Neville Hall was originally build as a Saw and Grinding Mill powered by the Piscataquog river to manufacture Sharpe implements such as Axes, chisels, Plow implements and the like. For the past several years it has been the home of a pre-school. In the summer/fall of 2006 we plan on converting it to a Sports & entertainment Bar and will occassionally us it for functions. This will allow us to make the entire restaurant non-smoking.

I more and more see the need both of courage to stand fast and the willingness to change. One is the lock and the other is the key; either without the other becomes useless.
--Roger Babson, Before Making Important Decisions, 1943

Roger Babson established the Gravity Research Foundation here on the property in 1948. By 1963 the foundation included a public display to honor Isaac Newton’s attempts to understand the power and potential of gravitational forces. Inspired by his friend Thomas Edison, Roger Babson also included a display of approximately 5,000 gravity-defying birds. Requiring somewhere safe from the effect of a potential nuclear war, Babson chose New Boston as the ideal locale just beyond his required 60-mile distance from Boston, which was presumed to be a high-profile target. New Boston would be perfect for research and annual conferences – The Gravity Center of the World! The Gravity Research Foundation left town shortly after Babson’s death in 1967. Can gravity be harnessed for power or can its effects be reduced or eliminated? No one knows, but there is a stone memorial in the center of town that celebrates those who have attempted to find out.
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