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Tuftonboro
Tuftonboro sits along the eastern shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, where the Ossipee Mountains rise behind quiet villages and long stretches of shoreline. The town includes Melvin Village, Mirror Lake, Center Tuftonboro, and Tuftonboro Corner, each with its own small center and history tied closely to the lake. Tuftonboro was first granted in 1750 and later incorporated in 1795. Much of the town’s identity has always been connected to the water, with generations of families returning to lake cottages and islands that have been part of Lakes Region life for more than a century.
THE LAKE HAS STORIES
Tuftonboro is the only town in New Hampshire named after a private landowner.
The town was named for John Tufton Mason, heir to the Masonian Claim, a massive tract of land that once covered much of northern New Hampshire. Mason technically owned the land that would become Tuftonboro before it was sold to a group of Portsmouth merchants known as the Masonian Proprietors in the mid-1700s. Those proprietors later divided the land into townships and sold it to settlers before the American Revolution. A town on the shores of Winnipesaukee still carries the name of the man who once owned the land beneath it.
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