These are the men that helped shape our town. All images can be enlarged by clicking on them. If you have information on any of the individuals listed or on some that has not been included please contact us.
Restoration commenced in 2010 on the large, red boyhood home in Goshen, New Hampshire where John Williams Gunnison was born to Samuel Gunnison and Elizabeth Williams on 11 November 1812. He walked to the district school over the Sunapee Mountains and helped on the farm until 1830. Then he traveled about thirty-five miles to Hopkinton Academy where he (more)
Goshen historian Walter R. Nelson wrote his first history of Goshen at twenty years of age. It became the basis of his major work entitled History of Goshen New Hampshire Settled 1769 Incorprtaes (sic) 1791 which was published in 1957 and reprinted n 1984. (more)
Elias Pike of Goshen, an ex-member of the New Hampshire Legislature and a veteran of the Civil War, was born in this town, October 12, 1838, son of Wilson S. and Julia Gil(martin) Pike. His grandfather, Jarvis Pike, who resided in Newport NH, was a prosperous farmer. (more)