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- Title
The Great Courthouse Fire: A Coös Tragedy.
- Authors
Ekman Ladd, Rosalind
- Abstract
The article discusses the burning of the courthouse in Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1886, focusing on how the destruction of records impacted Coös County, New Hampshire. Other topics include biographical information on lawyer/judge William Spencer Ladd and how the fire impacted him, information on how the fire started, and a discussion of how the Democrat and Republican newspapers in Lancaster portrayed the fire.
- Subjects
LANCASTER (N.H.); COOS County (N.H.); NEW Hampshire; COURTHOUSES; FIRES -- Social aspects; LADD, William Spencer; COUNTY records; NEWSPAPERS; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Historical New Hampshire, 2014, Vol 68, Issue 1/2, p68
- ISSN
0018-2508
- Publication type
Article