Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 


LANDMARK: Bagdad	

NAMES: NONE ASSOCIATED

	This name has been given for the last three score years or more to a 
corner east of Brown's hill in Durham-- not for anything oriental in the 
scenery or in the style of architecture of the buildings, or any magnificence
of sentiment among the residents.  On the contrary, at the time this corner
received its name, it was notable for its squalor and poverty and lowness of
morals; and the name was , perhaps, given by some rural philosopher, who 
found it as good a place to moralize in,  as Mirza did on the high hills of 
Bagdad, where he went to muse and moralize on the condition and fate of 
humanity.  And here, as on Mirza's hills, there is a "long hollow valley" 
beneath, in the depth of which courses Huckins brook, along the upper side 
of Buck's hill.            
     Some say, however, that the name of Bagdad was given by the boys of 
this corner, who had been reading the "Arabian Nights," and the name so 
tickled the popular fancy, by the very force of contrast, as to be at once 
universally accepted.                              	 

PG  12-13





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