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KEENE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 713 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEENE  , a

city and the county-seat of
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Cheshire county, New Hampshire, U.S.A., on the Ashuelot
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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
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foreign-born; (1910 census), ro,o68 .
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Area, 36.5 sq. m . It is served by the Boston & Maine railroad and by the
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Fitchburg railroad (leased by the Boston & Maine) . The site is level, but is surrounded by ranges of lofty hills—Monadnock Mountain is about ro m . S.E . Most of the streets are pleasantly shaded . There are three parks, with a
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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
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principal buildings are the city hall, the county buildings and the city hospital .

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
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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
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Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757), the
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English diplomatist, who as agent for the South Sea
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Company and Minister in
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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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