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The Keene Sentinel
09 Oct 2026
A moment in local history: The flood of 1869, by Alan F. Rumrill
Six of the most severe flooding events in the history of the Monadnock Region have occurred since 2005. Despite this concentration of heavy rains and flooding in recent decades, Keene has been subject to other historic floods. In fact, one ... .
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In 1869, New Hampshire opened a cog railway where normal trains could not climb; more ...
The Economic Times 23 Sep 2026
In 1869, New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Cog Railway became the world’s first ...
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In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell set out to map the Colorado River, but his dangerous expedition became the first to reveal the immense geology of the Grand Canyon to science
The Times of India 10 Jul 2026
However, as late as 1869, little was known about the canyon or the treacherous Colorado River that runs through it.
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