Stats about the 40 communities of the Monadnock Region

Map

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Monadnock Region Zip Code Map

 

Elevation

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Monadnock Region Elevation Chart CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW

 

Population

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Monadnock Region Population Pie – 2010 Census

 

History of towns in the Monadnock Region

1733

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Old Covered Bridge West Swanzey NH

Swanzey – first granted as Lower Ashuelot

1735

The Square Keene NH

The Square Keene NH

Keene – granted as Upper Ashuelot

1735
Main Street New Ipswich NH

Main Street New Ipswich NH

New Ipswich – granted

1735
Union Church East Westmoreland NH

Union Church East Westmoreland NH

Westmoreland – first granted as Number Two

1735
Lake Warren East Alstead NH

Lake Warren East Alstead NH

Alstead chartered as 1 of 9 forts to protect southwestern NH from Indian attack

1735
Pine Grove Springs Hotel Spofford Lake Chesterfield NH

Pine Grove Springs Hotel Spofford Lake Chesterfield NH

Chesterfield Granted

1735
Contoocook Mills Hillsborough NH

Contoocook Mills Hillsborough NH

Hillsborough first granted as Number Seven

1735
Four Corners Richmond NH

Four Corners Richmond NH

Richmond – first chartered – named Sylvester-Canada

1735
Wilton Woolen Company Wilton NH

Wilton Woolen Company Wilton NH

Wilton – part of township chartered as Salem-Canada

1736

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The Square Rindge NH

Rindge – granted

1736
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Main Street East Jaffrey NH

Jaffrey – granted by Massachusetts General Court as Rowley-Canada

1736
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Factories & Freight Yards Keene NH

Keene – settled after 1736

1736 Lyndeborough – sawmill established, known as Salem-Canada
1736 Walpole first granted

1737

Peterborough granted

1738

Sharon – first settled in 1738 as part of Peterborough slip, an area which until 1768 included Temple – called Sliptown
1738 New Ipswich settlement began

1739

Hillsborough  renamed as Hillsborough
1739 Mason first known as Number One

1741

Antrim settled
1741 Hillsborough settled

1742

Fort Hinsdale established

1748

Hillsborough granted, named for Sir Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough

1749

Dublin granted as Monadnock No.3
1749 Peterborough settled
1749 Wilton regranted as Number Two
1749 Rindge – regranted as Monadnock No. 1
1749 Jaffrey – rechartered as Monadnock No. 2
1749 Mason – town’s charter granted

1752

Alstead granted as Newtown
1752 Chesterfield Incorporated
1752 Gilsum granted as Boyle
1752 Westmoreland regranted
1752 Marlborough – first granted as Monadnock No. 5
1752 Richmond – incorporated
1752 Stoddard- first granted to both Colonel Stoddard and others at Monadnock No. 7, know locally as Limerick until 1774

1753

Gilsum rechartered
1753 Greenfield first settled as Lyndeborough Addition.
1753 Hinsdale chartered, named for Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
1753 Marlow – first granted in 1753 as Addison
1753 Swanzey – regranted
1753 Winchester – incorporated

1754

Fitzwilliam first granted as Monadnock No. 4

1756

Nelson – granted as Monadnock No. 6
1756 Walpole incorporated – name was Bellowstown

1757

Richmond – settled

1758

Jaffrey settled

1760

Peterborough incorporated

1761

Marlow – regranted as Marlow
1761 Walpole – town was renamed Walpole

1762

Troy first settled
1762 Wilton – incorporated
1762 Westmoreland – Park Hill Meetinghouse built
1762 New Ipswich – incorporated as Ipswich

1763

Alstead incorporated as “Alstead”, named for Johann Heinrich Alsted – compiler of early encyclopedia popular at Harvard

1764

Alstead settled
1764 Hancock – first settled
1764 Gilsum first settled

1765

Deering first settled

1766

New Ipswich – incorporated again as New Ipswich

1767

Nelson first settled
1767 Jaffrey regranted

1768

Mason – named in honor of New Hampshire’s founder John Mason
1768 Rindge – incorporated
1768 Temple – incorporated, named after lt governor John Temple
1768 Windsor – Incorporated

1769

Keene – became county seat of Cheshire County
1769 Surry – chartered, named for Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey

1771

Dublin incorporated, named for Dublin, Ireland

1772

Francestown incorporated, named for Frances Deering Wentworth
1772 Hillsborough incorporated

1773

Jaffrey incorporated and named for George Jaffrey
1773 Fitzwilliam incorporated, named for William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam

1774

Deering incorporated
1774 Harrisville – sawmill and gristmill built here when it was known as Twitchell’s Mills
1774 Nelson – incorporated
1774 Stoddard – incorporated

1775

Jaffrey – Town Meetinghouse built

1776

Marlborough – incorporated, originally known as Oxford then New Marlborough

1777

Antrim incorporated

1778

Antrim gets its name, named for Country Antrim in Ireland

1779

Hancock – Hancock set off from Peterborough and incorporated, named in honor of John Hancock
1779 Westmoreland – Park Hill Meetinghouse moved to present location by oxen

1780

Temple – Temple Glassworks founded

1781

Alstead joins Vermont

1782

Alstead returns to NH authority
1782 first grist mill built in Bennington

1785

Walpole – first bridge across Connecticut River built

1786

Mason – local cottage Pickity Place built

1787

Sullivan incorporated, formed from parts of Gilsum, Keene, Nelson, and Stoddard

1788

Presbyterian church established in Antrim by Scots-Irish settlers

1789

New Ipswich – New Ipswich Academy chartered (later named Appleton Academy)

1791

Greenfield  becomes a town of its own
1791 Sharon – incorporated and name changed to Sharon

1792

Stoddard – town’s first schoolhouses built

1793

NH’s first paper mill in Alstead on Cold River

1794

Milford – separated from neighboring Amherst – Milford name comes from fact is grew around a mill built on a ford

1801

New Ipswich – first woolen mill in state established here

1804

Hillsborough – Franklin Pierce born(14th President of U.S.) Pierce Homestead built
1804 New Ipswich – first cotton mill in state established here
1804 Peterborough – Lafayette Artillery Company founded.   Oldest continuously active state militia unit.

