Map of Weare, New Hampshire in 2026

Weare carries the name of Meshech Weare, its first town clerk, who went on to lead New Hampshire through the Revolution. This map prints the Amos Chase House and Mill, the Caleb Whittaker Place, the North Weare Schoolhouse, the Weare Town House and the Weare Public Library, with Riverdale and Tavern Village.

Weare is in Hillsborough County, close to both Manchester and Concord.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey records in the style of an old atlas. The shaded terrain around Riverdale and Tavern Village comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the town’s three highest summits, Mount Dearborn, Mine Hill and Mount Wallingford, stand together near the center of town at about 1,210 feet each. The roads come from the Census Bureau, from South Stark Highway down to smaller roads such as Guys Lane. The Amos Chase House and Mill, the Caleb Whittaker Place and the North Weare Schoolhouse are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Weare had 9,092 people at the 2020 census, in a town of 60.1 square miles.

Beverly-Canada, Hale’s Town and Weare

Governor Jonathan Belcher first granted this land in 1735 to veterans of the Canadian wars, and he named it Beverly-Canada for their hometown of Beverly, Massachusetts. That charter was thrown out over an earlier claim by the Masonian proprietors, who in 1749 granted 6 square miles to Ichabod Robie as Hale’s Town. People also called it Robie’s Town or Weare’s Town, and in 1764 Governor Benning Wentworth incorporated it as Weare.

Meshech Weare was born in 1713 in what’s now Seabrook, and his house still stands in Hampton Falls. He was a leader in drafting the constitution New Hampshire adopted on January 5, 1776, which his page calls the first formal constitution of any American state. He chaired the Committee of Safety, which acted for the government whenever the legislature was out of session, throughout the Revolution, and he was chief justice of the state’s highest court from 1776 to 1782. His page calls him the first president of New Hampshire, the title its chief executive carried before 1784, and says he’s also known as the father of New Hampshire.

Clinton Grove

In 1834 Moses Cartland, a cousin of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, founded Clinton Grove Academy, which the town page calls the first Quaker seminary in the state. He named its village Clinton Grove in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the chief sponsor of the Erie Canal. The academy started as a private high school. Its buildings burned in 1872, and classes met in the Quaker meetinghouse across the common until a new building was finished in 1874. That building served the Weare school district from 1877 to 1938.

The mill on the Piscataquog

The Piscataquog River drains the whole town, held back by Lake Horace in the northwest and by Everett Lake in the northeast. On Route 114, just south of the river in northern Weare, stand the Amos Chase House and Mill. Amos Chase, a tool maker from a locally prominent family that ran small mills in town, built the Greek Revival house about 1836. His first mill burned in 1844, and the one behind the house on the riverbank, built about 1849, replaced it. Its page says it’s the only 19th-century mill building left in Weare, out of a dozen or more that once stood, and the only mill in town that came through the hurricane of 1938, though its waterwheel washed away. A stone dam Chase built still spans the river, and his son later made baskets in the mill. The property joined the National Register in 1992.

Everett Lake is a reservoir. The Army Corps of Engineers built the 2,000-foot Everett Dam for the Hopkinton-Everett flood control project, finished in 1963. The dam formed the lake, and it required the village of East Weare to be abandoned for good. Clough State Park sits on the lake’s east side, with a 900-foot sandy beach, playing fields and a picnic area, and people come to swim, hike, fish and paddle.

An old house and a brick schoolhouse

The Caleb Whittaker Place stands in a remote corner of southwestern Weare, on Perkins Pond Road. It was probably built about 1765, and it’s believed to be the work of Caleb Whittaker, the son of one of Weare’s first settlers. Its page counts it among the oldest surviving buildings in town. Inside are deeply worn wooden floors, horizontal wood paneling and doors hung on leather strap hinges, and the page says those features survived because the house was tied up in estate litigation for many years in the 20th century. One side of the house was never finished, and it stayed that way until 1977.

The North Weare Schoolhouse sits back from Route 77, a short way east of Route 114. It was built in 1856 for the town’s 16th school district, and it was the only one of Weare’s district schools built of brick. Its page calls it the most architecturally distinctive of the town’s surviving 19th-century schoolhouses, a mix of Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate details under a square belfry. Children went to school there until 1952, and from 1960 to 1985 the local Grange met in it.

People of Weare

David Souter moved with his family to their farm in Weare when he was 11, and he lived in the family farmhouse until 2009. He served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The painter Elma Gove was born in Weare in 1832. She enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1848, showed portraits in its exhibitions until 1864 and also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Boston Athenaeum. Her mother was an early advocate for women’s rights. Gene Robinson and his partner moved into a house in Weare in 1988, and he went on to become bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, widely known as the first openly gay priest consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination.

Routes 77, 114 and 149 cross the town. Riverdale and Tavern Village are printed on the map, along with the Weare Town House and the Weare Public Library. Clough State Park appears on the shore of Everett Lake.

This Weare map would make a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of a Piscataquog River town. It’s made for people who call Weare 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 Weare map.

Sources

• Weare, New Hampshire, Wikipedia
• Meshech Weare, Wikipedia
• Amos Chase House and Mill, Wikipedia
• Caleb Whittaker Place, Wikipedia
• North Weare Schoolhouse, Wikipedia
• Clough State Park, Wikipedia
• David Souter, Wikipedia
• Gene Robinson, Wikipedia
• Elma Gove, Wikipedia