Incorporated: 1761
Population: 2,306
County Name: Sullivan
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Plainfield
PO Box 380
Plainfield, NH 03770

Phone: 603-469-3201
Fax: 603-469-3642
Website: www.plainfield.nh.us

Origin:
Settled by a group from Plainfield, Connecticut, Plainfield is one of the towns granted by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1761 at the beginning of the reign of King George III. A part of Plainfield known as Meriden Parish, named for the farm of Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher, became the site of Kimball Union Academy, built in 1813.

More about Plainfield:
Plainfield lies on the eastern edge of the enclave known as the Cornish Art Colony, home to painters Maxfield and Stephen Parrish, poet Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your poor"), sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and home and landscape artist Charles Platt who designed many of the artists' villas including Hacklenden Hall which was to become the summer White House for Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and 1915.