Gilmanton, NH History

NH Department of Transportation

Smith Meeting House Road The original Smith Meeting House Road ended at Eliphlet Gilman's house (now 254 Meeting House Road, Tax Lot 419/029). It was extended 25 Feb 1779 due to the 1770 Province Road construction. The extended Smith Meeting House Road followed a straight line, up a steep hill (former Range Road) and connected with Province Road. Part of this extension was discontinued 18 Mar 1893. Thank you Paula Gilman and Jon Hall.

Middle Route (aka Camp Leo Road)
Complaint 1950
Route 106
Route 107 (Province Road)

Records show that the old scouting trail officially became Province Road around the years of 1768-1772 and was so-named because it was the result of the actions of Governor John Wentworth and the provincial legislature, the only carriage road in western New Hampshire built through such a process. One of the earliest highways in New Hampshire, Province Road was authorized in 1765 as a supply route from the tidewater port of Durham to the colony's northern settlements in the Coos and surveyed in 1770. The section of the road through Gilmanton was built in 1770 nine years after the township was settled. Friends of Mt Sunapee 1999
Steep Frisky Hill Climb a Memory - Herbert Beede