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Tamworth road committee creates "Probably Not a Town Road" list, tasks members to reconcile state inventories
Summary
At its Sept. 3 meeting the Tamworth Road Study Committee accepted prior minutes and multiple road reports, agreed to compile a "Probably Not a Town Road" list to reconcile discrepancies with state inventories, and added a Class VI road noted in a 1985 town-meeting article to its report. Members were assigned to collect and share state inventories.
The Tamworth Road Study Committee met Sept. 3, 2025, accepted minutes and a package of road reports, and voted to compile a separate list of roads that appear in state inventories but are not documented in town records.
Committee members recorded attendance and opened the meeting at 7:04 p.m. Minutes for May 7, 2025 were accepted with a correction: the minutes should show the next meeting as Sept. 3, not Sept. 1. The committee then accepted the set of road reports reviewed at the June meeting and recorded individual confirmations for multiple roads, including Narrows Road, Old Page Hill Road (east and west), Peabody Road, Philbrick Neighborhood Road (multiple segments) and Sedgewick Road.
David Little raised a technical discrepancy about Mill Hill, noting the distances in the report did not match the discontinued-section mapping; the committee decided that the explicit call for a specific location takes precedence over a stated distance when the two conflict. The group also directed several editorial revisions to reports: striking the last sentence in the Paugus Road 5 discussion and splitting "Red Gate 6" into two entries, renaming the earlier layout "Old Red Gate Path." Great Hill Road 5 was marked OK.
Paul King brought up a longer discussion about state-maintained inventories — he noted that the old NH Highway Department / NH-DOT lists include roads with no town-record references. After deliberation the committee agreed to maintain a separate list identifying roads that appear in state inventories but not in town records and to document methodological differences between the two sources. Paul King was tasked with collecting the state lists. David Little and Chris Conrod agreed to share state inventory materials they already hold.
Chris Conrod presented an initial "Probably Not a Town Road" list of locally known ways lacking town-record documentation. The committee approved naming the list and requested several corrections, including that Glidden Road proceeds easterly rather than westerly. Additional candidate entries mentioned for that list included Cushing Road (near Mersfelder), Nelson O'Bryan's driveway, Old Mail Road in Chocorua, and Bearcamp River Road.
The committee also reviewed historical records cited in the agenda: Article 51 from the 1985 town meeting and the CCRD 994/243 deed conveying land from the town to the G S Corporation. The committee agreed that the town had established a Class VI road under those records and directed that the road be added to the committee's report list.
The committee scheduled its next meeting for Oct. 1, 2025 and adjourned at 8:54 p.m. Minutes were submitted by Chris Conrod, Road Committee Secretary.
