Going Solo
On a chilly day along buzzing US Highway 202 in Southern NH we met up with Paul Dobberstein, LLS of @Stakes and Stones Land Surveying. Paul was collecting topo with his Leica robot across the road from a large conservation piece that he has been working on for a while - Mount Misery. If you ask 1000 surveyors how they became involved in the surveying profession you'll hear some great stories and no two will be the same. Paul's was not the exception to this rule-started surveying in his home state of Michigan and when he came east found work with a soils and wetland scientist in NH. Moved back and forth between New England the the Midwest and finally moved to NH to settle down in 2010. Paul worked in the field with Eckman Engineering in Portsmouth. Soon he had his SIT and was attending UNH. Paul earned his LS and joined the staff of AMBIT Engineering in the Portsmouth area. Paul went solo in December of 2020 with the creation of Stakes and Stones LLC, a full service land surveying firm that offers flood plain consulting, septic design, lot layout and so much more. https://www.sslsnh.com/services . Solo operators are the backbone of the and survey industry, strong independent entrepreneurs that are drawn to a profession of independent, intelligent and rugged individuals that are at ease in a board room as well as the backwoods of New England.
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A short bio of Mount Misery-
Mount Misery was noted in the nineteenth century for the extensive views then seen from its summit, for its growth of oak trees, and for the dramatic ledges on its southeastern flank. This height of land attracts the attention of more modern observers for its striking name, which seems to associate the hill with hardship and suffering. The origin of that name is obscure, but several stories have long circulated in Barrington and Strafford to explain it. Most of these explanations center upon a legendary colonial road that was built over the flank of the mountain in one of the earliest efforts to extend New Hampshire’s settlements inland and to connect the seacoast with the fertile soils of the upper Connecticut River Valley. One story asserts that the cause of Barrington’s delinquency in building its portion of the road was the seemingly insurmountable barrier posed by the steep flank of Mount Misery, and that the road builders named the hill in commemoration of their suffering. Another story relates that when preparing to climb the road over Mount Misery, teamsters had to unload their heavily laden carts and take half the load to the top of the hill, then return to the bottom for the second half, subjecting both the drivers and the oxen to their share of misery. This daunting section of the Province Road in Barrington has been renamed “Stagecoach Road.”
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