Defunct placenames of New Hampshire

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Defunct placenames are those which are no longer used officially.

Many populated places in New Hampshire once prospered and are now gone, subsumed by adjacent cities or renamed. Similarly, many geophysical features have had their names changed over time. This is an alphabetized list of the names of such places that once appeared on the maps, along with references to their present names, if any. Although no longer officially recognized, some of these may yet have local significance.

Arlington: Now Winchester.
Bellows Town: Now Walpole.
Berlin Falls: Portion of Berlin east of Androscoggin River (1893 topo).
Bloody Point: Portion of Dover (and scene of early settler boundary disputes) which was to become Newington in 1764.
Boyle: Original name of Gilsum (in 1752) before being re-granted in 1763.
Bretton Woods: Original 1772 name of Carroll.
Burton: Early name of Albany until 1833.
Camden: Now Washington, prior to 1768.
Campbell’s Gore: Now Windsor.
Cardigan: Early name of Orange.
Charmingfare: The 1748 name of Candia.
Chiswick: Early (1764) name of Apthorp, which split in 1784 to become Littleton and Dalton.
Cochecho: Early name of Dover, specifically its mill town district.
Cockburne: Early name of Columbia until 1811.
Cockermouth Grant: Early name of portion of present Hebron which was not part of Plymouth.
Colebrook Academy Grant: Now part of Pittsburg between Indian Stream and Hall’s Stream, approximately 15 sq. mi, shown on 1854 and 1892 maps.
Concord: 1763 name of Gunthwaite (1768), now Lisbon.
Dantzic (or Dantzick): Early name of Newbury until renamed Fishersfield in 1778 until renamed in 1837; also part of New London.
Dartmouth: An early name for Jefferson until 1796.
Derryfield: Name under which Manchester was incorporated in 1757, including a part called Harrytown, until the name changed in 1810.
Dresden: Early name of Hanover Plains, portion of Hanover.
Dryden: Early name of Colebrook before it was re-granted in 1770.
Dunstable: Early name for Nashua in 1733 until 1837.
Durand: An early name for the town of Randolph until 1824.
Duxbury School Farm: Portion of early Milford.
East Town: Now Wakefield.
Fort Dummer: Early name of Hinsdale.
Freetown: Early name for Raymond until 1764.
Gillis and Foss Grant: Early name of Waterville Valley, also known historically as Waterville.
Gonic Village: Portion of early Rochester, short for Squamanogonic.
Gosport: Early name of village on Star Island in the Isles of Shoals.
Gunthwaite: Early name of Lisbon until 1824.
Great Falls: Early name of Somersworth, specifically its mill town district.
Great Island: Early name of New Castle until 1693.
Great Meadow (or Great Meadows): Now Westmoreland.
Halestown: Now Weare.
Hilton’s Purchase: Also known as part of Swampscott Patent, now Stratham.
Hurd's Location: 1769 name of what is now Monroe.
Indian Stream: Temporarily independent republic which was annexed and incorporated as Pittsburg in 1840.
Ipswich Canada: Early name of New Ipswich until 1762.
Island Pond: Now Hazens Pond, in Whitefield (1892 map).
Kearsarge: The 1775 name of Wilmot.
Lane’s New-Boston: Early name of New Boston until 1763
Leavitt's Town: Early name of Effingham.
Limerick: Now Stoddard.
Lower Ashuelot: Now Swanzey.
Lower Cohos: Original name of Haverhill.
Margallaway River: Historical name of Magalloway River
Maynesborough (or Maynesborough Plantation): Name of Berlin until 1829. ^[1]
Middle Monadnock: Early name of Jaffrey, also known as Number Two.
Mile Slip: Early name of portion of Milford.
Monadnock No. 1: Name of Rindge until 1768, also known as Rowley Canada.
Mondadnock No. 4: Early name of Fitzwilliam.
Monadnock No. 5: Early name of Marlborough from 1754.
Monadnock No. 6: Early name of Nelson before it was renamed Packersfield in 1774, and Nashua in 1814.
Monson defunct town on what is now the border of Hollis and Milford
Moultonborough Addition: Portion of Moultonboroug Gore which was to become New Hampton in 1763.
