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Grasmere, originally known as "Goffstown Centre", is an unincorporated community within the town of Goffstown, New Hampshire, United States. It straddles the Piscataquog River in the eastern part of Goffstown. The southern portion of Grasmere used to be the site of the Hillsborough County Hospital, County Farm (penal institution) and Poorhouse.
NH State Register of Historic Places. Grasmere Town Hall in 2013. Location: 87 Center St., Goffstown, New Hampshire: Coordinates: Area: 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) ...
The Goffstown Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic 19th-century center of Goffstown, New Hampshire.Most of the district's 23 buildings lie on Main Street (New Hampshire Route 114), in a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) running north from the Piscataquog River to North Mast Street (the continuation of NH 114).
The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.
Goffstown is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.The population was 18,577 at the 2020 census. [2] The compact center of town, where 3,366 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Goffstown census-designated place and is located at the junctions of New Hampshire routes 114 and 13.
The Amos Chase House and Mill are a historic property on New Hampshire Route 114, just south of the Piscataquog River in Weare, New Hampshire.The mill, built about 1849, is the last 19th-century mill standing in Weare, and the house, built about 1836, is a good example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture.
In 1906, Edmond Pinard (1857-1933), a grocer by trade, developed real-estate holdings on the Manchester/Goffstown town line. Pinard was a French Canadian born in Sainte Monique parish, Nicolet, Quebec , who arrived in New Hampshire in the 1870s and brought many French Canadians to the area.
In 1891, he purchased the farm of Willy Sleep, which became the core holding of the estate, and is where the surviving estate houses now stand. At its height, the estate reached 5,000 acres (2,000 ha), and was one of the largest private landholdings in the state. Webster managed the estate as a timber farm, carefully limiting the harvests. The ...