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Francestown is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,610 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The village of Francestown , population 201 in 2020, is in the center of the town.
The town of Francestown was settled in the late 1740s, and was incorporated in 1772. In that year John Fisher gave the town 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land for use as a town common and civic center. The northern part of this land was dedicated for the town cemetery and for its first meetinghouse, which was used for both civic and religious functions ...
The Old County Road South Historic District is a rural historic district encompassing a well-preserved collection of 18th and early 19th-century rural farm properties in Francestown, New Hampshire. It includes nine houses, whose construction dates from 1774 to 1806, and the only two extant 18th-century saltbox-style houses in the town.
Francestown is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Francestown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population of the CDP was 201, [ 2 ] out of 1,610 in the entire town.
Founded in 1769, the school is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the Revolutionary War.
The Levi Woodbury Homestead is a historic house at 1 Main Street in Francestown, New Hampshire. With a construction history dating to 1787, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture. The house is most significant as the only known surviving structure that has a significant association with statesman Levi Woodbury (1789–1851 ...
Crotched Mountain is a small mountain in western Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in the United States. The 2,063-foot (629 m) summit of the mountain is in the town of Francestown, while the western slopes of the mountain rise in the town of Bennington, and a long southern ridge of the mountain is in Greenfield. The mountain was named for ...
According to the Rye Historical Society, Samuel De Champlain first documented New Hampshire's islands, which were inhabited by Indigenous peoples, in 1605. Yet, the English did not settle the land ...