123. The Governor's Road | ||
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| located west of Sanbornville, on the east side of NH16, south of its junction with NH109, Wakefield, NH |
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"This name was given to the highway from Portsmouth
to Governor John Wentworth's summer estate in Wolfeborough. Passing through Newington, it crossed
the Piscataqua River at Knight's Ferry to Dover. From Rochester it skirted Teneriffe Mountain to
Middleton Four Corners. Rounding Moose Mountain to Union Meadows it passed through Brookfield,
arriving at Wentworth House. The fifty mile highway was completed in 1769." erected 1978 |
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Stalking New Hampshire's Historical Markers Historical Markers of the Lakes Region |
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