$60,000; from summer tourists,
$ 2,000.

Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. W. F. Bacon, pas-
tor; Unitarian, Rev. C. Fowler,
pastor; Catholic, Father M. J.
Goodwin, priest; Methodist, Rev.

B. W. Chase, pastor; Freewill
Baptist, Rev. F. H. Lyford, pas-
tor. There are eight schools in
town, five of which are graded.
Average length of schools for the
year, twenty-six weeks. The total
amount of money appropriated
for school purposes, is $2,183.60.

Libraries. The Laconia Libra-
ry Association has a fund to the
amount of $ 1,500 to establish a
Public Library at Laconia Village.
Hon. O. A. J. Vaughan, private
library, 1,200 volumes; Judge

E. A. Hibbard, 1,200 volumes.

Newspaper. Laconia Democrat.
(See tables.)

Banks'. Laconia National Bank,
•Belknap Savings Bank, and Laco-
nia Savings Bank. (See tables.)

Hotels. Mount Belknap House,
Lake Village; Laconia Hotel, and
Willard House, at Laconia Vil-
lage.

First Settlements and First Min-
ister. (See Meredith.)

Boumlaries. North and north-
east by Long Bay, east by Gilford,
south by Sanbornton, and west
and north-west by Meredith.
Area of improved land, 4,702 acres.

Distances. Twenty-five miles
north from Concord to Gilford
Court House in Laconia Village.

Railroads. The Boston, Con-
cord & Montreal Railroad passes
along the eastern and north-east-
ern border of the town, through
Laconia and Lake Villages, thenee
to the Weirs, landing at the outlet
of Winnipiseogee Lake, where,
in the warm season, steamboats
are in readiness, on the arrival of
the trains, to convey passengers to
Centre Harbor, Wolfeborough,
Alton Bay, and other important
points in and around the lake.

LANCASTER.

Coos County. Lancaster was
formerly the whole shire town of
Coos county. The population, af-
ter the introduction of the Grand
Trunk Railway, increased quite
rapidly in the northern section of
the county, and Colebrook was as-
signed as shire town for the North-
ern Judicial District. The mead-
ows and intervals in this town are
considered the most extensive and
finest there are in the whole val-
ley of the Connecticut, extending
back nearly a mile to the uplands.
The soil of these intervals is allu-
vial and produces excellent crops of
corn, oats and grass; while the
uplands, when properly cultivated,
raise fine wheat and other crops.
The annual value of its agricultu-
ral products exceeds that of any
other town in the county, and it
ranks as the twelfth town in the
State in agriculture.

There is no town in the State
that is more pleasantly situated for
fine mountain scenery than Lan-
caster. The town, itself is not
mountainous, but towering moun-
tains can be seen on every hand.
At the south and south-east, the
Franconia hills and the whole
range of the White Mountains are
in full view; and in the north and
east the Stratford or ‘ Percy’ Peaks,
with many of the Green Mountains
in Vermont are distinctly visible
to the west; while before you
is the meandering Connecticut
with its broad, cultivated intervals