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Annual Meeting and Tour Sites 1980 - 2010

Spring 2011 Tour - May 21, 2011 "The Grand Trunk Railroad" Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum, Portland, Maine.

Fall 2010 - Sept. 16-19, Montpellier-Barre, Vt. National Fall Tour
Spring 2010 - May 22, Franklin, N.H. mills, Laconia Car Company, Aiken machines

Fall 2009 - No tour
Spring 2009 - Kearsarge peg mill, Bartlett. NH., lost sawmill town of Livermore. NH.

Fall 2008 - Slate Valley museum, Granville, NY, Greenstone slate quarry. Poultney, Vt.
Spring 2008 - Cumberland and Oxford canal. Sebago Lake to Portland, Me.
ruins of the Oriental Powder Mill Complex, alongside the canal.

Fall 2007 - Frye's measure mill, 1810 granite bridge, boxed pony truss bridge. Wilton, NH.
Lost village of Monson. Milford and Hollis, NH
Spring 2007 - Flying Yankee & Clarks Trading Post locomotives, old pulp & paper mill,
Matson hardwood kiln, Woodstock lumber company ruins. Lincoln, NH

Fall 2006 - Vermont Plywood, Rochester, VT. Vermont verde stone quarry, Hancock, VT.
Spring 2006 - Lake Champlain Maritime museum, 1894 pump house, Monkon Iron Works,
Vergennes Iron Company. Basin Harbor and Vergennes, VT.

Fall 2005 - American Precision Museum, Cornish-Windsor covered bridge, Simon-Pierce
glass factory. Windsor, VT.
Summer 2005 - Franconia Iron Furnace. Franconia, NH.

Fall 2004 - Goss sawmill, Iron Pratt truss bridges, power canal remains, Merrimack Log
Homes, Hopkinton hydropower dam. Henniker, NH.
Spring 2004 - No tour

Fall 2003 - Bennington museum, Bennington Potters, Bennington monument. VT.
Champlain Canal tour
Spring 2003 - Sarah Mildred Long bridge, Great Works, timber boxed pony truss bridge,
pink granite quarry.. Kittery, Berwicks, Me. Rollinsford, NH.

Fall 2002 - Dolez waterpowered mill. Hancock, NH. Historic Harrisville, NH.
Spring 2002 - Newport Historic District. Newport, NH.

Fall 2001 - Carving studio and Sculpture Center. Rutland VT.
Vermont Marble exhibit. Proctor, VT.
Spring 2001 - McGoldrick Paper Company. Hinsdale, NH
Paper Service Limited. Ashuelot, NH

Fall 2000 - Portland Company, Portland Observatory and Harbor museum. Portland, ME.
Spring 2000 - Pembroke Iron Works, Sardine museum, Rays Mustard Mill, Campobello
Island. Pembroke & Easport, ME. Campobello Island, N.B. Canada

Fall 1999 - Northern Forest Heritage Park, St. Anne Church, Holy Resurrection Orthodox
Church. Berlin, NH.
Spring 1999 - Enfield Shaker Village, Enfield, NH. B&M Roundhouse. Lebanon, NH.
Amoskeag Company locomotive. White River Junction, VT.

Fall 1998 - Bath City Hall, Stinson Sardine Cannery, Bath Iron Works. Bath, ME.
Palermo Mine - mica and beryllium. Rumney, NH.

Fall 1997 - Granite shed, Gary Sassi's Sculpting studio, Jones Brothers granite plant,
Rock of Ages quarry, Hope Cemetery. Barre, VT.
Spring 1997 - Belknap Mill, Starr Specialty Knitting, Wood turning mill. Laconia, NH.

Fall 1996 - Canterbury Shaker Village. Canterbury,NH.
Spring 1996 - Saratoga Graphite Products, mine and mill. Wilton, NY.

Fall 1995 - Strawberry Banke, Memorial Bridge, Tugboat engine room. Portsmouth, NH.
New England Modular Homes, Greenland, NH.
Spring 1995 - Scheyd-Yeaton-Kayes Up & Down sawmill, Horse drawn carriages, wagons,
and the town ice cooled hearse. Washington, NH.

Fall 1994 - Cog Railway car shop, Railway ride to summit. Mt. Washington, NH.
Spring 1994 - Amoskeag hydro station, Ekdahl's engine shop, millyard area.
Manchester, NH.

Fall 1993 - Sheldon museum, VT.
Spring 1993 - Dorr Woolen Mill, old mill sites, railroad station. Newport, NH.

Fall 1992 - Page Belting, NH Historic Society Stone Warehouse. Concord, NH.
Spring 1992 - Schiller Power Station, York & Portsmouth tour, ME. & NH

Fall 1991 - Belknap Mill, Laconia canals. Laconia, NH.
Spring 1991 - Old mill sites, elliptical bridge. Livermore Falls pulp mill. Plymouth, NH.
Ashland grist mill. Ashland, NH.

Fall 1990 - Coppermining and smelting. Fairlee, VT.
Spring 1990 - Factory Square dam sites, murals at Union Meeting House. Redfield, ME.

Fall 1989 - Hussey seating. North Berwick, ME.
Spring 1989 - unknown

Fall 1988 - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Kittery, ME.
Spring 1988 - unknown

Fall 1987 - unknown
Spring 1987 - Joint meeting with SNEC, hydorelectric tours. Shelburne Falls, MA.

Fall 1986 - Joy Manufacturing, CPM papermill, hydroelectic facilities. Claremont, NH.
Spring 1986 - Joint meeting with SNEC, Strawberry Banke, Atlantic heights housing,
Harbor tour. Portsmouth, NH.

Fall 1985 - sites unknown. but location is known. Concord, NH.
Spring 1985 - Slate mills, workers housing, abandoned Eagle Mine. Poultney, VT.

Fall 1984 - Joint meeting with SNEC, Old Sturbridge Village. Sturbridge, MA.
Spring 1984 - no tour

Fall 1983 - Joint meeting with SNEC, Page Belting. Concord, NH.
Spring 1983 - Charcoal kilns. VT.

Fall 1982 - Frye's Measure Mill. Wilton, NH.
Spring 1982 - Ben's Mill. Barnet, VT.

1980 - Organizational meeting, Concord gashouse, Concord, NH.

Most years when there was no meeting/tour, there was a National SIA tour in the area.

There's no record of meetings/tours in 1981 but they may have taken place.

Anyone with additional information please contact the NNEC president.