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Belknap County, New Hampshire

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47historic places

—earliest paper

1841formed

63,705pop. 2020

30cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 47 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Laconia, Gilmanton, New Hampton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New Hampshire is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Belknap titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

38 of 47 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

47 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alton Bay Railroad Station	Alton	Building	1983
Bay Meeting House and Vestry	Sanbornton	Building	1984
Belknap-Sulloway Mill	Laconia	Building	1971
Belmont Public Library	Belmont	Building	1985
Busiel, John W., House	Laconia	Building	1994
Busiel-Seeburg Mill	Laconia	Building	1971
Centre Congregational Church	Gilmanton	Building	1983
Centre Harbor Village Historic District	Centre Harbor	District	1983
Colonial Theatre Complex	Laconia	Building	2020
Dana Meeting House	New Hampton	Building	1984
District No. 9 Schoolhouse	Gilford	Building	2000
Endicott Rock	Laconia	Site	1980
Evangelical Baptist Church	Laconia	Building	1985
Federal Building	Laconia	Building	2011
First Baptist Church of Gilmanton	Gilmanton	Building	1989
First Congregational Church	Alton	Building	1990
First Free Will Baptist Church in Meredith	Meredith	Building	1986
First Freewill Baptist Church	East Alton	Building	1978
Foss, Oscar, Memorial Library	Barnstead	Building	1985
Gale Memorial Library	Laconia	Building	1985
Gilman, Dudley, Homestead	Belmont	Building	2023
Gilmanton Academy	Gilmanton	Building	1983
Gilmanton Iron Works Library	Gilmanton	Building	1989
Gordon-Nash Library	New Hampton	Building	1988
Goss, Ossian Wilbur, Reading Room	Laconia	Building	1986
House by the Side of the Road	Tilton	Building	1980
Kimball Castle	Gilford	Building	1982
Laconia District Court	Laconia	Building	1982
Laconia Passenger Station	Laconia	Building	1982
Lochmere Archeological District	Tilton	District	1982
Meredith Public Library	Meredith	Building	1984
Monument Square Historic District	Alton	District	1984
Mooney, Washington, House	New Hampton	Building	1997
Morrill, John J., Store	Gilford	Building	1980
New Hampshire Veterans' Association Historic District	Laconia	District	1980
New Hampton Community Church	New Hampton	Building	1985
New Hampton Town House	New Hampton	Building	1998
Rowe, Benjamin, House	Gilford	Building	2008
Sanbornton Square Historic District	Sanbornton	District	1980
Second Free Baptist Church	Alton	Building	1990
Smith Meeting House	Gilmanton	Building	1998
Tilton Downtown Historic District	Tilton	District	1983
Tilton Island Park Bridge	Tilton	Structure	1980
Tilton, Charles E., Mansion	Tilton	Building	1982
US Post Office-Laconia Main	Laconia	Building	1986
United Baptist Church of Lakeport	Laconia	Building	1985
Weirs, The	Laconia	Site	1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Belknap was formed in 1841 (1841-01-01) from Strafford.

BELKNAP created from STRAFFORD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Belknap County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
17,721	18,549	17,948	19,526	21,178	24,328	26,632	28,912	42,884	56,325	63,705

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

30 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 30 of 30 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barnstead Cemetery	43.4059	-71.26701
Bayside Cemetery	43.56368	-71.45063
Crockett Cemetery	43.50907	-71.61481
Doe Cemetery	43.60746	-71.46663
Dow Cemetery	43.61657	-71.48229
Eastman Cemetery	43.56412	-71.56517
Hillside Cemetery	43.54435	-71.46291
McCoy Cemetery	43.56359	-71.42202
McNeal Cemetery	43.37339	-71.18253
Mead Cemetery	43.57423	-71.49285
Oakland Cemetery	43.61896	-71.53924
Old Town Cemetery	43.5959	-71.49702
Park Cemetery	43.44075	-71.60203
Pickering Lot Cemetery	43.4234	-71.28979
Pine Grove Cemetery	43.40442	-71.30407
Pine Grove Cemetery	43.54179	-71.40222
Riverview Cemetery	43.33971	-71.28044
Robinson Cemetery	43.61507	-71.53091
Round Bay Cemetery	43.56479	-71.48591
Sacred Heart Cemetery	43.51606	-71.46412
Saint Johns Cemetery	43.45834	-71.56496
Saint Lambert Cemetery	43.51797	-71.45745
Saint Lamberts Cemetery	43.51797	-71.45745
Sanbornton Cemetery	43.49951	-71.58452
Second Cemetery	43.39896	-71.2584
Smith Meeting House Cemetery	43.41479	-71.36201
Union Cemetery	43.51757	-71.46813
Union Cemetery	43.5429	-71.54536
Union Cemetery	43.51757	-71.46813
West Alton Cemetery	43.54062	-71.30285

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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