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Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,284 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Peterborough town, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire )〕 The central settlement in town, with 3,103 people at the 2010 census,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Peterborough CDP, New Hampshire )〕 is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place (CDP) and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of U.S. Route 202 and New Hampshire Route 101. The community is southwest of Manchester and northwest of Boston. ==History== Granted by Massachusetts in 1737, it was first permanently settled in 1749. The town suffered several attacks during the French and Indian War. Nevertheless, by 1759, there were fifty families settled. Incorporated on January 17, 1760 by Governor Benning Wentworth, it was named after Lieutenant Peter Prescott (1709–1784) of Concord, Massachusetts, a prominent land speculator. The Contoocook River and Nubanusit Brook offered numerous sites for watermills, and Peterborough became a prosperous mill town. In 1810, the first cotton factory was established. By 1859, when the population was 2,222, there were four additional cotton factories, plus a woolen mill. Other industries included two paper mills, an iron foundry, a machine shop, a carriage factory, a basket manufacturer, a maker of trusses and supporters, a boot and shoe factory, seven sawmills, and three gristmills.〔 Abiel Abbot, after being charged with heresy by the Connecticut religious establishment, came to Peterborough as minister to the Peterborough Unitarian Church in 1827.〔http://peterborough.toursphere.com/en/abiel-abbot-1765-1859-56383.html〕 Reverend Abbot founded the town's first prep school, the Monadnock Summer Lyceum,〔http://www.monadnocklyceum.org/content/information〕 and the first free library in the US, all in Peterborough.〔http://peterboroughtownlibrary.org/about/history/〕 Other early cultural institutions include Mariarden, a summer theatre where Paul Robeson played in Eugene O'Neill's ''The Emperor Jones'' at a time when roles for black Americans were scarce. Bette Davis performed there as a teen.〔Mansfield, Howard. 2004. ''Bones of the Earth'', Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC, p. 148.〕 In the 1980s, thanks to publisher Wayne Green, "Peterborough was clearly the per capita magazine production capital of the world."〔Jay Ranade and Alan Nash, "The best of BYTE", ''Byte'' magazine, December 1993, page 6〕 Over 100 magazines, mostly about computers and technology, were published there; these included ''Byte'', ''MacComputing'' and ''Yankee''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peterborough, New Hampshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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