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Grafton County, New Hampshire

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81historic places

—earliest paper

1769formed

91,118pop. 2020

66cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 81 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Holderness, Ashland, Bath.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

50 of 81 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

81 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ashland Gristmill and Dam	Ashland	District	1979
Ashland Junior High School	Ashland	Building	1983
Ashland Railroad Station	Ashland	Building	1982
Ashland Town Hall	Ashland	Building	1983
Bath Covered Bridge	Bath	Structure	1976
Bedell Covered Bridge	Haverhill	Structure	1975
Boulderwood	Holderness	District	2018
Brick Store	Bath	Building	1985
Bristol Town Hall	Bristol	Building	2015
Burleigh Brae and Webster Boathouse	Holderness	Building	2012
Burt-Cheney Farm	Bethlehem	Building	1982
Camp Carnes	Holderness	Building	2012
Camp Mowglis	Hebron	District	2019
Camp Ossipee	Holderness	District	2013
Canaaan Meetinghouse	Canaan	Building	1972
Canaan Street Historic District	Canaan	District	1973
Carr, Daniel, House	Haverhill	Building	1992
Central Square Historic District	Bristol	District	1983
Centre Village Meeting House	Enfield	Building	1985
Chapel of the Holy Cross	Holderness	Building	2005
Chocorua Island Chapel	Holderness	District	2016
Colburn Park Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Lebanon	District	1986
Colburn Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Lebanon	District	2025
Dorchester Common Historic District	Dorchester	District	1985
Dorchester Community Church	Dorchester	Building	1980
Dow Academy	Franconia	Building	1982
East Branch and Lincoln Logging Railroad Historic District	Lincoln	District	2026
Enfield Center Town House	Enfield	Building	2017
Enfield Shaker Historic District	Enfield	District	1979
Enfield Village Historic District	Enfield	District	2010
Felsengarten	Bethlehem	Building	1973
First Free Will Baptist Church and Vestry	Ashland	Building	1983
Frost Place	Franconia	Building	1976
Goodall-Woods Law Office	Bath	Building	1980
Great Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge	Hanover	Structure	1997
Greenleaf, Abbie, Library	Franconia	Building	2003
Hanover Town Library	Hanover	Building	1997
Haverhill Corner Historic District	Haverhill	District	1987
Haverhill-Bath Covered Bridge	Woodsville	Structure	1977
Hebron Village Historic District	Hebron	District	1985
Hewitt House	Enfield	Building	1985
Holderness Free Library	Holderness	Building	1985
Holderness Inn	Holderness	Building	1984
Hutchins, Jeremiah, Tavern	Bath	Building	1984
Kent, Moses, House	Lyme	Building	1984
Lane, Edward H., House	Littleton	Building	1980
Lisbon Inn	Lisbon	Building	1980
Littleton Community House & Annex	Littleton	Building	2023
Littleton Town Building	Littleton	Building	1973
Lovett's by Lafayette Brook	Franconia	Building	1982
Lower Intervale Grange #321	Plymouth	Building	2022
Lyme Center Historic District	Lyme	District	1987
Lyme Common Historic District	Lyme	District	1988
Lyme-East Thetford Bridge	Lyme	Structure	2020
Minot-Sleeper Library	Bristol	Building	1988
North Holderness Freewill Baptist Church-Holderness Historical Society Building	Holderness	Building	1986
Old Grafton County Courthouse	Plymouth	Building	1982
Orford Street Historic District	Orford	District	1977
Owls Head	Hebron	Building	2015
Perry, Norman and Marion, House	Campton	Building	2012
Piermont Bridge	Piermont	Structure	2001
Plymouth Historic District	Plymouth	District	1986
Rocks Estate	Bethlehem	Building	1984
Rockywold-Deephaven Camps	Holderness	District	2013
Samuel Morey Memorial Bridge, The	Orford	Structure	1997
Sawyer-Medlicott House	Piermont	Building	1991
Shepard Hill Historic District	Holderness	District	2014
Sphinx Tomb	Hanover	Building	2005
Spring Hill Farm	Lebanon	Building	2002
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	Ashland	Building	1984
Stone Arch Underpass	Lebanon	Structure	1985
Swiftwater Covered Bridge	Bath	Structure	1976
Thayer's Hotel	Littleton	Building	1982
The Epic of American Civilization Murals, Baker Library, Dartmouth College NHL	Hanover	Object	2013
Trinity Church	Plymouth	Building	1984
True Farm	Holderness	District	2012
US Post Office and Courthouse-Littleton Main	Littleton	Building	1986
Watch Rock Camp	Holderness	Building	2013
Webster Estate	Holderness	District	1989
Whipple House	Ashland	Building	1978
Woodsville Opera Building	Woodsville	Building	1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Grafton was formed in 1769 (1769-04-29) from unknown / original county.

