Ronald W Collins

Hebron Album and Scrapbook Ronald W Collins

The Hebron Album and Scrapbook presents a photo history of Hebron, NH. It contains a very rare photo of an American, Stephen Ordway, born in 1771 as a British subject, who lived to experience the American Civil War. Stephen's brother, also from Hebron, was John Ordway, 3rd in Command of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition. The Civil War governor of New Hampshire, Nathaniel Berry, lived in Hebron. Hebron as supplied US Senators, Congressmen and State Representatives. The oldest continuously operating boys camp in the world, Camp Pasquaney is in Hebron, as is, Camp Onaway one of the oldest girl's camp in the world. When President Obama decided to send his daughters to summer camp, it was to Camp Wicosuta in Hebron that he sent them. Generated during the two hundred and twenty six years of the town's history, this book is a selection of 248 photos, 39 articles and documents and 8 maps representing about one-tenth of the digital images in the author's collection. The Town of Hebron has never had more than 600 citizens, but it has played a role in history far beyond towns many times its size.