Rochester, New Hampshire Rochester, New Hampshire View of downtown Rochester from Central Square View of downtown Rochester from Central Square Official seal of Rochester, New Hampshire Location inside Strafford County, New Hampshire Location inside Strafford County, New Hampshire State New Hampshire Rochester is a town/city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 29,752. The town/city includes the villages of East Rochester and Gonic.
Rochester is home to Skyhaven Airport and the annual Rochester Fair.
1.2 Rochester Common Rochester was once inhabited by Abenaki Indians of the Pennacook tribe.
The town was one of four granted by Colonial Governor Samuel Shute of Massachusetts and New Hampshire amid his brief term.
Due to warfare or disease, after 1749 Native American numbers dwindled, although many descendants remain in or around Rochester communities.
In 1737, the Reverend Amos Main became the first settled pastor of the Congregational Church, positioned on Rochester Hill.
The building would be moved to Rochester Common, which then encompassed 250 acres (1.0 km2) and was called Norway Plain Mille Common after its abundant Norway pines.
At the time, the Common extended into what is now downtown Rochester.
A cemetery was also established near the new meeting home, but the ground was found to be too wet, and the bodies were removed to the Old Rochester Cemetery.
In 1750, Rochester voted at a town meeting to establish a enhance school to teach writing and reading to the town's children.
This led to the abolishment of this fitness because communities athwart the state including Rochester had many schools with extremely low numbers of students. Mail service was established in 1768 when a post rider traveled from Portsmouth through Berwick, Dover and Rochester bringing gazettes.
The first postmaster in Rochester was William Barker.
The first large company was lumbering, although it would be overtaken by other industries as Rochester advanced into a foundry town with the Cochecho River to furnish water power.
Shoe manufacturing had surpassed textiles as Rochester's dominant trade by 1880. Its name changed to the Rochester Shoe Corporation in the 1920s.
Rochester contributed to New Hampshire s position as the country s third biggest shoe-producing state. The Kessel Fire Brick Company was established in 1889, and at one time bricks for new buildings at Harvard University were made in Gonic.
Carrying the freight were four barns s which once passed through Rochester, a primary junction between Haverhill, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.
Agriculture continued to be important, and in 1875 the Rochester Fair was established.
In 1891, Rochester was incorporated as a city.
By the early 1900s there were 1200 small-town calls and 400 toll calls a day made from Rochester.
But the well-to-do foundry era left behind fine architecture, including the Rochester Public Library, a Carnegie Library designed by the Concord architects Randlett & Griffin.
The Rochester Public Library in New Hampshire The Rochester Public Library was allowed in 1893 but was not open to the enhance until early 1894.
In the early 1900s, Rochester Postmaster Osman Warren contacted Andrew Carnegie to secure his help in providing financial help in building a new library.
The brand new library was assembled on the site of what was the Main Street School.
The library was assembled in the new Georgian revival style using brick and granite, and the inside was rather than with golden oak and cypress. The library opened on October 2, 1905, and 150 citizens registered the first day.
Velma Foss, Miss Parshley's assistant, was the second librarian of the Rochester Library. Another notable structure is the 1908 Rochester City Hall and Opera House by George G.
Adams designed other town/city hall/opera home dual-purpose buildings around New England, including for Bellows Falls, Vermont (1887); Amesbury, Massachusetts (1887); Dover, New Hampshire (1891); and Derry, New Hampshire (1901).
The Rochester Opera House opened on Memorial Day in 1908.
Because of the destruction of the other opera homes the Rochester Opera House is the only known theatre in the United States to use this type of movable floor.
The Rochester City Hall contained the Rochester Police Department in its basement offices for many years.
Today, visitors may still attend shows at the Rochester Opera House.
The City of Rochester has preserved the 90 year historical decor of the Opera House.
Rochester s grow shoe trade in the early twentieth century thriving company doers from out of state.
Thayer & Company s factory on Pleasant Street in East Rochester before the end of the year.
By 1931 the firm had also taken over the Linscott, Tyler, Wilson factory off Wakefield Street in Rochester, which it purchased outright in May 1932. At its peak, the Hubbard Shoe Company working about four hundred citizens in East Rochester making men s shoes and five hundred in Rochester making women s shoes, with a total annual payroll of $3 million and total annual output of 2.5 million shoes. In 1934 the Maybury Shoe Company began operations on the former E.G.
Both firms railwaythe Great Depression, providing steady jobs for hundreds of Rochester people, and converted to a state of war footing amid World War Two, but were unable to compete against the flood of inexpensive foreign imports in the 1970s.
Rochester passed out of the silent movie era on May 20, 1929 with the arrival of the first talking motion picture in the city, titled The Wild Party, starring Clara Bow.
A Rochester Courier article from October 1930 described a new indoor golf course: The Leavitt Theatre Property Transformed Inside Into a Bower of Beauty - Rochester is to have an indoor golf course, which, it is said, will be second to none, in beauty and attractiveness, this side of New York.
Summer Wallace and was one of the most beautiful mansions in New Hampshire.
On October 21, sparks from a passing train car in Farmington ignited the dry grass on both sides of the track, starting the biggest fire to strike Rochester.
The wind-driven fire moved to the south and east into Rochester.
Before the fire was under control over 30 homes in Rochester would be lost.
Hurricane Carol hit New Hampshire on September 2, 1954.
The property damage in New Hampshire was estimated to be 3 million dollars and four inches of precipitation fell amid the storm.
A Category 5 hurricane, known locally as the Hurricane of '38, was the most deadly of New Hampshire's history, causing excessive damage to Rochester and outlying communities.
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The Cocheco River flows through central Rochester.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 45.8 square miles (118.6 km2), of which 45.4 square miles (117.6 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km2) is water, comprising 0.79% of the town. Rochester is drained by the Salmon Falls, Isinglass and Cochecho rivers.
The highest point in Rochester is a southern extension of Nute Ridge, at 581 feet (177 m) above sea level, occupying the northern corner of the city.
New Hampshire Route 16 (the Spaulding Turnpike) is a controlled-access highway that passes through the city, dominant north towards Conway and south to Dover and Portsmouth.
New Hampshire Route 125 passes north-south through the center of town, dominant south to Lee and Epping, and traveling north alongside to NH 16 into Milton.
New Hampshire Route 11 leads west to Alton and Laconia and northeast along US 202 into Maine.
New Hampshire Route 108 leads southeast to Dover, and New Hampshire Route 202 - A leads southwest to Strafford and Northwood.
Besides the chief downtown part of Rochester, there are two other titled communities of significance inside the town/city limits.
East Rochester, a small neighborhood, is positioned near the northeast border of the town/city along routes 202 and 11, next to the Salmon Falls River, while Gonic Native American name of Squamennegonic, is positioned south of downtown along NH 125 at a dam on the Cocheco River.
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