45-518: The Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan statistical area that consisted of one county in Alabama , anchored by the city of Alexander City , as defined by the United States Census Bureau . The current area is the second incarnation, with the original area consisting of Tallapoosa County and Coosa County . The original Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area
90-440: A 2010 census population of 154,908. That would put its total population ahead of roughly 100 individual locations classified as a metropolitan statistical area in 2010. The largest of the areas, around Claremont and Lebanon, New Hampshire , had a population in excess of 218,000 in 2010; Claremont's population was only 13,355 in that year's census , and Lebanon's population was only 13,151. The following sortable table lists
135-742: A branch of Granite State College , River Valley Community College , and the Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center. The only city within Sullivan County, Claremont is home to Claremont Municipal Airport . By highway, it is located 21 miles (34 km) south of Interstate 89 in Lebanon, New Hampshire , and 5 miles (8 km) east of Interstate 91 in Weathersfield, Vermont . It is served by state routes 11 , 12 , 12A 103 , and 120 . Routes 11 and 103 travel east as
180-630: A charter to establish a ferry across the Connecticut River in 1784, the location of which is still known as Ashley's Ferry landing. Spafford was also the first man to marry in Claremont, and his son, Elijah, was the first white child to be born in the town. The Union Episcopal Church in West Claremont was built in 1773, and is the oldest surviving Episcopal church building in New Hampshire and
225-417: A concurrency to Newport , with Route 11 continuing east to New London and Franklin , while Route 103 turns southeast to Bradford and Warner . Routes 11 and 12 lead south as a concurrency to Charlestown . West from downtown, Route 12 leads into Vermont , then turns north to Windsor . Route 120 leads north from downtown through Cornish and Meriden to Lebanon . Route 12A bypasses downtown Claremont to
270-473: A female householder with no husband present, and 39.2% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31, and the average family size was 2.83. In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
315-520: A lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire, claiming that the state's primary reliance upon local property taxes for funding education resulted in inequitable educational opportunities among children around the state and a violation of their constitutional rights. Following a lawsuit and a series of landmark decisions, the New Hampshire Supreme Court agreed. Known as the " Claremont Decision ",
360-571: A rotary-style town square . This square connects Washington Street, Broad Street, and Main Street, which branch into different portions of the city. Broad Street Park contains war monuments to World War I , World War II , Korea and Vietnam , and Freedom Garden Memorial dedicated to the victims and families of September 11 . Included are two Civil War cannon and the centrally-located Soldier's Monument, designed by Martin Milmore and dating to 1890. The park
405-592: Is a core city of the Lebanon–Claremont micropolitan area , a bi-state, four-county region in the upper Connecticut River valley . The Upper Connecticut River Valley was home to the Pennacook and Western Abenaki ( Sokoki ) peoples, later merging with members of other Algonquin tribes displaced by the wars and famines that accompanied the European settling of the region. The Hunter Archeological Site , located near
450-578: Is a picaresque comedy-drama about a small-town would-be crime legend. The name of the movie derives from the motto of the Granite State . The Topstone Mill, formerly a shoe factory and now housing a restaurant, was featured in season 8, episode 20 of Ghost Hunters , airing October 24, 2012, titled "Fear Factory". Claremont was featured in the fourteenth episode of the Small Town News Podcast, an improv comedy podcast that takes listeners on
495-482: Is also home to a historic bandstand , originally built in a Victorian style in 1890 and redesigned in 1922 in a Classical Revival style, which primarily serves as performance space for the Claremont American Band, a community band dating to about 1880. Parallel to Broad Street lies Pleasant Street, home to a downtown business district , which was the city's primary commercial zone until the development of
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#1732858438150540-624: Is operated by the Current from the Interstate 91 Exit 8 Park and Ride in Ascutney, Vermont . Wrightsville, the fictional small-town setting in New England of many Ellery Queen novels and short stories, was based on Claremont. Ellery Queen was the pen name of cousins Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971). Betty Miller, a Claremont native, had married Manfred B. Lee in 1927. According to
