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ALTON

• Brief History: formerly called New Durham Gore; the town was settled by a group from Roxbury, Massachusetts, and was incorporated in 1796. The name Roxbury had already been used, so the town was named for the Alton family. The town's boundary includes the five-mile long Alton Bay, the southeastern point of Lake Winnipesaukee, the southern side of Wolfeboro Harbor and all of the largest islands in the southeast end of the lake.
• Villages and Place Names: Alton Bay, East Alton, Mount Major, South Alton, West Alton
• GOVERNMENT:
  
  • Official Town of Alton web site
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  
  • Resource: Profile of Alton NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • History & Genealogy: Alton, N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, list of signers of town's first incorporation, early town officials, and biographies of Major John D. Savage, Amos L. Rollins, and Alonzo Havington Sawyer -- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • NOTE: When researching census records for Alton, the 1790 census will be listed as "New Durham Gore, Strafford Co., and the 1810 Census is ALTON in Strafford Co
  • Marriages Deaths and Notices, The Belknap Gazette 1854
  • Marriages Deaths and Notices, The Belknap Gazette 1863
  • Lake Village Times Historical Notes For 1868 and 1869
  • Legal Notices, The Belknap County Gazette 1863
  • Obituary Clippings from Laconia and Lakeport area of NH
  • Sanbornton Casualties 1770-1868
  • Online Books about Alton NH - GoogleBooks
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Alton Photo Album
    
  • Lithograph: 1888, Alton and Alton Bay - American Memory
  • Photographs: Alton NH; taken by a British visitor - personal web site
  • Photographs: Alton NH - fire and police departments
  • Photographs: Alton Bay - Photo #1 | Photo #2
  • Photograph: Alton NH winter scene
  • Photograph: Skypic of Alton
    
  • WEBCAM: East Alton General Store
  • Merrymeeting Lake scene
• MAPS:
  • 1919 Historic Map of Alton (detailed and topographical)
  • 1957 Historic Map of Alton (detailed and topographical)
  • NH Map showing outline of towns, Alton highlighted
    
  • Satellite Aerial View of Alton NH
  • Topographical Map of Alton NH
  • Google map and driving directions to Alton, NH

• History: The Town was incorporated in 1727, although it was settled previously. A majority of new settlers came from either Barnstable on Cape Cod or Hampstead on Long Island, and the town's name is a conjunction of the two.
• Villages and Place Names: Barnstead Parade, Center Barnstead, Lockes Corner, South Barnstead, North Barnstead
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • History & Genealogy: Barnstead N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, early settlers, early lawyers and physicians, early town clerks, participants in French & Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War and Mexican War; biographies of Hon. John G. Sinclair and Thomas Lewis Hoitt-- from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Tombstone Inscriptions, Barnstead NH: Barnstead Centre Cemetery

  • Tombstone Inscriptions: Barnstead NH: Barnstead Parade Ground

  • Article: North Barnstead New Hampshire's Harriet P. Dame: the "Florence Nightingale" of The Civil War (1815-1900) - blog: Cow Hampshire
  • History of Banstead NH (searchable) - book online (free) - GoogleBooks
  • Online Books about Barnstead NH - GoogleBooks
• GOVERNMENT
  • Official Town of Barnstead web site
    
• Photographs:
  
  • Barnstead/Locke Lake Colony
  • Genealogy & Photograph: Hiram A. Tuttle, b. Barnstead NH
• Resources:
  • Oscar Foss Memorial Library, Barnstead NH
• Profile of Barnstead NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of Barnstead, NH
  • Topographical Map of Barnstead NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Barnstead NH
  • Showing location of Barnstead in New Hampshire

