Editing Weare, New Hampshire (section)

== History ==
[[Image:Piscataquog River, East Weare, NH.jpg|thumb|left|Piscataquog River in 1912]]
It was granted to veterans of the [[New France|Canadian]] wars in 1735 by Governor [[Jonathan Belcher]], who named it "Beverly-Canada" after their hometown, [[Beverly, Massachusetts]]. But the charter was ruled invalid because of a prior claim by the [[John Mason (governor)|Masonian]] proprietors, who granted {{convert|6|sqmi}} as "Hale's Town" to Ichabod Robie in 1749.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X7oMAAAAYAAJ&q=bibliogroup:%22History+of+Hampton+Falls,+N.H%22 Warren Brown, ''Volume 1 of History of Hampton Falls, N.H.'' Rumford Press, 1900.]</ref> It was also known as "Robie's Town" or "Weare's Town" before being incorporated by Governor [[Benning Wentworth]] in 1764 as Weare, after [[Meshech Weare]], who served as the town's first clerk and later went on to become [[New Hampshire]]'s first governor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OcoMAAAAYAAJ&dq=coolidge%20mansfield%20history%20description%20new%20england%201859&pg=PA674 Austin J. Coolidge & John B. Mansfield, ''A History and Description of New England;'' Boston, Massachusetts 1859]</ref>

In 1834, Moses Cartland founded Clinton Grove Academy, the first [[Quaker]] [[seminary]] in the state. A cousin of [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], Cartland named the village where the school was located "Clinton Grove", in honor of [[DeWitt Clinton]], chief sponsor of the [[Erie Canal]]. The original academy served as a private high school. The complex, which included a classroom building, boarding house, barn and sheds, burned in 1872. Classes were then held in the Quaker [[meetinghouse]] across the [[common land|common]] until 1874, when a new building was completed.<ref>[http://www.nh.searchroots.com/documents/Hillsborough/History_Weare_NH.txt ''History of Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire;'' J.W. Lewis & Company, Philadelphia 1885]</ref> It would serve as the Weare school district from 1877 to 1938.

On September 21, 1938, following several days of heavy rain, the [[New England Hurricane of 1938]] passed through the center of [[New England]]. The additional rains from the storm caused the [[Deering Reservoir]] dam to breach, releasing a wall of water that rushed down to the [[Weare Reservoir]] dam. Although the dam held, the [[flash flood]] broke through the land at the side of the dam, releasing millions of gallons of reservoir water. The flood washed away everything in its path, leaving parts of Weare devastated. Many active [[watermill|mills]] were destroyed in the disaster.

In response to the disaster and seasonal flooding, the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] built the {{convert|2000|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} Everett Dam, as part of the Hopkinton-Everett Flood Control Project, which had been authorized by [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] to prevent a recurrence of the devastating floods. The overall project was completed in 1963 at a total cost of $21,400,000. The dam required the village of East Weare to be permanently abandoned, and formed Everett Lake.

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Image:Old Bridge near Weare, NH.jpg|Old bridge {{circa|1905}}
Image:First Baptist Church, East Weare, NH.jpg|Baptist Church {{circa|1910}}
Image:Railroad Station, East Weare, NH.jpg|[[Boston & Maine Railroad]] station in 1910
Image:Street Scene, East Weare, NH.jpg|East Weare {{circa|1910}}
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