Editing Francestown, New Hampshire (section)

== History ==
[[File:FrancestownNH LeviWoodburyHomestead.jpg|thumb|left|[[Levi Woodbury Homestead]]]]
Incorporated in 1772, Francestown takes its name from [[Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr.|Frances Deering Wentworth]],<ref>{{cite book | url={{Google books |9V1IAAAAMAAJ |pg=PA130 |plainurl=yes}}| title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | last=Gannett | first=Henry | year=1905 | page=130}}</ref> the wife of colonial governor [[John Wentworth (governor)|John Wentworth]]. There were 928 residents when the first census was taken in 1790.<ref>{{cite web|title=Francestown|url=http://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/cp/profiles-htm/francestown.htm|publisher=New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref> For some time the town used its location on the Second New Hampshire Turnpike, the only route between [[Boston]] and [[Vermont]], to collect a toll of one cent per mile from coaches and wagons. High-quality [[soapstone]] was mined in Francestown from 1792 to 1912.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Starbuck |first=David R. |date=1994 |title=An Introduction to New Hampshire Industrial Archeology |jstor=40968279 |journal=[[IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology]] |volume=20 |issue=1/2 |pages=4–18 |issn=0160-1040}}</ref>