Alexandria is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

[3] Newfound Lake is in the northeast corner, with Wellington State Park on the western shore.

Another attraction is Mowglis Mountain, named for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book hero.

Granted in 1753 by the Masonian Proprietors, the town was named for Alexandria, Virginia, location of a 1755 conference of governors early in the French and Indian War.

[4] First settled in 1769 by John Moore Corliss and his brother Jonathan, it was incorporated by the New Hampshire General Court on November 23, 1782.

[5] Alexandria was the birthplace of Luther C. Ladd (1843–1861), the first enlisted soldier to lose his life in the Civil War, shot during the Baltimore Riot.

[1] Alexandria is drained by the Fowler River, an east-flowing tributary of Newfound Lake.

The summit is in the town of Orange, while the highest point in Alexandria is on the Firescrew ridge to the north, where the elevation reaches 3,040 ft (930 m).