Map of Warner, New Hampshire in 2026

Mount Kearsarge stands over the north end of Warner, and two covered bridges still cross the Warner River. This map prints the Dalton Covered Bridge, the Waterloo Covered Bridge, the Lower Warner Meetinghouse, the Warner Town Hall and the Pillsbury Free Library, with Davisville and Melvin Mills.

Warner is in Merrimack County, 19 miles by road northwest of Concord.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data and drew it in the spirit of an old atlas. The shaded terrain around Melvin Mills and Davisville comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and it rises to 2,937 feet at the top of Mount Kearsarge, the highest point in Warner and in all of Merrimack County. The roads come from Census Bureau files, from Kearsarge Mountain Road down to smaller roads such as Howe Lane. The Lower Warner Meetinghouse and both covered bridges are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Warner had 2,937 people at the 2020 census, 453 of them in the main village.

Four names before Warner

Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher granted the town in 1735 as Number One, to petitioners mostly from Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was called New Amesbury then, one of a line of settlements between the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers. The Masonian Proprietors regranted it in 1749 as Jennesstown, when it had four houses and a sawmill, but that settlement was abandoned during the French and Indian War. In 1767 it was granted again, to Jonathan Barnard and others, as Amesbury. On September 3, 1774, it was incorporated as Warner, named for Jonathan Warner, a leading citizen of Portsmouth and a relative of Governor John Wentworth, and it was one of the last towns set up under English provincial rule before the Revolution.

Warner became a prosperous farm town, raising meat, dairy goods, vegetables, hay and apples. The Warner River and its brooks ran the mills, and in 1832 there were twelve sawmills, six gristmills, a paper mill and two clothing factories. By 1885 the town also had a bedstead factory, a chain factory, a woolen mill, an iron foundry, a tannery and a glove maker. Walter Harriman, born in Warner, ran a store here with John S. Pillsbury, later governor of Minnesota, before Harriman became the 31st governor of New Hampshire, and in 1879 he published a History of Warner.

The covered bridges

The Dalton Covered Bridge carries Joppa Road over the Warner River. Joshua Sanborn built it in 1853, local men laid its first abutments, and it’s named for a woman who lived nearby, first known as Mrs. Dalton and then as Widow Dalton. It spans 76 feet on a king post truss backed by queen posts, following an 1837 patent of Stephen Long’s. The Waterloo Covered Bridge, a Town lattice truss built around 1860, crosses the river near Waterloo Falls in western Warner, and its page counts it among New Hampshire’s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. Both bridges joined the National Register in 1976.

The Waterloo bridge stands inside the Waterloo Historic District, the site of one of the first mills on the Warner River, with houses dating back to 1791, the Bean Tavern of 1793, two old railroad stations and the 1836 Chandler Mill. Two nationally known politicians lived in the district: William E. Chandler, a United States senator and Secretary of the Navy, and Nehemiah G. Ordway, the seventh governor of Dakota Territory.

The Lower Warner Meetinghouse

The Lower Warner Meetinghouse stands on East Main Street, which is Route 103, in eastern Warner. A meetinghouse first stood near the spot in 1789. In the 1840s the congregation decided to move west to Centre Village, and the members who disagreed split off and built this Greek Revival church, begun in 1844. Methodists were using it too by 1846, and the two congregations shared it until the 1860s. It still has its original pulpit, lighting, stove and pulpit Bible. Lightning took the steeple around 1893, neighbors looked after it until a major restoration began in 1897, and the Warner Historical Society has owned it since 1969.

Kearsarge and the village

Rollins State Park, named for Governor Frank W. Rollins, sits on the south slope of Mount Kearsarge, and from Warner you reach it by Kearsarge Mountain Road. An auto road climbs from the park to within half a mile of the bare summit, where the fire tower looks out, on a very clear day, as far as the skyscrapers of Boston, 80 miles away. The mountain’s name comes from a 1652 spelling of its Pennacook name, Carasarga. The town also takes in Davisville, Lower Village, Melvin Mills and Waterloo, and every Columbus Day weekend the Fall Foliage Festival draws thousands of visitors. The New Hampshire Telephone Museum, started in 2005, has more than 1,000 telephone artifacts, and the poet Maxine Kumin, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973, lived on a Warner farm from 1976 until her death, raising Arabian and quarter horses. Davisville and Melvin Mills are printed on the map, along with the Warner Town Hall and the Pillsbury Free Library.

This Warner map makes a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of a farm and mill town under Mount Kearsarge. It’s made for people who call Warner home, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Warner map.

Sources

• Warner, New Hampshire, Wikipedia
• Warner (CDP), New Hampshire, Wikipedia
• Dalton Covered Bridge, Wikipedia
• Waterloo Covered Bridge, Wikipedia
• Waterloo Historic District (Warner, New Hampshire), Wikipedia
• Lower Warner Meetinghouse, Wikipedia
• Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire), Wikipedia
• Rollins State Park, Wikipedia
• Walter Harriman (politician), Wikipedia
• Maxine Kumin, Wikipedia
• New Hampshire Telephone Museum, Wikipedia