585-442: Is part of New Hampshire's School Administrative Unit 6, or SAU 6. Stevens High School is the city's only public high school , and is located on Broad Street, just a few blocks from City Hall. Claremont Middle School, the city's only public middle school , is located just down the street to the south. Claremont is home to three elementary schools: Maple Avenue School, Bluff Elementary and Disnard Elementary. Also located in town are
630-557: The Boston and Maine Railroad . In 2021, The Ko'asek (Co'wasuck)Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation, a group claiming descent of the original indigenous population in the region, acquired and was gifted several parcels of local land for use in cultural ceremonies, nature preserves and education along with growing herbs and plants. In 2024 the group claims 554 members and now owns 26.37 acres in Claremont. Claremont
675-749: The Lower Village District . During the American Revolution, Claremont had a large number of Loyalists , who used a small wooded valley in West Claremont called the "Tory Hole" to hide from the Patriots . In 1777, when the New Hampshire Grants declared their own sovereignty as the Vermont Republic , Claremont was one of sixteen New Hampshire towns inclined to join them, and made multiple attempts to do so. Claremont's first millwright
720-571: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), are labor market and statistical areas in the United States centered on an urban cluster (urban area) with a population of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people. The micropolitan area designation was created in 2003. Like the better-known metropolitan statistical areas , a micropolitan area is a geographic entity used for statistical purposes based on counties and county equivalents . On July 21, 2023,
765-482: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 44.1 square miles (114.1 km ), of which 43.2 square miles (111.8 km ) are land and 0.89 square miles (2.3 km ) are water, comprising 2.04% of the town. The Sugar River flows from east to west through the center of Claremont, descending 150 feet (46 m) in elevation through the downtown, and empties into the Connecticut. The highest point in
810-1072: The 1897 city hall and opera house . In 1874, businesses in Claremont included Monadnock Mills , manufacturing cotton cloths from one to three yards wide, Marseilles quilts, union flannels, and lumber, and employing 125 males and 225 females; Home Mill (A. Briggs & Co.) producing cotton cloth and employing 8 males and 20 females; Sullivan Machine Co., manufacturing Steam Dimond Drill Machinery for quarrying rock, turbine water wheels, cloth measuring machines, and doing general machine and mill work, employing 56 males; Sugar River Paper Mill Co., manufacturing printing paper and employing 30 males and 20 females; Claremont Manufacturing Co., manufacturing paper and books, and doing stereotyping and book and job printing, employing 34 males and 34 females; Russell Jarvis, manufacturing hanging paper and employing 7 males and 2 females; John S. Farrington, manufacturing straw wrapping paper and employing 5 males and 1 female; Sullivan Mills (George L. Balcom), manufacturing black doeskins and employing 20 males and 18 females; Charles H. Eastman, in
855-520: The 538 μSAs of the incorporated United States (the 50 states and the District of Columbia) with the following information: The following sortable table lists the 4 μSAs (USAs) of Puerto Rico with the following information: Claremont, New Hampshire Claremont is the only city in Sullivan County, New Hampshire , United States. The population was 12,949 at the 2020 census . Claremont
900-645: The New England Classical Academy, a private , Catholic school , and the Claremont Christian Academy, a private, parochial school offering education through 12th grade. Three elementary schools—North Street School, Way Elementary and the West Claremont Schoolhouse—were shut down, Way becoming home to several luxury apartments and North Street turned into offices. The city's opportunities for higher education include
945-601: The Office of Management and Budget released revised delineations of the various CBSAs in the United States, which recognized 542 micropolitan areas in the United States, four of which are in Puerto Rico . The term "micropolitan" gained currency in the 1990s to describe growing population centers in the United States that are removed from larger cities, in some cases by 100 miles (160 km) or more. Micropolitan cities do not have
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#1732858438150990-707: The Queen Spaceports website, the Claremont Eagle newspaper provided front-page coverage (on July 10, 1959) of a talk Manfred Lee gave, in which he revealed that Wrightsville was indeed based on Claremont. Claremont was the filming location, though not the setting, of the 2006 movie Live Free or Die , co-written and co-directed by Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin and starring Aaron Stanford , Paul Schneider , Michael Rapaport , Judah Friedlander , Kevin Dunn , and Zooey Deschanel . Set in fictional Rutland, New Hampshire, it
