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Coos County, New Hampshire

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
33historic places
—earliest paper
1805formed
31,268pop. 2020
22cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 33 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Lancaster, Berlin, Carroll.

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 Coos titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

19 of 33 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

33 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Aldrich, Benjamin, HomesteadColebrookBuilding2003
Balsams, TheDixvilleDistrict2002
Burgess, George E., School-Notre Dame High SchoolBerlinBuilding2015
Columbia Covered BridgeColumbiaStructure1976
Congregational ChurchBerlinBuilding1980
Crawford DepotCarrollBuilding1982
Crawford House Artist's StudioCarrollBuilding1985
Fabyan Guard StationCarrollBuilding2018
Garland MillLancasterBuilding1982
Holy Resurrection Orthodox ChurchBerlinBuilding1979
Indian Stream SchoolhousePittsburgBuilding2011
Martin HomesteadNorth StratfordDistrict1998
Meadow BridgeShelburneStructure2003
Mount Orne Covered BridgeLancasterStructure1976
Mount Washington Hotel NHLBretton WoodsBuilding1978
Mountain View HouseWhitefieldDistrict2004
Mt. Jasper Lithic SourceBerlinSite1992
Nansen Ski JumpMilanDistrict2019
Noyes, George Washington, HouseGorhamBuilding2016
Philbrook Farm InnShelburneBuilding1984
Potter SiteRandolphSite2021
Saint Anne Historic DistrictBerlinDistrict2018
St. Anne ChurchBerlinBuilding1979
Stark Covered BridgeGrovetonStructure1980
Stark Union ChurchStarkBuilding1983
Tip-Top HouseSargent's PurchaseBuilding1982
US Post Office-Lancaster MainLancasterBuilding1986
Wallace FarmColumbiaBuilding2001
Waumbek Cottages Historic DistrictJeffersonDistrict2006
Weeks EstateLancasterBuilding1985
Weeks State ParkLancasterDistrict2023
Weeks, William Dennis, Memorial LibraryLancasterBuilding2000
Wilder-Holton HouseLancasterBuilding1975

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Coos was formed in 1805 (1805-03-01) from Grafton.

COOS created from GRAFTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Coos County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

39k22k3,9911810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,9915,5499,84913,16118,58029,46836,09339,27435,93237,14035,14733,11131,268

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

22 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed
NameLatLon
Calvary Cemetery44.49639-71.15538
East Whitefield Cemetery44.4017-71.54982
Errol Village Cemetery44.78095-71.13382
Evans Cemetery44.39366-71.18841
Forest Vale Cemetery44.38057-71.47583
Hazelton Cemetery44.39772-71.06407
Hillcrest Cemetery44.57618-71.18735
Hillside Cemetery44.41689-71.47478
Kilkenny View Cemetery44.43779-71.51808
Lary Cemetery44.39743-71.19318
Lyman Cemetery44.77732-71.58798
Mount Calvaire Cemetery44.48809-71.18128
Mount Hayes Cemetery44.38456-71.17566
Old Catholic Cemetery44.48734-71.57886
Riverton Cemetery44.449-71.5317
Saint Anne Cemetery44.49096-71.15851
Saint Kieran Cemetery44.49054-71.16061
Starr King Cemetery44.40157-71.44213
Summer Street Cemetery44.49493-71.56587
Village Cemetery44.90606-71.49094
Village Cemetery44.60066-71.40709
Whitefield Cemetery44.37946-71.6175
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Paris44.65116-71.32091

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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