Incorporated: 1766
Population: 2,549
County Name: Carroll
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Tamworth
PO Box 359
Tamworth, NH 03886

Phone: 603-323-7525
Fax: 603-323-2347
Website: www.nhes.state.nh.us/elmi/htmlprofiles/tamworth

Origin:
Granted in 1766, this town was named in honor of Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, a close friend of Governor Benning Wentworth. The Admiral's daughter, Selina Shirley, was instrumental in the founding of Dartmouth College. Tamworth includes the villages of Chocorua, Wonalancet, and Whittier. Mount Whittier in Ossipee, like the village, was named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

More about Tamworth:
The Barnstormers summer playhouse was established here in 1931 by Francis Grover Cleveland, son of the president. He supported the theatre until his death in 1995. Barnstormers is hailed as the oldest continuously running professional summer theater in the state.