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��Tilton, New Hampshire.

��To the south, a street leads by an iron bridge across the river, and merges into the river road to Concord in one tli- rection ; over the hill, in another, to Canterbury and the settlement of the thrifty Shakers ; and in still another to Belmont and Gilmanton, and the old Hollow Route road through Loudon.

��depot, by the cemetery, and by the park, to Franklin, Salisbury, and western New Hampshire.

Facing Monument Square is the Til- ton town-hall, a large two-story building, built of pressed brick with granite trim- mings. It contains one of the finest halls in the State, the post-office, town

��� ��VIEW FROM ISLAND PARK.

��To the east, the street follows the west bank of the river, bounded by its sinu- osities, and for a long way protected from its encroachments by a faced wall of granite blocks, and guarded by an iron fence. To the north, the street climbs a hill, a foot hill of Sanbornton Mountain, and leads to the Square, to New Hampton, to old Holderness, and the White - Mountain wilderness. To the west, the street leads back by the

��offices, stores, etc. It is one of the many generous gifts to his native town by Charles E. Tilton. On its site, in 1 789, Mr. Duncan, the pioneer merchant of the place, kept a store. Across the street is the Dexter House, of which for many years Col. Samuel Tilton was the popular landlord. Across the square was the original Tilton blacksmith-shop. Where Hason Copp's mill now stands, there was erected about 1788, by Tilton

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