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Location in Grafton County, New Hampshire Location in Grafton County, New Hampshire Sugar Hill is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
The populace was 563 at the 2010 census. Sugar Hill is a tightly knit improve which overlooks the White Mountain National Forest, with views of the Presidential, Franconia, Kinsman and Dalton ranges.
Sugar Hill was incorporated as a town in 1962, making it the most recent in New Hampshire to be split from another town.
This town is New Hampshire's second youngest, having incorporated in 1962 (the township of Hart's Location in Carroll County incorporated as a town in 2001) out of the town of Lisbon after considerable litigation.
The name "Sugar Hill" comes from a large grove of sugar maples in the hills.
With clean air and panoramic views from up on Sunset Hill Ridge of both the White Mountains and Green Mountains, the improve became a fashionable Victorian resort.
But the grandest was the Sunset Hill House, assembled in 1880 after rail service appeared in neighboring Lisbon Village (Sunset Hill Station).
Built in 1897, the 9-hole Sugar Hill House Golf Course, together with its 1900 clubhouse, are the earliest in the state and today listed on the National Register.
The Sunset Hill House remained open until 1973, longer than many of its type in the region.
Acquired territory on Sugar Hill around 1900 and established the Peckett's-on-Sugar Hill Inn. While hosting winter guests early in the century, the need for increased clientele prompted him, with the assistance of his daughter, Katherine "Kate" Peckett, to establish the first resort-based ski school in the United States The first two ski instructors were German; they introduced the Arlberg technique advanced by Hannes Schneider St.
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Mount Lafayette from Sugar Hill in 1913 Green Mountains from Sugar Hill c.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 17.2 square miles (44.5 km2), of which 17.0 square miles (44.0 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2) is water, comprising 1.06% of the town. Sugar Hill is drained by the Gale River and other tributaries of the Ammonoosuc River.
The town is crossed by New Hampshire Route 117.
Interstate 93 and New Hampshire Route 18 pass through the northeast corner of the town.
The highest point in town is the summit of Bronson Hill, at 2,078 feet (633 m) above sea level.
Sugar Hill Meetinghouse 9, 1977 in Sugar Hill, NH Sugar Hill Historical Museum "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Sugar Hill town, Grafton County, New Hampshire".
Memories of Peckett's Inn, #11 New England Ski Museum 1984 New Hampshire and the Emergence of an American Ski Industry, November 10, 2009, by Jeffrey R.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001) - Sugar Hill town, New Hampshire".
Town of Sugar Hill official website Sugar Hill Fire Department Sugar Hill Municipalities and communities of Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States Alexandria Ashland Bath Benton Bethlehem Bridgewater Bristol Campton Canaan Dorchester Easton Ellsworth Enfield Franconia Grafton Groton Hanover Haverhill Hebron Holderness Landaff Lincoln Lisbon Littleton Lyman Lyme Monroe Orange Orford Piermont Plymouth Rumney Sugar Hill Thornton Warren Waterville Valley Wentworth Woodstock
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