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Francestown, Fifty
Years of Growth and
Change, 1970-2020
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The New Hampshire village of Francestown, was settled and incorporated before the
Revolutionary War. Its height of population and commercial activity was before the Civil War
during the New England sheep boom and before the railroad steered traffic away from the town’s
location on the 2nd New Hampshire Turnpike. By the early twentieth century the picturesque
settlement was home to a few hundred full-time residents making their living in farming, forestry
and trades. Well-off people from Boston and other cities “discovered” the town as a summer
haven. They rehabilitated colonial-era homes on Main Street or built summer cottages on classic
New England ponds. A ski area and golf course were built in the rolling, forested hills. When the
town celebrated its Bicentennial in 1972, it was on the threshold of a period of rapid, sustained
change. Young families from metropolitan areas, retirees, and commuters moved in, tripling the
population. They brought with them different value systems and connections to national
movements of environmentalism, conservation, and suburbanization. This book tells the story of
the town’s reaction to growth and how it addressed change. In many ways, Francestown’s story is
a microcosm of America’s during the fifty years spanning the final decades of the twentieth century
and the beginning of the twenty-first century.