Antrim, New Hampshire, United States

🇺🇸 Antrim is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The main village in the town is defined as the Antrim place (CDP) and is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 202 and New Hampshire Route 31. The town of Antrim also includes the villages of Antrim Center, North Branch, and Clinton Village.

History Settled in 1741 and incorporated on March 22, 1777, this town did not receive its incorporated name until 1778. It was named for County Antrim in the north of Ireland, now part of Northern Ireland, which was the native home of the land's owner, Philip Riley. Scots-Irish settlers established a Presbyterian church in Antrim in 1788.

With falls providing water power, Great Brook was once lined with over twenty mills along its course from Gregg Lake to the Contoocook River. Commercial development centered on South Antrim, now the main village of Antrim. Cutlery was the major industry in this town, beginning with the manufacturing of apple-paring machines in 1864. The manufacture of cutlery continued in Antrim through 1989. The town is now largely a bedroom community for Peterborough and Hillsborough. It was home to the now-defunct Nathaniel Hawthorne College.

Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.5 square miles (94.6 km²), of which 35.7 square miles (92.4 km²) are land and 0.81 square miles (2.1 km²) are water, comprising 2.24% of the town. Antrim is drained by the Contoocook River and its North Branch, in addition to Great Brook. Gregg Lake and Willard Pond are in the west. Bald Mountain, elevation 2,037 feet (621 m) above sea level and the highest point in Antrim, overlooks Willard Pond. Antrim lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed.

The town centre, defined as a place (CDP), covers an area of 4.5 square miles (12 km²), about 12% of the area of the town. It includes the main village of Antrim (once known as South Antrim or South Village), plus parts of Clinton Village and Antrim Center.

Adjacent municipalities • Windsor, New Hampshire (north) • Hillsborough, New Hampshire (northeast) • Deering, New Hampshire (east) • Bennington, New Hampshire (southeast) • Hancock, New Hampshire (south) • Nelson, New Hampshire (southwest) • Stoddard, New Hampshire (west).

Sites of interest • Antrim Historical Society & Museum