You will find articles researched by students about the Past, Present and Future of Pike, New Hampshire. The students will also be posting historical and present pictures regarding Pike.
Pike NH was named after Alonzo Pike who produced sharpening stones and tool grinders from the local quarry. http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18981
Isaac Pike, who in 1823 settled in the Eastern part of Haverhill and began producing and selling scythe stones quarried from natural deposits near the present Village of Pike, and Frank B. Norton, a native Vermonter, who in 1858 opened a pottery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts, combining and molding abrasives to later form the Norton Emery Wheel Company.
The first mill of Isaac Pike was built in 1823 on a small stream that fed Oliverian Brook, about one-half mile from the present village of Pike on Brushwood Road. The building still stands and was owned by Pauline Tobey and is now owned by Pauline and Steve Corzilius.
The Pike Manufacturing Company made a worldwide reputation by selling scythe stones quarried from natural deposits near Pike, a village in the Town of Haverhill.
he original Norton Emery Wheel Company emerged from Frank B. Norton's pottery shop in 1885 when John Jeppson, Milton P. Higgins, Charles L. Allen, George I. Alden, Walter L. Messer, Horace A. Young and Fred H. Daniels purchased and incorporated the budding grinding wheel portion of Frank Norton's business for $20,000.
When Alonzo Pike died in 1889, Edwin became general manager and built a new mill on the Oliverian Brook in the village of Pike (a seventy-four foot chimney still stands as a monument to the company).
When Edwin Pike died in 1908, his son E. Bertram Pike became president of all the company's holdings. During his reign as head of the company, Pike Manufacturing would reach its peak. Over two hundred Pike Station townspeople worked at the company along side the Olivarian Brook and at the quarries.
Again in 1926 fire destroyed part of the Highland Avenue plant, which temporarily halted production. It was also in 1926 that E. Bertram Pike, the son of Edwin, died and shortly thereafter Herbert E. Smith was elected general manager to oversee the general operations of the company for the Pike family.
There had been several renewals of the 1899 sales arrangement between the Norton and Pike companies, as well as a financial interest by Norton in 1909 which was dissolved in 1915. Norton Company (as the Norton Emery Wheel Company successor) had acquired the BehrManning Corporation of Troy, New York, manufacturers of coated abrasives or sandpapers, in 1931, and Norton management agreed that an abrasive line under the Norton name was not complete without sharpening stones. One of the workers in the mill was my grandfather he was laid of when they sold it to one person then to another so they didnt know what they where going to do with it so they laid of all workers
Haverhill Police Department (HPD) covers the town of Pike. The cheif of police is Jeff Williams. The Haverhill Police Department covers the towns of Woodsville, Haverhill, and Pike.
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Pike, NH Population: 446
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Pike NH was named after Alonzo Pike who produced sharpening stones and tool grinders from the local quarry.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18981
The mill in Pike NH was water powered by the Ovarian Brooke that runs behind it.
Isaac Pike, who in 1823 settled in the Eastern part of Haverhill and began producing and selling scythe stones quarried from natural deposits near the present Village of Pike, and Frank B. Norton, a native Vermonter, who in 1858 opened a pottery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts, combining and molding abrasives to later form the Norton Emery Wheel Company.
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
The first mill of Isaac Pike was built in 1823 on a small stream that fed Oliverian Brook, about one-half mile from the present village of Pike on Brushwood Road. The building still stands and was owned by Pauline Tobey and is now owned by Pauline and Steve Corzilius.
The Pike Manufacturing Company made a worldwide reputation by selling scythe stones quarried from natural deposits near Pike, a village in the Town of Haverhill.
he original Norton Emery Wheel Company emerged from Frank B. Norton's pottery shop in 1885 when John Jeppson, Milton P. Higgins, Charles L. Allen, George I. Alden, Walter L. Messer, Horace A. Young and Fred H. Daniels purchased and incorporated the budding grinding wheel portion of Frank Norton's business for $20,000.
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
When Alonzo Pike died in 1889, Edwin became general manager and built a new mill on the Oliverian Brook in the village of Pike (a seventy-four foot chimney still stands as a monument to the company).
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
When Edwin Pike died in 1908, his son E. Bertram Pike became president of all the company's holdings. During his reign as head of the company, Pike Manufacturing would reach its peak. Over two hundred Pike Station townspeople worked at the company along side the Olivarian Brook and at the quarries.
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
Again in 1926 fire destroyed part of the Highland Avenue plant, which temporarily halted production. It was also in 1926 that E. Bertram Pike, the son of Edwin, died and shortly thereafter Herbert E. Smith was elected general manager to oversee the general operations of the company for the Pike family.
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
There had been several renewals of the 1899 sales arrangement between the Norton and Pike companies, as well as a financial interest by Norton in 1909 which was dissolved in 1915. Norton Company (as the Norton Emery Wheel Company successor) had acquired the BehrManning Corporation of Troy, New York, manufacturers of coated abrasives or sandpapers, in 1931, and Norton management agreed that an abrasive line under the Norton name was not complete without sharpening stones.
One of the workers in the mill was my grandfather he was laid of when they sold it to one person then to another so they didnt know what they where going to do with it so they laid of all workers
http://haverhillnh.us/pikeindustries.html
all the comments above this one are all about the mill witch was the maine part of pike
The average cost of a house in Pike $131,514. The average income of a person that lives in Pike is $32,716.
Pike is in Grafton County. The commissioners of Grafton County are Michael Cryans, Martha Richards, and Raymond Burton.
Glenn English
The Town of Haverhill includes: Woodsville, No. Haverhill, Haverhill Corner, East Haverhill, Center Haverhill, Mountain Lakes, and Pike.
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Past business of Pike, Pike Hotel Inn, Pike Store, Town House INN, Pike Station, Pike Hall had auctions in it
Pike has Co-Op Electric Company for an electric company which is a non-profit organization.
Haverhill Police Department (HPD) covers the town of Pike. The cheif of police is Jeff Williams. The Haverhill Police Department covers the towns of Woodsville, Haverhill, and Pike.
In the town of Pike every house hold has to provide there own water and septic systems. There is no town water.
Pike has no local charities. The people that live in the town of Pike have to go to Haverhill to go to church or go for food drives.
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