Tuftonboro, New Hampshire

Tuftonboro, New Hampshire
Town
Melvin Village from Lake Winnipesaukee c. 1906
Motto: The Diamond in the Heart of New Hampshire
Location in Carroll County, New Hampshire
Coordinates: 43°41′46″N 71°13′21″W / 43.69611°N 71.22250°W / 43.69611; -71.22250Coordinates: 43°41′46″N 71°13′21″W / 43.69611°N 71.22250°W / 43.69611; -71.22250
Country	United States
State	New Hampshire
County	Carroll
Incorporated	1795
Government
• Board of Selectmen	Daniel J. Duffy, Chair Carolyn Sundquist Lloyd P. Wood
Area
• Total	50.0 sq mi (129.5 km²)
• Land	41.0 sq mi (106.1 km²)
• Water	9.0 sq mi (23.4 km²) 18.07%
Elevation	988 ft (301 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	2,387
• Density	48/sq mi (18/km²)
Time zone	Eastern (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	03816, 03850, 03853, 03894
Area code(s)	603
FIPS code	33-77620
GNIS feature ID	0873741
Website	www.tuftonboro.org

Tuftonboro is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,387 at the 2010 census.^[1] Bounded on the southwest by Lake Winnipesaukee, Tuftonboro includes the villages of Tuftonboro Corner, Center Tuftonboro, Melvin Corner, Melvin Village and Mirror Lake.

History

The United Methodist Church in Tuftonboro

Tuftonboro was the only incorporated place in New Hampshire owned by just one man, John Tufton Mason, for whom the town was named. Following the 1741 separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts, Mason was heir to the Masonian Claim, the undivided lands of northern New Hampshire. He sold them in 1746 to a group of Portsmouth merchants, thereafter known as the Masonian Proprietors. They disposed of the land via grants to prospective settlers prior to the Revolution.

The town was granted as Tuftonborough in 1750 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled about 1780. It was incorporated by the legislature on December 17, 1795. By 1859, when the population was 1,305, the principal occupation was raising cattle and sheep across the hilly terrain. Other industries included 2 sawmills, one sash, blind and door factory, one carriage factory, and 2 gristmills.^[2]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 50.0 square miles (129 km²), of which 41.0 square miles (106 km²) is land and 9.0 square miles (23 km²) is water, comprising 18.07% of the town.^[3] Tuftonboro is drained by the Melvin River and Beech River. Mirror Lake is in the south, and Dan Hole Pond is in the north. The highest point in Tuftonboro is the south peak of Mount Shaw, elevation 2,930 feet (890 m) above sea level, on the town's northwest boundary.

Tuftonboro has miles of winding back roads, rolling fields, old homesteads and beautiful scenic views of the Ossipee Mountains to the northeast. New Hampshire routes 171, 109, and 109A cross the town, all generally in a northwest to southeast direction.

Melvin Village, a village of Tuftonboro, is a summer vacation spot on Melvin Bay of Lake Winnipesaukee. It has a marina and many lakeside homes and cottages that are for rent. It is also a popular spot for antique shopping. Melvin Village is in the western part of Tuftonboro, near the town of Moultonborough.

Also part of Tuftonboro are several islands in Lake Winnipesaukee including Little Bear Island and Cow Island among others.

Demographics

Wawbeek Lodge c. 1920

As of the census^[4] of 2000, there were 2,148 people, 926 households, and 665 families residing in the town. The population density was 52.2 people per square mile (20.2/km²). There were 2,019 housing units at an average density of 49.1 per square mile (19.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.32% White, 0.23% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.05% from other races, and 1.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.42% of the population.

There were 926 households out of which 23.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.9% were married couples living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% were non-families. 22.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.68.

Profile Rock c. 1910

In the town the population was spread out with 19.8% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 22.5% from 25 to 44, 31.8% from 45 to 64, and 22.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 97.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.4 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $45,729, and the median income for a family was $51,875. Males had a median income of $36,181 versus $27,109 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,070. About 4.4% of families and 6.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over.

Site of interest

Tuftonboro Historical Society & Museum

Notable people

Edward H. Brooks, US Army lieutenant general
Charles D. Griffin, US Navy admiral
Thomas Dreier, resident, an American editor, writer, and publisher who in the early twentieth century was the first editor of New Hampshire Troubadour,^[5] who wrote the 1933 book Sunny Meadows about his family's life in Melvin Village,^[6] and who had a column in the Nashua Telegraph^[7]

References

↑ United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
↑ A. J. Coolidge & J. B. Mansfield, A History and Description of New England; Boston, Massachusetts 1859
↑ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001) - Tuftonboro town, New Hampshire". U.S. Census Bureau American Factfinder. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
↑ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
↑ "Carlson Shows Oils, Water Colors; Whitman Pencil Paintings Also at Public Library Now". Nashua Telegraph 64 (235) (Nashua, New Hampshire). 1932-12-07. p. 5. OCLC 22532489.
↑ Murdock, Kenneth B. (1934). "Sunny Meadows by Thomas Dreier; The White Hills: Mountain New Hampshire, Winnepesaukee to Washington by Cornelius Weygandt". The New England Quarterly (MIT Press) 7 (3): 583–585. ISSN 0028-4866.
↑ "Sunny Meadows Farm Philosophy". Nashua Telegraph 63 (256) (Nashua, New Hampshire). 1932-01-04. p. 4. OCLC 22532489.

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Municipalities and communities of Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States

County seat: Ossipee

Towns	Albany Bartlett Brookfield Chatham Conway Eaton Effingham Freedom Hart's Location Jackson Madison Moultonborough Ossipee Sandwich Tamworth Tuftonboro Wakefield Wolfeboro

Township	Hale's Location

CDPs	Bartlett Center Ossipee Center Sandwich Conway Melvin Village North Conway Sanbornville Suissevale Union Wolfeboro

Other villages	Center Conway Chocorua East Wakefield Ferncroft Glen Intervale Kearsarge Lees Mill Mirror Lake North Sandwich Redstone Silver Lake South Tamworth West Ossipee Wolfeboro Falls Wonalancet

Saco River Watershed

Tributaries	Bearcamp River Beech River Charles River Chocorua River Cold River Cold River (Bearcamp) Cutler River Dan Hole River Deer River Dry River East Branch Saco River East Branch Whiteface River East Fork East Branch Saco River Ellis River Kezar River Little Cold River Little Ossipee River Little River Little Saco River Lovell River Mad River Middle Branch Mad River Mill Brook New River Old Course Saco River Ossipee River Pequawket Brook Pine River Rocky Branch Sawyer River Shepards River South Branch Mad River South River Swift River Swift River (Bearcamp) Tenmile River West Branch West Branch Tenmile River Whiteface River Wonalancet River

Lakes	Lake Arrowhead Balch Pond Broad Bay Chocorua Lake Conway Lake Dan Hole Pond Echo Lake Lovewell Pond Moose Pond Ossipee Lake Pine River Pond Province Lake Silver Lake Skelton Dam

Towns	Acton Arundel Baldwin Bartlett Biddeford Bridgton Brownfield Buxton Chocorua Conway Cornish Dayton Denmark Eaton Effingham Freedom Fryeburg Hart's Location Hiram Hollis Limerick Limington Lovell Lyman Madison Newfield Ossipee Parsonsfield Porter Saco Sebago Shapleigh Standish Stoneham Stow Sweden Tamworth Tuftonboro Wakefield Waterboro Waterford

Landmarks	Crawford Notch Maine Central Railroad U.S. Route 302 White Mountains

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