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Tilton is a town upon the Winnipesaukee River in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,962 at the 2020 census, up from 3,567 at the 2010 census. It includes the villages of Tilton and Lochmere and portion of the village of Winnisquam. Tilton is home to the Tilton School, a private preparatory school.

Originally the southern allocation of Sanbornton, the present Place of Tilton was known as “Sanbornton Bridge” and “Bridge Village”. These two names attend to to the bridge, built in 1763, that crossed the Winnipesaukee River from Canterbury to Sanbornton and onto what is now Main Street in Tilton. In 1869, Sanbornton Bridge was set off and incorporated as Tilton, named in great compliment of Nathaniel Tilton (1726–1814), whose great-grandson Charles E. Tilton (1827–1901) was the owner of textile mills and the community’s wealthiest citizen. Nathaniel Tilton normal an iron foundry and the area’s first hotel, the Dexter House. Charles E. Tilton donated many statues to the town, a unique feature, and his home is now portion of the Tilton School. Tilton Hall, his former mansion built in 1861, houses the Lucian Hunt Library. The attached carriage house was renovated in 1980 to become the Helene Grant Daly Art Center.

Charles E. Tilton furthermore donated what is perhaps the most notable landmark in the area, the hilltop Memorial Arch, located in the neighboring town of Northfield, across the Winnipesaukee River from the middle of Tilton. The Roman arch replica was built in the late 1800s as a memorial to his ancestors. It is built of Concord granite, 50 feet (15 m) high and 40 feet (12 m) wide.