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The 1838 Benjamin Rowe Farmhouse located in Gilford Village has recently been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This exciting and long awaited event became a reality when the National Park Service, a part of the Department of the Interior, awarded the distinction to the Gilford Historic and Heritage Commision and the Town of Gilford on April 30, 2008. 
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. it is part of a national program designed to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect historical and archaeological resources.
The Benjamin Rowe House was accepted for listing on the National Register because of its architectural significance as a Greek Revival cape, and as a rare example of this type of structure executed in brick.
The house is owned by the town of Gilford and is leased by the Thompson-Ames Historical Society. The furnishings of the house came primarily from the Tilton farmstead, another of Gilford's early capes of about the same period. The house is open several times a year, hosts many field trips and may be viewed by appaointment at any time by calling the Historical Society at 527-9009 or speaking to any historical society member.
A dedication celebration will be held be hosted by the Gilford District Historoic and Heritage Commission, The Town of Gilford and the Thompson-Ames Historical Society
at a date to be announced.
On February 23, 1989 the largest North American Elm in New Hampshire was lost to the ravages of time, disease and the axe. A story in the Laconia Citizen dated February 24, 1989, reports that the tree which stood on the Gilford property of Parkman and Helen Howe on Gunstock Hill Road was 75 to 80 feet tall, 30 feet around at the base and 18 to 19 feet around at chest level.
After years of tending the giant tree finally died of old age. "What took more than 200 yearsto create passed into history in a little over 5 hours when tree specialist Don Dockham felled the American Elm." At that time Dockham said that of the more than 1000 elms that had once graced the Laconia area most had fallen prey to Dutch Elm disease.
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This was a mouse trap - with
the potential of catching
four at one time
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Below is a picture of the Alvah Wilson Hay Fields, 1971. This is the site of the present Gilford Middle High School.
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