Places to Explore In The Monadnocks and Merrimack Valley

Charlestown

Charlestown boasts one of the state's largest historic districts, with about 60 homes—all handsome examples of Federal, Greek Revival, and Gothic Revival architecture (and 10...

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Concord

New Hampshire's capital (population 44,000) is a small and somewhat quiet city that tends to state business and little else. With that said, downtown has...

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Henniker

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Hillsborough

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Jaffrey Center

Novelist Willa Cather came to Jaffrey Center in 1919 and stayed in the Shattuck Inn, which is now the Shattuck Golf Club. Not far from...

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Keene

Keene, the largest city in southwestern New Hampshire (population 24,000), has one of the prettiest and widest main streets in the state, with several engaging...

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Manchester

With 113,000 residents, New Hampshire's largest city grew up around the Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, which drove small textile mills through the 1700s...

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Milford

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Nashua

Once a prosperous manufacturing town that drew thousands of immigrant workers in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Nashua fell into decline following World War...

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Peterborough

Thornton Wilder's play Our Town was based on Peterborough. The nation's first free public library opened here in 1833, and the town is home to...

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Walpole

Walpole possesses one of the state's prettiest town greens. Bordered by Elm and Washington streets, it's surrounded by homes dating to the 1790s, when the...

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