About Rivendell Trails HistoryThe Cross-Rivendell Trail is a hiking trail that ties together the four towns of the Rivendell Interstate School District (Fairlee, Vershire and West Fairlee VT, and Orford, NH). This website uses the Orford portion of the trail and historical research to link together student learning with the community. The website was researched and written by Bridget Fariel, a history teacher at Rivendell Academy in Orford, NH. Several community members and historians helped with the work with mapping support from Ned Swanberg. Local primary sources, especially town records, the historic census and photographs, form the core of the research. Thanks to the Past by Alice Hodgson was essential in finding these original sources. The photographs are from the collections of the Orford Social Library, and from donations by local community members. Carl Schmidt, President of Orford Historical Society also provided material and insight. Published sources include:Town of Orford, Centennial celebration of the town of Orford, N.H., containing the oration, poems and speeches, delivered on Thursday, September 7, 1865, with some additional matters relating to the history of the place. Manchester, N.H., H.A. Gage, printer, 1865. Silver, Lewis Mann, Orford, New Hampshire: historical—reminiscent. Titcomb, A. The Old houses of Orford Ridge, at Orford, New Hampshire, 1936-41. Child, H., Gazetteer of Grafton County, N.H., 1709-1886, Syracuse, N.Y., June 1886 Copier, E. “Orford High School 100th Anniversary, Hanover Gazette Online sources include:http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml86.html Funding:Through funding from the federal Teaching American History program, we are linking local and regional history to the national experience. The contents of this web site were developed under a grant from the Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Flow of History Site Design: |
