Windham Life and Times – July 22, 2024

10/4/1993

…As a little girl (now 88) I used to visit my Uncle Charles Boyd of Windham Depot at his farm (the former Hughes Farm) and watch the trains go by, and walk down the road to the train station… The Nashua and Rochester railroad used to pass in front of this house, which is still standing, on North Lowell Road, before meeting the Boston & Maine at the Junction

George Dunkley owned this beach until the 1960’s, one of five beaches on Cobbett’s Pond. Apparently, the name was supposed to be Dunk-In Beach but the sign painter made a mistake spelling it instead, Dunkan Beach. This place was packed in the sixties. What seemed like hundreds of black and white rowboats loaded with people covered the small pond

1901 and today, its good fishing but I can’t tell you where!