sunapee village in 1909
like many other towns, 1 went through name changes before incorporation in 1781: saville in 1768, corey s town , , wendell , 1 of masonian proprietors, john wendell. marsh near sunapee middle high school still bears wendell s name. name sunapee substituted wendell legislature in 1850. town, lake sunapee , mount sunapee share name comes algonquian indian words suna meaning goose , , apee , meaning lake . indians called area lake of wild goose because shaped goose, beak being in sunapee harbor.
sunapee, 2005
before sunapee sizable tourist attraction, industrial area. 1 factory produced 110 clothespins minute. after factories faded away, major attraction became pristine lake, once surrounded number of grand hotels. people used large ferries hotel hotel around lake, ferries gone 1915, when automobile introduced area. lake sunapee lake in new hampshire 3 working lighthouses, built in 1890s woodsum brothers , maintained lake sunapee protective association.
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