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Alstead () is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,937 at the 2010 census.〔United States Census Bureau, (American FactFinder ), 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011.〕 Alstead is home to Feuer State Forest. ==History== The town was chartered by Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as one in a line of nine forts intended to protect southwestern New Hampshire from Indian attack. It was granted as Newton〔http://gedcomindex.com/Reference/Haywards/frame027.html Hayward’s New England Gazetteer (1839)〕 or Newtown 〔http://gedcomindex.com/Reference/New_Hampshire_1875/051.html Ststistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire (1875)〕 in 1752 by Governor Benning Wentworth, but would be incorporated in 1763 as Alstead. It was named for Johann Heinrich Alsted, who compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College. Settled about 1764, Alstead would be one of the towns that wavered in its allegiance after the Revolutionary War. It decided to join Vermont in April 1781, but at the insistence of George Washington, returned to New Hampshire authority early the next year. Formerly known as Paper Mill Village, Alstead is the location of the state's first paper mill. It was established in 1793 on the Cold River by Ephraim and Elisha Kingsbury. Paper was then a rare and expensive product, made by chopping rags of linen and cotton cloth into pulp. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1880. While Alstead was basically an agricultural community, its streams and ponds once powered a variety of small mills. A turbine water mill at East Alstead is probably the last of its type anywhere in the region.〔(History of Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire )〕 Shedd-Porter Memorial Library, built in 1909-1910 in the Beaux-Arts style, was a gift to Alstead and Langdon by native son John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field's department store in Chicago. Another native son philanthropist, Charles M. Vilas, gave a large public recreation area, school building and the only carillon in Cheshire County. On the weekend of October 8–9, 2005, parts of Alstead were devastated by a severe flood. Heavy rain in Cheshire County caused the Cold River and its tributaries to swell, washing away homes, cars and 4 miles of Route 123. Four inhabitants of the town were killed. A ''Save Our History'' grant from The History Channel provided funding to the Alstead Historical Society and several students of the local high school, who wrote and printed a book called ''Too Much Water, Too Much Rain'', chronicling the disaster and its aftermath. Image:Langdon Road, Alstead, NH.jpg|Langdon Road in 1910 Image:Street Scene, Alstead, NH.jpg|Street scene c. 1912 Image:Lake Warren, East Alstead, NH.jpg|Lake Warren in 1910 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alstead, New Hampshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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