Boscawen, New Hampshire
Boscawen, New Hampshire | ||
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FIPS code 33-06260 | | |
GNIS feature ID | 0873547 | |
Website | www |
Boscawen is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census.[2]
History
The native
On June 6, 1733, Governor
On April 22, 1760, Contoocook Plantation was incorporated as a town by Governor
Industries soon included a
Sometime around 1846, the town's postmaster became one of about a dozen in the country to issue provisional postage stamps before the official issue came out in 1847. The stamps were an adaptation of a postmark, simply reading PAID / 5 / CENTS, typeset in blue on a yellowish paper. These are extremely rare; in 2003, the estimated price at auction was US$225,000.[6]
The 1915 Boscawen Public Library was designed by noted Boston architect Guy Lowell.
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Street view c. 1905
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B. & M.Station in 1908
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The Penacook House
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 25.5 square miles (66.1 km2), of which 24.9 square miles (64.5 km2) are land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2) are water, comprising 2.50% of the town.[1] The highest point in Boscawen is an unnamed summit at Raleigh Farm near the town's northern border, where the elevation reaches approximately 930 feet (280 m) above sea level. The town is drained by the Merrimack River, which forms the town's eastern border, and by the Contoocook River, a tributary.
The town is served by
Adjacent municipalities
- Franklin (north)
- Northfield (northeast)
- Canterbury (east)
- Concord (south)
- Webster (west)
- Salisbury (northwest)
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1790 | 1,108 | — | |
1800 | 1,414 | 27.6% | |
1810 | 1,829 | 29.3% | |
1820 | 2,113 | 15.5% | |
1830 | 2,093 | −0.9% | |
1840 | 1,965 | −6.1% | |
1850 | 2,063 | 5.0% | |
1860 | 2,274 | 10.2% | |
1870 | 1,637 | −28.0% | |
1880 | 1,381 | −15.6% | |
1890 | 1,487 | 7.7% | |
1900 | 1,455 | −2.2% | |
1910 | 1,240 | −14.8% | |
1920 | 1,260 | 1.6% | |
1930 | 1,359 | 7.9% | |
1940 | 1,663 | 22.4% | |
1950 | 1,857 | 11.7% | |
1960 | 2,181 | 17.4% | |
1970 | 3,162 | 45.0% | |
1980 | 3,435 | 8.6% | |
1990 | 3,586 | 4.4% | |
2000 | 3,672 | 2.4% | |
2010 | 3,965 | 8.0% | |
2020 | 3,998 | 0.8% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[2][7] |
As of the
There were 1,260 households, out of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.0% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 2.97.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.9% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $42,524, and the median income for a family was $45,850. Males had a median income of $31,350 versus $23,375 for females. The
Elektrisola Incorporated is the largest source of employment for Boscawen-area residents.
Sites of interest
Notable people
- Claire D. Clarke (died 2022), New Hampshire state representative[9]
- governor of New Hampshire[10]
- governor of New York, Major General in the US Civil War[11]
- Marion Dix Sullivan (1802–1860), songwriter, composer[12]
- Moses G. Farmer (1820–1893), electrical engineer, inventor[13]
- William P. Fessenden (1806–1869), US senator, Secretary of the Treasury[14]
- Charles Gordon Greene (1804–1886), journalist[15]
- Nathaniel Greene (1797–1877), journalist[15]
- Lucia Ames Mead (1856–1936), author[16]
- Lyndon A. Smith (1854–1918), politician, Minnesota attorney general[17]
- Bradford N. Stevens (1813–1885), US congressman[18]
- Daniel Webster (1782–1852), US congressman, senator, Secretary of State; unsuccessful presidential candidate[19]
References
- ^ a b "2021 U.S. Gazetteer Files – New Hampshire". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Boscawen town, Merrimack County, New Hampshire: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
- ^ Dain Trafton, "Hannah Duston - Heroine and Witness: William Andrews' Monumental Statue of Hannah Duston." Address delivered at the Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium, 14 March, 2015. Boscawen Historical Society website, accessed March 5, 2019.
- ^ a b Coolidge, Austin J.; John B. Mansfield (1859). A History and Description of New England. Boston, Massachusetts: A.J. Coolidge. pp. 424–426.
coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.
- ^ Charles Carleton Coffin, The History of Boscawen and Webster from 1733 to 1878; Concord, New Hampshire 1878
- ^ Boscawen provisional postage stamps Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Our Campaigns.com-Claire Clarke
- ^ "Gov. Moody Currier". National Governors Association. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ McAdam, David; et al. (1897). History of the Bench and Bar of New York. Vol. 1. New York History Company. pp. 307–309. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ McCaskey, John Piersol (1888), Franklin Square Song Collection: Two Hundred Favorite Songs, Volume 5, retrieved April 18, 2019
- ^ Vetter, Edward H. "Moses G. Farmer, Eliot's Inventor". Town of Eliot, Maine. Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ United States Congress. "FESSENDEN, William Pitt (1806 - 1869) (id: F000099)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ a b Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ Sandra Opdycke, "Lucia True Ames Mead" in American National Biography Online (2000).
- ^ Twentieth Biennial Report for the Years 1917 and 1918. Saint Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society. 1919. p. 39.
- ^ United States Congress. "STEVENS, Bradford Newcomb (1813 - 1885) (id: S000876)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ISBN 0-393-04552-8.