Six miles to depot at Conway Cor-
ner, on the Gt. F. & C. R. R.

EFFINGHAM.

Carroll County. The surface
of this town is uneven, there be-
ing several mountains of consider-
able elevation. The soil in some
parts is very good, and excellent
crops of wheat, corn, oats and hay
are produced.

Rivers and Ponds. Ossipee
River and a few of its tributaries
are the only streams. Near Ossi-
pee River is a pond four hundred
rods long, and two hundred and
seventy wide. Between Effiing-
ham and Wakefield lies Province
Pond. There are three small vil-
lages in town, with post-offices,
viz. South, Center, and Effingham
Falls.

Employments. Agriculture is the
principal employment of the in-
habitants. There are various kinds
of manufactories in town, of which
lumber, shoe pegs, bobbins, rakes,
and grist mills are the principal
ones.

Resources. Agricultural prod-
ucts, $93,306; • mechanical labor,
$5,000; money at interest, $4,459;
deposits in savings banks, $29.95;
stock in trade, $5,900.

Churches and Schools. Chris-
tian, Rev. J. M. Colburn, pastor;
Freewill Baptist, Rev. J. P. Stinch-
field, pastor; Methodist and Con-
gregational, --.    There are

nine schools in town; average
length for the year, fifteen weeks.

Hotel. Green Mountain House.

Literary Institution. Masonic
Institute, at the Center, J. M. Co-
burn, principal.

First Settlements. Effingham
was formerly called Leavitt’s
Town. The first settlement was
but a few years before the Revo-
lution. Incorporated August 18,
1788.

First Ministers. Rev. Gideon
Burt, Congregational, settled in
1803; died in 1805.

Boundaries. North by Freedom;
East by Maine line; south and
west by Ossipee. Area, 30,000
acres; improved land, 9,025 acres.

Distances. Sixty miles north-
east from Concord, and five north
from Ossipee.

Railroads. Great Falls and Con-
way

ELLSWORTH.

Grafton County. This is a
romantic hamlet situated high up
in a great basin among the hills,
isolated from the rest of the world,
and full of tarns, brooks and moun-
tains. Ellsworth Pond, in the
south-east part of the town, con-
tains about one hundred acres,
and affords a fine mill stream
called West Branch brook. Moul-
ton brook, from Warren and Buz-
zell brook flows into this pond.
One of the three Glen Ponds is on
the western boundary, and a por-
tion of Stinson Pond on the south
line. Stinson brook flows through
the west part, and in the north
part is Kineo brook and Hubbard
brook, an affluent of Hubbard
Pond, in Woodstock. Mt. Kineo,
3,557 feet high, so called from an
Indian chief, is in the center, and
Black hill, formerly a great place
for moose, is in the valley between
Mt. Kineo and Mt. Carr. In the
south part is a portion of Stinson
mountain.

Indians. This basin was for-
merly a noted resort of Indians who
visited it for the purpose of hunt-
ing. Relics of them have been