Homes of Westmoreland
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This is a story of the houses, property and people of Westmoreland, NH from settlement in 1741 as the Fort at No. 2 at the Great Meadow up to the present time. The 1858, 1877 and 1892 maps of Cheshire County show locations of dwellings in the town of Westmoreland with the owners’ names in those years, plus records from the Cheshire County Registrar of Deeds Office in Keene. Westmoreland pioneers built their first homes of logs or rough planks with bark roofs and crude stone fireplaces. One-room structures gradually were enlarged as more space was needed and as financial conditions improved. The cape style house, saltbox, Colonial, two-story, Federal, simple and more elegant Georgian and the transitional types are all represented. Many of the homes retain their original appearance or have been restored by owners sensitive to architectural history. Others have known so many alterations and “improvements” over the years that few original features are visible.
This is a great reference book about a historic town first known as the Fort at No. 2 on the frontier of European settlement in the mid-1700s. Learn about the early and rapid growth followed by a period of declining population and then rebirth.
