Incorporated: 1812
Population: 257
County Name: Cheshire
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Roxbury
404 Branch Road
Roxbury, NH 03431

Phone: 603-352-0397
Fax: 603-352-4903
Website: keenenh.com/roxbury

Origin:
Roxbury was once a part of Monadnock Number 5, one of the settlements reserved for soldiers of the French wars. Monadnock Number 5 became Marlborough, and in 1812, a group of citizens successfully petitioned for incorporation as a separate town. It was named Roxbury after their old village, now part of Boston.

More about Roxbury:
An excellent-quality granite quarried in Roxbury was used widely locally and throughout the Northeast, including New York's state capitol in Albany. Roxbury quarries were once among the most extensive in the state.

Otter Brook Dam and reservoir were constructed in 1956-58 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Connecticut River Basin flood control projects, and lie on the Keene-Roxbury border.