{"id":581,"slug":"old-hill-village-hill-new-hampshire","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Old Hill is the moved — the 'half mile' that's the village's shift, the 'whole town' that's the effort's size. The 'meeting recessed' is the passed — the 'old hall' that's the '41 start, the 'new hall' that's the reconvene's place. The 'citizens bought' is the planned — the 'association' that's the land's buy, the 'model village' that's the state's help.","The '75 buildings' is the left — the 'ruins remain' that's the old site's bones, the 'sidewalks walls' that's the town's ghost. The 'flood control' is the why — the 'Franklin Falls' that's the dam's name, the 'Pemigewasset' that's the river's flood. Old Hill is the double — the 'new thrives' that's the moved town, the 'old haunts' that's the drowned site.","The file keeps Old Hill: the moved village, the recessed meeting, the bought land, and the ruins left.","Old Hill Village is the archive's New Hampshire file — the town that picked itself up."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Old Hill Village is the archive's New Hampshire file — where a town meeting adjourned in one village and resumed in another.","A village keeps its ghost — the file's suggestion being that Old Hill's hold is the doubled: the 'moved whole' that's the community's feat, the 'ruins left' that's the old site's bones, and the 'recessed' that's the meeting's split."]}],"name":"Old Hill Village","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","DISPLACED_SETTLEMENT"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Remains of a village relocated for a federal flood-control project.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Hill, New Hampshire, Old Hill Village is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Remains of a village relocated for a federal flood-control project. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns and displaced settlements. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. It stands abandoned — what remains is the shell and the record.","address":null,"city":"Hill","county":"Merrimack","state":"New Hampshire","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.26658,"lon":-71.62804,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"ABANDONED","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Daytime recreation on Corps land under posted restrictions; village was removed, but not permanently underwater.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":1941,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality. Do not label the modern town of Hill abandoned; record concerns original village footprint. Article’s suggestion that unrecovered graves may remain is speculative, not adopted as fact.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Hill’s riverside village relocated in 1941 for the Franklin Falls Dam flood-control project. Cemetery relocation records survive; the former village retains building remains. Old Hill Village's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'A New Hampshire ghost town' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"A New Hampshire ghost town","url":"https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/11/new-hampshire-ghost-town","publisher":"American Ancestors","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Project land open daily sunrise–sunset.","tour_availability":"Old Hill Village Trail is part of the public recreation area.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Franklin Falls Dam recreation","url":"https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Franklin-Falls-Dam/","publisher":"U.S. Army Corps of Engineers","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"A New Hampshire ghost town","url":"https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/11/new-hampshire-ghost-town","publisher":"American Ancestors","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2},{"name":"Franklin Falls Dam recreation","url":"https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Franklin-Falls-Dam/","publisher":"U.S. Army Corps of Engineers","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}