Incorporated: 1772
Population: 762
County Name: Cheshire
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Marlow
PO Box 184
Town Office
Marlow, NH 03456-0184

Phone: 603-654-5955
Fax: 603-654-5777
Website: marlow-nh.org

Origin:
First named Addison, after Joseph Addison, Secretary of State for England, who signed the appointment papers making John Wentworth Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts in 1717. As a result of the French War, few original grantees settled there, and the town was regranted in 1761 as Marlow, in honor of Christopher Marlowe, the famed author and playwright.

More about Marlow:
The picturesque village center, with its white church, Odd Fellows Hall, Town Hall and lily pond is one of the region's most photographed scenes and often the subject of an artist's brush. Marlow is the site of many marks of glacial action, and minerals are still found here. A woodworking industry once used the water power of the Ashuelot River to produce tools, furniture and wooden buckets from lumber cut nearby.