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


LANDMARKS: Dunn's Woods

NAMES: TORR, Benedictus; TORR, Simon; DUNN, Samuel; DUNN'S TAVERN; 

	Dunn's Woods.  These woods are in Dover, adjoining the road to Durham.
They were acquired early last century by Benedictus Torr, and now belong 
to Mr. Simon Torr.  For the last fifty years they have been known as "Dunn's
woods," for the strange reason that Samuel Dunn, of Dunn's tavern, Dover,
owned land adjoining, that was almost entirely woodless.  In days by no 
means distant, these dark, damp, lonely woods, enclosed by hills, and remote
from any dwelling, were said to be the scene of many a robbery by day and
supernatural occurrence by night, stories of which at once delighted and
terrified the neighboring children.  The ghost stories sprang  chiefly from
the delusive phosphorescent lights which on dark nights were often seen 
gleaming here and there among the bogs and decayed wood.  Torr's woods, as 
they should be called are now fast disappearing, and with them the nocturnal
lights which once startled the belated traveller.			

PG 67




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