• History: This town was first chartered in 1727 as a parish of Gilmanton, known as Upper Gilmanton. In 1859, the voters of the town petitioned to rename the town Belmont, to honor Mr. August Belmont, a New York financier, in hopes that he might make a financial contribution to the town. Mr. Belmont, however, never even bothered to acknowledge the act. The town borders Lake Winnisquam.
• Villages and Place Names: Gardners Grove, Lochmere, Winnisquam, Tioga
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Belmont Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
• Official Town of Belmont web site
• Resource: Profile of Belmont NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY
  • History & Genealogy: History of Belmont, N.H. (TXT file) includes brief histories of "Upper Parish," and "Upper Gilmanton" [see Gilmanton for early history], along with information about early churches, building and manufacturing, the split of Upper Gilmanton from Gilmanton, and its name change to Belmont, 1885 businesses, town officers for 1859 and 1860; Includes biography of Hon. William Badger and his family-- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Free Online Books about Belmont NH - GoogleBooks
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Belmont NH
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of Belmont NH
  • Topographical Map of Belmont NH
  • Google Map & Directions to Belmont NH

• History: Center Harbor gets its name from two sources: from its location, centered between Meredith and Moultonborough Harbors, and also for the Senter family, who were owners of a large amount of property in the area. Originally part of Moultonboro, the town was incorporated in 1797. This location was a landing place for lake steamers and stagecoaches, making it a popular summer resort. Center Harbor was a favorite spot of John Greenleaf Whittier, and the home of Dudley Leavitt, author of the first Farmer's Almanac in 1797. Center Harbor provided much of the scenery for the movie, "On Golden Pond"
  
• Villages and Place Names: West Center Harbor
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Official Town of Center Harbor web site
  • Resource: Profile of Center Harbor NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • History & Genealogy: Center Harbor, N.H. (TXT file) includes a brief history of "Centre Harbor", a list of petitioners in 1797 when the town was incorporated, its first town meeting, and biographical sketches of Colonel John Hale Moulton and John Coe (and their families)-- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Free Online Books about Center Harbor NH - GoogleBooks
• RESEARCH:
  • Center Harbor Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Center Harbor Photo Album
  • Photographs: (Panoramic) of Center Harbor NH
  • Photographs: Center Harbor NH
  • 
    Dybros House of Jewelry, Center Harbor NH - old postcard
• MAPS:
  
  • Satellite Aerial View of Center Harbor NH
  • Topographical Map of Center Harbor NH
  • Google map and driving directions to Center Harbor NH

• History: Gilford was granted in 1727, originally as part of Gilmanton. Settlement was delayed due to Indian conflicts. Once a part of Gilmanton called Gunstock Parish, the town was named for a key battle at the end of the revolution, the Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina. Sargent Lemuel B. Mason, who had fought in that battle, had retired to Gunstock Parish. In 1812, he successfully proposed incorporation of a new town to be named Gilford. North Carolina's Guilford Court House has long since been renamed Martinsville. The original name is used by the Gunstock recreation area on Belknap Mountain.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Ames, Dockham Shore, Glendale, Lake Shore Park, Belknap Point, Chattleborough (near Chattleborough Pond per history below)
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Official Town of Gilford web site (also has history)
  • Resource: Profile of Gilford NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
  • Municipal Government in Gilford NH - State of NH
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • History & Genealogy: Gilford N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, early settlers, early physicians, some early industries, early hotels, early steamboats and their captains, early newspapers and their editors, revolutionary war participants who later lived in Gilford, early militia and members, and the biographical excerpts for Hon. Benjamin James Cole, Captain Winborn Adams Sanborn, Rev. King Solomon Small, Martin Alonzo Haynes, John Summerfield Crane, Moses Sargent, and John Clifford Moore -- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Genealogy & History: Gilford NH Annual Report for 1882, mentions names
  • Free Online Books about Gilford NH - GoogleBooks
• RESEARCH:
  • Gilford Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
  • Gilford NH Public Library
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Gilford Photo Album
• Photographs (Panoramic) of Gilford NH
• Photographs: Gilford NH
• Photograph: (Panoramic) 1889 Bird's Eye View of Lake Village - American Memory
• Photograph: c1906, Kimball's castle, Belknap Point - American Memory
• Photograph: #2, c1906, Kimball's castle, Belknap Point - American Memory
• Photograph: #3, c1906, Kimball's castle, Belknap Point - American Memory
• Photograph: #4, c1906, View from Kimball's castle, Belknap Point - American Memory
• 
  The Arlberg Inn, Route 11A Gilford NH - old postcard
• 
  Belknap Mountain T-Bar (Ski Tow)- Gilford NH - old postcard
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of Gilford NH
• Topographical Map of Gilford NH
  
