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Mail Address: HCR 66, Box 176A, Newport, N.H. 03773
Town Clerk/Tax Collector: Rosemary Heino
Hours: Monday and Tuesday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday 8 a.m.-noon; 542-9665
Selectmen: Mary'L Gere, 863-9581; Randall H. Bragdon (chairman), 863-9692; Willard Hathaway; Louise Chartier (deputy) (meet second and fourth Mondays at 6 p.m.)
Secretary: Priscilla Swensen
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Historical Society: Tyyne Cox, Roberta Callum, Linda Kroupa
Treasurer: Mary Hall
Moderator: John Callum Jr.
Building Inspector: William Walton
Library Trustees: Martha Morse, Marguerite Hall, Kathy Morse
Planning Board: Jeffrey Albright (chairman), 542-5874; Randall Adams; Kenneth Hall; Jeff Albright; Sandra Franklin (meets first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Office)
Trustees of the Trust Funds: Marguerite Hall, Sally Weston, Carol Dombroski
Road Agent: Alvin Smith, 542-5667 (town garage)
Deputy Treasurer: Dorothy McClay
Health Officer: William Walton
Landfill attendants: Scott Nielson, Roddy Welsh, Vanessa Keith, James Romer
Supervisors of the Checklist: Donna Sweetser, Susan Schroeter, Lois Palmer
Conservation Commission: Barty Flanders, Ethel Jarvis, Jennifer Wright, Ernest Bridge, Dick Tatem
Forester: Peter Rhoades
Tax Maps: Wayne McCutcheon
Ballot Clerks: Tyyne Cox, Marguerite Hall, Mary Ellen Bellimer, Cheri Lemere
Building Inspector: William Walton
Sexton: Fred Bellimer
Police Officer/ Dog Officer: Jason Lemere
Fire Chief: Bruce Baker
Fire Warden: George Dunn
Librarian: Mary Ellen Bellimer
Town Counsel: John Yazinski
Auditor: The Mercier Group
Civil Defense Director: Jason Lemere
School superintendent: Robert Patterson, 543-4200
School board: Chris Eaton (chairman), 543-1441; Bob Trabka; Bill Schroetter (meets on second Monday of each month)
Old Home-Day Committee: Cheri Lemere (chairwoman)
Unity Elementary School Principal: Mike Cirre, 542-5888
Elevation: 1,467 feet
Distance to Boston: 116 miles
New York City: 215 miles
Montreal: 220 miles
Average annual precipitation: 36 inches
Population:
2000: 1,530
1990: 1,341
Number of families: 385
Average family size: 2.89
Income:
Per capita: $17,908
Median family income: $47,045
Median household income: $41,594
Employment:
Residents working in community: 19.1%
Mean travel time to work: 23 minutes
Unemployment rate: 1.4%
Housing Units:
Single-family: 486
Multi-family: 10
Manufactured homes: 160
2001 Equalized tax rate: $29.38*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary: 1; enrollment: 476
Middle-junior high: none
High school: none
Private parochial schools: none
The Quaker Meeting House: Built in 1820, this modest structure marks the period when West Unity was known as Quaker City because of an influx of Friends. The Quakers, who built this single-story structure sheathed in unpainted clapboards, had previously been obliged to attend meetings in Weare. The interior was divided into two sections to separate men and women, according to Quaker beliefs. To this day, it is still used for Quaker meetings.
Revolutionary War Soldier's Grave: Located on the Old East Unity Road on John Stark Highway, this woodlot near Potato Hill is the final burial place for an anonymous Revolutionary War soldier who is said to have come from the Portsmouth area. According to the diary excerpts of one Lt. Abraham Fitz, the soldier, who was less than 16 years old, died of pneumonia on his way to Charlestown. A company of soldiers was en route to the Battle of Bennington.
Other sites of interest include the Springhouse Ruin in East Unity, the remnants of the bath site and 60-room Unitoga Springs House, which burned in 1892; and the West Unity Community Church, built in 1846 and the only religious structure in Unity still serving its original purpose.
Also of note is the annual Old Home Day Celebration, which is being held this year on July 18. For further information, call Cheri Lemere at (603) 863-2261.
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