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He trained as a doctor, opening his practice in Derry in 1740. He entered New Hampshire provincial politics in 1758, serving in the assembly until 1775, when a provisional assembly took over governance. Thornton helped draft a new state constitution, and was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1776. He served there for one year ...
The CDP is bordered to the east by the town of Derry, to the southeast by the town of Windham, and to the southwest by the town of Hudson. From the Hudson town line, the CDP boundary follows New Hampshire Route 102 (Nashua Road), New Hampshire Route 128 (Mammoth Road), Stonehenge Road, Interstate 93, and Ash Street to the Derry town line. [3]
Derry is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Derry in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The CDP comprises the urban center of the town, as well as the village of East Derry and connected suburban areas. The population of the CDP was 22,879 at the 2020 census, [2] out of 34,317 in the entire town.
The Adams Memorial Building stands near the west end of Derry's central business district, on the north side of West Broadway (New Hampshire Route 102) at its junction with Maple Street. It is a two-story masonry structure set on a raised basement, built out of brick with granite and wooden trim.
The area was first settled by Scots-Irish families in 1719 as part of the town of Londonderry, as were present-day Windham and portions of Manchester, Salem and Hudson.The town of Derry was formed in 1827 from the eastern portion of Londonderry and was named, like Londonderry, after the city of Derry in Ireland, [4] the Irish word Doire meaning "oak grove".
Mammoth Road becomes New Hampshire Route 128 (NH 128), and enters the town of Pelham, which is in Hillsborough County. In Pelham, Mammoth Road travels past an intersection with Sherburne Road, connecting to Hudson , and immediately comes to a Y Junction with NH 111A (Marsh Road), which leads to the center of Pelham.
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The village center constitutes the East Derry Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on a hill close to the geographic center of the town of Derry along East Derry Road, approximately 2 miles (3 km) east of Derry's downtown. East Derry has a separate ZIP code (03041) from the rest of the town of Derry.