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Hooksett
Hooksett is a New England town, town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 14,871 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 13,451 at the 2010 census.United States Census BureauU.S. Census website 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011. The town is located between Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester, the state's largest city, and Concord, New Hampshire, Concord, the state capital. A prominent landmark is Robie's Country Store, a National Historic Landmark and a frequent stop for presidential candidates during the New Hampshire primary. The central village in town, where 5,283 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Hooksett (CDP), New Hampshire, Hooksett census-designated place and is located at a bridge crossing of the Merrimack River. The town also contains the census-designated place of South Hooksett, New Hampshire, South Hooksett. History Hooksett was incorporated in 1822. First known as "Chester Woods" and ...
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South Hooksett, New Hampshire
South Hooksett is a census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Hooksett, New Hampshire, Hooksett in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,888 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is a suburban area adjacent to the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city, and includes a mix of housing developments and large retail stores. Geography South Hooksett is located in the southern part of the town of Hooksett (and the southernmost part of Merrimack County) at (43.030833, -71.434860). It is bordered to the west and south by the city of Manchester in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, to the east by the town of Auburn, New Hampshire, Auburn in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham County, and to the north by Legends Road, Hooksett Road (U.S. Route 3#New Hampshire, U.S. Route 3), Londonderry Turnpike (New Hampshire Route 28 Bypass), a line north ...
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Hooksett (CDP), New Hampshire
Hooksett is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hooksett in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The CDP includes the historic central village of Hooksett as well as suburban and rural land surrounding it. The population of the CDP was 5,283 at the 2020 census, out of 14,871 in the entire town. Geography The CDP occupies the central to northern parts of the town of Hooksett, on both sides of the Merrimack River. The village of Hooksett is at the center of the CDP, where Main Street crosses the Merrimack. The CDP extends north to the Bow and Allenstown town lines and south to include the Granite Hill Villages housing development. Interstate 93 forms the western edge of the CDP, with access from Exit 11 at the Hooksett toll plaza, and U.S. Route 3 runs through the eastern side. New Hampshire Route 3A passes through the center of the CDP along the west side of the Merrimack River. Hooksett is bordered to the north by the Suncook CDP in the town of Allenstown ...
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Allenstown, New Hampshire
Allenstown is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,707 at the 2020 census, up from 4,322 at the 2010 census. Allenstown includes a portion of the village of Suncook. Just over one-half of the town's area is covered by Bear Brook State Park. History Allenstown takes its name from 17th-century provincial governor Samuel Allen. It was granted in 1721 but not incorporated until July 2, 1831. A part of neighboring Bow was annexed to Allenstown in 1815, and a portion of Hooksett was annexed in 1853. Most of the town's earliest settlement occurred in the eastern part of town along Deerfield Road, around the area now mostly occupied by Bear Brook State Park, and where the Old Allenstown Meeting House is located. Following the Civil War, the town's population shifted from the east to the west part of town, centered around the confluence of the Merrimack and Suncook rivers, in the area now known as Suncook. Railroads were instrumental t ...
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Interstate 93
Interstate 93 (I-93) is an Interstate Highway in the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont in the United States. Spanning approximately along a north–south axis, it is one of three primary Interstate Highways located entirely within New England; the other two are I-89 and I-91. The largest cities along the route are Boston, and Manchester, New Hampshire; it also travels through the New Hampshire state capital of Concord. I-93 begins at an interchange with I-95, US Route 1 (US 1) and Route 128 in Canton, Massachusetts. It travels concurrently with US 1 beginning in Canton, and, with Route 3 beginning at the Braintree Split on the Braintree– Quincy city line, through the Central Artery in Downtown Boston before each route splits off beyond the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. The portion of highway between the Braintree Split and the Central Artery is named the "Southeast Expressway", while the p ...
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Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private university between Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, along with national accreditation for some hospitality, health, education and business degrees. It is one of the fastest-growing universities nationwide with 170,000 online students and 3,000 on campus. History 20th century The university was founded in 1932 by Harry A. B. Shapiro, an accountant, and his wife, Gertrude Gittle Crockett Shapiro, under the name New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science. H.A.B. Shapiro died in 1952; 25 students were enrolled at that time, and his widow ran the school until 1971, continuing as president emerita until 1986. In 1961, the school was incorporated and renamed the New Hampshire College of Accounting and Commerce. The state of New Hampshire granted the college its charter in 1963, which gave i ...
