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Ponds and Streams. There are
thirteen ponds; Long, Grassy, Bul-
let, Manomonack, Emerson, and
Perley Ponds are the principal.
The three first discharge their
waters into the Contoocook, and
the three last into Miller’s River.
Employments. The inhabitants
are principally engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits, but the town is
noted for the manufacturing of
wooden ware, of various kinds.
The different mills annually pro-
duce nest, fig, and salt boxes, val-
ued at $ 16,800; bobbins and spools,
$22,000; 18,000 brooms, $6,000;
1,120,000 pails, $ 19,500, 2,800,000
feet boards and dimension timber,
$43,100, 7,000 bushels meal, and
flour $ 11,000; besides, boots and
shoes, are made. There are black-
smiths, carpenters, painters, ma-
sons, and other tradesmen. The to-
tal value of goods annually manu-
factured is $ 150,600.
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $ 56,395 mechanical labor,
$ 14,800; stocks and money at in-
terest, $23, 350; deposits in sav-
ings banks, $ 47,666; stock in trade,
$ 28,658.
Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational - -; Methodist
Rev. W. H. Stewart, pastor. There
are ten schools in town; average
length of schools, for the year,
nineteen weeks; value of school
houses $ 8,000; amount of money
annually appropriated for school
purposes $ 1,577.50
Hotel. Rindge House.
First Settlement. Rindge was
originally granted by Massachu-
setts, and was called Rowley
Canada or Monadnock Number
One. It was incorporated under
its present name, February 11,
1768, for one of its proprietors. |
Jonathan Stanley, George Hewetts
and Abel Platts first made a set-
tlement here in 1752. There were
more inhabitants in town in 1790,
than in 1870.
First Ministers. Rev. Seth
Dean, (Congregational) ordain-
ed in 1765, left in 1780; Rev. Seth
Payson, D. D., ordained in 1782,
died in 1820 aged sixty-two years.
Dr. Payson was eminently distin-
guished for his many good deeds
in ministerial labors.
Boundaries. North by Jaffrey,
and Sharon east by New Ipswich,
south by Winchendon, Massachu-
setts, and west by Fitzwilliam.
Area 23,838 acres; improved land
14,476 acres.
Distances. Fifty-miles south-
west from Concord, and twenty
south-east from Keene.
Railroad. Monadnock Railroad
passes through this town.
ROCHESTER.
Strafford County. Rochester
is one of the progressive towns in
the State, having, within the past
twenty years, nearly doubled its
population and wealth. Its popu-
lation, at the present time, (1873,)
is not far from 6,000, having on its
check-list, at the annual town
meeting, 1,409 names. In Roches-
ter village there have been erect-
ed, within the past three years,
two hundred dwelling houses, be-
sides many business blocks Its
railroad facilities are equal to
those of any town in the State.
Four railroads now come into the
town, or pass through it, viz.—the
Eastern, Cocheco, Portland &
Rochester and Nashua & Roches-
ter Railroads—and the Concord &
Rochester Railroad has been char-
tered and, doubtless, will be built
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