Robert Frost

Windham, NH

This plaque marks a building raised in 1909 in honor of a former New Hampshire governor from the Dinsmore family, one of the political and civic dynasties that shaped the Granite State through the nineteenth century. Windham, settled in the 1740s by Scots-Irish families, was the kind of small Rockingham County town whose sons often rose to statewide prominence in an era when local roots and public service went hand in hand. Erecting a commemorative structure a generation after such a figure's tenure was a common Progressive-era gesture, fixing a community's pride and memory into brick and stone.

Sandown, NH

Built in 1773 on the eve of the American Revolution, the Sandown Meeting House is one of New England's remarkably well-preserved colonial meetinghouses, retaining its original box pews, gallery, and pulpit. In colonial New Hampshire a meetinghouse served as both church and town hall — the single building where a community worshipped, debated, and governed itself.

Exeter, NH

This plaque marks a house in Exeter, New Hampshire tied to Alexander Miller, remembered here as an engineer for Phillips Exeter Academy in 1875. Founded in 1781, the academy was by the Gilded Age a well-established New England preparatory school whose growing campus of brick halls and boarding houses depended on skilled tradespeople and engineers to keep its heating, water, and buildings running. A residence like this one reflects how an institution of that era housed and honored the working staff who made daily campus life possible.

Exeter, NH

In the late 1890s, small New England towns like Exeter, New Hampshire, ran on the quiet labor of local schoolteachers—often women who anchored a community's one- or two-room schoolhouses and shaped generations of children. This modest marker fixes the name of Clara E. Kimball to that work, dated 1897, when public education across the Gilded Age Northeast was expanding and professionalizing. Exeter itself was already a town proud of its learning, home to the venerable Phillips Exeter Academy, so a marker honoring a local teacher speaks to how deeply the place valued schooling.