Claremont, New Hampshire Claremont, New Hampshire Location in Sullivan County and the state of New Hampshire.
Location in Sullivan County and the state of New Hampshire.
State New Hampshire Claremont is a town/city in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States.
Before colonial settlement, the Upper Connecticut River Valley was home to the Pennacook and Western Abenaki (Sokoki) citizens s, later merging with members of other Algonquin tribes displaced by the wars and famines that accompanied the European settling of the region. The Hunter Archeological Site, positioned near the bridge connecting Claremont with Ascutney, Vermont, is a momentous prehistoric Native American site that includes seven levels of occupational evidence, including evidence of at least three longhouses.
The town/city was titled after Claremont, the nation mansion of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare. On October 26, 1764, Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth granted the township to Josiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and 67 others.
Spafford was also the first man to marry in Claremont, and his son, Elijah, was the first white child to be born in the town.
The Union Episcopal Church in West Claremont was assembled in 1773, and is the earliest surviving Episcopal church building in New Hampshire and the state's earliest surviving building assembled exclusively for theological purposes.
The church was organized in 1771 and chartered by the New Hampshire council in 1794 as Union Church Parish. Located athwart the street, Old St.
Mary's Church, assembled in 1823 mostly in the Federalist style, was the first Roman Catholic church in New Hampshire. It was discontinued in 1870 in favor of the new St.
During the American Revolution, Claremont had a large number of loyalists, who used a small wooded valley in West Claremont called the Tory Hole to hide from the patriots. In 1777, when the New Hampshire Grants declared their own sovereignty as the Vermont Republic, Claremont was one of sixteen New Hampshire suburbs inclined to join them, and made multiple attempts to do so. Benjamin Tyler, who appeared in the region from Farmington, Connecticut, in the spring of 1767. Tyler assembled mills using contemporary quarried from his territory on close-by Mount Ascutney, and assembled Claremont's first foundry on the Sugar River on the site of the Coy Paper Mill.
Large brick factories were assembled along the stream, including the Sunapee Mills, Monadnock Mills, Claremont Machine Works, Home Mills, Sanford & Rossiter, and Claremont Manufacturing Company.
Principal products were cotton and woolen textiles, lathes and planers, and paper. Although like other New England foundry towns, much trade moved away or closed in the 20th century, the city's former prosperity is evident in some fine Victorian architecture, including the 1897 town/city hall and opera home.
In 1874, businesses in Claremont encompassed Monadnock Mills, manufacturing cotton cloths from one to three yards wide, Marseilles quilts, union flannels, and lumber, and employing 125 males and 225 females; Home Mill (A.
Briggs & Co.) producing cotton cloth and employing 8 males and 20 females; Sullivan Machine Co., manufacturing Steam Dimond Drill Machinery for quarrying rock, turbine water wheels, cloth measuring machines, and doing general machine and foundry work, employing 56 males; Sugar River Paper Mill Co., manufacturing printing paper and employing 30 males and 20 females; Claremont Manufacturing Co., manufacturing paper and books, and doing stereotyping and book and job printing, employing 34 males and 34 females; Russell Jarvis, manufacturing hanging paper and employing 7 males and 2 females; John S.
Farrington, manufacturing straw wrapping paper and employing 5 males and 1 female; Sullivan Mills (George L.
Eastman, in the leather company and employing 4 males; Sugar River Mill Co., manufacturing flour, feed, and doing custom grinding, and employing 8 males; three saw mills employing a part of the year, 10 males; Blood & Woodcock, in the company of monuments and grave stones and employing 8 males; and Houghton, Bucknam & Co., in the company of sashes, doors and blinds, employing 8 males. Monadnock Mills' textile operations began with its beginning in 1842, and lasted through 1932, shuttering operations following the diminish of the textile trade in New England amid the 1920s. By the 1920s, Sullivan Mills Co.
Had turn into New Hampshire's biggest machining company, as well as Claremont's biggest employer.
Its founder, inventor Joseph Francis Joy, stayed on as general manager of the facility. which remained the dominant employer in Claremont through the 1970s, when manufacturing technology had advanced sufficiently to hamper revenue and productivity.
