Explore Outdoors: See 7 of newest sites added to NH's Register of Historic Places
Check out these sites, just added to the State Historical Register
Check out these sites, just added to the State Historical Register
Check out these sites, just added to the State Historical Register
The State Register of Historic Places is an honorary listing created to encourage the protection of significant sites and structures that hold meaning to the state of New Hampshire. These are some of the locations added to that list in 2020.
Check out these culturally significant locations on your next outing in the Granite State!
SPOT 1: Boscawen Town Pound
From the time it was built in 1795, the Town Pound played an important role in Boscawen’s agricultural history.
The pound’s four feet high by four feet thick walls held stray sheep, horses, cattle, oxen and other livestock until their owners could claim them.
SPOT 2: Davis-Nadig Homestead
On Nov. 3, 1936, the Davis-Nadig Homestead in Millsfield became the site of the very first midnight presidential vote in the United States.
Midnight voting continued at the circa 1880 farmhouse until the 1960s.
SPOT 3: District 1 Schoolhouse
Deering’s District 1 Schoolhouse was the first of more than a dozen 19th-century schoolhouses in town and the only one still publicly accessible.
A one-room schoolhouse with a hand-hewn timber frame, it was built in 1810 for $175.85, closed in 1919, became a public library in 1926 and is currently home to older and historical books owned by Deering Public Library.
SPOT 4: The Fort at No. 4
The Fort at No. 4 in Charlestown, a recreation of the original mid-18th century fort along the Connecticut River, is significant for its role as an open-air museum established during New Hampshire’s early preservation efforts.
SPOT 5: Old Webster Meeting House
The Greek Revival Old Webster Meeting House is one of a small group of 18th-century meetinghouses in New Hampshire that essentially retain their original form; it is the only one still existing in the upper Merrimack Valley.
SPOT 6: School Street School
Built in 1859, Farmington’s School Street School’s design includes characteristics described in “Schoolhouse Architecture,” an influential 1838 publication by Henry Barnard.
Today, it is the only one of Farmington’s 19th-century schoolhouses still in its original location.
SPOT 7: Stephenson Memorial Library
Stephenson Memorial Library in Greenfield was designed by noted school and library architectural firm of McLean and Wright.
Built in 1909, its yellow brick and granite Classical Revival-style became popular following the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
For more information, visit https://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/programs/state_register.html.