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��^Localities in Ancient Dover

��Three Creeks (The). So called as early as 1695, situated near each other, and uear the mouth of Back river, on the west side.

Tole P^nd. a district on the west side of Cochecho river, and adjacent to the second falls of the same, so called, and limited to the second falls in 1658 in the laud grants. One grant says, " neare Mr. Towle, his End." A log hill was laid out in 1703, "at the second fall, or Tole End fall," on the west bank. The name has come to be applied to the whole district ou the west side of Cochecho river, and lying above the second fall.

Tomson's Point. On the east side of Upper Neck (Dover), and so called as early as 1656.

Turtle Pond. So called in 1694, and again in the Sias grant in 1719, as being '"on the north side of the mast path." Was it not another name for Barbadoes pond?

Varney's Hill. The name which, after tlie purchase of Ebeuezer Var- nev in 1696, was given to the "Great hill," alias the "Great Cochecho hill " From the first grants of laud down to 1700 it bore the latter name ; from 1700 till since 1834 it was uni- versally called Varney's hill ; and since 1834 it has commonly but erroneously been called Garrison hill. Whitehouse's map of Dover, in 1834, calls it Varney's hill.

Wadleigh's Falls. The sixth falls of the Lampereel river, six miles from its mouth, and so called as early as 1701 from the owner, Robert Wad- leigii. This fall was called the "Island falls" in a conveyance to Samuel Symonds in 1657, from the

��fact that an island was in the stream at or near the falls.

Wadleigh's Mills. On the sixth falls of Lampereel river, and so called as early as 1701 ; also called the "Hook mill," from a remarkable turn in the river near this point.

Waldron Burial Ground. The burial ground adjoiuing the Metho- dist meeting-house. Tradition says the bones of Major Richard Waldron were taken from the smoldering ruins of his garrison in 1689, and buried there. His great-grandson, Capt. Thomas Westbrooke Waldron, who died in 1785, was buried there, and his tombstone says "the remains of Major Richard Waldron lie near this spot."

Waldron's Garrison. Major Rich- ard Waldrou's garrison, which was destroyed in the Indian rriassacre at Cochecho on June 28, 1689, stood on the west side of Central avenue, and midway between First and Second streets, and a few rods back of the present street line. National block stands exactly' in front of the garri- son site.

Waldron's Logging S^amp. In 1652 (then Captain) Richard Waldron had a grant of " two thirds of all the timber Iving and growing between Cochecho first falls and Bellemaye Bank, and so westward between the river of Cochecho and the freshitt the runs to Bellomyes Bank to the ut- most bounds of Dover." The de- scription of the land grants, and the known location of the Major's mills on the first falls of the Cochecho and the "Log hill" (where the D. & P. R. R. crosses the old bed of the Co- checho), where the logs were tum- bled down into the long mill-pond,

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