1035-478: The Sunapee Mills, Monadnock Mills, Claremont Machine Works, Home Mills, Sanford & Rossiter, and Claremont Manufacturing Company. Principal products were cotton and woolen textiles , lathes and planers , and paper . Although like other New England mill towns , much industry moved away or closed in the 20th century, the city's former prosperity is evident in some fine Victorian architecture , including
1080-636: The Washington Street district. A number of mill buildings dot the Lower Village District in the city's center, along the Sugar River, and several attempts have been made at historic preservation of some of them. To the north end of the town lies the Valley Regional Hospital , an out-patient resource of the popular Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center of Lebanon . On the southern artery out of Claremont, Route 12 , stood Highland View,
1125-480: The bridge connecting Claremont with Ascutney, Vermont , is a significant prehistoric Native American site that includes seven levels of occupational evidence, including evidence of at least three longhouses . The oldest dates recorded from evidence gathered during excavations in 1967 were to 1300 CE . The city was named after Claremont , the country mansion of Thomas Pelham-Holles , Earl of Clare . On October 26, 1764, colonial governor Benning Wentworth granted
1170-548: The city is the summit of Green Mountain, at 2,018 feet (615 m) above sea level in the northeastern part of the city. Claremont lies fully within the Connecticut River watershed . As of the census of 2010, there were 13,355 people, 5,697 households, and 3,461 families residing in the city. The population density was 309.9 inhabitants per square mile (119.7/km ). There were 6,293 housing units at an average density of 146.0 per square mile (56.4/km ). The racial makeup of
1215-405: The city was 95.9% White , 0.6% African American , 0.3% Native American , 0.9% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 0.4% some other race , and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.3% of the population. There were 5,697 households, out of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.1% were headed by married couples living together, 13.0% had
1260-466: The economic or political importance of large cities, but are nevertheless significant centers of population and production, drawing workers and shoppers from a wide local area. Because the designation is based on the core urban cluster's population and not on that of the whole area, some micropolitan areas are much larger than some metropolitan areas. For example, the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area had
1305-405: The facility, which remained the dominant employer in Claremont through the 1970s, when manufacturing technology had advanced sufficiently to hamper sales and productivity. Parts of the campus suffered fires in 1979 and 1981, and the branch was closed in 1983 and sold in 1984. In the 1850s, the city of Claremont approached the state legislature asking permission to build a public high school. At
1350-457: The leather business and employing 4 males; Sugar River Mill Co., manufacturing flour, feed, and doing custom grinding, and employing 8 males; three saw mills employing a part of the year, 10 males; Blood & Woodcock, in the business of monuments and grave stones and employing 8 males; and Houghton, Bucknam & Co., in the business of sashes, doors and blinds, employing 8 males. The Monadnock Mills Co. and Sullivan Mills Co. were responsible for
1395-415: The population were below the poverty line , including 22.2% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those aged 65 or over. A commercial area centered on Washington Street is Claremont's primary commercial district. An Italian Renaissance -styled City Hall building, which houses the historic Claremont Opera House , was built in 1897 and designed by architect Charles A. Rich . City Hall faces Broad Street Park,
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1440-425: The population. The median income for a household in the μSA was $ 30,309, and the median income for a family was $ 37,115. Males had a median income of $ 26,974 versus $ 19,088 for females. The per capita income for the μSA was $ 15,892. Micropolitan statistical area Population United States micropolitan statistical areas ( μSA , where the initial Greek letter mu represents " micro- "), as defined by
1485-518: The state's oldest surviving building built exclusively for religious purposes. The parish was organized in 1771 and chartered by the New Hampshire legislature in 1794 as Union Church Parish. Located across the street, Old St. Mary's Church, built in 1823 mostly in the Federal style, was the first Roman Catholic church in New Hampshire. It was discontinued in 1870 in favor of the new St. Mary's Church in
1530-461: The suit continues to drive the statewide debate on equitable funding for education, and Claremont continues to play a primary role in this legal challenge. The cities of Claremont, California , Claremont, Minnesota , and Claremont Township, Minnesota , were named for Claremont, New Hampshire. The city is in western Sullivan County and is bordered to the west by the Connecticut River , the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont . According to
