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The Pineground Bridge, also known as the Depot Road Bridge or the Thunder Bridge, is a through-type lenticular truss bridge that formerly carried Depot Road over the Suncook River in Chichester, New Hampshire.
Granted in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, this town was the site of Fort Number 1, first in the line of forts bordering the Connecticut River.After the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed, the town was incorporated on February 11, 1752 [3] by Governor Benning Wentworth as Chesterfield, named for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
Two New Hampshire state routes and two U.S. routes cross Chichester. NH 9, U.S. Route 4, and U.S. Route 202 run concurrently through town, connecting the northern part of Pembroke in the west to Epsom in the east. It is known locally as Dover Road. NH 28 crosses the eastern edge of town, roughly paralleling the Suncook River, connecting Epsom ...
Dec. 23—DISCO BALLS on the ceiling and retro skates on display at the new Remix Skate & Event Center in Manchester are sure to bring many back in time. But Matt and Kelly Pearson opened with the ...
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts.
Chester is in southeastern New Hampshire, in the western part of Rockingham County.The highest point in town is found on an unnamed hill west of Bell Hill and northwest of Harantis Lake; it has two knobs of almost equal elevation of at least 635 feet (194 m), according to the most recent (2011–2012) USGS 7.5-minute topographical map.
Three New Hampshire state routes, one Interstate Highway, and three U.S. routes cross Pembroke. NH 9 crosses the narrow salient at the northern edge of town between Concord in the west and Chichester in the east. It merges with US 4/US 202 at the end of the I-393 freeway just before entering Chichester. It is known locally as Loudon Road.
Other major highways in the region include U.S. Highway 302 (Woodsville to Conway), New Hampshire State Route 16 (from Gorham to Conway), State Route 10 (from Littleton to Piermont), and U.S. Route 2 from Lancaster to Shelburne. U.S. Route 3 parallels I-93, except north of Franconia Notch, where it branches off to Twin Mountain and Whitefield.