History of Warner NH

Note: This History is edited from the original text written in 1885 by Fred Myron Colby. It is part of the Warner section in the "Red Book", a book with history of all towns in Belknap and Merrimack Counties published in 1885. Also segments were edited and updated from the "Warner, N.H. History 1880-1974."

For a PDF version click here

CHAPTER I

• The Grant and the Settlement
• The Corporate Town
• Simonds Free High School
• The Kearsarge Mountain Road Company
• Political Influence
• Construction of Roads
• Public-Houses in Warner
• Warner Village in 1825

CHAPTER II -- Ecclesiastical History

• Congregationalists
• Baptists
• Methodists
• Universalists
• Osgoodites

CHAPTER III -- Military History

• Bunker Hill
• War of 1812
• Civil War

CHAPTER IV -- Manufacturing Interests

• Early Businesses

CHAPTER V -- Geographical Features

CHAPTER VI -- Memorable Events, Natural and Social

• Old Meeting-House Fight
• A Day of Terror
• A Year without a Summer
• The Tornado of 1821
• Lafayette's Visit
• Citizens of Note

CHAPTER VII Biographical Sketches

• General Walter Harriman
• Benjamin Evans
• Levi Bartlett

CHAPTER VIII Transportation

• Railroads
• The First Motor Cars
• Covered Bridges

Other Warner Histories:

• A formatted copy of Dr. Moses Long's original works in 1832
• A Sketch of Warner -- Dec. 1895 article in The Granite Monthly
• Industries of Warner  -- A copy of an article written in the Kearsarge Independent about 1939
• USS Kearsarge Index Page
• Fall Foliage Festival History
• Warner Fire Department History