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Coos County - Rural West in North NH

« on: October 16, 2003, 09:18:40 am »

Seriously, westerners who are moving to New Hampshire anyway should look twice or thrice at Coos (pronounced Co-awse) County. I'm not joking or being sarcastic toward the west like some others here have been. I live in rural, mountain, non-resort Colorado.

I'll back up my suggestions with information and data later in this thread but, first, check this out.
Zack, you especially should check this out since you have posted that you're considering making the town of Dalton your new home.
The Dalton Gang
http://www.greatnorthwoods.org/daltongang/19990619/

The Dalton Gang is a western style cowboy action shooting club in Dalton, NH. It was founded officially in 1998 at the Mooney house in Dalton.

Another link:
http://www.greatnorthwoods.org/verdantvigilantes/
and more fun at:
http://www.sixguncity.com/

The rest of this page of posts is intended for general info.

On page two I get serious with more stats and numbers than many may like but which are the bottom line in political activism.


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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2003, 09:34:03 am »

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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2003, 09:39:23 am »

Coos County populations, checklist voter registration, voter turnout.

Town, Township, Grant, etc.	1990Census	2000Census	List R's	List D's	List U's	2002List	2002Vote	%Vote
Atkinson&Gilmanton Acad.Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berlin City	11872	10331	1005	2129	1952	5086	3754	74%
Cambridge Township	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	100%
Carroll Town	528	670	170	99	196	465	338	73%
Chandler's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clarksville Town	232	301	55	21	92	168	90	54%
Colebrook Town	2450	2331	516	163	652	1331	637	48%
Columbia Town	655	740	132	46	122	300	191	64%
Crawford's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dalton Town	823	950	173	61	304	538	324	60%
Dix's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dixville Township	50	46	13	0	9	22	19	86%
Dummer Town	322	345	59	39	106	204	133	65%
Errol Town	292	314	49	20	160	229	125	55%
Erving's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gorham Town	3200	2900	495	710	483	1688	1189	70%
Green's Grant	0	0	0	0	3	3	3	100%
Hadley's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jefferson Town	959	1002	331	93	167	591	399	68%
Kilkenny Township	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancaster Town	3526	3280	834	349	662	1845	1155	63%
Low and Burbanks Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martin's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milan Town	1252	1319	226	196	314	736	453	62%
Millsfield Township	21	19	0	0	15	15	14	93%
Northumberland Town	2492	2438	336	431	473	1240	654	53%
Odell Township	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pinkam's Grant	11	0	1	0	5	6	2	33%
Pittsburg Town	901	872	319	68	172	559	326	58%
Randolph Town	371	336	98	78	90	266	215	81%
Sargent's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Second College Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shelburne Town	410	378	101	54	112	267	183	69%
Stark Town	518	530	103	64	138	305	165	54%
Stewartstown Town	1048	1012	164	61	246	471	200	42%
Stratford Town	927	933	93	84	157	334	184	55%
Success Township	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson and Meserves Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wentworth Location	53	49	2	6	15	23	10	43%
Whitefield Town	1915	2015	520	242	426	1188	740	62%
TOTALS	34828	33111	5796	5014	7071	17881	11504	64%

Note that the only and largest city, Berlin, is strongly Democrat -- but only by about a thousand voters.

Sources:
http://www.nh.gov/sos/general2002/namescoos.htm
http://mcdc.missouri.edu/placepops/NewHampshire/33007.html
http://www.state.nh.us/osp/sdc/58/Coos.htm


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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2003, 09:41:00 am »

