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Unity, NH
Community Contact Unity Board of Selectmen
Willard Hathaway
13 Center Road, Unit 3
Charlestown, NH 03603

Telephone (603) 543-3102
Fax (603) 542-5922
E-mail unitynh@valley.net
Web Site not available

Municipal Office Hours Selectmen's Secretary: Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 am - 5 pm; Monday, Tuesday, 9 am - 5 pm, Wednesday, 9 am - 6 pm, and Thursday, 8 am - 5 pm, closed Friday

County Sullivan
Labor Market Area Claremont NH Micro-NECTA
Tourism Region Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee
Planning Commission Upper Valley/Lake Sunapee
Regional Development Capital Regional Development Council

Election Districts  
US Congress
District 2
Executive Council
District 2
State Senate
District 8
State Representative
Sullivan County District 4
Incorporated: 1764

Origin: This territory was first chartered in 1753, and named Buckingham, after John Hobart, first Earl of Buckinghamshire. Grants of this area had been given by both the early Massachusetts government and by Governor Benning Wentworth, causing dispute among those looking to claim the land. The town was incorporated as Unity in 1764 when the grant terms provided a friendly resolution to the dispute. In the charter document, the grantees were allowed to come to mutual agreement the size of each tract, when usually the tracts were to be divided into equal shares for all those named in the grant.

Villages and Place Names: East Unity, Quaker City, West Unity

Population, Year of the First Census Taken: 538 residents in 1790

Population Trends: Population change for Unity totaled 882 over 50 years, from 653 in 1950 to 1,535 in 2000. The largest decennial percent change was an increase of 54 percent between 1970 and 1980; the smallest was zero change between 1960 and 1970. The 2007 Census estimate for Unity was 1,744 residents, which ranked 151st among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.

Population Density, 2007: 45.2 persons per square mile of land area. Unity contains 37.0 square miles of land area and 0.2 square miles of inland water area.
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