Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1824.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Mont Vernon’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mont Vernon is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #48 of 126 in New Hampshire. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its age lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mont Vernon’s overall grade.
New Hampshire towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Hampshire town has 9.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mont Vernon’s 45.5 sits above most of its state (74% of New Hampshire towns have fewer) while its 12 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from A− to A. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.5 points). Two sources give 1803.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Mont Vernon’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Mont Vernon broke away from neighboring Amherst in 1803, following a dispute over the town parish. It later added a small portion of neighboring Lyndeborough.
Mont Vernon's general history follows that of many towns in this region. Originally settled for agriculture, its farms were hard hit after the Civil War when railroads opened up better farming land in the Midwest. The town's population peaked in 1870 and began to decline.
Passages that mention Mont Vernon, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of the town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire1883 · page 274Read the page →
Read the text
On the incorporation of the Second parish as the town of Mont Vernon, the necessity for a parish organization, separate from that of the town, ceased, and it was abandoned — the First parish becoming the town of Amherst.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Mont Vernon, 1803 to 2020
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
In 1803, according to Wikidata. Mont Vernon’s post office opened in 1824, and the census of 1800 counted 680 people here.
How does Mont Vernon rank for history?
Mont Vernon is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #48 of 126 in New Hampshire. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Mont Vernon?
Two places: the Lamson Farm (listed 1981) and the Mont Vernon Town Hall (2024).
How old are the homes in Mont Vernon?
24% of Mont Vernon’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.5 points), against a typical 17% for a New Hampshire town; the median home was built in 1978.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (8), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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