Place:Roxbury, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Watchers


NameRoxbury
TypeTown
Located inCheshire, New Hampshire, United States
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Roxbury is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 220 at the 2020 census.[1]

History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

The smallest town in Cheshire County, Roxbury was incorporated in 1812 from portions of Nelson, Marlborough, and Keene. By then, settlers had established agriculture among the rolling hillsides in the area, and a community had developed at what is now called Roxbury Center. It was a "hill farm" community with some scattered small mills. Roxbury's granite quarries, among the most extensive in the Granite State at the time, provided some of the stone for the capitol building of New York in Albany.

Much of Roxbury was abandoned in the Civil War, as a very high percentage of its male population was killed in battle. Other residents left after the Civil War to seek a better life in local mill villages or in the American Midwest. Otter Brook Lake, constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1956–1958 to control flooding in the Ashuelot and Connecticut River valleys, occupies part of the town's western boundary.

Research Tips


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Roxbury, New Hampshire. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.