Excerpt from The Illustrated Laconian: History and Industries of Laconia, N. H.; Descriptive of the City and Its Manufacturing and Business Interests Gilford; and previous to 1813 this por tion of the city was included in the limits of the original township of Gil manton. The portion of Laconia south of the river was cut off from Gilford and annexed to the town of Laconia in 1874, and when the city charter was granted in 1893, Lakeport was also taken from Gilford to form a part of the city of Laconia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.