Derry, New Hampshire
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Derry is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 34,317 at the 2020 census. Although it is a town and not a city, Derry is the most populous community in Rockingh
The Adams Memorial Building, home of the Derry Opera House
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HEH Shoe Factory in 1909
Tsienneto Boat Club c. 1910
Alan Shepard
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the
Derry, New Hampshire
…in Rockingham County and the 4th most populous in the state. The town's nickname, "Spacetown", derives from the fact that Derry is the birthplace of Alan Shepard, the first astronaut from the United States in space. Derry was also for a time the home of the poet Robert Frost and his family. The Derry census-designated…
Shepard in 1971
USS Cogswell in 1945
Shepard as a student aviator in 1946
Shepard's 105th F4U sortie on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt