The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . er for some time. The French and Indian wars de-layed the settlement of the two towns,and although it appears that severalparties came here about 1750. theycame as prospectors and hunters, and itwas not until 1761 that any permanentsettlements were effected. In 1736 aparty of men cleared a path to TheWeirs and constructed a blockhouse,fourteen feet square, as a shelter anddefence from Indians. About this timea new obstacle to settlement arose by by order of the g
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . er for some time. The French and Indian wars de-layed the settlement of the two towns,and although it appears that severalparties came here about 1750. theycame as prospectors and hunters, and itwas not until 1761 that any permanentsettlements were effected. In 1736 aparty of men cleared a path to TheWeirs and constructed a blockhouse,fourteen feet square, as a shelter anddefence from Indians. About this timea new obstacle to settlement arose by by order of the general court, theProvince road, so called, was laid outfrom Portsmouth to Canada, throughGilmanton and Meredith, and oquently through the present city ofLaconia. Meredith Bridge was firstconstructed at this time, b ms Bridge at Lakeport was not built until1782. and the bridge at The Weirs waserected in 1S03. Mosquito bridge,leading over the narrow portion ofLake Winnesquam, was built about1805, and Davis Bridge, leadingfrom the mainland to Davis island,now Governors island, in Lake Winni-pesaukee, was erected previous to 1 nt Building after the Fii - the claims of John Tufton Mason ofHampshire county. England, whoclaimed all of the territory embracedin Gilmanton and Meredith, as con-veyed to him by the English govern-ment. Mason sold his claims to Ports-mouth people, and in 1752 the Maso-nian proprietors made a trade withthose who received their grant from thegovernor of New Hampshire, and tookcertain shares of the territory for theirclaims. Previous to 1761 the route to Gil-manton and Meredith from Epsom andExeter was merely a path, marked byspotted trees, but in October of thisyear a cart-path was made, and in 1770, With the exception of lands whichwere cultivated by the Indians at TheWeirs and a few other places, the terri-tory embraced within our city limitswas an unbroken wilderness until about1766. At this time Lhene/er Smithand Jacob baton built their log housesan
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