Lakeports Ancient Homes

"[Lakeport] was settled by Abraham Folsom about 1766 and originally called Folsom's Mills; thereafter from 1825, Batchelder's Mills, until about 1830 it began to be called Lake Village, which name it retained until 1891 when the name was changed to Lakeport. The village became a part (Ward 6) of the city of Laconia on its incorporation in 1893 but still keeps the name of lakeport for all local purposes ..."--Introduction, pg. 7.