Lempster

First granted by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as Number 9 (ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks), it was regranted in 1753 as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, by Governor Benning Wentworth. The town was re-granted one final time in 1767 as Lempster, after one of the titles of a Sir Thomas Farmer of "Lempster" (presumably Leominster in England), and incorporated in 1772. Today Lempster has a population estimated to be 1,125.

Lempster is located in Sullivan County with Unity to the west and Washington, NH, to the east. The villages of Lempster include Dodge Hollow, East Lempster, and Keyes Hollow.

Lempster is home to New Hampshire's first wind farm located five miles from Mount Sunapee. The wind-power installation provides a total of 24 megawatts from 12 turbines stretching over several connected ridgelines and started operation in 2008. The turbines are located at the highest point in Lempster, on Bean Mountain, a knob on the north-south ridge of Lempster Mountain.