New Boston, New Hampshire

New Boston New Hampshire, is a small town of just over 4,000 residents, located in Hillsborough County, Southern NH. Nearby towns include Weare, Francestown, Bedford, Amherst, Mont Vernon, Lyndeborough, and Goffstown.

New Boston is very conveniently located less than one hour to the seacoast, the New Hampshire Lakes Region and Boston, Massachusetts. It is accessible to major routes, making easy access to work and recreational areas. New Boston is home to the annual Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair, as is the typical New England town that comes to mind when you think of "quaint" .

Town functions are staffed by full-time staff and many resident volunteers. Community spirit is what makes the New Boston a great place to live.The town was first granted in 1736 by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, which then held authority over New Hampshire. It was granted to several Boston families, and was to have been called Lanestown or Piscataquog Township. Instead, by 1751 they called it New Boston after their hometown. Not all the grantees took up their claims, and the land was regranted ten years later to settlers from Londonderry. When the town was incorporated in 1763, Governor Benning Wentworth formally recognized the long-used name of New Boston.
In 1820, the town had 25 sawmills, 6 grain mills, 2 clothing mills, 2 carding mills, 2 tanneries and a bark mill. It also had 14 schoolhouses and a tavern. The Great Village Fire of 1887, which started when a spark from a cooper's shop set a barn on fire, destroyed nearly 40 buildings in the lower village. In 1893, the railroad came to New Boston, and farm produce was sent by rail to city markets. The train line was abandoned in the mid-1970s, and the former rail bed is today a walking path.