Wildwood Settlement Site
Wildwood Settlement Site is a ghost town in Easton, New Hampshire. Former White Mountains logging settlement later used by a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Transcription of NH state marker 200 describes Wildwood’s sawmills, school and boardinghouse; last river log drive occurred in 1911 and a CCC camp operated here in 1933–1937.
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Is Wildwood Settlement Site haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
New Hampshire marker 200, standing where Route 112 meets Tunnel Brook Road in Easton, marks the ground where Wildwood stood — a logging village on the Wild Ammonoosuc River in country that was first Lincoln, then Landaff, then Easton. At the turn of the twentieth century it was a center for what the marker calls 'slash and run' logging on Mount Moosilauke's slopes: a school, a post office (1884–1907), several sawmills — the Easton Lumber Company's steam mill alone employing about twenty-five men — a boardinghouse, and a handful of homes, with a population of seventy-five in 1895.
The river was the machinery. Dams up the Wild Ammonoosuc — the Little Dam, the Bunga dams, the Whitcherville Dam below — staged the spring drives that walked logs down to the Ammonoosuc and then the Connecticut, bound for southern New England mills. The last drive ran in 1911.
Two lives, one clearing
The paper industry had already absorbed the cutting — four Wildwood sawmills sold to Fall Mountain Paper between 1892 and 1895, folded into International Paper by 1898 — and the village emptied as the timber did. Then the Depression gave the clearing a second life: from 1933 to 1937, Wildwood hosted the first Civilian Conservation Corps camp authorized in New Hampshire.
Dam remnants still show in the river, and the marker was dedicated in 2006 partly at the urging of Eunice Woods, who had spent childhood summers in the old schoolhouse her grandfather bought in 1927. The file keeps it as documented settlement history; no paranormal claim is asserted.
Documented history
Transcription of NH state marker 200 describes Wildwood’s sawmills, school and boardinghouse; last river log drive occurred in 1911 and a CCC camp operated here in 1933–1937. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Wildwood: NH marker 200' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
Verified historyHistorical Marker Database
Sources on file
- 01Wildwood: NH marker 200Historical Marker Database · directory · A4
Field notes & open questions
State-authored marker is reproduced by a third-party marker database. Marker is at NH 112/Tunnel Brook Road; exact former village boundary and present access require USFS verification. No paranormal claims asserted.