RANDOLPH â The Potter Paleoindian Site on the east end of town in the Moose River Valley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Thursday, April 28, state archaeologist Mark Doperalski confirmed.
âThis site is an undisturbed, highly intact habitation that dates to approximately 12,500 to 12,000 years ago,â explains retired state archaeologist Richard âDickâ Boisvert of Deerfield, who led a number of âdigsâ there.
âThe Potter Site contains a series of intensively used workshop areas as well as household encampments,â he says. âThe site was located on the landscape (by early nomadic peoples) so as to take advantage of plant and animal resources close by the areas of occupation and also strategically positioned so as to be able to see herds of caribou as they made their seasonal migrations. Caribou were hunted for their meat, hides and antlers, all essential to the Paleoindiansâ survival.â
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NE Unsolved: Family of missing UMass Amherst student Maura Murray still fighting for justice Bob Ward
Seventeen years ago, UMass Amherst college student Maura Murray disappeared in northern New Hampshire.
To this day, no evidence has publicly surfaced indicating what happened to the 21-year-old Hanson woman after her car crashed on Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire on February 9, 2004.
Earlier that day, Maura packed some of her things into her car, unexpectedly left the UMass Amherst campus and drove north. No one knows where she was headed.
Maura’s case has been told in books, podcasts, TV documentaries and websites and has become one of New England’s most closely studied unsolved cases.
Maura Murray blue ribbon memorial tree destroyed
March 10, 2021HAVERHILL Despite ongoing efforts by Maura Murray s family to save the tree marking the site where she was last seen alive, the property owners cut it down two weeks ago.
Last fall, Murray s family petitioned the New Hampshire legislature to install a permanent historical marker on Route 112 in Haverhill. They await approval and hope for a spring installation. Typically, the approval process takes about four months. But COVID really slowed things down at the state capitol, and we haven t heard anything yet, stated Murray s elder sister Julie.
Only 25 New Hampshire resident petition signatures were required for a historical marker. Murray said the effort received overwhelming international support.