1575-483: The summer home of Claremont native William Henry Harrison Moody (1842–1925), who made his fortunes as a businessman and shoe manufacturer in the Boston area, but kept a residence in his hometown until his death. The large William H. H. Moody estate was known for its horses and its five large barns (the last of which burned in 2004 from a lightning strike ), which once hosted several hundred imported horses on over 500 acres (2.0 km ). Its Victorian farmhouse stands at
1620-754: The technology to create the Tyler Water Wheel and the Tyler Turbine. John Tyler's grandson was Benjamin Tyler Henry , inventor of the Henry Repeating rifle, manufactured in neighboring Windsor, Vermont , and used in the Civil War . The water power harnessed from the Sugar River brought the town prosperity during the Industrial Revolution . Large brick factories were built along the stream, including
1665-532: The time, public high schools did not exist in New Hampshire. The state agreed, and decided to offer permission to every town in the state so that every town could establish public high schools. Claremont native and hotelier Paran Stevens then made an offer to fund 50% of the $ 20,000 cost of development, resulting in Stevens High School . In March 1989, the Claremont School Board voted to initiate
1710-498: The top of Arch Road. In March 1916, a 175-acre (71 ha) portion of the estate was donated by Moody to the city of Claremont for a city park, the entrance of which is on Maple Avenue; facilities include tennis . A lone access road leads through a coniferous forest to the top of a hill, maintained as a large field by the city, with a large, open-air stone structure suitable for picnics. The park has several miles of interconnected walking trailways ; several of these trails terminate at
1755-399: The township to Josiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and 67 others. Although first settled in 1762 by Moses Spafford and David Lynde, many of the proprietors arrived in 1767, with a large number from Farmington , Hebron and Colchester , Connecticut . The undulating surface of rich, gravelly loam made agriculture an early occupation. Spafford was deeded land from Col. Samuel Ashley, who was given
1800-600: The two most prominent collections of manufacturing structures in the Lower Village District . Monadnock Mills' textile operations began with its founding in 1842, and lasted through 1932, shuttering operations following the decline of the textile industry in New England during the 1920s. By the 1920s, Sullivan Mills Co. had become New Hampshire's largest machining company, as well as Claremont's largest employer. Sullivan's Machinery division merged with Joy Mining Machinery in 1946, becoming Joy Manufacturing Co. Its founder, inventor Joseph Francis Joy , stayed on as general manager of
1845-479: The west, leading south to Charlestown and north to West Lebanon . Amtrak , the national passenger rail system, provides daily service aboard its Vermonter between Washington, D.C. , and St. Albans, Vermont . The closest Greyhound bus stops are in Bellows Falls and White River Junction, Vermont . Local weekday peak direction commuter bus service between Springfield, Vermont , and Hanover, New Hampshire ,
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1890-445: Was 40.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males. For the period 2009–2013, the estimated median annual income for a household in the city was $ 42,236, and the median income for a family was $ 51,259. Male full-time workers had a median income of $ 43,261 versus $ 35,369 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 22,773. About 13.3% of families and 15.9% of
1935-632: Was Col. Benjamin Tyler, who arrived in the area from Farmington, Connecticut , in the spring of 1767. Tyler built mills using stone quarried from his land on nearby Mount Ascutney , and built Claremont's first mill on the Sugar River on the site of the Coy Paper Mill. Tyler also invented the wry-fly water wheel, which was the subject of the Supreme Court case Tyler v. Tuel . His grandson John Tyler evolved
1980-607: Was officially reinstated but consists solely of Tallapoosa County . This reinstated statistical area is part of the Columbus–Auburn–Opelika combined statistical area . As of the census of 2000, there were 53,677 people, 21,338 households, and 15,217 families residing within the μSA. The racial makeup of the μSA was 71.31% White , 27.37% African American , 0.28% Native American , 0.15% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.27% from other races , and 0.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.75% of
2025-723: Was part of the Montgomery –Alexander City Combined Statistical Area . In 2013, the United States Office of Management and Budget removed the Alexander City micropolitan statistical area from its list of metropolitan and micropolitan areas. Coosa County was added to the Talladega-Sylacauga, AL micropolitan statistical area . Effective July 2023, the Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical
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