Route 28 Alton to Ossipee

[gokart-mozart]

Originally Posted by Long Pine

Gokart-mozart - It appears that you were right about the first part of this statement but perhaps not the last part. If you go to www.nhdeeds.com for Belknap County and go to Plan Book 58 Page 9, you will see a boundary line survey for the McLeod property from 1972 that specifically identifies "Old Route 28" and "NH Route 28". It shows the routing of Old Rt 28 down what is often marked on modern maps as "Pond Road" off of Roberts Cove Road (which is what you had thought) rather than up Roberts Cove Rd to Rines Rd to Stagecoach (as I had guessed). It goes past the McLeod's driveway (sometimes seen as McLeod Rd on current maps). Then Old Route 28 crossed the current 28 and made its way over to Stagecoach Road where it presumably continued down the currently impassable road grade to merge with the current 28 near the Wolfeboro line. Google Earth also seems to show a faint shadow of how the Old 28 made its way over to Stagecoach Rd.

You are obviously correct! Thanks!

Now, all that's needed is an old plan from the East Alton Store to the present Gilman's Corner Road/NH 28 intersection (which must pass through the parking lot of St. Katherine Drexel Church), and the whole route is done.

[CrawfordCentury]

Originally Posted by gokart-mozart

You are obviously correct! Thanks!

Now, all that's needed is an old plan from the East Alton Store to the present Gilman's Corner Road/NH 28 intersection (which must pass through the parking lot of St. Katherine Drexel Church), and the whole route is done.

The presence of an antique home in that general location supports this theory. The location of the stone walls is further evidence

[Long Pine]

If you go to www.nhdeeds.com for Belknap county and go to Plan Drawer "L47" and Plan Number "9", you will see a survey of the land that was sold to the Catholic church. On it is reference to "Hidden Springs Road a/k/a Old Route 28" (confirming the earlier suspicion about the routing of Old 28). An older plan found at Plan Book 76 page 73 shows what the property looked like in 1974.

[RI Swamp Yankee]

I remember when the "new" Rt 28 was built it made it a lot faster getting to my aunt's house in South Wolfeboro but I missed seeing Alton Bay and the wooden speedboats there and all those houses with "garages" facing (and in) the water. I am guessing it was in the late 50s as it was a few years before I got my driver's license.

[tis]

I am pretty sure the new Rte. 28 was completed in 1966.