 21 unknown Golden Brook Bridge Cobbetts Pond Road
21H-3 21 NA Indian site;stone tools and pottery on shore
21H-25 21 1840 John Hall site
21k-49 21 NA Turtle Rock on shore of Cobbetts Pond
21K-70B 22 unknown site of potash factory
21K-150 21 1753 cemetery on the hill; site of original church
      site of first burial 1753
21U-100 21 unknown Collins Brook Bridge Cobbetts Pond Road
      cemetery on the plains;first burial 1749
21W-3 21 unknown Cobbetts Pond dam
22R-5 21 1855 George Copp site
22R-900 22 1926 site of Griffin Farm bungalo & standard 
      apple tree
22R-1000 22 1753 Deacon Gauin Armor site
22R-1700 17 1733 J.W.Dinsmore
24D-251 24 unknown Golden Brok Bridge Moeckel Road
24E1 24 unknown Golden Brook Bridge Rock Pond Road
24F-150 20 NA Mount Ephraim (ref: Morrison History)
24G-100 25 1872 guidepost at Range and Simpson Roads
24G101 24 unknown Golden Brook Bridge Range Road
25C-250 27 1788 site of Simpson's Mill and dam
25D-6 24 1788 T.W.Simpson cellar; burned 1864(filled in)
25D-15 25 NA Indian garden site; stone hoe found; (100BC
25D-28 25 NA Indian site; ste hoe found near spring
25-E-6 27 1750 George Simpson site; well and mill
25-E-10 27 c.1830 Thomas Sargent cellar; run over by a load 
      of wood; Deer Leap
25G-50 25 c.1776 John Simpson cellar and well before 1776
      partially filed in
25R-100 25 c. 1785 Daniel McIlvaine cellar; stonecutter; d. 1785
25R-101 25 1750 Templeton and B.O.Simpson cellar (filled in)
25R-300 25 c.1776 John Simpson cellar and well before 1776
      Local Historic District (at old landfill site)
       
25R-802 25 unknown site of Corliss brickyard; Fletcher's Corner
25R-900 25 1750 Joseph Corliss cellar
25R-1100   unknown possibly O'Toole cellar; Windham/Pelham TL
25R-6000     Town Conservation Land
       
13A-40   1925 vernacular 20th century house
13B-60   c.1895 sidehall farmhouse;originally 18 acre farm
13B-77   1931 Walter's house and garage. Was one of 3
      garages in town; later antique shop
13D-60   1930 distinctive cobblestone foundation
       
These last 4 properties were lost to Rt 28 and Rt 111 expansion and by-pass

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