REPORT OF THE WILMOT TOWN HISTORY COMMITTEE
The Wilmot Town History Committee was first formed in 1915 for the purpose of writing a town history. Information was gathered, but no book came out of it. The first town history was published in 1957 by Casper LeVarn and funded by the town. Proceeds from the sale of LeVarn’s book went into a trust fund and savings account which would help underwrite a new town history for the Wilmot Bicentenial in 2007. Some additional funding from the town will also be necessary.
The Committee has voted to ask Tom Curren and Kathy Neustadt of South Danbury to write an updated history, with plenty of pictures, for the 2007 celebration. Tome and Kathy have previously written histories of Bridgewater, Northfield and New Hampton, and they have begun research on Wilmot’s history.
Their letter follows: January 10, 2005
To the Members of the Wilmot Town History Committee:
We are honored and excited at the prospect of writing a new history of our neighboring town of Wilmot. We have begun to develop materials on Native American culture in the area and to conduct research on the earliest settlers in “northern New London” (later Wilmot), early maps and road, and the role of Wilmot people in the Revolutionary War, the militia and the Civil War.
We expect most of this year to focus on research in Concord and Hanover, as well as to begin taking oral histories from selected individuals. We hae made dates to talk with some of Wilmot’s World War II Veterans.
Our work thus far has made it clear that Wilmot will be a remarkably useful subject for a history that will, we hope, be of interest throughout NH. The era of self-sufficient farming, the development of small scale mills, the coming of the “summer place” and the automobile, the Depression, the war years and the “modern age” combine to give us the outline of a good and valuable story. Despite the pace of change, the people of Wilmot remain as devoted to the character of their town, their hearths and homes, as did the earliest settlers.
We look forward to learning—and telling—this story, for now and the future.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Neustadt and Thomas Curren
The Hope Farm
South Danbury, New Hampshire
The Wilmot Town History Committee extends condolences to both Tom and Kathy in the recent loss of their mothers.
We ask again for your support in financing the new Wilmot Town History book.
Respectfully submitted,
Walter Walker Barbara Sanborn
Gerald Rayno Maxwell Campbell
Fred Ogmundson
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