Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Go north from the Hamptons on Route 1A hugging New Hampshire's short but convoluted seacoast. 

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Wallace Sands is one of the few sandy stretches of New Hampshire's short coast.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Some beaches were less congenial for sitting.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

The rocky shore then and now is a place for solitude when it can be found.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

In 1789 George Frost built a small house on the end of what came to be known as Frost Point.  It grew from a cottage to a farm to a boarding house.  After the Civil War new owners added a three-story wing and reopened it as the Sagamore House.  As it was being prepared for its second season, in 1871, it burned to the ground.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

The Odiorne Homestead was built around 1800 on a tidewater farm that had been settled since the 1600s.   The farmhouse stands across the road from Odiorne Point State Park and serves as the regional park headquarters.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

The automobile and the bicycle--divergent evolution.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

The 16" guns, designed for battleships, were test-fired once, shattering windows at Wentworth-by-the-Sea across the harbor.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

Children pass the mount for a six-inch gun near the entrance to the Seacoast Science Center, a non-profit interpretive center at Odiorne Point State Park. 

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

In 1800 the Foye family began a farm on Odiorne's Point.  A century later, Wesley Foye sat with his niece on the front step of the farmhouse.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

In the early 20th century the Foye farm was bought by a New York restaurateur who converted it to an elegant 24-room estate.  It was razed for the World War II fortifications.

Twice-seen image, 2007.  Original photographer unknown.

These young ladies of Rye were carefully posed eating their ice-cream at the garden wall.