Last Updated on May 1, 2021 by Dennis
Keene, the county seat, lies in the central part of the county, in lat. 42º 55 and long. 4º 47, bounded north by Westmoreland, Gilsum and Sullivan, east by Sullivan and Roxbury, south by Swanzey, and west by Chesterfield and Westmoreland. The boundaries thus roughly given enclose a beautiful territory of about 22,010 acres, all included within the corporation limits of the charming little city of Keene. We say “little,” for it must be borne in mind that the city is yet in the swaddling clothes of infancy, and despite its large area has a population of less than 7,000 souls. A little over ten years since, this “city” was a township, with a prosperous, thriving and, as events have proved, ambitious village in its center. As a township, then, we shall for the present consider it, turning back to the year 1732.
This history entails tax records, sketches of early industry, churches, military, and benevolent societies, as well as biographies, genealogies, and sketches of the early settlers.
- General History of Keene, New Hampshire
- General History of Keene, New Hampshire
- Early Settlement of Keene, New Hampshire
- Keene Proprietor List
- City of Keene
- Fair Grounds And Trotting Park of Keene, NH
- History of Education in Keene, New Hampshire
- History of Industry in Keene, New Hampshire
- Church History of Keene, NH
- Military History of Keene, New Hampshire
- Biographies of Keene, New Hampshire
- Abbott, Joseph B.
- Adams, Charles G., Dr.
- Adams, Daniel, Dr.
- Allen, John J., Jr., Hon.
- Bailey, Artemas
- Baker, David
- Barrett, W. A.
- Batchelder, Alfred T.
- Bigelow, Ebenezer
- Biscoe, Daniel W.
- Blake, Hiram
- Bowker, Benjamin
- Briggs, William S.
- Carpenter, Algernon Sidney, Dr.
- Carpenter, Eben, Dr.
- Clark, Ira C.
- Colony, John
- Coolidge, Henry
- Darling, David, Rev.
- Dinsmoor, Samuel, Hon.
- Dinsmoor, Samuel, Jr.
- Dinsmore, S. M., Dr.
- Edwards, Thomas Mackie, Hon.
- Faulkner, Francis Augustus
- Fisher, Daniel
- Fletcher, Arad
- French, Francis
- Fuller, John Houghton
- Gates, Samuel O.
- Gilbert, Dexter W.
- Hale, Samuel W., Hon.
- Hardy, Silas
- Hart, Jacob
- Hill, Gardner C., Dr.
- Holbrook, Adin
- Holbrook, John
- Holbrook, John Josiah
- Holt, Ralph J.
- Humphrey, John
- Irish, Horace M.
- Jennison, John F., Dr.
- Joslin, Luke, Dea.
- Kingsbury, Nathaniel
- Lane, Farnum F.
- Leaverett, Thomas H.
- Mason, Hugh
- Metcalf, Frederick
- Munsell, Hezekiah
- Newcomb, Daniel, Hon.
- Nims, David
- Nims, George H.
- Nims, Godfrey
- Nims, Lanmon
- Noah, Captain
- Nourse, Benjamin
- O’Brien, Daniel
- Perry, Francis Allen
- Perry, Joseph
- Pierce, Horace Truman Hanks, Capt.
- Pittsinger, Edward
- Pratt, Jeremiah
- Prentiss, John W.
- Prentiss, John, Hon.
- Prouty, Ira French
- Prouty, Ira J., M. D.
- Rice, Augustus M.
- Robertson, Archibald
- Rowell, C. F.
- Skinner, Barton
- Spaulding, Thomas
- Sprague, Peleg, Hon.
- Stewart, Reuben
- Symonds, John
- Tenney, Amos B.
- Thayer, John A.
- Thompson, James
- Thompson, Samuel
- Twitchell, George B., Dr.
- Wellington, Leonard
- Wheeler, William P.
- Wilder, Abijah
- Willard, Lockhart, Esq.
- Wilson, James, Jr., Gen.
- Wilson, James, Sr., Hon.
- Wood, Nathan
- Woodward, Solomon
- Wright, Philemon
- Wyman, Charles