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Keene (City and county-seat)

city and county-seat of Cheshire co., N. H.; on the Ashuelot river and the Boston and Maine railroad; 50 miles S. W. of Concord, the State capital.

It is the trade center for an important farming and manufacturing section; is surrounded surrounded by high hills, a part of the mountains 10 miles distant; and contains the railway repair shops, public high school with full college precourse, Unitarian Invalids' Home, Elliot City Hospital, and several manufacturies of woolen and flannel goods, machinery, woodenware, etc.

Pop. ( Pop. (1910) 10,068; (1920) 11,210. an