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- 1799 – Sam and Mandy
- 1840 – Benjie
- 1860 – Ruth
- 1875 – Aaron and Amos
- 1892 – Benjamin
- 1942 – Ted
- 1977 – Jed
- 1999 – Wendy
The twins’ first bedrock prospecting trip to Moosilauke, late in that summer of 1870, was based out of the Prospect House. They enjoyed their wagon ride up the long ridge from Merrill’s over the greatly improved road. Hidden in their luggage were a pair of axes, two small crowbars, and a short-handled shovel. They stayed a week then and spent most of their days just below treeline, out of sight of the Prospect House.
They hacked apart root clumps and shoveled aside loosened dirt and gravel, probed and pried with the crowbars, and tried to get down to bedrock at every site. During that first trip they got no encouragement on their chances for finding gold. They did, however, decide to concentrate future prospecting efforts to the west and southwest of the summit — not because the chance for gold there was better than elsewhere, but rather because they’d be more out of the public view.