CANTON — Fifty-four residents quickly voted unanimously at a special town meeting on Monday night to use $60,000 in surplus funds to move the Masonic Hall on Turner Street into the spot currently occupied by the Historical Society building. C.N. Brown plans to expand its Big Apple store at 25 Turner St. next to the […]
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East Dixfield man finds long-lost Canton Mountain Cemetery
CANTON — Nelson Coolidge of East Dixfield may have finally found the final resting place of Simon Coolidge, his sixth great-grandfather, who was the first settler in Canton and Jay in the late 1700s. It’s a long-forgotten, stone-walled cemetery, measuring 20 by 30 feet on the northern side of Canton Mountain, which Nelson’s ancestors called The […]
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