Bridgewater has Newfound Lake down its whole west side and the Pemigewasset River down its east side, with Peaked Hill and a lot of woods in between. Eleven hundred and sixty people, no town water, no town sewer, and three kinds of houses — lake cottages on Route 3A, old farmhouses on the turnpike, and newer year-round places up the hill roads. We work on all three.
Bridgewater covers about twenty-one and a half square miles of land and, oddly for a lake town, almost none of the lake. The town line follows the east shore of Newfound, so all the water inside Bridgewater adds up to less than a fifth of a square mile. The frontage is Bridgewater’s. The lake mostly isn’t.
Route 3A through town is still the Mayhew Turnpike on the deeds — it’s the town hall’s own address, 297 Mayhew Turnpike. The legislature chartered it in 1803 as a private toll road between Hill and the Plymouth–Coos road in Rumney, and the Newfound Lake Inn has stood on it since 1840, when it was the halfway stop on the Boston–Montreal stage line. The town is older than the road. Bridgewater was incorporated in 1788 and originally took in what are now Bristol and Hill; Bristol was carved off in 1819.
The other side of town is a different place. River Road runs along the Pemigewasset, and after the December 2023 storm the state closed a stretch of it to replace a pipe the flood had damaged. Between the lake and the river is hill country — Bridgewater Hill, and Peaked Hill at 1,905 feet, the high point in town. Nobody here is on a municipal system. Every house has its own well and its own septic, and the 2020 Census counted 1,160 people in town, up from 1,083 ten years before.
Bridgewater’s town hall keeps short hours — Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon. If your project needs a permit, make that call before you book anybody’s labor, not after.
Seasonal shutdowns and spring startups, done methodically and documented in writing.
Tank and tankless, sized for your house and our cold inlet water — not just matched to the old one.
Faucets, toilets, shut-off valves, tub and shower work, and remodel rough-in.
Emergency or routine, year-round house or seasonal camp — tell us what’s going on and we’ll give you a straight answer on cost and timing.
Describe what’s happening and where the property is. We’ll come back with a straight answer on what it likely is, what it should cost, and when we can be there. If it’s an emergency, say so in the first line.
We reply to every request within 2 business hours.
