Access to Indian Rock was along trails through Atkinson, N.H. (Photograph courtesy of Steven Lewis). Atkinson, N.H., is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a variety of events between Thursday, Aug. 31 and Monday, Sept. 4. To help give meaning to the festivities, WHAV presents a special series of little known facts about the town, heard on-air at 97.9 WHAV FM, Monday through Thursday, at 7:45 and 11:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
For hundreds of years before the Mayflower brought settlers to Plymouth in 1620 and Haverhill bought land in Pentucket 20 years later, what is now Atkinson was a well-known native trail.
