Place:Livermore, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States

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NameLivermore
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Located inGrafton, New Hampshire, United States


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Livermore is an unincorporated civil township and ghost town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It was briefly inhabited as a logging town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site of the former village is about west of North Conway, about off U.S. Route 302 (the Crawford Notch Highway) via the U.S. Forest Service Sawyer River Road. The logging operation was established by Daniel Saunders Jr. and Charles W. Saunders, members of the Saunders family. The town was named for Samuel Livermore, a former United States senator who was the grandfather of Daniel Saunders' wife. The population was reported as 2 at the 2020 census.[1]

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History

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  • 1874 - Grafton County Lumber Co. incorporated.
  • 1875 - Sawyer River Railroad incorporated.
  • 1876 - Livermore incorporated.
  • 1877 - Construction of Sawyer River Railroad begins to support logging activity.
  • 1896 - Topographic map shows railroad and twelve inhabited buildings.
  • 1927 - A November storm devastates the local lumber industry.
  • 1928 - The last mill is closed.
  • 1937 - All but one parcel of land is sold to the United States Forest Service for inclusion in the White Mountain National Forest.
  • 1949 - The last resident leaves town.
  • 1951 - Livermore dissolved by an act of the New Hampshire legislature.
  • 1970s - Bill defeated in State House for Lincoln to annex Livermore.

Diatomaceous earth—also called tripolite—was once mined in Little East Pond and processed in a mill located in the southwestern part of Livermore township. The Tripoli Road received its name from this mill. The USFS Little East Pond Trail follows for some distance the grade of the old railroad that served the mill, and the ruins of the mill can still be found by following the line of the railroad grade into the woods for a short distance. However, this mill was far from the village of Livermore and was historically more identified with Thornton.

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