Hancock, NH

Описание: A short trip on NH123 to Hancock.

Hancock is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,731 at the 2020 census. Hancock is home to the Welch Family Farm Forest.

The main village of the town, where 213 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Hancock census-designated place (CDP), and is located at the junction of New Hampshire routes 123 and 137.

Hancock started as an unidentified settlement on the Contoocook River, in lands known as "Society Land" or "Cumberland", which had been reserved for the proprietors of the lands which became New Hampshire. First settled in 1764, the town was set off from Peterborough and incorporated in 1779, named "Hancock" in honor of John Hancock. A landowner of 1,875 acres (8 km2) in the community, Hancock was the first governor of the state of Massachusetts, president of the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Almost every building on Main Street in downtown Hancock is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hancock Village Historic District. Hancock's Meetinghouse is home to Paul Revere's #236 bell, which chimes on the hour, day and night. The town does not have paved sidewalks, but gravel paths leading from home to home.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.2 square miles (80.9 km2), of which 30.0 square miles (77.6 km2) are land and 1.3 square miles (3.3 km2) are water, comprising 4.12% of the town.[1] Hancock is drained by the Contoocook River, which flows northward along the eastern border of the town. Powder Mill Pond is in the east, and Nubanusit Lake is on the western border. Skatutakee Mountain, the highest point in Hancock, has an elevation of 2,002 feet (610 m) above sea level. Via the Contoocook River, Hancock lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed.

Adjacent municipalities
Antrim, New Hampshire (north)
Bennington, New Hampshire (northeast)
Greenfield, New Hampshire (east)
Peterborough, New Hampshire (south)
Harrisville, New Hampshire (southwest)
Nelson, New Hampshire (west)

Transportation
Two New Hampshire state routes and one U.S. Highway cross Hancock:

New Hampshire Route 123 enters the town in the southeast from Peterborough, duplexed with US 202. Immediately upon entering the town, it leaves on its own as Peterborough Road, traveling north towards the town center. In the central village of Hancock, it merges briefly with NH 137 as a wrong-way concurrency along Stoddard Road. After NH 137 leaves to the south, NH 123 continues to the northeast, leaving into the town of Antrim.

New Hampshire Route 137 enters the town in the south-central part of town from Harrisville, following Bonds Corner Road. After its short wrong-way concurrency with NH 123, it turns northeast along Bennington Road before reaching its northern terminus at US 202 near the town's border with Bennington.

U.S. Route 202 enters enters the town in the southeast from Peterborough, duplexed with NH 123. After 123 leaves just upon entering town, US 202 continues along Concord Road, passing Powder Mill Pond, before passing the northern terminus of NH 137 and entering the town of Bennington at Hancock's eastern border.

Notable people
A. A. Ames (1842–1911), corrupt former mayor of Minneapolis and fugitive from justice. Arrested at the house of Rev. C. H. Chapin in Hancock in February 1903
Thelma Babbitt (1906–2004), Quaker activist, environmentalist
Oren B. Cheney (1816–1903), abolitionist, Free Baptist preacher, founder of Bates College
Person C. Cheney (1828–1901), paper manufacturer, abolitionist, Republican politician
Wayne Green (1922–2013), publisher
Joseph Grew (1880–1965), US ambassador to Japan, Denmark, Turkey, and Switzerland
Howard Mansfield (born 1957), author
Charles E. Merrill Jr. (1920–2017), educator, founded the Commonwealth School in Boston, MA
Jay Pierrepont Moffat (1896–1943), US ambassador to Canada
Jay Pierrepont Moffat Jr. (born 1932), US ambassador to Chad
Sy Montgomery (born 1958), author, naturalist, scriptwriter
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), artist

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