Presidential 2000 Vote

COOS COUNTY	Bush	Gore	Browne	Nader	Phillips	Buchanan	Total	Gore/Nader %
Atk. & Gilm. Ac. Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berlin Ward 1	359	620	1	22	0	13	1015	61%
Berlin Ward 2	386	633	4	33	1	13	1070	60%
Berlin Ward 3	551	692	0	20	0	14	1277	54%
Berlin Ward 4	329	559	6	16	3	0	913	62%
Cambridge	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0%
Carroll	244	151	3	12	1	5	416	37%
Chandler's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clarksville	82	32	2	8	0	2	126	27%
Colebrook	529	265	5	37	1	13	850	32%
Columbia	169	89	3	9	0	2	272	34%
Crawford's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dalton	236	147	2	13	0	0	398	37%
Dix's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dixville	21	5	0	1	0	0	27	19%
Dummer	114	58	0	1	0	0	173	34%
Errol	117	42	0	1	0	0	160	26%
Erving's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gorham	600	765	4	57	3	18	1447	53%
Green's Grant	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	67%
Hadley's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jefferson	342	153	12	20	0	7	534	31%
Kilkenny	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancaster	888	573	6	60	2	11	1540	38%
Low & Burbank's Gt.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martin's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milan	334	271	1	18	0	0	624	44%
Millsfield	8	1	0	1	0	0	10	10%
Northumberland	434	459	9	35	0	15	952	49%
Odell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pinkham's Grant	0	3	0	3	0	0	6	50%
Pittsburg	338	112	2	7	0	1	460	25%
Randolph	108	125	0	14	0	4	251	50%
Sargent's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Second College Gt.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shelburne	116	94	1	9	0	3	223	43%
Stark	147	103	2	2	0	1	255	41%
Stewartstown	194	107	0	12	0	2	315	34%
Stratford	124	122	0	10	0	3	259	47%
Success	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson & Mes's Pur.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wentworth's Loc.	9	7	0	0	0	1	17	41%
Whitefield	548	380	6	42	0	5	981	39%
TOTALS	7,329	6,570	69	463	11	133	14575	46%

Source:
http://www.nh.gov/sos/general2000/coospres.html


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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2003, 09:42:07 am »

Coos County State Representatives

PARTY	WIN%	VOTES	TURNOUT	TERMS	TOWN	DIST.#	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BORN	OCCUPATION
R+D	74%	1290	1746	1	Colebrook	01	King	Frederick	VT	County Administrator
R+D	78%	1365	1746	2	Columbia	01	Stohl	Eric	NH	Govt-St of NH, F&G Dept, Conservation Ofcr
R	45%	2404	5368	4	Whitefield	02	Tholl	John	MA	Govt-St of NH -St Police
R	48%	2558	5368	7	Lancaster	02	Pratt	Leighton	CT	County Agric. Agent
R	50%	2702	5368	13	Gorham	02	Guay	Lawrence	NH	Paper Mill
R	51%	2758	5368	1	Jefferson	02	Brady	Mark	DC	Consultant, business
R+D	55%	2961	5368	2	Lancaster	02	Richardson	Herbert	NH	Produce Mg.
D	45%	1971	4390	2	Berlin	03	Poulin	Richard	NH	Retailer, Real Estate
D	49%	2136	4390	6	Berlin	03	Mears	Edgar	DC	Millwright
R	51%	2241	4390	3	Milan	03	Woodward	David	CT	Property Assessor
D	56%	2449	4390	1	Berlin	03	Theberge	Robert	NH	Govt-City Manager

Detailed 2002 Election Results

Coos County State Representative District 1 (2 seats)

TOWN, LOCATION, OR GRANT	King (R&D)	Stohl (R&D)	Strong (L)	Scatter
Atk. & Gil. Ac. Grant	0	0	0
Cambridge	1	0	0
Clarksville	58	76	6
Colebrook	486	502	76	8
Columbia	138	162	18	1
Dix's Grant	0	0	0
Dixville	17	18	1
Dummer	105	68	11	1
Errol	97	84	6
Erving's Location	0	0	0
Millsfield	11	10	2
Odell	0	0	0
Pittsburg	227	283	22	1
Second College Grant	0	0	0
Stewartstown	143	155	32
Wentworth's Location	7	7	3
TOTALS	1290	1365	177	11

Coos County State Representative District 2 (5 seats)