Narragansett Number Three: Amherst, also known as Souhegan West.
Nash & Sawyer Location portion of Crawford Notch annexed to Carroll.
New Amesbury: Now Warner.
New Grantham: Temporary name (1786 to 1818) of Grantham.
New Chester: Early name of Hill until 1837.
New Durham Gore: Alton.
New Garden: Early name of Ossipee.
New Hopkinton: Early name of Hopkinton.
New-Salem: Early name of Meredith.
Newtown: Name of Alstead in 1763.
Nisitisset: Early name of Hollis, later to become West Parish of Dunstable, Massachusetts.
North Effingham: Early name of Freedom including part of Ossipee Gore.
Northam: Early name of Dover.
North Hill: Portion of Hampton destined to become North Hampton in 1742.
Norway Plains: Portion of early Rochester forming the principal village.
Notch Mountain: Now called Mount Webster.
Nottingham West: Part of early Hudson and Nashua.
Number One: Original name of Mason. Also the name of Warner in 1735, then New Amesbury.
Number Two: Early name of Jaffrey, also called Middle Monadnock. Also name of Westmoreland, which was later called Great Meadow.
Number Four: Granted in 1735, now called Charlestown.
Number Five: Original name of Hopkinton, which later became New Hopkinton.
Number Six: Early name of Henniker.
Number Seven: Early name of Hillsborough.
Number Eleven: Early name of grant for Lyman, including Monroe.
Ossipee Gore: Portion of Ossipee, New Hampshire taken to form Freedom.
Oyster River: Early name of Durham until 1716, before which it was part of Dover.
Packersfield: Name of Nelson until 1814.
Passaconaway: A small village in the Albany Intervale of Albany, shown on maps at least until 1958.
Paulsburg: Early name of Milan in 1771 until 1874.
Peeling: Now Woodstock, New Hampshire.
Penney Cook: Name of early settlement of Concord until it became Rumford in 1733. See also: Pennacook (tribe).
Perrystown: Now Sutton.
Peterborough Slip: Now Sharon, except for the easterly portion which became Temple.
Piercey: Original name, in 1795, for Stark.
Pine Mountain: A summit, now called Currier Mountain, in the Dartmouth Range once having a fire lookout tower; located northwest of Mount Dartmouth; not to be confused with the Pine Mountain northeast of Mount Madison.
Piscataqua: Early name of Portsmouth.
Pliny Major and Pliny Minor: Two peaks of the Pilot Range now known as Mount Waumbek (with Mount Starr King) and Pliny Mountain.
Poplin: Early name of Fremont when it was taken from Brentwood portion of Exeter, until 1854.
Roby: The 1769 name of Brookline, changed by legislative act in 1778.
Rowley Canada: An early name of Rindge.
Rumford: Early name of Concord, formerly a part of Bow, until 1765.
Salem Canada: Early name of Lyndeborough until 1753.
Salmon Falls, Early name of Rollinsford, specifically its mill town district.
Sanborn: Now Sanbornton.
Sanbornton Bridge: Part of Sanbornton disannexed and later called Tilton.
Sandy Beach: Early name of Rye when it was a part of New Castle.
Shelburne Addition: Early name of Gorham until 1836.
Saville: Early name of Sunapee.
Sligo: Early name of Rollinsford when a part of Dover.
Smith's Isles: Early name for the Isles of Shoals.
South Newmarket: Portion of Newmarket separated in 1849, also called Newfield Village in 1621, now known as Newfields.
Souhegan East: Early name of Merrimack while it was part of Dunstable in 1733.
Stark's Town: Early name of Dunbarton.
Stevenstown: Now Salisbury until 1768.
Stewart: Now Stewartstown.
Strawberry Bank: Early name of Portsmouth until 1653. The name is preserved in the Strawbery Banke museum area.
Summersworth: Early name for both Rollinsford and Somersworth when they were a single parish of Dover.
Suncook: Early name of Pembroke in 1727, now a CDP.
Trecothick: Name of Ellsworth until it was incorporated in 1802.
Upper Ashuelot: Early name of Keene until 1753.
Upper Coos: Early name of Lancaster.
Waterville: Early name of Waterville Valley, formerly Gillis and Foss Grant.
West Lyman: Now Monroe.
Whitefield Landing Field: Now Mount Washington Regional Airport, in Whitefield.