A Country Road
New Ipswich Historical Society
Another photo of River Road?
There are several photos in the Society’s collection taken at River Road in 1912 when it was framed by willow trees. This might be another taken further down.
Other photos taken on River Road.
Mrs. Myron Taylor & Philip Taylor at the Willow Arch at Four Corners (Gibson Four Corners).
Gibson Four Corners
Gibson Four Corners refers to the intersection of River Road, Ashby Road and Ashburnham Road.
On this day - March 18, 1898
William Jurian Kaula diary
18 MAR 1898
Mr. Dearth gave me a long criticism on my work of today. My poor sketch was pulled around and painted on so that it is no longer the weak attempt that I made. I am trying to grasp his suggestions, things that have taken him years to work out. He has a way of getting everything and lays especial empathis [emphasis] on searching after the forms and masses that gives the character. The complete change that I now have in my method of working from nature confuses me quite a little, and the labor of attempting to produce fleeting effects at once means an entire revolution in my ideas of the most practical methods of working. Anyone who wished to paint rapidily [sic] and truthfully out-of-doors must have a technique at hand and a well-trained eye to grasp the relations at once. Nothing fully tests this ability than two hours work or perhaps a half hour's work at twilight when the color lasts but a few minutes. I shall have to make dozens of studies before my eye and hand will work together.
On this day - March 18, 1909
James Roger diary entry
18th (Thursday)
Frost cold north west wind. David fixing his team, also hearse house door, went to Chandler’s shop for some fittings in forenoon, and to Greenville for grain in afternoon, also Hamish’s bag and letter from him. Mother and David cleared up closet in David’s bedroom. I took leaves, lime and shells to hen house..
The Electric Commission could have gotten a federal loan to install electricity to River Rd.
The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States.
The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, hundreds of which still exist today.[1] These member-owned cooperatives purchased power on a wholesale basis and distributed it using their own network of transmission and distribution lines. The Rural Electrification Act was one of many New Deal proposals by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to remedy high unemployment during the Great Depression.
If you look carefully at two of these photos you can see wooden railings which were placed where the West Branch of the Souhegan crossed River Rd. It was wet on both sides, thus the Willow Arch.