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Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
State New Hampshire Salem is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
The populace was 28,776 at the 2010 census. Salem is a marketing and distributing center north of Boston, with a primary amusement attraction, Canobie Lake Park, and a large shopping mall, the Mall at Rockingham Park.
As early as 1736, Salem was the "North Parish" of Methuen, Massachusetts, or "Methuen District." In 1741, when the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed, the "North Parish" became part of New Hampshire, and was given the name "Salem," taken from close-by Salem, Massachusetts.
In 1902, Canobie Lake Park was established in Salem by the Massachusetts Northeast Street Railway Company, to encourage leisure excursions on its street cars.
Crowds appeared from all over, including the close-by mill suburbs of Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell and Methuen in Massachusetts, and Manchester and Nashua in New Hampshire.
Other features of Salem's tourism history include Rockingham Park Race Track, the first horse race track in New England, and "America's Stonehenge", a curiosity (formerly "Mystery Hill").
Starting in the 1950s, Salem advanced rapidly as part of Greater Boston, with suburban-style residentiary neighborhoods and a long strip of commercial evolution along NH Route 28.
The Manchester and Lawrence branch of the B&M barns ran through Salem until 2001.
In 2009, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation commissioned a study seeking reactivation of the branch and instituting commuter rail service connecting to the MBTA Haverhill Line and forward to Boston.
Salem's town government consists of a board of selectmen and a town manager.
Salem is a part of New Hampshire Senate District 22 and has nine delegates to the New Hampshire House.
The state senator for Salem is Senate President Chuck Morse.
The state delegates of Salem are Ronald Belanger, John Sytek, Joe Sweeney, Arthur E.
Voter registration in the town of Salem as of November 2012: According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 25.9 square miles (67 km2), of which 24.7 sq mi (64 km2) is territory and 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km2) is water, comprising 4.49% of the town.
None of the town's residentiary waterworks incorporates sodium fluoride, a water additive that helps ensure strong teeth enamel. The highest point in Salem is the summit of Gordon's Hill, at 380 feet (120 m) above sea level, along the town's border.
Salem is the first New Hampshire town encountered when traveling north from Massachusetts on Interstate 93.
The interstate's first two New Hampshire exits are inside town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 95.01% White, 0.55% African American, 0.21% Native American, 2.27% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.83% from other competitions, and 1.07% from two or more competitions.
Salem enhance schools spend $5,544 per student.
Southern New Hampshire University (Salem satellite campus) Salem High School Salem School District Rockingham Park Race Track, positioned in Salem, as mentioned in the film The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, was central to that film's plot.
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