Butternut Ridge - Havelock Our Proud Heritage 1809-1989
- History, Happenings, Businesses, Organizations. Published by Havelock Women's Institute in 1990
Of interest in this 140 page publication is the information provided on the blacksmith shops, mills, cheese factories, schools,
shoe repair shops, lodges, tragedies, doctors, garages, post office, Lime Works, Cement Plant, Havelock Railroad,
Hicks Woodworking, Match Factory, Mineral Springs, Saunders Store, Archie’s Hole,
the founders of the Baptist Church in 1836 with the names of the ministers from 1836 to 1989, other churches,
photos, listing of fires from 1886 - 1990, the last medicine man - Noel Lamquin, and the poem,
“Havelock Then And Now” by Mary Keith. 140 pages - many black and white pictures - Soft Cover.
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More about the book
Way back in 1812, the sons of Alida Alcha Price Keith pulled their
mother on a hand sled to visit their father James Keith at his newly
built
sugar camp. He had received a grant of land in the Havelock area
that was well wooded with maples. The family lived in the sugar camp
for
some time.
James Price, a brother-in-law to James Keith settled nearby. The next
to make the move from New Canaan to Butternut Ridge was George Webb
Price, where he took up land on Price Brook, now known as the Ridge
Brook, which he dammed. By 1814, he had built a saw mill powered by a
water wheel. Later he erected and operated a grist mill that was
run by water carried in a “raceway” or sluice, from the pond, some
distance away. In order
to keep the wheel from freezing, water was used from the “Spa”, a
mineral
spring located nearby. By the way people came from near and far to get
a jugful of this water, believing it to have qualities beneficial to
health.
This is only one of the many stories that were researched and included
in the Havelock Women’s Institute book, “
Butternut Ridge - Havelock,
Our Proud Heritage 1809-1989" that was published in 1990.
Of interest in the 140 page publication is the information provided on
the blacksmith shops, mills, cheese factories, schools, shoe repair
shops, lodges, tragedies, doctors, garages, post office, Lime Works,
Cement Plant, Havelock Railroad, Hicks Woodworking, Match Factory,
Mineral Springs, Saunders Store, Archie’s Hole, the founders of the
Baptist Church in 1836 with the names of the ministers from 1836 to
1989, other churches, photos, listing of fires from 1886 - 1990, the
last medicine man - Noel Lamquin, and the poem, “Havelock Then And Now”
by Mary Keith.