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Candia, New Hampshire
Candia is a New England town, town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,013 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town includes the villages of Candia, Candia Four Corners, New Hampshire, Candia Four Corners and East Candia, New Hampshire, East Candia. History Settled in 1743, Candia was once part of Chester, New Hampshire, Chester and known as "Charmingfare", probably because of the many bridle paths or "parades" through the pleasant scenery. Charmingfare was incorporated in 1763 and named Candia "in compliment to Governor Benning Wentworth, who was once a prisoner on the island of Candia (an alternative ancient name of Crete since its Venice, Venetian domination), in the Mediterranean Sea." Candia was served by the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad, Portsmouth & Concord Railroad, which stretched between its namesake cities. In 1862 the segment between Candia and Suncook, New Hampshire, Suncook was abandoned, coinciding with the open ...
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Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Merrimack County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census, the population was 153,808, making it the third most populous county in New Hampshire. Its county seat is Concord, New Hampshire, Concord, the List of capitals in the United States, state capital. The county was organized in 1823 from parts of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough and Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham counties, and is named for the Merrimack River. Merrimack County comprises the Concord, NH Micropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn constitutes a portion of the Boston–Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester–Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, Massachusetts, MA–Rhode Island, RI–New Hampshire, NH–Connecticut, CT Greater Boston, Combined Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of New Hampshire was located in Merrimack County, in the town of Pembroke, New Hampshire, Pembroke. Geograph ...
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Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Located on the banks of the Merrimack River, it had a population of 115,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Manchester is the tenth-most populous city in New England. Along with the city of Nashua, New Hampshire, Nashua, it is one of two county seat, seats of New Hampshire's most populous county, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough County. The Manchester–Nashua metropolitan area has approximately 423,000 residents and lies near the northern end of the Northeast megalopolis. Manchester was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodgett, Samuel Blodget(t), eponym of Samuel Blodget Park and Blodget Street in the city's North End. His vision was to create a great industrial center similar to that of the original Manchester in England, which was the world's first industrialized city. During the Industrial Revolution in the United S ...
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Robie's Country Store
Robie's Country Store is a historic store at 9 Riverside Street in Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States. As a business, the general store was in continuous operation between 1822 and 1997, the last 110 years under the ownership of the Robie family from 1887, from whence it gets its name. The current building, constructed in 1906 following a fire, is a rare regional example of a store with a "boomtown" facade. It has been a political stop for presidential candidates since the early 1950s. Robie's Country Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, and the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is now owned by a non-profit organization, with the store operated under lease. Description Robie's is located in the village center of Hooksett, on a parcel bounded on the south by the Merrimack River, the east by a railroad right of way, and the north by Riverside Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof obscured on the ...
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Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile industry, textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. In the early 20th century, changing economic and social conditions occurred as the New England textile industry shifted to the Southern U.S., and the business went bankrupt in 1935. Many decades later, the original mills were refurbished and renovated, and now house offices, restaurants, software companies, college branches, studio, art studios, apartments and a museum. The Amoskeag millyard complex was considered "one of the most remarkable manifestations of our urban and industrial culture by ''New York Times'' architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in her December 22, 1968 article ''Manchester, NH: Lessons in Urbicide.'' "The excellence of the complex has made it a ...
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, seventh-smallest by land area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, tenth-least populous, with a population of 1,377,529 residents as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Concord, New Hampshire, Concord is the List of capitals in the United States, state capital and Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester is the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, most populous city. New Hampshire's List of U.S. state mottos, motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its state nickname, nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its ext ...
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Deerfield, New Hampshire
Deerfield is a New England town, town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,855 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 4,280 in 2010 United States census, 2010. Deerfield is the location of the annual Deerfield Fair. Public Safety Deerfield is served by a full-time police department and volunteer fire department. Deerfield's ambulance service is provided Raymond Ambulance, Inc. out of Raymond. The town's emergency services are dispatched by the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office Dispatch Center. Deerfield falls within Troop A of the New Hampshire State Police. History Deerfield was originally part of Nottingham, New Hampshire, Nottingham. In 1756, residents petitioned for organization of a separate parish, but were denied. In 1765, while a second petition was pending, two local hunters presented colonial governor Benning Wentworth with a deer. Permission was granted, and "Deerfield" was incorporated in 1766. The incorporatio ...
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