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Demographics: From 2000 to 2010, Charlestown’s population increased by 7.7 percent from 4,749 to 5,114 persons. The median age is 43.9 years, with 20.7 percent of the population under 18 years of age and 16.1 percent age 65 and older. The total number of households is 2,117, with an average household size of 2.38 persons. Of those, 1,399 are family households with an average size of 2.84 persons. As of April 1, 2010, there were 2,263 total housing units. Additional, detailed demographic data on Charlestown and all New Hampshire towns and cities can be found at NH OEP Data Center 2010 Census.
Origin: Named in honor of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles of the British Navy, then governor of Jamaica. Charlestown was originally the site of Number Four, the fourth in a line of forts on the Connecticut River border established as trading posts. A reproduction of Fort Number Four is now a historical site. A historical marker commemorating the fort was erected in 1958 -- the second such marker erected in the NH Historical Marker Program.
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