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Weeks State Park is  a historic country estate on U.S. Route 3 in Lancaster. (N.H. STATE PARKS PHOTO)

LANCASTER — Weeks State Park, a historic country estate on U.S. Route 3 in Lancaster, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places.The announcement was made by the N.H. Division of Historical Resources.

A well-preserved example of a summer estate built during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Weeks State Park is historically significant because of its architecture, its historic associations with conservation, agriculture and recreation, and as the summer home of Sen. John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926).

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