Jaffrey (New Hampshire)

Cheshire County

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Jaffrey is a town in Cheshire County in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Jaffrey has the status of " town" and has 5,476 inhabitants ( 2000 census ); the urban area is 103.7 km ².

Geography

Jaffrey is located in the southeast of Cheshire County. Within the County adjacent cities Dublin in the north, Troy and Marlborough are in the west and Rindge in the south. In the east, bordering the Hillsborough County belonging to cities Peterborough and Sharon.

Larger waters in the urban area of the Thorndike Pond in the north and the Contoocook Lake on the southern border of the urban area. The highest point is Mount Monadnock Jaffrey, a mountain of 965 meters above sea level; it lies in the northwestern part of the urban area.

History and Other

The city already existed decades before its formal establishment under the name " Rowley -Canada " and " No Monadnock. 2 ". 1773 was officially appointed by the Governor John Wentworth to the city and named after a person named George Jaffrey.

From the 1840s the area became increasingly attractive to tourists; it offered especially for walking and hiking. For example, the Mount Monadnock by writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Rudyard Kipling was climbed. Emerson dedicated to his experience at Mount Monadnock in 1845 the poem Monadnoc.

The story of Elizabeth Yates Amos Fortune 1950 written biography, Free Man plays in Jaffrey.

Together with the adjacent city of Jaffrey Rindge School is part of the composite Jaffrey Rindge Cooperative School District, also abbreviated to " SAU 47" is called.