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The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
eral school houses, Court House,
three banks, one newspaper office,
thirty or forty stores, two hotels,
various professional offices and
about 3000 inhabitants. Some of
the public and business buildings
are fine structures, and compare
favorably with buildings of a simi-
lar character of any city or large
town in the State. The streets are
wide and lighted by gas and some
of them very pleasantly shaded by
trees, behind which are many
splendid residences adorned with
beautiful gardens and green lawns,
and the generally thrifty appear-
ance to be seen in all sections ren-
ders this village delightful and at-
tractive. The inhabitants of the
two villages are earnestly discuss-
ing the question of forming three
towns out of the towns of Gilford
pud Laconia and having these vil-
lages the centre of two of the towns.
The arguments produced for such
a change, are plausible. About
four miles east from Lake Village
is Gilford village (or centre). In
this village is a church, town house,
store, school house, post office,
forty or fifty dwelling houses, and
some small mechanical shops.
Employments. The employments
of the people are nearly equally di-
vided between agriculture, on the
one side, and manufacturing, trade
and professional business on the
other. About 3,000 bushels of
wheat, 12,000 bushels of corn, 5,000
tons of hay, &c., are annually pro-
duced. The Boston, Concord and
Montreal machine shops, annually
turn off work in repairing, manu-
facturing cars, &e., to the value of
$140,000. Two iron founderies
and machine sheps, annually pro-
duce loom eastings, stoves, plow's,
cultivators, and water wheels to the |
value of $120,000. Men and wom-
en’s cotton and worsted hose, shirts
and drawers annually manufac-
tured, are valued at nearly $ 250,
000; 10,000 clapboards; 250,000
shingles; 3,575,000 feet of boards,
together with the sash, blind and
planing of boards are annually val-
ued at $129,000. The total value
of manufactured goods of all kinds,
annually produced, is $734,000.
(See Tables.)
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $247,290; mechanical labor,
$185,800; stocks, &c., $28,700;
money at interest, $22,600; de-
posits in savings hanks, $230,989;
stock in trade, $42,630; from tour-
ists, $10,000; professional business,
$80,000.
Summer Resorts. The delight-
ful villages, together with the fine
scenery of the surrounding coun-
try, cause many tourists to make
their home in this town through
the warm season, away from the
noise, filth and impure air oi the
large cities.
Churches and Schools. 1st Free-
will Baptist church, Rev. S. C.
Kimball, pastor; number of mem-
bers, 140, church value, $10,000;
2d F. W. Baptist church, Rev.
Frank Lyford, pastor; number of
members, 114, church value,$8,000;
3d F. W. Baptist church, Rev. H.
S. Kimball, pastor; number of
members, 160, church value, $10,
000; Calvin Baptist, Rev. K. S.
Hall, pastor; number of members,
110,church value, $15,000; Advent,
H. B. Cutter, pastor. -There are
fourteen school districts, and sev-
enteen schools in town; average
length of schools for the year, six-
teen weeks. Total amount annu-
ally appropriated for school purpos-
es, $3,015,55. |
