Excerpt from Lakeport's Ancient Homes: Recollections by Major John Aldrich (Aged 93 Years) Of Franconia Eighty Years Ago and of the Homes of Lakeport in 1844; With Notes of Their Occupants Then and Later Majiir John Aldrich, who wrote the following work, made a list of the houses here on his arrival seventy three years ago, and in 1916 amplified some earlier notes which he had written and loaned to the late Horace G. Whittier and which Hon. Martin A. Haynes had printed in 1915 as part of Chapter VII. In Historical Sketches of Lakeport, without knowing that Major Aldrich was the real author of the list of buildings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.