A working and temporary website for Jaffrey's FY 07 Certified Local Government grant-supported project
Web-Based Historical and Cultural Resource Interactive Database (#42-07-21643-03).
Lead agency: Jaffrey Historic District Commission
Robert B. Stephenson, Project Administrator and Content Coordinator. Telephone: 603-532-6066. E-mail
Postal address: P.O. Box 435, Jaffrey, NH 03452
Sean Driscoll, Senior Webmaster. E-mail
Some Content is Now Up We are still in the beginning stages of getting JaffreyHistory.org up and running. (The 'project page' that you are reading at the moment gives details of the project and acts as an 'archive' of progress and procedures.) But starting from the mockup design (see below), Sean Driscoll has accomplished a lot to follow that design and translate it into a functioning site. Rob Stephenson has fed Sean information and has done some construction as well. A lot of refinement and rethinking is no doubt ahead of us. At the moment the following chapters or sections are up and running, but remember, these are just first attempts. (Note that some of the text is just filler. And please ignore the typos.)
Homepage This still appears like the mockup noted below. The actual Contents and Resources in the sidebars will change as things develop and fall into place. At the moment the only active links with content are: > Structures and > Cemeteries under > Jaffrey Places
Update: As of 4 May, there are quite a few more active links: Each of the subject headings (Overviews of Jaffrey History, Jaffrey People, etc.) are linked to an introductory page which may or may not at this stage have links to further pages. 'Publications about Jaffrey' has two links: The Granite Monthly 1899 article on Jaffrey and the 'Hand-book of Jaffrey.'Cemeteries The first level under Cemeteries is an Introduction page which gives a brief Overview with each cemetery listed. These are linked to a cemetery-specific page (both by clicking the name in the text and the location on the map). Presently the only link with content is the Old Burying Ground. When clicking that you are brought to a page that gives some history of the Old Burying Ground. Within the Overview text are various links none of which are active at the moment. In the sidebar are various linked pages. Under the Old Burying Ground under Cemeteries is a link to the Guide on the Horsesheds, to a page highlighting Interesting Graves and a searchable database under Search Graves. Under Interesting Graves, the only active link at the moment is the one entitled Adonijah Howe (this is shown in the sidebar and evenutally will be linked to a picture of Howe's gravestone as shown in Interesting Graves). The Howe page includes some biographical information and a photo of the gravestone (in this instance it's actually his son Luke's gravestone). There is a further link at the bottom right that takes you a page on Dr Howe's house on Thorndike Pond Road. This is the same page as you went to under Structures above. Note that many pages could be linked to a basic page, this being an example. The Search Graves section is an active database. At the moment it includes the names of all those buried in the Old Burying Ground up to 10 or so years ago but not an awful lot more in most cases. In time, there will be complete information for each grave plus photographs.
Photographs specifically photographs of Schools. Under a resource section entitled 'Photographs,' there will be a way to access photographs by subject area, in this example, Schools. After an Introduction giving an Overview, one can go to the subject area of interest from the Resources sidebar on the right. The only active links are Schools and Schools#2. Both have the same content. Schools#2 merely uses, as an experiment, an Adobe Web Gallery template. What one has at this level is a series of Thumbnail photos that are linked to a page with a larger photo and accompanying text. Click on the photo titled Conant High School / Union Hall. This is the lowerst level of the site. The photograph is of a format and size that it can be copies off the site for use on another site or for a publication.
Maps Maps is a category under Resources on the Homepage. If the link to Maps on the Homepage were active (it will be) you would come to an Introduction that includes an Overview on Maps. In the sidebar on the right are a listing of maps. The only active link at the moment is Cheshire County wall map (Fagan, 1858). Here we have a description and commentary on the Fagan map with links in the text and via the thumbnail images to the Jaffrey (town-wide) portion of the map, the East Jaffrey portion, and the Jaffrey (Jaffrey Center) portion, plus a view of Mt Monadnock and of School House No. 2 that were included on the margins on the map.
Roads There will be links to information on Jaffrey's roads and streets both under the subject Content sidebar on the Homepage and the Resources sidebar. The example given here is what might appear on the Resource side. It starts out with an Index Map of Jaffrey. This divides the town into sections for visibility reasons. Click on Grid D (the only active link at the moment), and you go to a map of the southwest part of Jaffrey. If you were interested in knowing about Fitzwilliam Road you could click on it anywhere along its length (the only active link at the moment) and you will be taken to a page that gives you information on the road. (Not included but easily done is to include some photographs of the road at various places along its length.)
The above description and links should give you a basic idea how the JaffreyHistory.org site will look and work. As we proceed and based on feedback from interested people, the "look and feel" may change dramatically. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Use the e-mail link at the top of the page (rs41@comcast.net) or info@jaffreyhistory.org
Click here to see Procedures and Criteria for site content.
Click here to see Forms and Procedures for Cemetery Recording.