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Old 05-08-2009, 07:21 AM   #1
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Question Names Of Locations Around the Lake

Do you ever wonder how certain areas around the lake got their names?

Every time we drive past Pumpkin Point in Alton Bay I wonder how this point got it’s name. I suppose when farming started in the area there was a pumpkin patch there and the name just stuck?

Jesus Valley Road, could that have come from the fact that the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center was close by?

Many locations make sense.

Fort Point obviously had a fort.

Governor's Island was the home of a governor.

Can you see Paugus Mountain from Paugus Bay?

Sleeper Island was named for the family who owned it.

Winter Harbor was named such because a loaded boat heading for Moultonborough was forced to seek shelter there and was frozen in for the rest of the winter.

Did someone find treasure on Treasure Island or was it just a better name than Red Head Island?

The name of Alton came from a town in England.

Steamboat Island was so named because the first steamboat on Lake Winnipesaukee, Belknap was wrecked there in 1841 while towing logs to a sawmill.

Did someone make rum on Rum Point?

Is Umbrella Point of Wolfeboro Neck called that because the the curve of the land looks kind of like an umbrella?

Do you suppose they found clay at Clay Point?

Did a jockey one live in Jockey Cove?

I guess this list could go on and on and on...
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