Claremont
a town in Sullivan co., N. H.; on the Sugar river, and the Boston & Maine railroad; 48 miles N. W. of Concord. Sugar river, with a fall of 150 feet in a mile, supplies power for numerous local cotton and woolen mills, paper and shoe factories, and machine shops. The town is the farming trade center of the surrounding region and has several churches, weekly newspapers, a high school, free library, public schools, two National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,529; (1920) 9,524.