Hotels in Plymouth, New Hampshire

A little about Plymouth...

Plymouth is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA, in the White Mountains Region. Plymouth is located at the convergence of the Pemigewasset and Baker rivers, both of which are components of the Merrimack River watershed. The population was 5,892 at the 2000 census, and the town is home to Plymouth State University, Speare Memorial Hospital, and Plymouth Regional High School.

Sites of interest:
Plymouth Historical Museum
Pease Public Library
Lamson Library
Boy Scout Fountain on the Common (one of only three Boy Scout Fountains in the USA)
Fox Park
Langdon Beach
Smith Bridge (a covered bridge over the Baker River)

In 1806, then-lawyer Daniel Webster lost his first criminal case at the Plymouth courthouse, which now houses the Historical Society. The transcendentalist author Nathaniel Hawthorne, while on vacation in 1864 with former U.S. President Franklin Pierce, died in Plymouth at the second Pemigewasset House, which was later destroyed by fire in 1909. In the early 20th Century, the Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods Company (D&M) sold products directly to the Boston Red Sox, and players such as Babe Ruth would regularly visit to pick out their equipment. The Plymouth Normal School was founded in 1871 out of the already existing Holmes Plymouth Academy, becoming the state's first teachers' college. It would later evolve into Plymouth Teachers' College in 1939, Plymouth State College in 1963, and finally Plymouth State University in 2003.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 74.4 km² (28.7 mi²). 73.5 km² (28.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water, comprising 1.22% of the town. Plymouth is drained by the Pemigewasset and Baker rivers. Plymouth Mountain, elevation 2,193 feet (668 meters) above sea level, the highest point in Plymouth, is in the south, and the slopes of Tenney Mountain are in the west. (The summit of Tenney Mountain -- 2,310 feet / 704 meters -- lies in the town of Groton.)