CHAPTER XLVII
FIRES
The following is a partial list of the fires which have occurred in Goffstown; they are not arranged in regard to time of occurrence:
Buildings of Philip Ferrin located near Shirley Station (early).
Residence of Robert Moore on Shirley Hill where Shirley M. Johnson's hotel now stands.
Buildings of Nathan Roberts on Tibbetts Hill, William S. Whipple place.
House of Peter E. Hadley where Charles C. Hadley now lives (1824).
Shop of James Collins where Daniel W. Hoit lived.
Clothing mill where the bobbin shop now stands, Goffstown Village.
House in which Isaac Willey lived, standing near the residence of David Grant.
House of Robert M. Shirley.
Barn of Robert M. Shirley about 1844.
Barn of Robert M. Shirley in 1858.
Barn of Samuel Robie.
Barn of Edward Gatz on site of Samuel Robie farm.
Barn of James Gilchrist, Shirley M. Johnson place.
Ferson buildings on the mountain road.
House of Benjamin F. Aiken; he perished in the flames; buildings burned a second time in 1916.
Residence of Samuel Orr.
Repair shop of W. H. H. Hart.
Barn of Joseph Comfort southerly of where James Holden now lives.
Buildings of David M. Taggart in October, 1873--ten horses, three head of cattle, harnesses, carriages, etc.
Island Mill burned at Amoskeag in 1840.
Old Mill and Bell Mill burned at Amoskeag in 1847.
House at Shirley where Charles A. Cram now lives.
Taggart Hotel where the Marden residence now stands.
House which stood where the residence of Charles Morgrage now stands.
Buildings upon the Samuel Dunlap place.
House of Rodney Johnson and John Greer where Frederick Hambleton lives.
House owned by Mrs. Hannah Bailey standing where house of Mrs. Shearer stands.
Shed where A. P. Seeton resided, now owned by Sargent heirs.
Store of George Henry at Grasmere.
Methodist Church at Grasmere struck by lightning and burned.
House of John Whitney.
House standing on same site subsequently burned, owned by J. M. and D. A. Parker.
Buildings of Henry L. Flanders near cemetery.
Block owned by Hazen Blood where Paige Brothers Block now stands; same subsequently badly damaged by fire since owned by Paige Brothers.
House standing near where William Morgrage now lives.
1838. Cider mill and outbuildings at Philip F. Pattee's.
Buildings on the James Eaton place near mountain.
St. Anselm's College before completed.
Grasmere Depot.
Cyrus George place.
House which stood between the railroad and Mast Road, a short distance westerly of the crossing at Grasmere Depot.
September 3, 1877. Two dwelling-houses burned at Goffstown Center near present Methodist parsonage, formerly owned by Samuel S. Weston and David M. Roberts.
Two dwellings on road from Harriman Corner to Tibbetts Hill northerly of Samuel Kimball place.
Barn of Henry Poore struck by lightning and burned.
Buildings of Rodney Tirrell struck by lightning and burned.
Buildings of G. F. Farley struck by lightning July 25, 1881, and burned.
House of Ira W. Pennock on Mast Road struck by lightning and burned.
Simmons B. Cilley house in easterly part of Goffstown.
Barn of William Tewksbury in 1863.
Hillsborough County Farm buildings burned in 1866.
House of Ebenezer Curtis in 1870.
Former residence of Samuel P. Elliott.
Barn of Gilman Blaisdell.
Buildings owned by James G. Taggart on the Woodbury or David S. Ferson place.
Ezekiel Merrill or William Law house near Henry Beards.
Buildings of Edward C. Emerson.
House of John Addison which stood west of the present Addison buildings.
Scribner Hill Hotel.
Sash and blind factory of Jeremiah Austin, Goffstown Village, January 20, 1874.
House owned by James Wilkins, west of Blaisdell Mill on East Union Street.
Barn, where George A. Bell now lives.
House and barn of George E. Waite.
Depot at Parkers.
Robert Kennedy buildings owned by Samuel Patten.
Charles Leach buildings northwesterly of Uncanoonuc Mountains.
William Kidder house on road from Henry Blaisdell's to Henry Martin's.
House of A. M. Carlton, Goffstown Village.
House of Enoch F. Page, Goffstown Village.
Mechanicks Mills at Grasmere.
Pulp mill standing on same site, January 25, 1910.
House of James Rogers standing a short distance southwesterly of J. A. Richards.
House of Nancy Bachelder burned about 1880, where Lewis H. Hoyt now lives; she perished in the flame.
Barn and ell, heirs of T. W. Richards, February 13, 1907.
Schoolhouse on Shirley Hill.
House of Granville Parker known as the William Smith or Hancock place.
House known as the Daniel Farmer house struck by lightning and burned.
Blacksmith shop of Ephraim Warren.
John Smith house west of the T. J. Jones place; land now owned by Charles G. Barnard.
Building owned by John Carlton, West Union Street.
Residence of J. C. Brown, High Street, June 3, 1904.
Central Block, Goffstown, 1903.
December 19, 1903. Central House partially destroyed by fire.
Summer residence of Ernest Pierce near Mt. Pleasant House.
Mattress factory known as the Blaisdell Mill, February 23, 1913.
Buildings on John Butterfield place owned by Henry Schriker.
House of Nelson Richards; he burned in the same, July 13, 1907.
July, 1916. Pennock house in the extreme southeast part of town near Manchester line.
Buildings of B. Frank Hazen, August 23, 1916, struck by lightning and burned.
House south of bridge at Grasmere in 1917.
Buildings of Clement Sawyer in 1917.
Nelson Regnor buildings burned in 1917.
September 18, 1918. Buildings of J. Arthur Richards on Pattee Hill burned by lightning.
Buildings of Elmer Liggett on Black Brook Road, known as Orrin T. Clough or Eliphalet Jones place, burned October, 1918.
January 14, 1920. The Leonard N. George place entirely consumed; on road from Grasmere to Amoskeag.
ALHN Hillsborough County
Chapter 47.
History of Goffstown.
Hillsborough County.
ALHN-New Hampshire.
Created May, 2002.
Copyright 2002.