TOWN, LOCATION, OR ETC.	Brady (R)	Guay (R)	Pratt (R)	Richardson (R&D)	Tholl (R)	Bradley (D)	Cormier (D)	Lander (D)	Woodruff (D)	Scatter
Bean's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carroll	203	182	157	204	180	117	156	86	96
Chandler's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Crawford's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dalton	176	145	188	161	230	89	112	67	69
Gorham	486	702	334	499	294	717	543	430	511	7
Green's Grant	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	1
Hadley's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jefferson	280	216	235	253	208	147	119	79	91
Kilkenny	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancaster	695	555	721	776	605	422	401	324	325	9
Low & Burbank's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martin's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northumberland	252	322	314	349	258	285	244	311	236
Pinkham's Grant	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1
Randolph	86	77	59	85	56	164	128	95	134
Sargent's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stark	89	88	93	88	73	60	53	61	47
Stratford	71	68	81	111	59	74	68	71	58	1
Thompson & Mes. Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whitefield	420	346	376	434	440	227	295	171	190
TOTALS	2758	2702	2558	2961	2404	2305	2121	1696	1759	17

Coos County State Representative District 3 (4 seats)

TOWN, OR CITY WARD	Morin (R)	Rozek (R)	Woodward (R)	Ingersoll (D)	Mears (D)	Poulin (D)	Theberge (D)	Scatter
Bean's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berlin Ward 1	408	383	404	348	435	426	541	1
Berlin Ward 2	407	382	474	323	452	438	539	4
Berlin Ward 3	513	497	576	380	590	488	626	2
Berlin Ward 4	290	303	337	297	423	387	477	4
Milan	200	201	332	117	171	155	175
Shelburne	90	86	118	64	65	77	91
Success	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTALS	1908	1852	2241	1529	2136	1971	2449	11


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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2003, 09:43:20 am »

Coos County Officers, General Election, November 5, 2002

Note that all but Sheriff and two County Commissioner seats were unopposed â€œracesâ€.

	Sheriff	Sheriff	Attorney	Treasurer	Register of Deeds	Register of Probate
TOWN, GRANT, ETC.	Tardif (R)	Ingersoll (D)	Morin (R&D)	Bisson (R&D)	Lamirande (D&R)	Peterson (R&D)
Atk. & Gilm. Ac. Gt.	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bean's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berlin Ward 1	603	273	803	805	758	749
Berlin Ward 2	681	239	800	817	775	774
Berlin Ward 3	758	306	965	992	915	914
Berlin Ward 4	510	251	691	689	663	650
Cambridge	1	1	1	1	1	1
Carroll	188	134	317	287	286	288
Chandler's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clarksville	61	22	72	71	73	70
Colebrook	421	179	544	544	544	547
Columbia	125	53	169	169	174	173
Crawford's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dalton	180	122	278	275	281	276
Dix's Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dixville	17	2	18	19	19	19
Dummer	96	34	121	123	112	119
Errol	102	20	113	107	104	106
Erving's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gorham	768	389	1044	1064	1035	1040
Green's Grant	0	1	3	3	3	3
Hadley's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jefferson	268	122	368	361	361	359
Kilkenny	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancaster	735	382	1018	1016	1039	1059
Low & Burbank's Gt.	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martin's Location	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milan	340	102	413	407	392	401
Millsfield	12	2	14	13	12	12
Northumberland	360	277	591	584	588	589
Odell	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pinkham's Grant	0	1	1	1	1	1
Pittsburg	240	20	282	278	278	281
Randolph	104	96	178	182	179	175
Sargent's Purchase	0	0	0	0	0	0
Second College Gt.	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shelburne	126	53	161	166	158	160
Stark	118	45	137	142	136	140
Stewartstown	125	55	173	167	170	166
Stratford	84	88	164	166	165	168
Success	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson & Mes's Pur.	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wentworth's Loc.	9	1	9	10	9	10
Whitefield	374	349	566	561	565	654
TOTALS	7406	3619	10014	10020	9796	9904

County Commissioner District 1 -- General Election in 2002

TOWN OR CITY	Donovan (R)	Grenier (D)
Berlin Ward 1	390	465
Berlin Ward 2	381	507
Berlin Ward 3	405	645
Berlin Ward 4	254	494
Shelburne	106	70
Success	0	0
TOTAL	1536	2181

