The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . ortion north ofthe Winnipesaukee river, including TheWeirs, being set off at that time fromthe old town of Meredith. Previous tothis date Laconia was known as Mere-dith Bridge, and the portion of thevillage on the south and east sides ofthe river was a part of the town of future historian of the city will be sadlyhampered by the fact that there are notown records of Laconia until 1855. Abrief sketch of the settlement of thisterritory has been compiled from Lan-ca
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . ortion north ofthe Winnipesaukee river, including TheWeirs, being set off at that time fromthe old town of Meredith. Previous tothis date Laconia was known as Mere-dith Bridge, and the portion of thevillage on the south and east sides ofthe river was a part of the town of future historian of the city will be sadlyhampered by the fact that there are notown records of Laconia until 1855. Abrief sketch of the settlement of thisterritory has been compiled from Lan-casters History of Gilmanton, pub-lished in 1845, and from authentic his-torical sketches of Meredith and Gil-ford. The first authentic record of theappearance of the white man in Laconiais found upon Kndicott rock, at TheWeirs, near the outlet of Lake Winni-pesaukee. Strange as it may now seem, THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. the territory of Laconia was onceclaimed as a portion of the territorygranted to the Massachusetts BayColony. In 1638 the Massachusettscolonists sent a party up the Merrimackriver to locate the northern bound of. The Old Tucker House, formerly on Mill Street their grant, which was understood tobe three miles from the headwaters ofthe Merrimack river, but was afterwardsdecided to be three miles from themouth of the river. The first party ofsurveyors sent, out from Massa-chusetts to locate this bound, as-cended the river and , marked atree near the junction of the Pem-igewasset and Winnipesaukeerivers fat Franklin). In 1652 theBay state colonists sent out a sec-ond party from Ipswich, with in-structions to find and mark theheadwaters of the Merrimack party consisted of CaptainSimon Willard and Edward John-son, commissioners, accompaniedby Jonathan Ince, John Sherman,and two or three Indians. Thissurveying party reached The Weirsabout August 1, 1652, and thewhite men in the party were prob-ably the first white men who everset foot upon Laconia, or gazed a
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