In 2003, the Guilford Free Library renamed the historical room to honor librarian Edith B. Nettleton. Ms. Nettleton, who served at Library Director for more than 44 years, is pictured by the plaque before it was mounted above the entrance to the GFL Historical Room.
The 1976 fire on Faulkner's Island destroyed the home of the lighthouse keeper and damaged the lighthouse. This photo was taken from Vineyard Point Road in Guilford.
Postcards from Charles Hubbard's travels in Maine. The postcard on the left is titled Madison Spring Huts on Mt. Madison. The postcard on the right is titled Galehead Hut.
The American Eagle, a schooner used to transport granite from the Beattie Quarry Co. is shown. The schooner was sold to a Boston company and later sank on the west side of Merican, Canada (Source -Dudley scrapbook on the Beattie Quarry.)
Captain Smith and his wife on the tugboat, Jug Enterprise. Tugboats such as the Enterprise were used to tow schooners loaded with granite from the quarries nearby.
Beattie Quarry Co. Schooner with workers building Saybrook breakwater. Pictured left to right (John Walker, Fred Chapman, John Latckin, John Corbett, Joe Josephson)
An 1880 portrait of John Beattie, one of the owners of Beattie Quarry Co. in Leete's Island. Beattie was originally from Scotland. He moved to the US and later established the quarry company that employed as many as 300 workers at its height. The company is best known as the supplier of the granite used for the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Edward Loper lived in this home and pursued an unusual career for a blind man -- he operated a grist mill some distance behind this house on Durham Road. His nephew was S. Ward Loper, a poet, who paid tribute to his uncle in two poems, "The Blind Miller" and "Death of the Blind Miller." The people in the photo are not identified but are more than likely to be Edward Loper, his sister Rebecca and his brother Samuel. The house burned down and another built on the same site which became the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ashman Sr.
Corn Cribs like the one pictured here in Guilford were used to dry and store corn and other grains. A typical building has slatted walls that slope outward.
Miss Caroline Weld, age 99, and Miss Catherine Weld, age 88, are pictured sitting outside at the northeast corner of Elm Street and Long Hill Road in North Guilford. Catherine Weld died February 24, 1906; and her sister Caroline Weld died March 6, 1906. They were the daughters of Daniel Weld and Submit Rossiter. The Weld family lived in North Guilford.
Guilford High School, Class of 1931 (front row, left to right): Fred Markham, George Spaulding, Genie Pitts, Ruth Putney - "Mrs. Revet," Frances Cianciolo, Constance Murusky, Herman Kintz and Warren Lindquist. 2nd Row: Edith Smith, Marjorie Beecher, Marion Dolan, Lou Fullington (class adviser), Helen Schielke, and Clara Tetzlaff. 3rd row: Roger Kiesel, Richard Morse, Elsie Rebuzzini and Robert Tassis. 4th row: Florence Walston, Ronald Whiteman, Elinor Haggart, and Effie Goad
