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Brookline, NH
Community Contact Town of Brookline
Board of Selectmen
PO Box 360
Brookline, NH 03033-0360

Telephone (603) 673-8855
Fax (603) 673-8136
E-mail town@brookline.nh.us
Web Site www.brookline.nh.us

Municipal Office Hours Monday through Friday, 8 am - 2 pm

County Hillsborough
Labor Market Area Nashua NH-MA NECTA Division, NH Portion
Tourism Region Merrimack Valley
Planning Commission Nashua Regional
Regional Development Monadnock Economic Development Corp.

Election Districts  
US Congress
District 2
Executive Council
District 5
State Senate
District 12
State Representative
Hillsborough County District 5
Incorporated: 1769

Origin: This town was originally part of the 1637 Dunstable grant and settled as West Hollis. Many early settlers were from nearby Massachusetts towns that had been affected when the current Massachusetts-New Hampshire border was established in 1741. In 1769, Governor John Wentworth granted the town as Raby, in honor of his cousin, fourth Earl of Strafford and Baron of Raby Castle, in County Durham, England. In 1798 the town was reincorporated as Brookline by the New Hampshire legislature at the suggestion of a leading citizen and landowner who was from Brookline, Massachusetts.

Villages and Place Names: North Brookline, South Brookline, West Brookline

Population, Year of the First Census Taken: 338 residents in 1790

Population Trends: Brookline's population grew over six times larger over 50 years, with the largest decennial percent change a 75 percent increase between 1990 and 2000. Population change totaled 3,540 over 50 years, from 671 in 1950 to 4,211 in 2000. The 2007 Census estimate for Brookline was 4,825 residents, which ranked 73rd among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.

Population Density, 2007: 244.1 persons per square mile of land area. Brookline contains 19.9 square miles of land area and 0.3 square miles of inland water area.
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