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Waco1148 · 06-01-2025, 09:31 AM

Starting a thread here and hope people can add to it. I've gotten interested in old forgotten, changed, or unknown local place names on Winnipesaukee.

For example, I researched an old cottage on the tip of Meredith Neck near Horse Island and found that in the deed it was once called Stooping Pine Point. The mail boat route used to include Edgemere, Woodmere, Tuttle's Landing, Gypsy Camp, New Point Comfort, Black's Wharf, and French Cove on Bear island. The cove on the southeast side of Timber was once called Sheep Yard Cove, and Pitchwood was once Isle Margaret. Was Spindle Point ever really called Wonalancet's Arrow, or was that a realtor's flight of fancy? Dollar Island once owned by governor Henry Quinby and called Quinby Island. The tiny island at the mouth of Blackey's Cove was called Harvard Island after the Harvard rowing team camped there. There used to be a cottage called Not-a-Care Lodge on Moultonborough Neck. On recent maps there is Raoul's Cove up near Green's Basin, but on the old maps it's Rowell's Cove, which sounds more like a New Hampshire name. Do you know where Tea Rock is?

There must be hundreds of these names that don't quite fit on the lake navigation maps. What ones do you know about in your neighborhood?

06-01-2025, 09:31 AM	#1
Waco1148 Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 47 Thanks: 2 Thanked 47 Times in 22 Posts	Place names on Winni Starting a thread here and hope people can add to it. I've gotten interested in old forgotten, changed, or unknown local place names on Winnipesaukee. For example, I researched an old cottage on the tip of Meredith Neck near Horse Island and found that in the deed it was once called Stooping Pine Point. The mail boat route used to include Edgemere, Woodmere, Tuttle's Landing, Gypsy Camp, New Point Comfort, Black's Wharf, and French Cove on Bear island. The cove on the southeast side of Timber was once called Sheep Yard Cove, and Pitchwood was once Isle Margaret. Was Spindle Point ever really called Wonalancet's Arrow, or was that a realtor's flight of fancy? Dollar Island once owned by governor Henry Quinby and called Quinby Island. The tiny island at the mouth of Blackey's Cove was called Harvard Island after the Harvard rowing team camped there. There used to be a cottage called Not-a-Care Lodge on Moultonborough Neck. On recent maps there is Raoul's Cove up near Green's Basin, but on the old maps it's Rowell's Cove, which sounds more like a New Hampshire name. Do you know where Tea Rock is? There must be hundreds of these names that don't quite fit on the lake navigation maps. What ones do you know about in your neighborhood?