1810

first cotton mill built in Bennington
1810 first cotton factory established

1812

Roxbury – incorporated from portions of Nelson, Marlborough, and Keene

1814

Nelson – name changed to Nelson
1814 Troy – town hall completed, originally village meetinghouse

1815

Marlborough – land set off to create town of Troy
1815 Troy – incorporated from parts of Marlborough, Fitzwilliam, Swanzey, and Richmond

1822

Stoddard – first post office built

1826

Greenville – Columbian Manufacturing Company established to make textiles
1826 Westmoreland – Park Hill Meetinghouse renovated

1831

Walpole – Walpole Academy built

1832

Swanzey – West Swanzey Covered Bridge built

1833

Lyndeborough – Lafayette Artillery Company makes its home here
1833 Peterborough – Peterborough Town Library founded 4/9/1833 by Unitarian minister Abiel Abbot.   oldest free library supported by taxation in United States

1835

factory with paper-making machinery established in Bennington (at or near site of current Monadnock Paper Mill)

1836

Lyndeborough – Congregational Church built

1840

Jaffrey – several summer hotels built at base of Mount Monadnock
1840 Stoddard – glass manufacturing starts

1842

town of Bennington incorporated

1845

Jaffrey – Ralph Waldo Emerson writes the poem, Monadnoc

1846

Lyndeborough – Town Hall built

1848

railroad enters Fitzwilliam
1848 Keene – railroad arrived

1850

Winchester – Ashuelot Raiload comes to Winchester

1854

Peterborough – Peterboro Basket Company opens

1858

Bennington has cutlery manufacturer, a gristmill, 2 paper mills, and a sawmill.

1859

Deering has two sawmills, one gristmill, and one clothing factory
1859 Gilsum has a bobbin factory, chair factory, and a tannery
1859 Marlow – town has seven sawmills, a gristmill, a carriage shop, a tin shop, and two tanneries.
1859 Rindge – has three gristmills, thirteen sawmills, thirteen shingle mills, six stave mills, two planing mills, and several clapboard mills
1859 Peterborough – has five cotton factories, a woolen mill, two paper mills, an iron foundry, a machine shop, a carriage factory, a basket manufacturer, a maker of trusses and supporters, a boot and shoe factory, seven sawmills, and three gristmills

1860

origins of library in Bennington

1863

Stone Arch Bridge completed in Gilsum

1864

manufacture of apple-paring machines begins in Antrim

1865

Troy – Troy Mills sold by founder Thomas Goodall after nearly 100 years of operation

1867

Sullivan – first town in NH to dedicate Civil War Monument

1869

Keene – Second Empire mansion built by Henry Colony – currently Keene Public Library

1870

Harrisville separates from Dublin
1870 Harrisville township formed from parts of Marlborough, Dublin, Hancock, Nelson, and Roxbury

1872

Greenville incorporated
1872 Mason – Greenville set off from Mason

1873

Stoddard – glass manufacturing ceases

1874

Keene – incorporated as a city

1875

Hinsdale – George A. Long builds self-propelled steam vehicle, the Long Steam tricycle, got on of nation’s earliest automobile patents

1878

Harrisville – Manchester & Keene Railroad opened
1878 Hillsborough – Boston and Maine Railroad supplies rail service

1880

Alstead paper mill destroyed by fire
1880 Bennington Town Library established

1889

Lyndeborough – Citizens’ Hall opens

1906

G.E.P.  Dodge Library built in Bennington -becomes town library

1907

Peterborough – MacDowell Art Colony created

1910

Shedd-Porter Memorial Library completed in Alstead

1925

Pierce  homestead restored

1933

Peterborough – Peterborough Players have first performance

1942

Hillsborough – rail service north to Henniker ceases

1950

Jaffrey – setting for biography by Elizabeth Yates entitled, Amos Fortune Free Man

1953

Greenfield – Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center begins operation

1958

Roxbury – construction of Otter Brook Lake completed by Army Corps of Engineers to control flooding in the Ashuelot and Connecticut River Valleys

1959

Hinsdale – Hinsdale Greyhound Park started

1961

Pierce homestead designated National Historic Landmark

1962

Nathaniel Hawthorne College opens in Antrim

1967

Peterborough – The Well private school founded

1968

New Ipswich – Appleton Academy closes

1969

New Ipswich – construction of Mascenic Regional High School completed

1970

Harrisville – Cheshire Mills ceases operation

1970

Peterborough – Contoocook Valley Regional High School built

1973

Peterborough – first Brookstone store opens

1979

Hillsborough – rails torn up in town

1982

Marlow – PC Connection founded here in a former woodworking mill

1988

Nathaniel Hawthorne College closes in Antrim

1989

last year cutlery manufactured in Antrim

1989

Gilsum’s Stone Arch Bridge added to National Register

1989

Peterborough – South Meadow School founded

1998

Winchester – holds first annual Pickle Festival in September

2001

Troy – Troy Mills declares bankruptcy

2002

Troy – Troy Mills ceases operations

2004

Greenfield – Crotched Mountain unveils first wheelchair-accessible treehouse in NH

2005

In October, parts of Alstead devastated by severe flood, 4 inhabitants killed

2008

Hinsdale – Hinsdale Greyhound Park closes
2008 Troy – Troy Mills undergoign renovation to become retirement community
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