Weare, New Hampshire
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Weare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 9,092 at the 2020 census. It is close to two important New Hampshire cities, Manchester and Concord.
Town Hall
Piscataquog River in 1912
Old bridge c. 1905
Baptist Church c. 1910
New Hampshire
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New Hampshire is a 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 Canad
Weare, New Hampshire
…being incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 as Weare, after Meshech Weare, who served as the town's first clerk and later went on to become New Hampshire's first governor. In 1834, Moses Cartland founded Clinton Grove Academy, the first Quaker seminary in the state. A cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier…
Emblem of New Hampshire
The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876
The Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth includes 37 restored buildings dating from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Illustration showing the site of the first house in New Hampshire; present-day location of the Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion