Loudon, New Hampshire Town Pound

This is another in a series of photographs of town pounds taken in my area of New Hampshire.  Today's featured town pound is on Youngs Hill Road in Loudon.

Traditionally, in New England, pounds were built to produce revenue for the town. An enclosure was built and overseen by a "hog reeve" or other elected official.  The pound was a place to hold escaped livestock until fines could be paid to the town, and compensation paid to neighbor's who had damaged property due to the escaped pig, cow, or other farm animal.

The sign in front of the pound reads "Est. 1774".  The town was incorporated by Governor John Wentworth on 23 January 1773, and the original center and town hall are on the corner of Youngs Hill Road and Clough Hill Road.  The first town meeting was held on 23 March 1773 and Samuel Carter and Stephen Perkins were elected the hog reeves. The people of Loudon wasted no time in building their town pound!

Some other town pounds featured on this blog:

Derryfield (Manchester, New Hampshire): 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/derryfield-town-pound.html  

Hudson, New Hampshire:    

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/hudson-town-pound-1772.html  

Londonderry, New Hampshire:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/wordless-wednesday-1730-londonderry.html  

Bow, New Hampshire:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/06/town-pound-bow-new-hampshire.html   

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Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Loudon, New Hampshire Town Pound", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 13, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/10/loudon-new-hampshire-town-pound.html: accessed [access date]). 

A Simple Arrow - Weathervane Wednesday

We were wandering the back roads of Loudon, New Hampshire looking for a small family burial ground when we happened upon this old weathervane...  

Loudon Center
Freewill
Baptist Church
Loudon
Town Hall
1779

This historic building is on the corner of Clough Hill Road and Youngs Hill Road in Loudon, New Hampshire.  It was originally built in 1779, yet revised and added on over the years.  It was the first civic building in Loudon, constructed for religious services.  It served as the town hall until the 1970s.  The Freewill Baptist congregation still holds services here, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

This simple, gilded arrow is one of the most plain weathervanes I have ever photographed for "Weathervane Wednesday".  These very old, and very simple weathervanes are beautifully appropriate for the simple, New England rural areas they represent.

Click here to see over 400 other "Weathervane Wednesday" blog posts:
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Some examples of other simple arrow weathervanes:

Bedford, New Hampshire:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/weathervane-wednesday-simple-weathervane.html

Cambridge, Massachusetts:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/weathervane-wednesday-above-harvard.html

Dunbarton, New Hampshire:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/weathervane-wednesday-old-new-england.html

Lincoln, New Hampshire:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/weathervane-wednesday-above-train.html

Newport, New Hampshire:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/above-methodist-church-weathervane.html

Plymouth, Devonshire, England:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/weathervane-wednesday-seen-on.html

Sturbridge, Massachusetts:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/weathervane-wednesday-behind-tavern.html

The Loudon Center Freewill Baptist Church Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Loudon-Center-Freewill-Baptist-Church-562803033773684/ 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Simple Arrow - Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 7, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-simple-arrow-weathervane-wednesday.html: accessed [access date]).