The second royal governor, John Wentworth, had his residence in Portsmouth and his summer residence in Wolfeboro. A highway was (at least partially) built between the two.... mostly for the purpose of getting these tall pines from the King's woods down to Portsmouth to be used as ship's masts. This was how Kingswood Regional High School and the Kingswood Golf Course acquired their names.
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In 1759, the original proprietors of Wolfeboro divided the town into four equal tracts of nine square miles each. These were subdivided into a total of twenty lots. Three of these were reserved for public uses. One was for schools and one was for "the minister of the gospel." The third was for public uses and ten acres of this land were set aside as a public tract to be used for a town square, training field, burying ground, or for other public use. The white pine trees on these public lots received special attention. All white pines suitable for use as masts or other timbers in his majesty's ships were reserved. Trees then growing or any that grew in the future were specifically to be earmarked for the Royal Navy. The remaining seventeen tracts were for the settlers to clear and establish their homesteads. By 1804 the lots had increased to twenty-four as revealed in the Henry Rust map published in the 1974 edition of the Parker History of Wolfeborough. A copy of this map may be seen at the Wolfeboro National Bank on Brickyard Hill.
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from the History of Wolfeboro, NH
http://www.smalltowngems.com/browset...wnhistory.html