Easements

Often historic sites are not located immediately adjacent to a public highway. The Town may approach the intervening landowner to request that a permanent easement be granted to the town to allow access to the site for maintenance purposes. Additionally, landowners may also provide an easement around a site to provide additional protection to the site.

Town Pound Lot and Easement

In 2016 Mr. Kenneth Cegelski, Jr. gifted the Town a lot on Province Road, including both the Pound and a protective area surrounding the Pound.  This gift allows the Town to maintain and protect in perpetuity this important community heritage site.

Osgood Cemetery Easement

In 2012 George and Anna Mae Twigg gifted to the Town a permanent easement to access the Osgood Cemetery from the closest public highway, Loon Pond Road. This transfer occurred during a very complex proposal of the Gilmanton Land Trust to bring several entities together to permanently preserve this and other Twigg properties within the community. A great deal of thanks is also due to the Land Trust and others involved who also made the cemetery easement transfer possible.

Mary Butler Homesite Easement

In 2007 Mrs. Virginia Stanley and her son William D. Stanley III gifted to the Town a 50' protective easement around the perimeter of the Mary Butler Homesite on Mary Butler Lane. Mary Butler Eastman gained fame as the result of her horseback ride from her wilderness home in Gilmanton to Cambridge to learn the fate of her husband after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Click here to read more.

Foster Cemetery

In 2006 Ms. Terri Bilotta gifted to the Town a permanent access easement from Allens Mill Road to the Foster Cemetery. No deeded access to the site existed prior to that transfer.

Edgerly (1) Cemetery

In 1996 John Charles & Company gifted to the Town a permanent access easement from Old Stage Road to the Edgerly (1) Cemetery.  The road previously giving access to the cemetery had been discontinued in 1927.