1912 Canobie Lake Park Puzzle | Historic New England Series

For summer 2023 - we are introducing a new artisanal puzzle series - Historic New England. Our first in this new series is an amazing 1912 lithograph of Canobie Lake Park in Salem, NH by the great lithographic firm George H. Walker & Co if Boston. About Canobie Lake ParkThe Park opened in the Summer of 1902 along Salem, New Hampshire’s Canobie Lake. It was developed by the Hudson, Pelham & Salem Railways (HP&S) as a means of generating additional passenger business for its new trolley line to Salem (Such “trolley parks” were a common marketing tool used by rail and trolley companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.). In the background can be seen the regional trolley lines connecting the park with the thriving industrial centers of Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell and Nashua, for whose populace the Park was built. About George H Walker & CoAmong other output, Walker issued atlases of Massachusetts and of Essex County, numerous maps of Boston and its metropolitan a