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History · Piermont

Piermont’s post office opened in 1814, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Sawyer-Medlicott House and the Piermont Bridge. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1931 on, and the census since 1790.

1814first post office
2on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
4famous people
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From Piermont’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Piermont began

When was Piermont founded?

1814

The Piermont post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 426 in 17902020 census: 769212 years
Founding year: the first Piermont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Piermont’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,057 in 1840; 769 people lived here in 2020.Deep rootsA post office since 1814: 212 years of Piermont.
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Start Piermont’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Piermont’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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People over time

Piermont, census by census

02004006008001,00018001850190019502000Peak: 1,057

Peaked at 1,057 in 1840; 769 people lived here in 2020.

24 censuses, 1790–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Piermont’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

Piermont, 1814 to 1931

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1814Post officeThe Piermont post office opens
  3. 1836Born hereNathaniel C. Barker is born here
  4. 1840CensusPopulation peaks at 1,057
  5. 1844Born hereIra Hobart Evans is born here
  6. 20th century
  7. 1913In the archiveView of
  8. 1931On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Piermont came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Piermont.

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Incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 and settled in 1768, the town takes its name from Italy's Piedmont. It had 426 residents in 1790, the year of the first census.

Aaron Lane, who grew up in Piermont, was the first permanent settler in the Mojave Desert area now known as Victorville, California. A biography of Lane sheds light on life in Piermont during the mid-19th century.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Piermont, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s1 item
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1920s–1990snothing yet
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.
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Piermont NH 5-8-26B2026Piermont NH 5-8-26BPiermont NH 5-8-26A2026Piermont NH 5-8-26ASawyer-Medlicott House2025Sawyer-Medlicott HouseRound Barn Shoppe2025Round Barn ShoppeLake Tarleton State Park July 20202020Lake Tarleton State Park July 2020Lake Armington, photo at dusk from east shore looking NW, July 20202020Lake Armington, photo at dusk from east shore looking…Camp Walt Whitman2016Camp Walt WhitmanPiermontNH SawyerMedlicottHouse2013PiermontNH SawyerMedlicottHousePiermontNH CongregationalChurch2013PiermontNH CongregationalChurchChurch in2011Church in
On the map

Piermont on the map, 1931 to 1996

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Piermont. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Piermont on the 1931 USGS mapPiermont on the 1979 USGS mapPiermont on the 1996 USGS map1931Mt Cube sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Piermont.

Then & now

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Piermont

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
Sawyer-Medlicott House
Sawyer-Medlicott HousePiermont Bridge
BuildingsStructures

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
Steel Pennsylvania Through Truss1
Sawyer-Medlicott HouseFederal
Piermont BridgeSteel Pennsylvania Through Truss

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

4 famous people were born in Piermont

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Ira Hobart EvansUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1844
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Monique PriestleyAmerican politician from Vermont
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Nathaniel C. BarkerMedal of Honor recipient · b. 1836
James StonePresident of Kalamazoo College
Places that used to be

Old burying grounds

Piermont’s post office has been open since 1814.

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Piermont
Cedar GroveRiver RoadSouth Lawn

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Haverhill4 historic placesA+Orford2 historic placesA+WarrenIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWentworthIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBentonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Piermont’s history

What year was Piermont founded?

The Piermont post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Piermont?

Two places: the Sawyer-Medlicott House (listed 1991) and the Piermont Bridge (2001).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (11), Wikidata (1), 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) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.