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Mile Marker Found!
A original Northern Railroad mile marker has been found! Acting on a tip, a visit to the old Lebanon public works sheds off Spenser St. turned up one of the seven foot-long granite mile posts set out by the original Northern RR c. 1900. Marked “C 130″, the post had gone unnoticed among a dump pile of curbing and broken chunks of stone.
Original mile marker being restored by Ed Hiller in Andover. Merrimack County retains nearly all of its 32 granite mileposts.
Now to find out where it came from, since the marking suggests that it would have been near the
Canaan/Enfield town line – 130 miles from Boston.
Got any ideas?
March 2012 Newsletter
The Northern Rail Trail Newsletter Spring 2012
WHERE ARE THE MILE MARKERS?
Where did the historic granite mile markers go? It’s been a mystery ever since volunteers began work to convert the abandoned corridor to a trail in the mid-1990s. And we forgot about them, until we learned that Merrimack County had almost all of theirs in situ. Now, though,with the Northern Rail Trail mostly complete for 24 miles from Lebanon into Danbury in Merrimack County, FNRT is bound and determined to and and restore them, if we can. Here’s what we know: one post remains, overlooked in remote Grafton near the Danbury town line. All twenty-three between there and downtown Lebanon disappeared. If the mile markers are missing from one county, but not the other, it doesn’t make sense that the B&M RR salvors took them. Each post weighs more than a thousand pounds, so that whoever appropriated them was equipped with both a powerful machine to lift them and a good-sized truck to haul them… Continue reading
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