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Granted in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, this town was the site of Fort Number 1, first in the line of forts bordering the Connecticut River.After the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed, the town was incorporated on February 11, 1752 [3] by Governor Benning Wentworth as Chesterfield, named for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
NH 9 joins NH 10 and NH 12, bypassing downtown Keene to the west. After about a mile, NH 12 splits off to the northwest. Two miles later, NH 10 follows suit and NH 9 continues northeast, crossing through parts of Roxbury, Sullivan, and Nelson en route to Stoddard, where NH 9 intersects with NH 123. The two routes overlap for about a mile before ...
NH 119 west (Brattleboro Road) – Brattleboro VT: Southern end of concurrency with NH 119: 4.987: 8.026: NH 119 east (Canal Street) – Winchester, Richmond: Northern end of concurrency with NH 119: Chesterfield: 13.279: 21.370: NH 9 (Franklin Pierce Highway) – Keene, Brattleboro VT: Westmoreland: 21.514: 34.623: NH 12 / Connecticut River ...
Spofford is an unincorporated community in the northeastern part of the town of Chesterfield in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. It is situated at the outlet of Spofford Lake and is located along New Hampshire Route 9A. While no population figures are available for Spofford, it is slightly larger than the town-center village of ...
West Chesterfield is an unincorporated community in the town of Chesterfield in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. It is located north of New Hampshire Route 9 in a valley leading to the Connecticut River. Via Route 9, Keene is 14 miles (23 km) to the east, and Brattleboro, Vermont, is 3 miles (5 km) to the west.
Spofford (town of Chesterfield) Spofford Lake is a 732-acre (2.96 km 2 ) [ 1 ] body of water in the town of Chesterfield in southwestern New Hampshire , United States. Water from Spofford Lake flows via Partridge Brook to the Connecticut River .
NH 101 between NH 108 in Stratham, just east of the Exeter town line, to New Hampshire Route 1A in Hampton Beach was opened in 1963 as the Exeter-Hampton Expressway. [7] [8] It was marked with round shields featuring the highway's name [9] and was later designated NH 51 in the 1980s. This designation remained until October 1994. [10]
Chester is in southeastern New Hampshire, in the western part of Rockingham County.The highest point in town is found on an unnamed hill west of Bell Hill and northwest of Harantis Lake; it has two knobs of almost equal elevation of at least 635 feet (194 m), according to the most recent (2011–2012) USGS 7.5-minute topographical map.