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Amherst is a town in Hillsborough County in the state of New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,753 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Amherst is home to Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Hodgman State Forest, the Joe English Reservation and Baboosic Lake .
The Amherst Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Amherst, New Hampshire. Centered on the town's common, which was established about 1755, Amherst Village is one of the best examples of a late-18th to early-19th century New England village center. It is roughly bounded on the north by Foundry Street and on the ...
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]
Amherst is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Amherst in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 697 at the 2020 census, [2] out of 11,753 in the entire town. The village center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Amherst Village Historic District.
The highway runs from Amherst south to Hollis on the Massachusetts border. The southern terminus of NH 122 is at the Massachusetts state line in Hollis, where the road continues into Massachusetts as an unnumbered local road in the town of Pepperell. The northern terminus of NH 122 is at an interchange with New Hampshire Route 101 in Amherst.
Mont Vernon broke away from neighboring Amherst in 1803, following a dispute over the town parish. It later added a small portion of neighboring Lyndeborough. [5]Mont Vernon's general history follows that of many towns in this region.
New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district covers the western, northern, and some southern parts of New Hampshire.It includes the state's second-largest city, Nashua, as well as the state capital, Concord.
In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, the Lakes Region (in darker blue) is located in the east-central portion of the state. The Lakes Region of New Hampshire is located in the east-central part of the state, south of the White Mountains Region and extending to the Maine border.