Grafton County, New Hampshire History <-> Genealogy

Communities include: Alexandria, Ashland, Bath, Benton, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Bristol, Campton, Canaan, Dorchester, Easton, Ellsworth, Enfield, Franconia, Grafton, Groton, Hanover, Haverhill, Hebron, Holderness, Landaff, Lebanon, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, Lyman, Lyme, Monroe, Orange, Orford, Piermont, Plymouth, Rumney, Sugar Hill, Thornton, Warren, Waterville Valley, Wentworth, Woodstock.

Select this LINK to see GENERAL GRAFTON County information and links.
Select from the TOWN list above to learn which township the community is located in, and view information and links specific to that area.

Please note:  Though the information on this web page is believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains.  Please notify the webmaster should an error be found.

• Grafton County Information Page

• USGenWeb for Grafton County, New Hampshire Genealogy

• NHGenWeb Archives

• Interactive Census Bureau New Hampshire Maps: Map of Grafton County

• 1895 Map of Grafton County, New Hampshire, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net

• Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.

• Franconia Notch State Park, Grafton County, NH
  The Appalachian Trail- from Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, passes through Grafton County, NH.

• USGenWeb for Grafton County, New Hampshire - hosted by Arwen Mitton

• USGenWeb Archives for Grafton County, New Hampshire

• The Political Graveyard of Grafton County

• Grafton County Historic & Genealogy Society    P.O.Box 1163 - Ashland, NH 03217.

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  Alexandria

• Haynes Memorial Library    567 Washburn Road - Alexandria, NH 03222-6532    Phone: (603) 744-6529.

• Alexandria Town Clerk     45 Washburn Road - Bristol, NH 03222   Phone: (603) 744-3288.

Ashland

• Ashland Town Library
     P.O. Box 660 - Main Street - Ashland, NH  03217-0660  Phone: (603) 968-7928.

• Ashland, New Hampshire

• Grafton County Historic & Genealogy Society
     P.O.Box 1163 - Ashland, NH 03217.

• Bird's-eye-view: Digital 1883 Map of Ashland, Grafton Co., N.H. Brockton, Mass. : Beck & Pauli, lithographers, Poole & Norris, 1883.

• Ashland History & Genealogy, by Robert Hicks.

Bath

• Bath Public Library    P.O. Box 5 - Route 302 - Bath, NH 03740-0005  Phone: (603) 747-3372.

• Town Selectmen    Route 302 N 10 - Bath, NH  03740   Phone: (603) 747-2454

Benton

Bethlehem

• Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce with "Bethlehem's History"

• Bethlehem Public Library    P.O. Box 250 - 2155 Main Street - Bethlehem, NH 03574-0250
     Phone: (603)  869-2409.

• Bird's-eye-view: Digital 1883 Map of Bethlehem, Graftson County, N.H. by A. F. Poole, del. Beck & Pauli, lithographers, Brockton, Mass. : Poole & Norris, 1883.

Bridgewater

• Bridgewater Town Clerk      River Road - Bristol, NH 03222  Phone: (603) 968-7911.

• River Road Library - Bridgewater     955 River Road - Plymouth, NH 03264-5705   Phone: (603)  968-7911.

Bristol

• Minot-Sleeper Library     35 Pleasant Street  - Bristol, NH 03222-1407   Phone: (603) 744-3352.

• Bird's-eye-view: Digital 1884 Map of Bristol, Graftson County, N.H. by Beck & Pauli, lithographers, Brockton, Mass. : Geo. E. Norris, 1884.

Campton

• Campton Public Library
      RR 1 - Box 1212 - Route 175  - Campton, NH 03223   Phone: (603) 726-4877.

Canaan

• Canaan Town Library    P.O. Box 368 - Church Street - Canaan, NH 03741-0368   Phone: (603) 523-9650.

• Canaan Town Clerk     Church Street  - Canaan, NH  03741   Phone: (603) 523-7106.

Dorchester

Easton

• Easton Free Library   P.O. Box 841 - 1070 Easton Valley Road - Franconia 03580-0841
    Hours: 1st & 3rd Monday of each month

Ellsworth

Enfield

• Enfield Public Library
     P.O. Box 1030 - Main Street - Enfield, NH 03734-1030   Phone: (603) 632-7145.

• Enfield Town Clerk
     23 Main Street - Enfield, NH 03748   Phone: (603) 632-5001.

Franconia

• Franconia Heritage Museum -

  • 553 Main Street (P.O. Box 169), Franconia, NH  03580   Phone:  (603) 823-5000

  • "Like a trip to great-grandmother's attic," with an Iron Furnace Interpretatve Center, so as not to forget great-grandfather.  View the only Blast Furnace Still Standing in New Hampshire!

• Abbie Greenleaf Library    P.O. Box 787 - 439 Main Street - Franconia, NH 03580-0787   Phone: (603)  823-8424

Grafton

• Grafton Public Library     Library Road - Grafton, NH 03240-9720   Phone: (603) 523-7865.

Groton

• Groton Public Library
     HC 58, Box 580-4 - North Groton Road - Groton, NH 03241   Phone: (603) 744-3668

Hanover

• Town of Hanover, New Hampshire

  • Town Clerk of Hanover

• Howe Library
     13 East South Street - Hanover, NH 03755-2185   Phone: (603) 643-4120.

Haverhill

• Haverhill Library Association    P.O. Box 117 - Court Street - Haverhill, NH 03765-0117    Phone: (603) 989-5578.

