Sunapee

During the 1860s Sunapee seemed to attract residents with a flair for invention. In 1868 John Smith devised a machine that permitted the local clothespin factory—a major industry at the time—to produce 125 finished clothespins per minute.

The following year, after a decade of study, Enos Clough drove a horseless carriage throughout the area, but its tendency to terrify horses resulted in its being banned. Clough sold the contraption to a Laconia man who ran it into a fence; the engine was finally installed in a boat.

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