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New Ipswich is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,204 at the 2020 census. New Ipswich, situated on the Massachusetts border, includes the villages of Bank, Davis, Gibson Four Corners, Highbridge, New Ipswich Center, Smithville, and Wilder, though these village designations no longer maintain the importance they did in the past. The Wapack Trail passes through the community.

New Ipswich was decided in 1735 to 60 inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whence the read out is derived, by colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher and the General Court (Assembly) of Massachusetts. Settlement began in 1738, when Abijah Foster arrived behind his wife and infant daughter. In 1762, Governor Benning Wentworth incorporated the town as “Ipswich”, and later in 1766 as “New Ipswich”. New Ipswich Academy, later renamed Appleton Academy after benefactor Samuel Appleton, was chartered in 1789, the second oldest in New Hampshire after Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter. It would also help as high school for the reachable communities of Mason and Greenville. In 1969, construction of Mascenic Regional High School was completed, rendering tall school teaching in Appleton no more, although the building was yet used to teach elementary schoolers and center schoolers. In 1989 Boynton Middle School completed construction, so Appleton was from later to 2012 an elementary school. Appleton Academy closed in 2012, due to the risky conditions of occupying it.

The Souhegan River provided water talent for mills, and in 1801, the first woolen mill in the state was acknowledged at New Ipswich, followed in 1804 by the first cotton mill. Other before factories produced glass, potash and linseed oil. Cabinet making craftsmen produced elegant furniture. The town’s affluence would be expressed in Good architecture, an example of which is the Barrett House, used as a mood for the 1979 Merchant Ivory film The Europeans, based on the novel by Henry James. Bypassed by the railroad, the to the fore mill town was preserved.