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History of the Town of Reading, including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading and North Reading with Chronological and Historical Sketches from 1639 to 1874. By Lilley Eaton, 815 pages, published 1874. History of Wakefield (Middlesex county) Massachusetts, compiled by William E. Eaton and History committee. Published under the direction and ...
The area was separated from Reading as South Reading in 1818, and renamed Wakefield in 1868. [2] The 25 acre district includes the buildings that line the common on Common Street and Main Street, which include the town hall, public library, YMCA, post office, and several churches. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Wakefield is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,201 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town includes the villages of Wakefield Corner (the original town center), East Wakefield , North Wakefield, Sanbornville , Union , Woodman and Province Lake.
City or town Description 1: Beacon Street Tomb: Beacon Street Tomb: July 6, 1989 : ... US Post Office-Wakefield Main: October 19, 1987 : 321 Main St.
One-half of the first floor of this building was dedicated as the new library space. Lucius Beebe donated $500 to the library and, as a result, the town renamed the library as the "Beebe Public Library." In 1871, a new town hall was built and the town was renamed Wakefield. Several months later the library was moved to the new Wakefield town hall.
Sanbornville is in the southwestern part of the town of Wakefield, south of Wakefield village and north of Union. New Hampshire Route 16 forms the western edge of the CDP; the highway runs north 10 miles (16 km) to Ossipee and south 20 miles (32 km) to Rochester.
The Lovell Grange Hall was built in 1918 for a chapter organized in 1892. It is a rectangular wood frame clapboarded structure mounted on concrete piers. The old portion of Wakefield Library building began as a lawyer's office in the 1860s, and was acquired by the town in 1895 as a gift from Seth Low. The newer portion, also donated by Low, was ...
The Wakefield Town Hall and Opera House is prominently located in the center of Sanbornville, at the northeast corner of High Street and Meadow Street (New Hampshire Route 109). It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of brick with granite trim. It is covered by a hip roof pierced by single wide gable dormers on its street-facing facades.