Plymouth

History

Plymouth was originally the site of an Abenaki village that was burned to the ground by Captain Thomas Baker in 1712. This was just one of the many British raids on American Indian settlements during Queen Anne's War. Part of a large plot of undivided land in the Pemigewasset Valley, the town was first named "New Plymouth", after the original Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth granted Plymouth to settlers from Hollis, all of whom had been soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some had originally come from Plymouth, Massachusetts. The town was incorporated in 1763. Parts of Hebron and Campton were annexed in 1845 and 1860. In 1806, then-lawyer Daniel Webster lost his first criminal case at the Plymouth courthouse, which now houses the Historical Society. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne, while on vacation in 1864 with former U.S. President Franklin Pierce, died in Plymouth at the second Pemigewasset House, which was later destroyed by fire in 1909. In the early 20th century, the Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods Company (D&M) sold products directly to the Boston Red Sox, and players such as Babe Ruth would regularly visit to pick out their equipment. The Plymouth Normal School was founded in 1871 out of the already existing Holmes Plymouth Academy, becoming the state's first teachers' college. It would later evolve into Plymouth Teachers' College in 1939, Plymouth State College in 1963, and finally Plymouth State University in 2003. Image:Main St., Plymouth, NH.jpg|Main Street in 1908 Image:Congregational Church & Town Hall, Plymouth, NH.jpg|Congregational Church and Town Hall Image:Kidder Block & Methodist Church, Plymouth, NH.jpg|Kidder Block Image:Railroad Station, Plymouth, NH.jpg|Railroad Station

Geography

Plymouth is in central New Hampshire, in the southeastern part of Grafton County, at the southern edge of the White Mountains. It is drained by the Pemigewasset River and its tributary, the Baker River, and lies within the Merrimack River watershed. Plymouth is north of Concord, the state capital, and south of the height of land in Franconia Notch. Plymouth Mountain, at the highest point in Plymouth, is in the south, and the slopes of Tenney Mountain are in the west. (The summit of Tenney Mountain lies to the west in the town of Groton.) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and are water, comprising 1.94% of the town. |source 2 = XMACIS2 }}

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Largest nearby schools

• Plymouth Regional High School
  High · Plymouth · 646 students · 12.7:1 ratio
• Plymouth Elementary School
  Elementary · Plymouth · 387 students · 9.4:1 ratio
• Newfound Regional High School
  High · Bristol · 377 students · 11.8:1 ratio
• Campton Elementary School
  Elementary · Campton · 280 students · 10:1 ratio
• Ashland Elementary School
  Elementary · Ashland · 159 students · 8:1 ratio
• Holderness Central School
  Elementary · Holderness · 152 students · 8:1 ratio
• Bridgewater-Hebron Village School
  Elementary · Bridgewater · 135 students · 13.5:1 ratio
• Mountain Village Charter School
  Elementary · Plymouth · 108 students · 18:1 ratio