Wolfeboro is a town

New England town

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 in Carroll County

Carroll County, New Hampshire

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,666 people, 18,351 households, and 12,313 families residing in the county. The population density was 18/km² . There were 34,750 housing units at an average density of 14/km²...

, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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, United States

United States

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. The population was 6,269 at the 2010 census. A venerable resort area situated beside Lake Winnipesaukee

Lake Winnipesaukee

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, Wolfeboro includes the village of Wolfeboro Falls. The community is home to Wentworth State Park.

The main village of the town, where 2,838 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Wolfeboro census-designated place

Census-designated place

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 (CDP), and is located at the head of Wolfeboro Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee, at the junction of New Hampshire routes 28

New Hampshire Route 28

New Hampshire Route 28 is an north–south state highway in southeastern New Hampshire. It connects the town of Ossipee in east-central New Hampshire with Salem on the Massachusetts border....

 and 109

New Hampshire Route 109

New Hampshire Route 109 is a long north–south highway in Carroll County, New Hampshire. It runs southeast from Sandwich to the Maine border....

.
The town was granted by Colonial

Colony

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 Governor Benning Wentworth

Benning Wentworth

Benning Wentworth was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.-Biography:The eldest child of the John Wentworth who had been Lieutenant Governor, he was born and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Wentworth graduated from Harvard College in 1715...

 in 1759 to four young men of Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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, and named Wolfeborough in honor of English

English people

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 General James Wolfe

James Wolfe

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, who had been victorious at Quebec in 1759.