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Lakeport - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Warren D Huse (Paperback)

Lakeport - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by  Warren D Huse (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Originally, the neighborhood now known as Lakeport was part<br>of Meredith on one side of the Winnipesaukee River and of<br>Gilmanton (Gilford after 1812) on the other. This manufacturing, <br>commercial, and port settlement once called Lake Village became<br>part of the city in Laconia in 1893. The area around today s Lakeport<br>Dam became the site of sawmills and gristmills for the Euro-American<br>settlers of the late 1760s. By the mid-1800s, textile and hosiery mills, <br>factories, foundries, and machine shops had grown up around the<br>abundant waterpower of the dam.<br>With the coming of the railroad in 1848, Lake Village became<br>an important railroad town with repair shops, a roadhouse, and<br>homes for scores of railroad workers. Beginning in the mid-1800s, boat<br>building especially of lake steamers was also an important industry.<br>Just before joining with the town of Laconia, Lake Village renamed<br>itself Lakeport. By then, the two communities had expanded toward<br>each other, forming one continuous urban neighborhood."

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