About Sanbornton, New Hampshire

Sanbornton is a town of 3,026 people in Belknap County, set in the fork where the Pemigewasset River runs along its west side and Lake Winnisquam along its east. Because of that fork, its first name was Crotchtown. In 1748 Governor Benning Wentworth granted the land to John Sanborn of Hampton, a friend of his, along with 59 other men from Hampton, Exeter and Stratham. Since twelve of them carried the Sanborn name, the place became Sanborntown.

Fighting in the French and Indian War kept families from staying, and permanent settlement waited until 1764. Some of the first settlers were Leavitts, relatives of the Sanborns. Governor John Wentworth incorporated the town in 1770. Sanbornton is the parent town of both Franklin and Tilton, and its village at Sanbornton Bridge, also called Bridge Village, was separated in 1869 to become Tilton.

  • A church above the bayFree Will Baptists gathered on this rise in the northeast of town from about 1808 under the Reverend Moses Cheney. Their present church, now the Second Baptist Church, was raised in 1836, mixing Federal lines with Gothic details such as corner spires on its two-stage tower. A vestry was added in 1841. The Bay Meeting House is named for Sanbornton Bay, the old name of Lake Winnisquam, which it overlooks.
  • Two sisters, two doctorsSarah A. Colby, born here in 1824, studied at the Woodman Sanbornton Academy and practiced medicine in Manchester and then Boston, where she was among the city's first women physicians. Her younger sister, Esther W. Taylor, born in 1826, graduated with honors from Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago in 1872 and then joined Sarah's practice in Boston.
  • An architect born in 1851Albert E. Bodwell was born in Sanbornton in 1851 and became one of New Hampshire's noted architects of his century. He designed the Memorial Arch in Tilton Arch Park, which stands just over the line in Northfield.
  • Boston's first TV weathermanDon Kent, remembered as the first weatherman on Boston television, spent his last working years in Sanbornton, sending out his forecasts from the house he lived in here.

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Names on the Sanbornton map

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Places and landmarks18

  • Downtown
  • North Sanbornton
  • Gaza
  • Calet Hill
  • Eastman Hill
  • Hersey Mountain
  • Hopkinson Hill
  • Black Brook
  • Knox Mountian Tree Farm
  • Mike Burke Memorial Forest
  • Town Hall
  • Public Library
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  • Bay Meeting House and Vestry
  • Square Historic District
  • Town Park
  • Central School
  • Congregational Church
  • Den Brae Golf Course

Streets and roads49

  • Stage Road
  • New Hampton Road
  • Sanborn Road
  • Hunkins Pond Road
  • Lower Bay Road
  • Steele Hill Road
  • Hale Road
  • Woodman Road
  • Philbrook Road
  • Perkins Road
  • Calef Hill Road
  • Upper Bay Road
  • Tower Hill Road
  • Brook Road
  • Mountain Road
  • Burleigh Hill Road
  • Osgood Road
  • Knox Mountain Road
  • Bay Road
  • Hermit Woods Road
  • Plummer Road
  • Pound Road
  • Shaw Hill Road
  • Eastman Hill Road
  • Roxbury Road
  • Oak Hill Road
  • Cram Road
  • Rufus Colby Road
  • March Road
  • Weeks Road
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  • Morrison Road
  • Johnson Road
  • Prescott Road
  • Perley Hill Road
  • Tilton Bridge Road
  • Kaulback Road
  • Gulf Road
  • Issac Colby Road
  • Gray Road
  • Leavitt Road
  • Wadleigh Road
  • Willow Road
  • Colby Road
  • Dearborn Road
  • Taylor Road
  • Skyline Drive
  • Poplar Road
  • Huse Road
  • Wells Road

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The art of mapping a place

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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