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The Alan Shepard Apollo 14 Driving Tour The Alan Shepard Apollo 14 Driving Tour Brought to you by the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Location Address Connection Photos Redstone Water St, Warren is the only town in the US to have an actual (not model) Rocket Warren, NH Redstone Rocket. This rocket type was used in Mercury 03279 missions, including Alan Shepard's launch as the first American in space. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Proctor 204 Main St, The Alan Shepard Boat House is located at Proctor Academy. Academy Andover, NH In the late 1930s Alan Shepard spend a summer at Proctor 03216 Academy and built a wooden rowboat now housed at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. More information available on the MSDC website: https://www.starhop.com/blog/2020/4/8/alan-shepard-first- american-in-space-and-shipwright?rq=boat Photo Credit: https://www.proctoracademy.org/list- detail?pk=47235 McAuliffe- 2 Institute Dr, This museum was named for two New Hampshire heroes: Shepard Concord, NH Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard. Inside this interactive Discovery 03301 STEM discovery center, you can learn about Shepard’s Center achievements, the efforts that got him into space and, eventually, to the Moon, and imagine yourself taking part in space exploration just as he did. New Hampshire 107 N Main St, Originally in the main area and now the gift shop, there is a State House Concord, NH portrait of Alan Shepard. A copy of the original was presented to 03303 the state by artist Bruce Stevenson in 1962. Photo Credit: https://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/legport1/s hepard.html UNH CRaTER Morse Hall, 8 The UNH CRaTER Team works with a project on NASA's Lunar Team at Morse College Road, Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) studying the radiation Hall Durham, NH environment of the Moon by using the Cosmic Ray Telescope 03824 for the Effects of Radiation. Their work helps us understand the radiation the Moon is exposed to and, therefore, what any outposts on the Moon will also encounter. Photo credit: https://www.library.unh.edu/find/archives/buildin gs/academic-buildings-and-properties Start of Alan B. Route 93 at New Prior to the opening of the first section of I-93 from the Shepard Hampshire/ Massachusetts state line to exit 2 in Salem in August 1961, the Highway Massachusetts entire twenty-six-mile segment from Massachusetts to Hooksett Boarder was named after Alan B. Shepard. The bill for doing so was (42.74364, - introduced in the N.H. House of Representatives five days after 71.20993) his successful Freedom 7 flight on May 5. Alan ceremoniously set off a dynamite charge with his wife Louise at the construction site of the I-93/Rte 102 interchange at Exit 4, not far from where he, as an avid skier, may have participated in Derry’s winter carnivals on Ella Hill thirty years earlier. End of Alan B Route 93 Shepard Traveling North Highway in NH just before exit 6 (42.96885, - 71.41253) Manchester- 1 Airport Rd, Formerly Manchester Airfield and then Grenier Airfield starting Boston Regional Manchester, NH in 1942, while a high school student Alan Shepard would ride Airport 03103 his bicycle from Derry to work at the airport doing odd jobs in return for free flying lessons. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Aviation 27 Navigator Rd, The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire sits in the original Museum of New Londonderry, NH 1937 terminal of Manchester Airport where Alan Shepard spent Hampshire 03053 time as a teenager. The museum celebrates flight including the accomplishments of navy pilot and astronaut Alan Shepard. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Alan B. Shepard 24 Tsienneto Rd, President Bill Clinton signed into law in October 2000, two years Post Office Derry, NH 03038 after the astronaut’s death, a bill originally introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that May by N.H. Congressman John Sununu renaming the new Derry post office building, which was constructed in the summer of 1998 and opened in February 1999, after Alan Shepard. The renaming ceremony took place on May 5, 2001, with the astronaut’s daughters and current Governor Sununu as featured speakers. Pinkerton 5 Pinkerton St, Alan Shepard was a student at Pinkerton Academy Academy Derry, NH 03038 (incorporated in 1814) from 1936 through 1940, as were both of his parents. Having previously skipped two grades, he arrived at the school months shy of his thirteenth birthday and left it still too young to enter the Naval Academy. He and his father and grandfather all served on the school’s board of trustees. The first classroom building erected on campus since 1887 was named after the