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Originally the town included Harrisville, where there was a water source to power mills. But in the 1860s the two parts of town differed over funding the building of a railroad. The textile village of Harrisville needed rail transport to get their mill products to markets, but farmers in upland Dublin outvoted them. Harrisville petitioned the Legislature for a separate town, which was carved out of Dublin and a portion of Nelson, in 1870.

Meanwhile, the town center grew, with the 1852 Dublin Community Church at its core. Today this center comprises the Dublin Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Distinguished among the dozens of buildings included in the listing as historically and architecturally significant is the 1825 Dr. Asa Heald House on Main Street, built from plans by Charles Bulfinch.

The arts and crafts-style Dublin Public Library comes from a later era — the final successor to the Dublin Juvenile Library, the first free public library in America, formed in 1822 and supported by contributions. The 1901 library, built in stone and wood, has Gothic Revival accents in the façade windows. Its historic copper gutters were replaced with replicas in 2021.

Also in this historic district and from a later era is Emmanuel Church, the second oldest of the nine seasonal chapels of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, one of two on the National Register. Built in 1882, the wooden, shingle-style church has original Tiffany stained glass windows and an octagonal cupola.

Eminent in the village center is the headquarters of Yankee Magazine, founded here in 1935 by Robb and Beatrix Sagen- dorph, and expanded in 1939 with the purchase of “The Old Farmer’s Almanac.” Yankee Publishing purchased assets from McLean Communications in 2012, taking over New Hampshire Magazine. Thus, this article comes by way of Yankee Publishing, continuing the town’s abundant artistic and cultural traditions to the present day.

The glory days of the Dublin summer colony faded with the Great Depression and World War II. But they left Dublin with another rich architectural heritage, recognized by the town’s second listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The Dublin Lake Historic District includes the cottages around the lake itself and those above on Beech Hill. These represent two prevalent styles of the era’s summer homes. The Victorian shingle style, primarily on the hill, were the earliest wave, characterized by gambrel roofs, wide verandas and dark wooden shingle siding. Later and grander were the Italianate villas, usually set in more elaborate landscaped gardens that could be enjoyed from terraces, gazebos and pergolas.

While most of the grander cottages are secluded by trees or walls, you can glimpse some of them on a slow drive around Dublin Lake or on the hilltop roads between Dublin and Harrisville. NH

Don’t forget the bruschetta, seen here with a crispy fig and prosciutto pizza.