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Книга по требованию: A Sketch of Keene, the Gem of the Ashuelot Valley

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Originally Published in the Granite Monthly for February, 1895, to Which Are Added Reminiscences and Sketches of Keene People (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Sketch of Keene, the Gem of the Ashuelot Valley: Originally Published in the Granite Monthly for February, 1895, to Which Are Added Reminiscences and Sketches of Keene People

In attempting the task or writing a readable article descriptive of one of New Hampshire's favored cities, the author is compelled to bear in mind the fact that the limit of space in the publication for which it is prepared precludes the possibility of giving more than a cursory glance at its chief features and characteristics at the present day, however great the temptation to enter into its early history and give a detailed account of its growth and prosperity from the date of its first settlement as a town up to the present time. The hard ships endured by the early settlers, their successful struggles to maintain possession of the granted territory, and the subsequent events In the town's early history have been so often recounted by other writers, and are so familiar to the local public, that a repetition of the story in this connection seems entirely unnecessary and superfluous: therefore the Keene of today must be the principal theme of this article, with occasional allusions to events in the past and to former individual citizens who took part in them.

The territory known as Keene for more than one hundred and forty years was granted by Massachusetts as Upper Ashuelot, April 20, 1733, but the few settlers who located here thus early were soon compelled to

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