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Griswold Scout Reservation (GSR) is a 3,500-acre (14 km 2) reservation for Scouting located near Gilmanton Ironworks, New Hampshire, and operated by the Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It comprises two camps, Hidden Valley Scout Camp and Camp Bell, which both run an eight-week summer camping program.
While the Manchester Council grew rapidly, the rest of New Hampshire's Scouting program saw limited growth. On May 25, 1929, the Manchester Council was renamed the Daniel Webster Council (#330),and expanded to cover Scouting for the entire state. The new name was derived from New Hampshire statesman Daniel Webster. [1]
On January 9, 1920, the Manchester Council was granted an official charter with the Boy Scouts of America. At that time, the council represented ten troops and 256 Scouts within Manchester, and 87 troops with 1,621 Scouts in New Hampshire. In 1925, the Manchester Council acquired Camp Manning in Gilmanton as a summer camp.
June 3, 1996. The Victory Park Historic District of Manchester, New Hampshire, encompasses Victory Park, a city park laid out in 1838, and four buildings that face it across adjacent streets. Originally called Concord Square, Victory Park was laid out by the proprietors of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company who founded Manchester, and was first ...
The Frank Pierce Carpenter House is a historic house at 1800 Elm Street on the north side of Manchester, New Hampshire. Built in 1891 for the president of the Amoskeag Paper Company, it is a fine local example of high-style Queen Anne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, [1] and was home to the local ...
The Manchester City Library was established in the mid-1850s, and serves the population of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire.It is one of twelve libraries in the GMILCS consortium (Greater Manchester Integrated Library Consortial System) that provides materials and services to the greater Manchester area, and is on the U.S. Department of Interior's National Register of ...
Dec. 4—A former counselor at a summer camp for boys in New Hampshire is headed back to prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old camper in the early 2000s. Matthew Scavitto, 39, of West Chester ...
Portsmouth. Rockingham. Seacoast. Historic house. Owned and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of New Hampshire, 18th-century house reflecting owners from 1763 through 1900. Moffett House Museum & Genealogy Center. Berlin. Coos. Great North Woods.