Livermore, New Hampshire

Livermore is an unincorporated civil township in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It was briefly inhabited as a logging town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site of the logging town is about convert|15|mi|km east of Lincoln on NH Route 112 (the Kancamagus Highway, which opened in 1959). Voting for Livermore residents (if any) is overseen by the moderator of Lincoln. The population was reported as 3 at the 2000 census.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of convert|63.8|sqmi|km2|1, of which convert|63.6|sqmi|km2|abbr=on|1 is land and convert|0.2|sqmi|km2|abbr=on|1, or 0.27%, is water.

To the south is Waterville Valley, to the north and west is Lincoln (and a southern tip of Bethlehem), and to the east are Hart's Location, Bartlett and the northwestern corner of Albany.

The village of Livermore was benchmarked with an elevation of convert|1264|ft|m, a quarter mile from the eastern boundary adjoining Hart's Location.

The curving northwestern border of the township follows the height of land between the drainage of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River to the west and the headwaters of the Sawyer River and the Swift River to the east. It is crossed by Kancamagus Pass. Important summits along the border (from northeast to southwest) include Mount Bemis, at convert|3706|ft|m above sea level; Mount Lowell, at convert|3743|ft|m; Mount Carrigain, the highest point in Livermore at convert|4700|ft|m; Mount Kancamagus, at convert|3728|ft|m; and Mount Osceola, at convert|4326|ft|m.

Demographics

As of the censusGR|2 of 2000, there were three people in a single married family household (all white) residing in the single housing unit in the town. Of these three people, one was female and two were male; one was between the ages of 18 to 24, one between 25 to 44, and one from 45 to 64; the median age was 42 years.

Others currently report that there are no permanent residents,Fact|date=February 2007 although a seasonal camp is maintained on the last remaining private parcel.

History

* 1874 - Grafton County Lumber Co. incorporated.
* 1875 - Sawyer River Railroad incorporated.
* 1876 - Livermore incorporated.
* 1877 - Construction of Sawyer River Railroad begins to support logging activity.
* 1896 - Topographic map shows railroad and twelve inhabited buildings.
* 1927 - A November storm devastates the local lumber industry.
* 1928 - The last mill is closed.
* 1937 - All but one convert|12|acre|ha|adj=on parcel of land is sold to the United States Forest Service for inclusion in the White Mountain National Forest.
* 1949 - The last resident leaves town.
* 1951 - Livermore dissolved by an act of the New Hampshire legislature.
* 1970s - Bill defeated in State House for Lincoln to annex Livermore.

According to the 1928 and 1931 topographic maps (Plymouth quadrangle), the Tripoli Road ended at the Livermore Tripoli Mill, in Livermore. The Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society reports that this company once mined diatomaceous earth from East Pond. Today, the seasonal Tripoli Road connects through Livermore's Thornton Gap—elevation convert|2300|ft|m—to the village of Waterville Valley.

See also

* Samuel Bemis

References