Potential renaming of 'Hoyt Farm'

[John]

It would be interesting (to me) to know what the area was called before it was call the Hoyt Farm.

[Kat Kanning]

The woods?

[AntonLee]

that is funny hehe

it would be interesting to find that out, a lot of places have former placenames that come up with some of the older folks.  Strawberry Banke, Willowfield, and Smithtown come to mind first.

[Lloyd Danforth]

It would be interesting (to me) to know what the area was called before it was call the Hoyt Farm.

The area is known as Slab City.  Hoyt Rd. is really just the Hoyt Farm Driveway off of Slab City Rd. I believe Railroad ties were a major product of Grafton.  When you square up a lot of logs you get a lot of slabs.

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, I understand, The Inn now has another significant credit, a Presidential Artifact...
Pres. William slept here, the boy decided to write his name on the wall. 

[AntonLee]

It would be interesting (to me) to know what the area was called before it was call the Hoyt Farm.

The area is known as Slab City.  Hoyt Rd. is really just the Hoyt Farm Driveway off of Slab City Rd. I believe Railroad ties were a major product of Grafton.  When you square up a lot of logs you get a lot of slabs.

this is the type of info I was talkin' about, awesome! 

[Lloyd Danforth]

It would be interesting (to me) to know what the area was called before it was call the Hoyt Farm.

Something 'Indian'

[Russell Kanning]

right now the book about Grafton is available for browsing ... in the Hoyt Farm living room

[Lloyd Danforth]

It would be cool to get a poster thingy made from the negative Ken Cushing must have used for the Hoyt Bros farm.

[Puke]

I saw Grafton cheese in the supermarket today.
It's from Grafton Vermont though. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

I first saw that cheese in the General Store in the NH Grafton

[John]

I think I saw a shirt in that store which said "What happens in Grafton stays in Grafton."

[Dave Ridley]

they say history is rarely kind to them that rename places

however...in a sense it's your place to rename.  or rather bob's.

[John]

It would be interesting (to me) to know what the area was called before it was call the Hoyt Farm.

Something 'Indian'

The highest mountain in the northeast is nowadays called Mt. Washington. I wondered what it was called before that, and I recently learned that the local natives called it Agiocochook [though don't trust my spelling].

[Daien]

It will remain as Hoyt Farm in my "ghost" song. 

Part/early draft:

"Up over the hill past Bear Hollow Road
Where Slab City Road takes a turn
Past the moldy old pine and the fieldstone wall
There's a story that I've learned

There's a spirit that still walks the land
Down by that swampy bog
And he came to visit me one morn
As I rested on a log

It is not the kind of specter
That good folks need to fear
It keeps watch against all tyrants
Day and night - throughout the year ..."

But, John, there's no 'Hoyt Farm' mentioned in the draft! You can change it now before it gets set in fieldstone!!