In the 1850s, the town/city of Claremont approached the state council asking permission to build a enhance high school.
At the time, enhance high schools did not exist in New Hampshire.
The state agreed, and decided to offer permission to every town in the state so that every town could establish enhance high schools.
In March 1989, the Claremont School Board voted to initiate a lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire, claiming that the state's major reliance upon small-town property taxes for funding education resulted in inequitable educational opportunities among kids around the state and a violation of their constitutional rights.
Following a lawsuit and a series of landmark decisions, the New Hampshire Supreme Court agreed.
Known as the "Claremont Decision", the suit continues to drive the statewide debate on equitable funding for education, and Claremont continues to play a major part in this legal challenge. The metros/cities of Claremont, California, Claremont, Minnesota, and Claremont Township, Minnesota, were titled for Claremont, New Hampshire. Claremont is positioned in Sullivan County at 43 22 38 N 72 20 40 W (43.377207, -72.344555). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 44.1 square miles (114.2 km2), of which 43.1 square miles (111.7 km2) is territory and 0.97 square miles (2.5 km2) is water, comprising 2.19% of the town. The Connecticut River forms the boundary of the city, and the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Sugar River flows from east to west through the center of Claremont and empties into the Connecticut.
The highest point in the town/city is the summit of Green Mountain, at 2,018 feet (615 m) above sea level in the northeastern part of the city.
Claremont lies fully inside the Connecticut River watershed. The only town/city inside Sullivan County, Claremont is home to Claremont Municipal Airport.
By highway, it is positioned 21 miles (34 km) south of Interstate 89 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and 5 miles (8 km) east of Interstate 91 in Weathersfield, Vermont.
Claremont is part of New Hampshire's School Administrative Unit 6, or SAU 6.
Stevens High School is the city's only enhance high school, and is positioned on Broad Street, just a several blocks from City Hall.
Claremont Middle School, the city's only enhance middle school, is positioned just down the street to the south.
Claremont is home to three elementary schools: Maple Avenue School, Bluff Elementary and Disnard Elementary.
Also positioned in town are the New England Classical Academy, a private, Catholic school, and the Claremont Christian Academy, a private, parochial school offering education through 12th grade.
Three elementary schools North Street School, Way Elementary and the West Claremont Schoolhouse were shut down, Way becoming home to a several luxury apartements and North Street turned into offices.
The city's opportunities for college studies include a branch of Granite State College, River Valley Community College, and the Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center.
A commercial region centered on Washington Street is Claremont's major commercial district.
An Italian Renaissance-styled City Hall building, which homes the historic Claremont Opera House, was assembled in 1897 and designed by architect Charles A.
Rich. City Hall faces Broad Street Park, a rotary-style town square.
This square joins Washington Street, Broad Street, and Main Street, which branch into different portions of the city.
Included are two Civil War cannon and the centrally-located Soldier's Monument, designed by Martin Milmore and dating to 1890. The park is also home to a historic bandstand, originally assembled in a Victorian style in 1890 and redesigned in 1922 in a Classical Revival style, which primarily serves as performance space for the Claremont American Band, a improve band dating to about 1880. Parallel to Broad Street lies Pleasant Street, home to a downtown company district, which was the city's major commercial zone until the evolution of the Washington Street district.
A number of foundry buildings dot the Lower Village District in the city's center, along the Sugar River, and a several attempts have been made at historic preservation of some of them.
On the southern artery out of Claremont, Route 12, stood Highland View, the summer home of Claremont native William Henry Harrison Moody (1842 1925), who made his fortunes as a businessman and shoe manufacturer in the Boston area, but kept a residence in his hometown until his death. The large William H.
In March 1916, a 175-acre (71 ha) portion of the estate was donated by Moody to the town/city of Claremont for a town/city park, the entrance of which is on Maple Avenue; facilities include tennis.
Claremont was the recording location, though not the setting, of the 2006 movie Live Free or Die, co-written and co-directed by Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin and starring Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Michael Rapaport, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn, and Zooey Deschanel.
Set in fictional Rutland, New Hampshire, it is a picaresque comedy-drama about a small-town would-be crime legend.
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