Lebanon (New Hampshire)

Grafton County

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Lebanon is a town in Grafton County in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

History

The city was established on July 4, 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth. The first settlement area was located on the Connecticut River, which is now called West Lebanon.

Demography

At the 2000 census, gave the following result.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nicholas Alexander, ski jumpers
  • Aaron Baddeley, Australian professional golfer
  • Rebekah Driscoll, composer
  • Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, medical practitioners, who represented the New Thought movement in the wake of the revival movement in the southern United States
  • Phineas Gage survived a piercing an iron rod through his head
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