• Google map and driving directions to Gilford, NH

• History: The first white settlers arrived in Gilmanton in 1761, when the town still included all of what is now Gilford, Belmont and part of Laconia. First known as Gilmantown, the town was home to the Gilman family, of which there were 24 members receiving land grants. At one time it was the second-largest town in the state, following Portsmouth. The original town was larger than it is now, with villages and parishes including Belmont, Gunstock Parish (Gilford), Hurricane, Tioga, Factory Village, and Lakeport. A parish first called Averytown, the site of an unprofitable iron-mining enterprise, is still known as Gilmanton Iron Works. In the 1950's, Gilmanton was made reluctantly famous, or infamous, thanks to the late Grace Metalious, author of the notorious book "Peyton Place", (and later the television serious) who touched off the largest scandal in the quiet community's history.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Allens Mills, Gilmanton Ironworks, Kelleys Corner, Lower Gilmanton
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Gilmanton web site [none known]
  • Research: Gilmanton Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
  • Resource: Profile of Gilmanton NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • History & Genealogy: Gilmanton N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, early settlers and industry, the Revolutionary war in Gilmanton, divisions and subtractions from the town, involvement in the Civil War, Gilmanton Academy, Gilmanton Theological Seminary, Church history and ministers, descriptions of the villages (of Gilmanton Iron-Works and Centre Village), and Biographies & Genealogies of: Jeremiah Wilson, Hon. Thomas Cogswell Sr., Stephen L. Greeley, Esq, Andrew Mack, Esq., Rev. Daniel Lancaster, Hon. Ira Allen Eastman, Rev. Heman Rood, Nahum Wight, M.D., Russell Phillips, Thomas Durrell, and Thomas Cogswell, Jr. -- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Baptisms, 1775-1819, The Smith Meeting House in Gilmanton (TXT file)
  • Membership List, The Smith Meeting House in Gilmanton (TXT file)
  • Deaths, 1788-1818 The Smith Meeting House in Gilmanton Deaths (TXT file)
  • Marriages, 1775-1816, The Smith Meeting House in Gilmanton, Marriages (TXT file)
    
  • Cemetery Transcriptions, Smith Meeting House (TXT files)
    File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4
  • Free Online Books about Gilmanton NH - GoogleBooks
  • Gilmanton NH USGenWeb site [a bit outdated]
  • Gilmanton New Hampshire Serial Killer: Herman Webster Mudgett (1861-1896) - from my blog, "Cow Hampshire"
  • New Hampshire's Missing Places: Peyton Place - from my blog, "Cow Hampshire" [Grace Metalious]
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Gilmanton NH
  • Photograph: John Robert French (1819-1890) born May 28, 1819, in Gilmanton, N. H., died 2 Oct 1890; was a newspaper editor in New Hampshire, Maine, and Ohio. (He removed to Ohio in 1854). In 1861 he was appointed by Secretary Chase to a position in the Treasury department. He was appointed by President Lincoln to the board of direct-tax commissioners for the state of North Carolina in 1864. French settled in North Carolina and was elected as a Republican to Congress (1868-69). French was elected Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate (1869-79). He was the editor of the Boise City "Sun," in Idaho, until his death.
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of Gilmanton NH
• Topographical Map of Gilmanton NH
• Google Map & Driving Directions to Gilmanton NH
  

