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Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after the 1739 resolution of a long-running boundary dispute between the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Province of New Hampshire. [3] It is the only town outside the United Kingdom with the name Plaistow. In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.
New Hampshire is a state located in the Northeastern United States. It is divided into 234 municipalities, including 221 towns and 13 cities. New Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated as "cities". For each town/city, the table ...
Sharon village is in the northwestern part of the town of Sharon, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the New York state line. It is bordered to the west by the village of Sharon Valley; to the north by Millerton Road (Connecticut Route 361), Lovers Lane, Low Road, and Cole Road; to the east by Williams Road, Jewett Hill Road, Jackson Hill Road, Cornwall Bridge Road (Connecticut Route 4), and Hatch Pond ...
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It was called "Sliptown" until 1791, when it was incorporated as Sharon. It took its name from Sharon, Connecticut, from which many settlers originated. [3] The topography is uneven and, in parts, mountainous. In 1823, the population was 400. By 1859, when the population was 229, the town had three sawmills. The principal occupation, however ...
The town of Sharon was founded in 1739, and developed economically as a crossroads town, with its greatest period of economic prosperity in the early 19th century. This resulted in a preponderance of Federal period architecture lining the town's long green, which originally extended north and south from the junction of Main Street and the ...
Friday is the last day for the town manager of a small New Hampshire community, after an LGBTQ art display in the town kicked off a local controversy.
Timberlane was built in the vicinity of Plaistow's town dump in 1966 as a regional high school for the four towns it still serves today. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The name 'Timberlane' came from the forestry industry that played a major role in the economic development of New Hampshire.