Roxbury, NH Town History Statue

On the back of this statue is a plaque commenting on the two hundred year old history of this small town. Once located along a spur of the Keene and Manchester Railroad, this town peak days during the early American republic years boasted three schools, a tavern, a boarding house, two cemeteries and three of NH largest granite quarries- Wadsworth, Cass and Bodwell. The now prominent Otter Brook Dam was constructed in 1958. The town has several locally well-known citizens. However, the best known was its local school teacher who later became a Ohio's state governor and US senator, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of Treasury, and finally, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.