Governor John Wentworth and the King's Council
voted in the spring of 1771 that a highway be made from
the Governor's estate at Wolfeboro to Dartmouth College.
Joseph Senter, David Copp, and Samuel Shepard surveyed the
67-mile road which followed this route to Plymouth. Thence
it passed through Groton, around Lary's and Goose Ponds,
over Moose Mountain to Hanover. Wentworth rode over it to
Dartmouth's first commencement, August 28, 1771.
Marker location: Located near the
Libby Museum, at the intersection of Route 109 and Long
Pond Road.