• History: The first documented white visitors came to the area in 1652. Laconia was for many years a part of Meredith and Gilford known as Meredith Bridge. Early explorers had hoped to follow the Piscataqua River north to Lake Champlain, in search of the great lakes and rivers of Canada told of in Indian lore. These explorers were known as the Laconia Adventurers, Laconia being a region of ancient Greece. It wasn’t until the end of the French Indian War in 1763 that settlers arrived. Incorporated as a city in 1893, Laconia includes the villages of Lakeport and Weirs Beach. Weirs is the name of primitive fishing devices discovered at the outlet of Lake Winnipesaukee. Laconia is currently the county seat of Belknap County, and is the commercial center of the surrounding region.
• Villages and Place Names: Interlaken Park, Lakeport, Pendleton Beach, Weirs Beach, Paugus Bay
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official City of Laconia web site
• Unofficial City of Laconia web site - "The City on the Lakes"
• Research: Laconia City Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
• Resource: Profile of Laconia NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
• Resource: Laconia Main Street
• Resource: Weirs Beach (commercial site)
• Research: Laconia NH Public Library
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • History & Genealogy: Laconia N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, early settlers and industry, the Revolutionary war in Laconia, early newspapers, first tavern, early church histories, early transportation and utilities, first fire department and library, origin of the Weirs and the early boats and ships on Lake Winnipesaukee, early manufacturing, list of postmasters, incorporation and first officers, masonic history, and Biographies & Genealogies of: Hon. John Carroll Moulton, Colonel Seldon Crockett, David S. Prescott M.D., Joseph P. Pitman, and Napoleon Bonaparte Gale -- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Obituaries - Wilkinson-Beane Funeral Home (Laconia NH)
  • Free Online Books about Laconia NH - GoogleBooks
  • Blog Story: "New Hampshire Missing Places: Peyton Place" (about Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, etc. (from Cow Hampshire)
  • Blog Story: New Hampshire: Motorcyclists Invade Laconia for 83rd Year (with vintage photographs from 1935 and 1936)
  • Blog Story: New Hampshire's Fighter Pilot Ace and Institute President, Brigadier General Harrison Reed "Harry" Thyng (1918-1983) (from Cow Hampshire)
  • Online Book (free): The Illustrated Laconian: History and Industries of Laconia NH, published 1899, L.B. Martin, compiled by Charles Woodward Vaughan - GoogleBooks
• PHOTOGRAPHS & WEBCAMS:
  • Ellery A. Hibbard (1826-1903), Laconia resident, born in Vermont, resided Laconia NH. Statesman and judge, State of NH
  • Mt. Washington steamboat, circa 1936, Wiers NH
    
• Weirs Beach (several)
• (Panoramic) of Weirs Beach
• (Panoramic) of Laconia
• Laconia, NH
• Laconia Electric Railway | Photo #2
• Laconia Public Library
• c1906, Laconia, Belknap Point, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. - American Memory
• Lithograph: 1883, Bird's eye view of Laconia, N.H. - American Memory
• WEBCAM: Weirs Beach (Lake Winnipesaukee) New Hampshire
• WEBCAM: a shot of the channel of water that connects Lake Winnipesaukee to Paugus Bay
• WEBCAM: Live view of the Anchor Marine Gas Dock at the Winnipesaukee Pier, Weirs Beach, New Hampshire
• 
  Little Cape Codders Motel and Cottages on Lake Winnipesaukee, Rte 3, Weirs Beach NH - old postcard
  
• 
  Huggins Memorial Hospital at Wolfeboro NH - old postcard
• 
  View of Lake Winnipesaukee- old postcard
  
• MAPS:
  • Panoramic: 1883 Birds Eye View of Laconia - American Memory
  • Satellite Aerial View of Laconia NH
  • Topographical Map of Laconia NH
  • Google map and driving directions to Weirs Beach, NH
  • Google map and driving directions to Laconia, NH
• NEWS:
  • NEWS: Laconia Daily Sun
    

