The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire. It includes a populace of 42,695 people and has a total region of sixty seven.5 square miles. Concord sits fully inside of the Merrimack River watershed, and it is centered found on the river, which goes from northwest to southeast through the city. Downtown is located on a lower terrace towards western side of the river, having residential neighborhoods rising hillsides on the west and advancing southwards towards the town of Bow. Concord’s downtown area is very historic and contains a venue of dining establishments as well as stores on Main Street. On the north end of Main Street is the Pierce Mansion, where President Franklin Pierce resided before and soon after his presidency.
Interstate 89 and Highway 93 are the 2 principal Interstate highways covering Concord, and join just south of the city limits. Interstate 89 ties Concord together with Lebanon as well as the state of Vermont to the north and west, while Interstate ninety three links the city to points north the White Mountains and to the south Manchester and Boston. Concord features a four-season weather conditions having cold snowy winter seasons and warm summer months, spring and fall are crisp and short changes.
Concord is ruled by using the mayor-council system. The city council contains only fourteen members, ten which are elected coming from single-member wards, whilst the additional four are elected at large. The mayor is chosen directly every 2 years.
Concord features seven public elementary schools, one public middle school, and a single public high school. Concord offers 2 Catholic schools, Bishop Brady High School and St John Regional School. Additional private schools include Concord Christian Academy, parker Academy, Trinity Christian School, Shaker Road School, and St. Paul’s School. Concord is also the location of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, New Hampshire Technical Institute, as well as a branch of Hesser College, Concord campus.
Concord features 1 daily newspaper, The Concord Monitor, and two weekly newspapers, The Concord Insider and The Hippo. New Hampshire Public Radio is based in Concord and there are many different radio stations managed in Concord.
Concord contains quite a few historical places together with points of interests. They include the Capital Center for the Arts, The New Hampshire Historical Society, the McAuliffe-Shepard discovery Center and a planetarium named after Christa McAuliffe, the Concord teacher who died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Concord is the home of the Granite State Symphony Orchestra. Beaver Meadow Golf Course, located in the northern part of Concord, is the oldest golf course in the state of New Hampshire
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