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Greater Nashua

Living in Amherst, New Hampshire

Town northwest of Nashua with a preserved eighteenth-century village center.

Historic white meeting house and green town common in a New Hampshire village

Amherst overview

Amherst is a town in Hillsborough County incorporated in 1760. The Amherst Village Historic District, organized around a green and the 1774 congregational meeting house, is among the best-preserved village centers in southern New Hampshire.

Land use outside the village is predominantly residential, with conservation parcels and remaining farmland.

Homes and housing

Antique colonial and Federal properties in and around the village district, with later single-family subdivision construction elsewhere in town.

Neighborhoods

The Village Historic District, the Route 101A corridor, and residential roads extending toward Mont Vernon and Milford.

Lifestyle and recreation

Baboosic Lake, town conservation trails, the village green, and the Amherst Town Library.

Location

Northwest of Nashua, about forty-five miles from Boston.

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