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Street map of Roxbury, New Hampshire

ROXBURY

New Hampshire · Est. 1812
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The smallest town in Cheshire County, Roxbury was incorporated in 1812 from portions of Nelson, Marlborough, and Keene. Landmarks include Buckminster-Kingsbury Farm and Monadnock Region. Roxbury is the birthplace of Joseph Alexander Ames, artist.

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Hometown roll

Born in Roxbury

On the National Register

Historic places

Population 2010: 229 → 2020: 220

From Wikidata (CC0).

Since 1812

A short history of Roxbury

The smallest town in Cheshire County, Roxbury was incorporated in 1812 from portions of Nelson, Marlborough, and Keene. By then, settlers had established agriculture among the rolling hillsides in the area, and a community had developed at what is now called Roxbury Center. It was a "hill farm" community with some scattered small mills. Roxbury's granite quarries, among the most extensive in the Granite State at the time, provided some of the stone for the capitol building of New York in Albany.

Much of Roxbury was abandoned in the Civil War, as a very high percentage of its male population was killed in battle. Other residents left after the Civil War to seek a better life in local mill villages or in the American Midwest. Otter Brook Lake, constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1956–1958 to control flooding in the Ashuelot and Connecticut River valleys, occupies part of the town's western boundary.

Adapted (trimmed) from the Wikipedia article Roxbury, New Hampshire, revision 1379963331 by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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