• Patten-North Haverhill Library
     P.O. Box 55 - Main Street - North Haverhill, NH 03774-9750   Phone: (603) 787-2542

• Haverhill Town Office
     RR 1, Box 23A - North Haverhill, NH 03774

• Haverhill Town Clerk
      Route 10 - North Haverhill, NH 03774   Phone: (603) 787-6200.

Hebron

• Hebron Public Library    P.O. Box 90 - Church Lane - Hebron, NH 03241-0090    Phone: (603) 744-7998.

Holderness

• Holderness Free Library
     P.O. Box L - Holderness, NH 03245-0712   Phone: (603) 968-7066.

• Holderness A Brief History and Early Settlers, by Carl Sheperd.

Landaff

• Landaff Town Office    P.O. Box 125 - Landaff, NH 03585.

Lebanon

• Lebanon Public Library    9 East Park Street - Lebanon, NH 03766-1307    Phone: (603) 448-2459.

• Lebanon Chamber of Commerce

• City of Lebanon, NH

  • A Brief History of Lebanon.

Lincoln

• Lincoln-Woodstock Chamber of Commerce

• Lincoln Public Library
     P.O. Box 98 - Church Street - Lincoln, NH 03251-0098    Phone: (603) 745-8159.

Lisbon

• Lisbon Chamber of Commerce - with "A Little History" and local information including a church directory.

• Lisbon, NHGenWeb - Genealogy

• Lisbon Public Library
     45 School Street - Lisbon, NH 03585-6512    Phone: (603) 838-6615.

Littleton

• Littleton, New Hampshire (Town Page)

• Littleton Chamber of Commerce

• Littleton Public Library    92 Main Street - Littleton, NH 03561-1238   Phone: (603) 444-5741.

• Littleton Libraries

Lyman

• Lyman Town Office
      65 Parker Hill Road - Lyman, NH 03585

Lyme

• Lyme Town Library    38 Union Street - Lyme, NH 03768-9702    Phone: (603) 795-4622
     E-mail: lyme.library@valley.net

Monroe

• Monroe Public Library    P.O. Box 67 - 19 Plains Road - Monroe, NH 03771-0067    Phone: (603) 638-4736.

Orange

• Orange Town Office     P.O. Box 37 - Orange, NH 03741.

Orford

• Orford Social Library
     P.O. Box 189 - Main Street - Orford, NH 03777-0189    Phone: (603) 353-9756.

• Orford Town Clerk     RR 25a - Orford, NH 03777  Phone: (603) 353-4404.

Piermont

• Piermont Public Library
     P.O. Box 6 - 130 Route 10 - Piermont 03779-0006  Phone: (603) 272-4967.

• Piermont Town Clerk's Office    130 Route 10 - Piermont, NH 03779   Phone: (603) 272-4840

Plymouth

• Plymouth Town Clerk    Town Hall - Plymouth, NH   Phone: 536-1732

• Town of Plymouth, New Hampshire

• Plymouth Historical Society

• Pease Public Library    1 Russell Street - Plymouth, NH 03264-1414    Phone: (603) 536-2616.

Rumney

• Byron G. Merrill Library
     10 Buffalo Road - Rumney, NH 03266-0010    Phone: (603) 786-9520.

Sugar Hill

• Richardson Memorial Library
     P.O. Box 622 - Sugar Hill, NH 03585-0622   Phone: (603) 823-7001.

Thornton

• Thornton Public Library
     RR 1 - State Route 175 - Box 275 - Thornton, NH 03223-9510  Phone: (603) 726-8981.

Warren

• Joseph Patch Library
     South Main Street - Warren, NH 03279-9716    Phone: (603) 764-9072.

Waterville Valley - est. 1829

• Osceola Library
     P.O. Box 367 - West Branch Road - Waterville Valley, NH 03215-0367.

• Town of Waterville Valley, NH - About Our Town

Wentworth

• Webster Memorial Library
     P.O. Box 105 - Wentworth, NH 03282-0105    Phone: (603) 764-5818.

Woodstock.

• Lincoln-Woodstock Chamber of Commerce

• Moosilauke Public Library
     P.O. Box 21 - Lost River Road - North Woodstock, NH 03262-0021
     Phone: (603) 745-9971.
   

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  Additional Research Resources:

• New Hampshire Historical Society and Library

  • Library's Online Catalog Search

• The State of New Hampshire.

  • New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources.    20 Park Street - Concord, NH 03301  Phone: (603) 271-2540.

    • New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources.    19 Pillsbury Street - Box 2043, Concord, NH 03301-2043
          Phone: (603) 271-3483   E-mail: preservation@nhdhr.state.nh.us

    • American Canadian French Cultural Exchange Commission.

    • New Hampshire State Data Center.

• New Hampshire State Library    20 Park Street - Concord, NH 03301   Phone: (603) 271-2144.

  • History & Genealogy Section

• New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives Home Page!    71 South Fruit Street - Concord, NH 03301
     Phone: (603) 271-2236  Fax: (603) 271-2272.

• Bureau of Vital Records - a resource for Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Records      6 Hazen Drive - Concord, NH  03301-6527   Phone: (603) 271-4654
  (Note:  Though Birth, Marriage and Death records may be available from 1640, Divorce Records, from the Bureau of Vital Records begin in 1880.)
  Vital Records may also be obtained from the town clerk, in the town where the event occurred.

• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory+ for New Hampshire

• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration

  • The Genealogy Page.

• Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Indiana town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!

• U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for New Hampshire.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist

Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.  Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.

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