JULY 2025 - FROM OUR ARCHIVES

 In July of 1941, Lisbon opened its new $4,000 concrete swimming pool on the Lisbon Lions Community Field, (pictured in the early 1970s with the bathhouse). The pool was a joint project between the Lisbon Lions Club and Lisbon Outing Club, which raised $1,200 towards the expense of construction. The balance of the cost was raised through private funding. The new chlorinated pool was 30'x60' and five feet deep at the deep end. Water from Pearl Lake was used to fill the pool and kept a constant flow through it. The pool was drained once a week or more as needed. Each spring volunteers put a fresh coat of bright blue paint on the concrete to get it ready for another year of swimming. The pool was replaced in 2012 by a new $415,000, 80'x50' community swimming pool and bathhouse which opened in July of 2012. The project was funded through years of Lisbon Pool Fund and Lisbon Lions Club fundraising events, a Lisbon, Lyman, and Landaff apportionment, private and business donations, memorial donations, and a NHCDFA Tax Credit Grant.

JUNE 2025 - FROM OUR ARCHIVES

The smoldering ruins of Parker Young Manufacturing Company on South Main Street, Lisbon is pictured after the fire of June 1, 1891. The fire started in the sawmill at 2pm. Fire trains came from Woodsville and Littleton, but everything was gone in just a few hours: an estimated 1 million board feet of piled boards, storehouses, drying houses, offices, nine dwellings and their contents, barns, outhouses, and more. The town water at the time came from Pearl Lake. The factory had fire sprinklers which could not be shut off, so all the water went to the sprinkler system, and there wasn’t enough to save the houses which did catch fire. Private homes as well as tenements owned by Parker Young were all on fire at the same time, and none could be saved. Everything was dry and burned quickly. The Concord and Montreal Railroad Company lost four cars to the fire, as well. The factory was immediately rebuilt on the same site. Ironically, the Parker Young factory whistle was used to sound the town fire alarm as late as 1922.