astronaut. Alan Shepard’s Senior Portrait. Pinkerton Academy Alumni Association Archives Historical Marker 19 N Main St, A state historical marker was unveiled at Pinkerton Academy in at Stearns Derry, NH 03038 December 2020 noting, among other historical items, that its House alumnus was the first American in space. (Pinkerton Academy) Julie Huss/Staff photo, Derry News, December 4, 2020 Shepard 60 E Derry Rd, In 2000, members of the extended Shepard family donated 36 Conservation Derry, NH 03038 acres of land to Derry as a conservation area. It was the site of Area the 1896 mansion of Alan Shepard’s grandparents, Frederick J. Shepard Jr. and Annie Bartlett Shepard, which was razed by the family in 1952. Alan spent much time as a boy tinkering in his grandfather’s workshop. Alan Shepard’s 64 E Derry Rd, On November 18, 1923, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr was born in Birthplace Derry, NH 03038 this house that was built for his newlywed parents the previous year. His only sibling, his sister Pauline, was born in 1925. ABS grew up here until he left for Admiral Farragut Academy in New Jersey in 1940, which he attended for a year until he was old enough to continue his studies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Sold at auction in August 1989 after his mother’s death, the last time Alan visited Derry, it has since been in Alan at the auction of his boyhood home, 1989. Photo by Richard Holmes private hands, whose property and privacy should be respected. Taylor Library 49 E Derry Rd, When the Taylor Library moved from a room in the Upper Derry, NH 03038 Village Hall into a building constructed in 1929 with funds contributed by Frederick J. Shepard Jr., his six-year-old grandson, Alan Shepard, helped the librarian, his grandmother Annie Bartlett Shepard, move books to the new building. Inside the library today is a display case with Shepard memorabilia loaned by former Derry town historian Richard Holmes. First Parish 47 E Derry Rd, Established at the founding of Nutfield by its Ulster Presbyterian Congressional East Derry, NH settlers in 1719, the First Parish Church erected its current Church 03041 building at the top of East Derry Hill in 1769. Members of the Shepard family were longtime and influential members of the parish. Alan Shepard’s grandmother sang in the choir, and his father, Alan Bartlett Shepard Sr., served as the church’s organist for over sixty years. Alan Jr. used to pump the organ for his father and was a member of the church’s Boy Scouts of America troop. After his father’s death in 1973, Alan returned to the church in 1974, when its carillon was dedicated to Alan Sr.’s memory. Adams School 11 Lane Rd, The schoolhouse of the Adams Female Academy, established Derry, NH 03038 in 1824, had served as the original classical high school before it was moved from Cemetery Road near the First Parish Church to its current location on Lane Road. After the school closed in 1886, the building was sold to the town and became the schoolhouse of District No. 1, which was renamed the Adams School District. Alan Shepard entered the school in 1929 and later credited his teacher there, Berta Wiggins, who automatically advanced him a year, as teaching him how to study and develop self-discipline. The building was sold in 1953 and is now a private residence. Shepard Family Hill Cemetary, Although Alan Shepard was cremated at his death in July 1998, Plot at Forrest Derry, NH 03038 and his ashes and those of his wife, Louise, who died five Hill Cemetery weeks after him, were scattered over their home in Pebble Beach, Calif., their memorial is part of the Shepard Family plot in Forest Hill Cemetery. Former Oak 16 Oak St, The population expansion that came to West Derry when it Street School Derry, NH 03038 became a shoe manufacturing center required the expansion of the single-story East Side School on the corner of Oak and Grove streets by the addition of a second floor in the early 1900s. Alan Shepard attended junior high school here, but skipped a year here, as in elementary school, because of his academic achievement The school was closed and the building sold in 1951–52 and is currently occupied by residential apartments. Derry Museum 29 W Broadway Opened in its current location in the lower level of the Adams of History # 6, Derry, NH Memorial Building in 2002, the Derry Museum of History has a 03038 room dedicated to Alan Shepard and other artifacts relating to the Shepard family. Its side lawn saw the astronaut speaking after the parades in his honor after his historic space flights in 1961 and 1971. Escumbuit / 1 Escumbuit Escumbuit island has more recently been called Shepard’s island Shepard Island Island, Derry, NH and it is the only island on Island pond that is entirely in Derry.
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