• History: Meredith was first known as Palmer's Town, in honor of Samuel Palmer, a teacher of surveying and navigation, who had laid out much of the land surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee. One of the first towns to have a charter granted by the Masonian Proprietors, many new settlers were from Salem, Massachusetts, and the town was renamed New Salem. In 1768, the land was regranted and named after Sir William Meredith, who opposed taxation on the colonies. Meredith was originally settled as a mill town in the late 1700s because the stream from Lake Waukewan into Lake Winnipesaukee was a natural source of waterpower. Meredith's founding father was Ebenezer Smith who was a major player in the fight to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Major Edwin Bedee, also of Meredith, was in the Ford Theater when President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Bedee came to the aid the President that evening.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Bear Island, East Bear Island, Leavitt Park, Lovejoy Sands, Meredith Center
• GOVERNMENT & RESOURCES:
• Official Town of Meredith web site
• Research: Meredith Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
• Resource: Profile of Meredith NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
• Resource: Meredith Area Chamber of Commerce
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • History & Genealogy: Meredith N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, town proprietors, early settlers and industry, the Revolutionary war, civil history, fire department and library, civil war involvement, banking and newspapers, and biographical sketches of General John Wadleigh, Seneca A. Ladd, Samuel Hodgson, Joseph W. Lang, Colonel Ebenezer Stevens, Joseph Ela, Simeon D. Pease, James GIlman, and George Gilman Fogg-- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Free Online Books about Meredith NH and Its People - GoogleBooks

  • Biography: Meredith New Hampshire Doll Maker Barbara Annalee (Davis) Thorndike (1915-2002) - blog: Cow Hampshire

  • Biography & Genealogy: The Mystery Stone and Seneca Ladd of Meredith New Hampshire - Blog: Cow Hampshire
• PHOTOGRAPHS & WEBCAMS:
  • Photographs (Panoramic) of Meredith NH
  • Photograph: (Panoramic) 1889 Birds Eye View of Meredith NH
  • Photographs: Meredith, NH
  • Wickwas Lake, Meredith, NH
  • Holiday Lights, Meredith NH
    
  • WEBCAM: Bear Island (Meredith): Live images of Lake Winnipesaukee looking north from Bear Island towards Center Harbor.
• MAPS:
  • Meredith and surrounding towns map, includes brief tourist highlights of the towns, zip codes and town call telephone numbers
  • Satellite Aerial View of Meredith NH
  • Topographical Map of Meredith NH
  • Google map and driving directions to Meredith, NH
    

• History: Granted in 1765, this town was first named Moultonborough Addition, after Colonel Jonathan Moulton, who held the position of town moderator. In 1777, he renamed the town New Hampton, after his native home of Hampton, New Hampshire. The New Hampton School, established in 1821, is located in New Hampton. New Hampton has several lakes within its boundaries, such as Lake Winona, Pemigewasset Lake, Sky Pond and Lake Waukewan. The Pemigewasset River also flows through the town.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Winona, New Hampton Village Precinct, Old Institution
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of New Hampton web site
  • New Hampton Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
  • Profile of New Hampton NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
  • Gordon-Nash Library
    69 Main Street, P.O. Box 549
    New Hampton NH 03256
    Linda Dowal, Library Director,
    603-744-8061
  • New Hampton Historical Society [this is archived page, current link dead]
    P.O. Box 422
    New Hampton, NH 03256
    603-744-9952
    Email: bobthom@metrocast.net
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • History & Genealogy: New Hampton N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, a list of 1784 petitioners, histories of New Hampton Congregational Church, and the academy, biographical sketch of Rev. Atwood Bond Meservey-- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
  • Free Online Books about New Hampton NH - GoogleBooks
  • Biography of Stephen G. Nash (b. New Hampton NH) - GoogleBooks
  • Inventory (Tombstone listings) of old New Hampton Graveyards
  • Tombstone Photographs: Favor Cemetery, New Hampton NH
  • List of Cemeteries in New Hampton NH
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Lake Pemigewasset, New Hampton, NH
  • Several photographs of New Hampton, NH, some aerial
  • Autumn Scene, New Hampton NH
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of New Hampton NH
• Topographical Map of New Hampton NH
• Google Map & Driving Directions to New Hampton NH
  

