Brentwood’s story is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Brentwood. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗An Abenaki tribe called the Pennacook farmed, fished and hunted in what is now Brentwood. Two main foot trails ran through the town, one along the Exeter River, where arrowheads and other stone and wooden artifacts have been found. At Pickpocket Dam, this pathway joined with the Pentucket Trail leading south to Pentucket (now Haverhill, Massachusetts) and north further into Pennacook territory.
The first non-native settlers came in 1652 to start a sawmill powered by a waterfall on the Exeter River.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Brentwood’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brentwood’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewExterieur van het aalmoezeniershu…, c. 1884: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Brentwood, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Exterieur van het aalmoezeniershuis en de psychiatrische inrichting van Rockingham County te Brentwood Rockingham Co. A… (c. 1884) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.