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Libby Museum, Tuftonboro, New Hampshire

TUFTONBORO

New Hampshire · Est. 1795
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Bounded on the southwest by Lake Winnipesaukee, Tuftonboro includes the villages of Tuftonboro Corner, Center Tuftonboro, Melvin Village and Mirror Lake. Landmarks include Libby Museum. Tuftonboro is the birthplace of Lydia H. Tilton, journalist and temperance worker.

The Tuftonboro Collection

Made for Tuftonboro. Printed to order.

Every piece is drawn from Tuftonboro's own map data and historic archives, then printed and shipped from the USA when you order. No two towns look alike.

On the National Register

Historic places

Population 2010: 2,387 → 2020: 2,467

From Wikidata (CC0).

Since 1795

A short history of Tuftonboro

Tuftonboro was the only incorporated place in New Hampshire owned by just one man, John Tufton Mason, for whom the town was named. Following the 1741 separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts, Mason was heir to the Masonian Claim, the undivided lands of northern New Hampshire. He sold them in 1746 to a group of Portsmouth merchants, thereafter known as the Masonian Proprietors. They disposed of the land via grants to prospective settlers prior to the Revolution.

The town was granted as "Tuftonborough" in 1750 by colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled about 1780. It was incorporated by the legislature on December 17, 1795. By 1859, when the population was 1,305, the principal occupation was raising cattle and sheep across the hilly terrain. Other industries included two sawmills, one sash, blind and door factory, one carriage factory, and two gristmills.

Adapted (trimmed) from the Wikipedia article Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, revision 1379278079 by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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