DALTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dalton, New Hampshire
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| Connecticut River |
| View of the Simonds Farm, looking north over the Connecticut River. |
| Above - Blasting a log jam at the covered railroad bridge, Dalton, possibly April of 1890. |
| View of covered railroad bridge from the ferry. Dalton's hills are in the background. |
| The steel truss bridge above, replaced the covered railroad bridge in 1928. These photos show the flood in 1936. |
| 1936 Flood at the dam by the Gilman Paper Company mill. |
| The Dalton Ferry was established by first settler Moses Blake in 1792. It was discontinued when the bridge between Dalton and Gilman, Vermont was built in 1928. The ferry was the only means to cross the river in town unless one decided to cross the ice in wintertime. |