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Epping, NH - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Epping  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Epping Home page. The Epping Home page provides as much information as possible on Epping. Knowing Epping’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Epping’s Home page, you will also find Epping’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Epping has a population of 6989. 51.2% of Epping’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.8 are female. 64.7% of Epping is married and 86.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $306,363, and the average rent is $1,397. Household median income in Epping is $86,117, and the individual median income is $41,199. Epping’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.4%), Hispanic(4.2%), Multiple(3.2%), Asian(0.4%).


Epping was originally part of Exeter, one of the four original New Hampshire townships. Starting in 1710, Exeter awarded free wood lots in the area to encourage settlement. In 1741, Epping was granted a charter and incorporated as a town. It was the last New Hampshire town chartered by Governor Jonathan Belcher before the Province of New Hampshire was granted a governor who did not also govern the neighboring Province of Massachusetts Bay.


Epping was named for Epping in England.Through the 1800s, farming was a principal occupation in Epping. The town also had substantial reserves of clay, long used by local residents to make bricks, and in 1840, the first commercial brickyard was established in Epping. The village once known as East Epping gave birth in 1863 to a Methodist camp called Camp Hedding.


Hedding CMA (Camp Meeting Association) hosted Methodist revivals. Hedding became the name of a post office and railroad station in 1896, and the place name appears on road signs. Epping was once an important junction of the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad and the Portsmouth & Concord Railroad, later both part of the Boston & Maine Railroad.


The north-south WN&R line through town was abandoned in 1932, with a short segment remaining in place south to Fremont to serve a lumber yard and barrel manufacturer located there. This left the east-west Portsmouth Branch between Manchester and Portsmouth as Epping's only access to the national rail network. Passenger service on the Portsmouth Branch ceased in 1954, although mixed-train service continued until 1960.


A regular freight running from Concord to Portsmouth and return served Epping until 1972, after which a local freight out of Concord served the branch as needed, usually once or twice a week and often not passing beyond Epping where the last concentration of customers was located. Customers in Epping at this time included the Merrimack Farmers Exchange and the W.S.


Goodrich brickyard. Occasional hi-and-wide freight movements operated over the Portsmouth Branch in the 1970s due to the lack of close clearance points, with several carrying materials destined to the under-construction Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant. Declining track conditions led to the B&M embargoing the branch in December 1979, with the last trains operating to Epping earlier that year and the final train to Raymond following in July 1980 despite the embargo.


The Boston & Maine abandoned the track from East Manchester to Newfields in 1982, and the rail was removed in Epping between 1983 and 1985. The railroad beds are now the Rockingham Recreational Trail. Abutments for the WN&R bridge over the Lamprey River can be seen to the west of Route 125.


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