About Windham, New Hampshire

Windham is a town of 15,817 people in Rockingham County, about 3 miles above the Massachusetts line. The Pawtucket people were its first residents. Scots-Irish families started settling here in 1719, in a district they called Nutfield, which also covered today's Derry and Londonderry.

Some of those settlers wanted a town of their own as early as 1721. They had to wait until 1742 for Governor Benning Wentworth to say yes, and Windham started out as a parish of Londonderry. Some say the name came from Windham in Ireland, the settlers' homeland. Others credit Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, a friend of the governor. When the first census reached Windham in 1790, it counted 663 people.

  • A castle on 1,300 acresEdward Francis Searles came into the world in 1841 in Methuen, Massachusetts. When his wife died in 1891, he turned his fortune to grand buildings, and after 1900 he bought 1,300 acres here. In 1905 he and the architect Henry Vaughan started a quarter-scale version of Stanton Harcourt, a Tudor manor in Oxfordshire. They built it of granite, fieldstone and red sandstone, mostly from his Pelham quarries. It was done in 1915 for about $1,250,000.
  • The castle after SearlesSearles died in 1920, and his castle changed hands several times. In 1952 it passed to the Sisters of Mercy, who trained new members of their order there for a time. Castle Junior College taught classes in it from 1962 until the mid-1980s. Work to restore the inside began in 1991, and today people rent it for weddings and other events.
  • A school traded for landSearles had his eye on a town lot where a small district schoolhouse stood. He offered Windham another parcel close by and put up a new school and chapel there, starting in 1907 and finishing in 1909. People said it cost him more than $40,000. The Searles School and Chapel was added to the National Register on January 11, 1982.
  • A fieldstone library from 1899Colonel Thomas Nesmith, who was born in Windham, paid for the town's first free library, which opened in the town hall in 1874. In 1897 George Washington Armstrong gave money for a real library building. The Windham architect William Weare Dinsmoor designed it, and the mason Loren Emerson Bailey built it of fieldstone. The Armstrong Memorial Building opened in 1899, held the library until 1997, became the town museum and joined the National Register in 2018.
  • Governor from Jenny's HillSamuel Dinsmoor was born in Windham in 1766. His grandparents had come to Nutfield in 1723. He went to Congress, helped settle the Massachusetts and New Hampshire boundary in 1825, and became the state's 14th governor in 1831. Voters reelected him twice. His son, Samuel Dinsmoor Jr., later served as the 22nd governor. In July 1909 Searles set a plaque for him near his birthplace on Jenny's Hill.

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Names on the Windham map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks22

  • Downtown
  • West Windham
  • Windham Depot
  • Butterfield Rock
  • Deer Ledge
  • Jennys Hill
  • London Bridge Road Forest
  • Foster's Pond Natural Area
  • Windham Town Forest
  • Searles School and Chapel
  • Searles Castle
  • Town Hall
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  • Nesmith Library
  • Armstrong Memorial Building
  • Griffin Park
  • Nashua Road Fields
  • Academy Public Charter School
  • Center School
  • Golden Brook Elementary School
  • High School
  • Middle School
  • Country Club

Streets and roads99

  • Range Road
  • Haverhill Road
  • Rockingham Road
  • Indian Rock Road
  • Mammoth Road
  • Salem Road
  • Lowell Road
  • Londonderry Road
  • Kendall Pond Road
  • North Lowell Road
  • Castle Hill Road
  • Searles Road
  • Blossom Road
  • Marblehead Road
  • Nashua Road
  • Heritage Hill Road
  • Meetinghouse Road
  • Ryan Farm Road
  • Morrison Road
  • Mitchell Pond Road
  • Bear Hill Road
  • Northland Road
  • Jackman Ridge Road
  • East Nashua Road
  • Horseshoe Road
  • Sharon Road
  • Roulston Road
  • Partridge Road
  • Cobbetts Pond Road
  • Hawthorne Road
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  • Nottingham Road
  • Wilson Road
  • Faith Road
  • Overton Road
  • Glance Road
  • Ministerial Road
  • Hardwood Road
  • Squire Armour Road
  • Farrwood Road
  • Burnham Road
  • Rock Pond Road
  • Beacon Hill Road
  • Oriole Road
  • Mockingbird Hill Road
  • Grandview Road
  • Jenny's Hill Road
  • Floral Street
  • New Road
  • Lincoln Hill
  • Telo Road
  • Balmorra Road
  • Kent Street
  • Sawtelle Road
  • Harris Road
  • Sheffield Street
  • Brookview Road
  • Bedros Street
  • Canterbury Road
  • Bramley Hill Road
  • Golden Brook Road
  • Gertrude Road
  • Aladdin Road
  • Cardiff Road
  • Camelot Road
  • Fletcher Street
  • Bennington Road
  • Flat Rock Road
  • Princeton Road
  • Duston Road
  • Park Street
  • Timberlane Road
  • Lancaster Road
  • Johnson Street
  • Bridle Bridge Road
  • Millstone Road
  • Wall Street
  • Pleasant Street
  • Jacob Road
  • Hancock
  • Stonehedge Road
  • Tanninger Road
  • Ledge Road
  • Sherwood Drive
  • Haskell Road
  • Sirod Road
  • Tully Street
  • Carr Hill Road
  • Nathan Road
  • Easy Street
  • Field Road
  • Ludlow
  • Third Street
  • Twin Street
  • Osgood Street
  • Alpine Road
  • Fineview Road
  • Atlantic Road
  • Forest Street
  • Leni Road

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