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The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
is a large cotton manufactory, em-
ploying 44 males and 87 females,
and manufacturing wide sheet-
ings, from 4-4ths to ll-4ths, also
drills and print cloth; value of
manufactured goods, annually pro-
duced, $ 160,000. There ,are oth-
er manufactories, store, graded
school house, post office, and two
paper mills.
Peterborough Centre Village is
situated at the confluence of the
Nubanusit with the Contoocook
rivers, and is one of the largest
and most enterprising villages in
the State. The Monadnock Rail-
road was completed about two
years ago, (June 6, 1871) between
this place and Winchendon, Mass-
achusetts, and has given a new
impetus to the business of this 'Til-
lage. There are two cotton man-
ufactories, carriage manufactory,
grist mill, harness shop, shoe
shops, piano stools, barometers,
grave stones, trusses and support-
ers, tailors, jewelers, and various
other mechanical shops. There
are five church edifices, high
school building, one large graded
school house, two banks, two ho-
tels, Peterborough Transcript of-
fice, telegraph and express office,
three lawyers, five physicians,
three dentists, between twenty-
five and thirty stores, of various
kinds, and about two hundred and
fifty dwellings. There are many
tine buildings in the village, both
public and private, and some of
the streets and private residences
are beautifully shaded. The pro-
jected lines of railroad, being
from Hillsborough Bridge to this
village; the Greenfield extension,
and the Manchester and Keene
roads, will, in all probability, be
built within a few years, and thus
open direct railway communica-
tion with Concord and the north-
ern section of the State; to Ports-
mouth, through Manchester; to
Boston and Portland, through
Nashua, Lowell and Rochester; to
Connecticut River, north or south,
through Keene; and, on the com-
pletion of the Hoosac Tunnel, will
give this town railroad facilities
second to none in New-Hamp-
shire. With this prospective view,
together with the large amount of
valuable water power still unim-
proved, the future growth and
prosperity of this village looks
very flattering. |
Summer Tourists. The good
roads and delightful drives, in and
aroufid Peterborough, and the fine
views obtained from the crests of
its many hills, have rendered it a
popular resort for tourists to spend
their summer vacation. The num-
ber who stop here, through the
warm season, is estimated at 400.
Employments. Peterborough is
decidedly a manufacturing and
mercantile town, as their annual
receipts, from these two sources,
far exceed the value of the whole
agricultural production. The Un-
ion Manufacturing Co., Phoenix
Manufacturing Co., and Peter-
borough Manufacturing Co., an-
nually produce cotton sheetings,
from 36 inches to 100 inches wide,
cotton drills and print cloth, to
the value of $383,000; J. Noone’s
Sons, woolen goods, to the value
of $ 75,000; J. Briggs, piano stools,
to the value of $50,000; foundry
and machine shop, $25,000;
Charles Wilder, thermometers
and barometers, $25,000. There
are also manufactured: leather,
$ 10,000; flour and meal, $35,000;
wrapping paper, $ 28,000; harness- |
