I have been photographing and posting stories on several New Hampshire historic town pounds. Today's town pound in Tamworth, New Hampshire no longer exists, but the area was marked out with wooden fencing as part of the Bicentennial. The actual pound stood here between 1801 and 1879. It is located on Cleveland Hill Road, right next to the Ordination Rock, and across the street from the town cemetery.
In The History of Carroll County by Georgia Drew Merrill, 1889, there are several listings over the years for pounds to be built in Tamworth in 1786 "on William Eastman's land" and in 1796 "somewhere near Capt. Jacob Brown". The only other mention of the pound was a resolution during the 1851 town meeting "That the selectmen of Tamworth are hereby authorized to cede to a committee of arrangement the land now occupied for a pound near the ordination rock, for the purpose of having it ornamented in commemoration of the event of the ordination of the Rev. Samuel Hidden on said rock..."
If this pound was ever made of fieldstone walls, similar to most other town pounds across New Hampshire, no trace of those walls remains today.
Some other town pounds featured on this blog:
Derryfield (Manchester, New Hampshire):
Hudson, New Hampshire:
Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Bow, New Hampshire:
Loudon, New Hampshire:
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Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tamworth, New Hampshire Town Pound", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 22, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/10/tamworth-new-hampshire-town-pound.html: accessed [access date]).
There is one in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, going north on Route 13, it is on the left, about 1/2 mile north from Dunbarton Center. There is one in Concord, New Hampshire, going north on Route 3 (North State Street) maybe 1/4 mile north of the HOOD Dairy plant.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I noticed the Dunbarton pound recently on a day I didn't have my camera. And I'll look for the Concord pound, too!
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