Town of Hinsdale USGenWeb 
New Hampshire
Located in the southwestern corner of the state, Hinsdale was chartered in 1753.
It was named for Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale, member of a prominent Deerfield, Massachusetts, family, whose mother had been taken captive
in the famed Raid on Deerfield of 1704. Graduated from Harvard, Hinsdale was ordained to become a missionary for Indians of the Connecticut River Valley.
Instead, he would serve as chaplain at Fort Dummer, an important trading post on the Connecticut River, later enlisting as an officer in the army.
Then, in 1742, he established Fort Hinsdale, including a trading post and gristmill, reportedly at his own expense.
The town's earliest history recounts Indian assaults, raids and captivities.
Located beside the Connecticut River and connected to Brattleboro, Vermont, by bridge, Hinsdale contains excellent farmland,
but has been a significant center of industry as well, especially in the manufacture of paper. In a machine shop here, George A. Long
built a self-propelled steam vehicle in 1875, the Long steam tricycle, for which he received one of the nation's earliest automobile patents.
The oldest continually-operating post office in the United States, established in 1816, is located on Main Street.
Cemeteries in Hinsdale - Search the six cemeteries in the Town of Hinsdale, NH
New Hampshire Vital Records
Hinsdale men killed during World War II
Hinsdale men killed during Vietnam War
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