Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Carroll County

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Wolfeboro is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire in the United States. At Wolfeboro Wolfeboro, the neighboring part of the case. The population of the two villages increased from 6,083 in 2000 to 6,269 in 2010, with Wolfeboro himself had only 2,838 inhabitants. Near the city is Lake Winnipesaukee. The city calls itself "America's Oldest Summer Resort ."

History

Early history, Winnipesaukee

The area of the lake was continuously inhabited from the 8th millennium BC. The Winnipesaukee, after which the lake is named, enumerated in 1614 over 400 members, the different camps sought out, including one at the Wolfeboro Falls. Your winter village Aquadoctan or Aquedaukenash (The Weir ) was at the lake. Smallpox epidemics, for decades repeatedly flared up fights between the Abenaki, were among the western branch of the Winnipesaukee, the Mohawk, but especially between the French and British decimated their numbers so much that in 1696 the few remaining families on Winnipesaukee Lake left their village Aquadoctan. They joined the tribe of Pequaket on the Saco River in today's Fryeburg in Maine to.

British colonial period, independence of the United States

The Town has been issued by the British Governor Benning Wentworth in 1759 to four men from Portsmouth and was named after the English General James Wolfe, who defeated the French in 1759 before Quebec. 1763 were 930 ha to the already reserved for the governor lands to the extent of 24 ha in 1768 came the first settlers in 1770, the small settlement was incorporated. John Wentworth, the nephew of the governor, where he built an estate called Kingswood in 1771. This was so claims the marketing industry, the first summer estate in New England, but it was destroyed by fire in 1820. But the governor wanted hardly herald the Tourismusära but stimulate economic development in the most remote corner. In addition, he had to leave the United States towards the end of the American Revolution as a Loyalist and go to Canada, which remained British. Its often referred to as " plantation " designated property was still unfinished at the time.

Oldest building, school

1778 was the oldest surviving building of Wolfeboro. It is the main building of a farm that stretched between South Main Street and the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. Joseph Clark bought the house in 1817, Evans widow from which there had entertained an Inn, had thus operated there a taproom with accommodation. Clark was a cabinetmaker from Greenland, near Portsmouth. 1917 gave the Clarks the building of the Town of Wolfeboro, the barn, however, was moved to the nearby Goodrich Road.

1805 was the first school in Pleasant Valley in South Wolfeboro, which, as was customary, after the location was named Pleasant Valley School. Later, the school received their 25 to 50 students the name Townsend School because the building stood near the house of the Reverend Isaac Townsend, the first operating in Wolfeboro priest. In 1959 she was transferred to the Clark Museum Complex.

1820, the present-day boarding school Brewster Academy was founded. At first it was called Wolfeboro & Tuftonboro Academy, from 1887, in honor of a benefactor named John Brewster, Brewster Free Academy. Starting in 1964, the Academy was the only high school in Wolfeboro.

Tourism

With The Pavilion 1850 he produced the first major hotel, the others followed. With the launch of the Mount Washington also tourists came in 1872 over the lake.

Historical and archaeological research

1925, the Wolfeboro Historical Society was founded, which anmietete the Clark House; 1959 was moved to its current location. There, a barn from the 1840s had been rebuilt after 2006.

1934 and 1935 were the first excavations in the Wentworth estate carried out, whose results took advantage of the tourism industry to an advertising campaign.

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