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Bristol is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,244 at the 2020 census. [2] It is home to Wellington State Park, Sugar Hill State Forest, and Profile Falls on the Smith River. Surrounded by hills and lakes, Bristol includes the lower two-thirds of Newfound Lake, a resort area.
Bristol is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Bristol in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,911 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] out of 3,244 in the entire town.
Its outlet is the Newfound River, flowing through Bristol village into the Pemigewasset River. The lake volume is 98 billion gallons of water. [2] Wellington State Park, containing the largest freshwater swimming beach in the New Hampshire state park system, is a 204-acre (83 ha) property located on the lake's west shore in the town of Bristol. [3]
A mill was built a little way to the east. By the 1790s a small town center had emerged, including two tavern buildings that still stand. A new road (now North Main Street) to Newfound Lake in 1805 further enhanced the area's importance as a transportation junction, shortly followed by what is now Pleasant Street in 1808. How the square itself ...
Bristol Town Hall, at 45 Summer Street, is the town hall of Bristol, New Hampshire. It is a single story Greek Revival structure, built in 1849, and was the town's first purpose-built town hall. It continues to serve as a municipal meeting and polling place, although town offices are now in a modern building on Lake Street. [2]
Passing under the New Hampshire Route 3A bridge at the Bristol-Hill town line, the Smith River drops over Profile Falls and arrives at the Pemigewasset River. U.S. Route 4 follows the Smith River from its source to Danbury. NH-104 follows the river from Danbury to the east side of Alexandria.
Through Jan. 7, hunters had killed 63 deer in Bristol, 37 of them on town land. Bristol’s deer harvest this season far outnumbered the 24 deer killed in 2022 and the 16 taken in 2021, according ...
New Hampshire is a state located in the Northeastern United States.It is divided into 234 municipalities, including 221 towns and 13 cities.New Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated as "cities".