Belmont Master Plan

Conservation & Preservation - Historical

Preliminary Report

7/08/01 L M Frawley

HISTORICAL RESOURCES & REFERENCES

Sources & acknowledgments: Wallace P. Rhodes, Belmont Historical Society; “Reminiscences of a New Hampshire Town” compiled for the Belmont Centennial 1969, Rhodes; “The Durham-Haverhill Province Road”

Robert G. Fillion; “Belmont Village Millennium Historic Walking Tour”, Belmont Historical Society ; websites State of New Hampshire, Division of Historical Resources et al.

EARLIER REPORTS & INVENTORIES

Belmont Conservation Commission meeting 3/26/99 discussed in conjunction with data for the Lakes Region Planning Commission master list “Lakes Region Natural, Cultural and Historic Inventory”

(C Daigle researching availability)

The town has one state historical marker (Lochmere Archaeological District), one building included in the National Historic Register of Historic Places (Belmont Public Library) as well as one site (Lochmere Archaeological District). A state historical marker in Gilmanton identifies Old Province Road which continues through current day Belmont.

SITES:  WORKING LIST

Badger House*

Bandstand*

Belmont Mill*

Belmont Village Millennium Trail (nationally designated in 2000 by the White House Millennium Council)

Canal*

Cemeteries (Several are listed in the New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association www.nhsog.org, a genealogical resource; annual town reports provide further detail)

Corner Meeting House (Purchased by the Town in 2000 the building was formerly                                  )

Dam*

Farrarville Mill Sites

Fellows Houses (Joseph, Joseph Jr. And Thomas)*

Fuller House*

Gale School*

Gale Street Mill Houses *

Hose House*

Indian Mound near Pout Pond

Indian Sites (Lochmere and possibly behind Belknap Mall)

Library*  (Added to the National Register of Historic Places 9/12/85 as the Belmont Public Library)

Lochmere Archaeological Area (A 13.4 acre reservation overseen by the New Hampshire Division of Resources and Economic Development.  The site features the only state historical marker in Belmont, noting that the District was listed on the National Register in 1982.)   See attachment

Lochmere Mill Site 

Mill Houses*

Mill Pond Historic Site*

Old Province Road (One of the earliest New Hampshire highways, authorized in 1765 as a supply route from the tidewater port of Durham to the colony’s northern Coos settlements. A state historical marker designates the road’s importance in Gilmanton, about four miles south of the 107/NH 140 junction.)

Province Road Meeting House (Built in 1792  as the first house for religious worship in the Lakes Region, currently owned by the Belmont Historical Society)

St. Joseph Church Historic Site*

Shaker Road

South Road School*

Town Hall*

Veterans Monument*

Village Blacksmith Shop*

* See dates, detail and location “Belmont Village Millennium Historic Walking Tour”

Attachments:

Map, sites Belmont Village Millennium Historic Walking Tour

New Hampshire Historical Markers: Lochmere Archaeological District, Old Province Road