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Encyclopedia Britannica



KEENE

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 713 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KEENE , a city and the county-seat of Cheshire county, New
Hampshire
 , U.S.A., on the Ashuelot river, about 45 M. S.W. of Concord, N.H., and about 92 m. W.N.W. of Boston. Pop. (1900), 9165, of whom 1255 were foreign-born; (1910 census), ro,o68. Area, 36.5 sq. m. It is served by the Boston & Maine railroad and by the Fitchburg railroad (leased by the Boston & Maine). The site is level, but is surrounded by ranges of lofty hillsMonadnock Mountain is about ro m. S.E. Most of the streets are pleasantly shaded. There are three parks, with a total area of about 219 acres; and in Central Square stands a soldiers' and sailors'
monument
  designed by Martin Milmore and erected in 1871. The
principal
  buildings are the city
hall
 , the county buildings and the city
hospital
 
    See Also:
. The Public Library had in 1908 about 6,3oo volumes. There are repair shops of the Boston & Maine railroad here, and manufactures of boots and shoes, woollen goods, furniture (especially chairs), pottery, &c. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,690,967. The site of Keene was one of the
Massachusetts
  grants made in 1733, but Canadian Indians made it untenable and it was abandoned from 1746 until 1750. In 1753 it was incorporated and was named Keene, in honour of Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757), the English diplomatist, who as agent for the
South
  Sea Company and Minister in Madrid, and as responsible for the commerical treaty between England and Spain in 1750, was in high reputation at the time; it was chartered as a city in 1874.


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