HAMPTON: A CENTURY OF TOWN AND BEACH, 1888-1988 -- Table of Contents
by Peter Evans Randall
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- Preface
Chapter
- The Hotel Era
- Chapter 1 photographs
- Hampton Beach, 1800-1897
- The Trolley Era
- Chapter 2 photographs
- The Exeter, Hampton, & Amesbury Street Railway; Streetcars, Casino, Bridge, and Municipal Folly, 1897-1926
- The State Finally Acquires the Mile Bridge
- Building Hotels and Cottages and Hosting Conventions
- The Hampton Beach Improvement Company
- The Hampton Beach Village District
- The Auto Era
- Chapter 3 photographs
- Breakwaters, White Rocks Island, and Hampton Beach State Park, 1927-1949
- Social Events, Swimsuits, and Rudy Vallee
- 1950-Present
- Chapter 4 photographs
- Seawalls, Highways, Condos, Liquor, and Leased Land
- Social Life: The Beach in Transition
- The Beach and Village Go "Wet"
- The Tidal Marshes
- Chapter 5 photographs
- The Tidal Marshes: Hay, Mosquitoes, Development, and Conservation
- Shipwrecks and Life-Saving
- Chapter 6 photographs
- Ship Wrecks and Life-Saving
- Boar's Head
- Chapter 7 photographs
- Boar's head: Glaciers, Vikings, and Erosion
- The Public Beach Lands
- Chapter 8 photographs
- Protecting and Selling a Town Treasure
- The Fish House Case
- The Bound Rock Case
- Utilities for Town and Beach
- Chapter 9 photographs
- Electricity
- Water
- Gas
- Telephone
- Maintaining Law and Order
- Chapter 10 photographs
- The Police Department
- The Local Courts
- Fighting Fires
- Chapter 11 photographs
- Fighting Fires
- Municipal Affairs
- Chapter 12 photographs
- 1886 - 1899
- 1900 - 1909
- 1910 - 1919
- 1920 - 1929
- 1930 - 1939
- 1940 - 1949
- 1950 - 1959
- 1960 - 1969
- 1970 - 1979
- 1980 - 1988
- Rural Village to Suburb
- Chapter 13 photographs
- Population
- Community Development
- Comparison of Property Valuation, Budgets, Population, and Tax Rates for Selected Years
- Public Works
- Chapter 14 photographs
- Highways, Sewers and Rubbish Collection
- Interstate 95
- Sewers
- Rubbish Collection and the Town Dump
- Earning a Living: Working the Land and the Sea
- Chapter 15 photographs
- Farming
- Ice Harvesting
- Gathering Seaweed
- Fishing
- Lobstering
- Party Boats
- Clamming
- Gunning
- Business and Industry
- Industry
- Other Early Industries
- Small Businesses, Shops and Stores
- Professions
- Post Office
- Livestock
- Caring for the Sick and Injured
- Chapter 16 photographs
- Serving Their Country at Home and in Battle: Hampton Men and Women Endure Four tragic Wars
- Chapter 17 photographs
- World War I
- World War II
- Korean War and Vietnam
- Marine Memorial
- Miscellany
- Chapter 18 photographs
- Artists, Authors, and Actors
- Community Celebrations
- Dutch Elm Disease
- Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
- The Hampton Nuns Case
- Stormy Weather
- The Lane Memorial Library by William H. Teschek (Updated for the Internet)
- Sports
- Chapter 20 photographs
- Public Education by Richard N. Livingstone
- Chapter 21 photographs
- Building for Education
- The Education
- The People
- Mirror of Society
- Hampton Academy and Winnacunnet High School
- Alumni Association by Arthur J. MoodyRequest a Non-fiction title
- Churches
- Chapter 22 photographs
- The First Baptist Church
- First Congregational Church of Hampton
- Hampton United Methodist Church
- Faith Community Advent Christian Church
- Hampton Beach Community Church
- Maranatha Assembly of God / New Covenant Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
- Trinity Episcopal Church
- Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
- Civic, Fraternal, and Community Organizations
- Chapter 23 photographs
- The Lane Fund
- Friends of the Lane Memorial Library / The Hamptons Post 35, American Legion
- Oceanside Grange, No. 260 / Rockingham Lodge, No. 22, I.O.O.F.
- Winnacummet Rebekah Lodge, No. 26, I.O.O.F. / Hampton Jaycees
- Hampton Lions / Other Service Organizations
- Saint James Lodge, F&AM / Boy Scouts of America / Girl Scouts
- The Meeting House Green Memorial and Historical Association
- Hampton Historians, Inc.
- Hampton Garden Club
- Hampton Homemakers' Activities in the Rockingham County Cooperative Extension Service Program
- Salty Marsh Garden Club / Hampton Monday Club
- Hampton Mothers' Cicle / Seacoast Youth Center
- Town Officers, 1885-1988, compiled by Margaret Montgomery
- Veterans of Foreign Wars, compiled by Roland W. Paige
- About the Author