• History: First known as Crotchtown, due to its position in the fork of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers, Sanbornton was granted in 1748 to John Sanborn and 59 others, most of who were residents of Stratham, Exeter, and Hampton. On January 8, 1770, a committee was appointed to present a petition for incorporation. It was made on March 1, 1770 and Sanbornton was incorporated the same day and was named Sanborntown. Depending on your source, there are at least theories about the naming of the town: 1) the town was named after John Sanborn, a close friend of Governor Benning Wentworth; 2) named after Daniel Sanborn, the man who first surveyed the area, had the first son born in the town, and called the first Town Meeting OR 3) because twelve of the grantees were named Sanborn. Daniel Sanborn also ran a saw mill, providing wood to build the homes for the first settlers; he was also captain in the Militia raised against the crown. Sanbornton was one of the first four towns to be given a charter by the Masonian Proprietors. The town was the site of the colonial army' s winter quarters during the Canada Expedition in 1746. The original township included Tilton and Franklin, but as the population grew in the Franklin area, the Legislature voted in 1828 to divide the town over Sanbornton's strenuous objection.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Crotchtown, North Sanbornton and Gaza
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Sanbornton web site
  • Sanbornton Town Office contacts, brief history, photographs, town links - from Belknap Co Economic Development
  • Profile of Sanbornton NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics - PDF
  • Sanbornton NH Historical Society
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
• History & Genealogy: Sanbornton N.H. (TXT file) includes brief early history, early settlers including Moses Danforth, Thomas Danforth, Solomon Copp, Daniel Fifield, Samuel Shepard, John Sanborn, David Dustin and Andrew Rowan; the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812 in Sanbornton and local citizens who participated; early industry and buildings, the witchcraft incident; incorporation of the town; the first meeting-house; churches and schools; early physicians and lawyers; early town clerks and representatives; names of hamlets -- abstracts from: History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire; Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
• Free Online Books about Sanbornton NH and Its People - GoogleBooks
• History: "The History of Sanbornton Vol 1 Chapter 5" Sanbornton and the Massachusetts Claim - PDF (online document by the Sanbornton Historical Document Foundation)
• Sanbornton NH - 1771-1858 Membership List of the Congregational Church - USGenWeb site
• Birth Records, Sanbornton, 1738-1809+ (from USGenWeb site)
• Death Records of Sanbornton, 1887-1892, surnames beginning with A-L (USGenWeb)
• Death Records of Sanbornton, 1887-1892, surnames beginning with M-Z
• Marriage Records of Sanbornton, 1796-1803, NH Library (from USGenWeb site)
• 1800 U.S. Census of Sanbornton NH - USGenWeb site
• 1810 U.S. Census of Sanbornton NH - USGenWeb site
• 1810 U.S. Census of Sanbornton, Strafford County, now Belknap Co. (TXT file)
• 1830 U.S. Census of Sanbornton NH - USGenWeb site
• Revolutionary War Pensions for Steven and William Burley (Burleigh), Josiah Sanborn, and Josiah Sanborn Jr. all of Sanbornton NH - USGenWeb site
• Cemetery place list for Sanbornton NH - USGenWeb site
• Sanbornton NH USGenWeb site [a bit outdated, but some good info here]
• Sanbornton Historical Document Foundation
• Personal Web Site: Carr Family of Sanbornton

• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Sanbornton, NH
• View from Ferry Point House, Sanbornton, NH
• Lane Tavern, Sanbornton NH
• MAPS:
  • Satellite Aerial View of Sanbornton NH
  • Topographical Map of Sanbornton NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Sanbornton NH
    

• History: Tilton not settled until 1762 due to the French & Indian War, which ended in 1760. The first industries in Tilton were a gristmill and a sawmill on the banks of the Winnipesaukee River. A part of Sanbornton until 1869, this town was known as Sanbornton Bridge and Bridge Village. It was incorporated as Tilton, in honor of Nathaniel Tilton, whose grandson Charles was a prominent citizen of the town. Nathaniel established an iron foundry and the area's first hotel, the Dexter House. Charles donated many statues to the town, including the Tilton Arch, and his estate is now part of the Tilton School. In 1879 he donated the Town Hall on the condition that the town was never renamed. Tilton includes the village of Lochmere.
  
• Villages and Place Names: East Tilton, The Plains, Winnisquam, Belmont Junction
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official