{"id":519,"slug":"monson-center-hollis-milford-new-hampshire","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Monson is the first — the '1737' that's the settlement's year, the 'inland' that's the colony's claim. The 'never built' is the lacked — the 'no church' that's the missing's list, the 'pound' that's the only public. The 'petitioned out' is the ended — the '1770' that's the abandonment's date, the 'repeal charter' that's the people's ask.","The 'cellar holes' is the left — the 'Gould' that's the family's name, the 'markers' that's the trails' labels. The 'saved' is the fought — the '1998' that's the campaign's year, the 'housing development' that's the threat's form. Monson is the walked — the 'three miles' that's the trails' length, the 'beaver pond' that's the wildlife's home.","The file keeps Monson: the first inland, the lacked church, the petitioned end, and the walked cellars.","Monson Center is the archive's New Hampshire file — the town that asked to stop existing."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Monson Center is the archive's New Hampshire file — the settlement that voted itself away.","A village keeps its cellars — the file's suggestion being that Monson's hold is the emptied: the 'first inland' that's the claim's rank, the 'petitioned' that's the death's form, and the 'saved' that's the rescue's year."]}],"name":"Monson Center","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","HISTORICAL_MYSTERY"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"Abandoned colonial settlement with foundations and an unresolved abandonment history.","full_desc":"Monson Center is a ghost town in Hollis / Milford, New Hampshire. Abandoned colonial settlement with foundations and an unresolved abandonment history. European settlers established the village in 1737. It disbanded in 1770; the landowner describes competing explanations for abandonment. Preservation followed a 1998 campaign.","address":null,"city":"Hollis / Milford","county":null,"state":"New Hampshire","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.831645,"lon":-71.678708,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Preserve trails open for walking; do not disturb archaeological features. Camping, fires and wheeled vehicles prohibited.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.forestsociety.org/property/monson-center","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Landowner page contradicts itself about winter plowing; no guaranteed winter access adopted. Uncertain abandonment explanations are not supernatural claims.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":62.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"European settlers established the village in 1737. It disbanded in 1770; the landowner describes competing explanations for abandonment. Preservation followed a 1998 campaign. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Monson Center' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Monson Center","url":"https://www.forestsociety.org/property/monson-center","publisher":"Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Self-guided interpretive trail and mobile outing","parking":"Small Adams Road parking area","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Monson Center","url":"https://www.forestsociety.org/property/monson-center","publisher":"Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Monson Center","url":"https://www.forestsociety.org/property/monson-center","publisher":"Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}