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Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. [3] The population was 23,047 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 23,409 at the 2010 census. [5] It is the county seat and the only city in the county.
Cheshire County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,458. [1] Its county seat is the city of Keene. [2] Cheshire was one of the five original counties of New Hampshire, and is named for the county of Cheshire in England. It was organized in 1771 at Keene.
Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. [3] It is the most prominent mountain peak in southern New Hampshire and is the highest point in Cheshire County. It lies 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Concord and 62 miles (100 km) northwest of Boston. At 3,165 feet (965 m), Mount Monadnock is nearly ...
For the first decade of its existence, the Keene Pumpkin Festival regularly set the record for the most lit jack-o'-lanterns, culminating in the figure (as recognized by the Guinness World Records) of 28,952 lit jack-o'-lanterns on October 25, 2003, [10] but this was broken when Boston, Massachusetts, collected 30,128 on October 21, 2006. [11]
Keene State College is a public liberal arts college in Keene, New Hampshire.It is part of the University System of New Hampshire.Founded in 1909 as a teacher's college (originally, Keene Normal School; later, Keene Teachers College), Keene State College had 3,104 students enrolled for credit as of fall 2021.
Keene City Hall building in New Hampshire, US, circa 1870s-1880s. Horatio Colony, 1874-1875 [1] Edward Farrar, 1876-1877 [1] Reuben Stewart, 1878-1879 [1] [2]
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The Cheshire Railroad Stone Arch Bridge is located in southeastern Keene, in what is today a comparatively rural setting. It is located at mile marker 89.41 of the former Cheshire Railroad, about 300 feet (91 m) south of the Cheshire Rail Trail's junction with Marlboro Street (New Hampshire Route 101).