GRAFTON created as one of five original counties.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Grafton County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13,472	23,093	32,989	42,311	42,260	38,788	40,844	40,572	44,645	47,923	48,857	65,806	81,743	91,118

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

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

Cemeteries — 66 of 66 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Abbot Cemetery	44.08198	-72.01811
Bath Cemetery	44.16978	-71.9621
Benton Cemetery	44.10253	-71.89988
Blair Cemetery	43.81137	-71.66054
Burns Hill Cemetery	43.60133	-71.77002
Campton Hollow Cemetery	43.82402	-71.64057
Carbee Cemetery	44.17244	-72.04668
Cedar Grove Cemetery	43.97199	-72.081
Center Cemetery	43.70463	-72.29284
Center Haverhill Cemetery	44.07722	-71.98647
Center Hill Cemetery	44.17378	-71.8845
Crawford Cemetery	43.61702	-71.79244
East Cemetery	44.09879	-71.88428
East Haverhill Cemetery	44.02914	-71.98946
Elmwood Cemetery	44.22201	-71.74703
Glenwood Cemetery	43.63572	-72.2541
Glenwood Cemetery	44.31149	-71.79186
Green Grove Cemetery	43.69683	-71.64094
Grove Hill Cemetery	44.21115	-71.90944
Hamm Cemetery	44.18807	-72.05215
Hebron Village Cemetery	43.69487	-71.8054
Homeland Cemetery	43.5887	-71.74721
Homeland Cemetery	43.5887	-71.74722
Horse Meadow Cemetery	44.10683	-72.04068
Kinsman Cemetery	44.13724	-71.7802
Ladd Street Cemetery	44.04398	-72.05463
Mad River Cemetery	43.88302	-71.60773
Maple Street Cemetery	44.2855	-71.68464
Meadow Cemetery	44.30144	-71.80398
Monroe Cemetery	44.25559	-72.0428
Moulton Hill Cemetery	44.2459	-71.98676
Mount Calvary Cemetery	43.63595	-72.25607
North Groton Cemetery	43.76299	-71.87749
North Haverhill Cemetery	44.08223	-72.01806
North Littleton Cemetery	44.37272	-71.79784
North Monroe Cemetery	44.30589	-72.00058
Oak Grove Cemetery	43.64101	-72.15163
Old Pine Tree Cemetery	43.64168	-72.29095
Orange Common Cemetery	43.65367	-71.95397
Pettyboro District Cemetery	44.20394	-71.96203
Pine Grove Cemetery	44.13811	-72.01842
Pine Grove Cemetery	43.90701	-71.67063
Pine Knolls Cemetery	43.69295	-72.29313
Pleasant View Cemetery	43.81936	-71.88167
Pond Cemetery	44.26716	-71.90943
Pratt Cemetery	43.69668	-71.82772
Prescott Hill Cemetery	43.53618	-71.97508
Purmort Cemetery	43.59434	-72.17494
River Road Cemetery	44.002	-72.10157
Riverside Cemetery	43.63598	-71.8156
Riverside Cemetery	44.05088	-71.6856
Sacred Heart Cemetery	43.64228	-72.27676
Saint Josephs Cemetery	44.18059	-72.05079
Saint Rose Cemetery	44.31327	-71.79422
Sandhill Cemetery	43.81755	-71.86787
South Lawn Cemetery	43.96661	-72.08072
Squam Bridge Cemetery	43.73173	-71.58871
Sunny Side Cemetery	44.21269	-71.80556
Swiftwater District Cemetery	44.13043	-71.95736
Trinity Church Yard Cemetery	43.75743	-71.66843
Valley Cemetery	43.6427	-72.27529
Webster Cemetery	43.67155	-71.65297
West Littleton Cemetery	44.332	-71.91954
Wheeler Hill Cemetery	44.34702	-71.81414
Whittemores Cemetery	43.6649	-71.74369
Willow Cemetery	44.197	-71.75259

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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