Dunklee Lane

ROADS

DUNKLEE LANE ‑‑old chicken house remains.

This road was named after the Dunklee family that lived her many years ago. Ernest Dunklee lived here with a brother and his mother. Ernest would drive his horse and small wagon to town once a week to buy groceries. He had a beautiful grey Chow dog that always sat on the seat with him. He died in ‑‑‑‑ . The town of Hollis took the land for a training place for the Fire Dept. . .17 acres. They built a tower to ralse tall ladders against and they burned the old tumbled down house in three stages of training. A fire pond was dug nearby to train the fireman in laying hose on the ground.

During the second World War the Hardy Farm rented the field and grew vegetables on it,

The Pine trees were planted in May, 1959, by Henry Hildreth and Robert Hayden?

During the 1938 Hurricane trees were felled down by the south‑east wind. They are still here. Other trees are growing out of the tree stumps. A group of Shag‑bark Hickory. Ash trees‑Walnut, Gray Dog‑wood. Hazel‑nut or Witvh Hazel bushes. A sycamore tree and a Buttonwood tree by the water‑hole. A Hop Hornbeam or Ironwood.

These trees were here in 1986 plus Alder bushes?

H. Hildreth