County Commissioner Dist. No. 2, General Election Nov. 7, 2000

TOWN, GRANT, ETC.	Corrigan (R)	Miller (D)	Scatter
Bean's Grant	0	0	0
Bean's Purchase	0	0	0
Carroll	242	134	0
Chandler's Pur.	0	0	0
Crawford's Pur.	0	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0	0
Dalton	236	128	0
Gorham	489	928	1
Green's Grant	11	0	0
Hadley's Pur.	0	0	0
Jefferson	367	137	0
Kilkenny	0	0	0
Lancaster	987	484	0
Low & Burbank's Gt.	0	0	0
Martin's Location	0	0	0
Pinkham's Grant	0	0	0
Randolph	112	112	0
Sargent's Purchase	0	0	0
Shelburne	117	93	0
Whitefield	458	482	0
TOTALS	3,019	2,498	1

County Commissioner District 3 -- General Election in 2002
Note that this was an unopposed â€œraceâ€.

TOWN OR CITY	Judd (R)
Atk. & Gilm. Ac. Gt.	0
Cambridge	1
Clarksville	71
Colebrook	507
Columbia	155
Dix's Grant	0
Dixville	19
Dummer	109
Errol	108
Erving's Location	0
Milan	375
Millsfield	14
Northumberland	505
Odell	0
Pittsburg	278
Second College Gt.	0
Stark	125
Stewartstown	162
Stratford	125
Wentworth's Loc.	6
TOTALS	2560

Source:
http://www.nh.gov/sos/general2002/coos.htm
http://www.nh.gov/sos/general2000/cooscounty.html


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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2003, 09:47:17 am »

State Senate District 1, General Election, November 5, 2002

John Gallus, small business owner
Republican, 68%, 1 Senate term, 3 House terms, Berlin
Click on this link for his web page
Note that he wins Democrat Berlin, even though he is a Republican.

TOWN, WARD, GRANT, ETC.	Gallus (R)	Sorlucco (D)	Scatter
Albany	123	104
Atkinson and Gilmanton Ac. Gt.	0	0
Bartlett	784	483	1
Bean's Grant	0	0
Bean's Purchase	0	0
Berlin Ward 1	664	209
Berlin Ward 2	699	203
Berlin Ward 3	784	281
Berlin Ward 4	546	196	2
Bethlehem	441	390	4
Cambridge	1	0
Carroll	205	118
Chandler's Purchase	0	0
Clarksville	67	18
Colebrook	470	135	1
Columbia	133	48
Crawford's Purchase	0	0
Cutt's Grant	0	0
Dalton	223	88
Dix's Grant	0	0
Dixville	16	3
Dummer	100	30
Errol	108	14
Erving's Location	0	0
Franconia	278	235	1
Gorham	806	346	1
Green's Grant	2	1
Hadley's Purchase	0	0
Hale's Location	65	6
Hart's Location	13	8
Jackson	294	230	1
Jefferson	283	99	1
Kilkenny	0	0
Lancaster	775	337
Lincoln	327	163
Lisbon	273	133
Littleton	1292	619	8
Livermore	0	0
Low and Burbank's Grant	0	0
Lyman	105	62
Martin's Location	0	0
Milan	346	89
Millsfield	14	0
Northumberland	365	260
Odell	0	0
Pinkham's Grant	0	2
Pittsburg	239	62
Randolph	117	86
Sargent's Purchase	0	0
Second College Grant	0	0
Shelburne	119	57
Stark	114	41
Stewartstown 131	52	1
Stratford	100	78
Success	0	0
Sugar Hill	161	142	1
Thompson & Meserve's Purchase	0	0
Waterville Valley	83	53
Wentworth's Location	6	4
Whitefield	468	248
TOTALS	12140	5733	22


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Re: Coos County - Rural West in North NH

« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2005, 06:46:36 pm »

Hey Joe .....are you thinking of moving to Coos county?
I would have moved there if my cute wife hadn't already lived in Keene.


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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2005, 06:41:52 am »

BTW, Joe... Welcome back... Grin

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Re: Coos County - Rural West in North NH

« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2005, 09:12:05 am »

Quote from: Joe aka Solitar on July 14, 2005, 01:08:36 am

Quote from: Russell Kanning on March 28, 2005, 06:46:36 pm

Hey Joe .....are you thinking of moving to Coos county?
I would have moved there if my cute wife hadn't already lived in Keene.

Yes.Â But only if enough other libertarian types move there too.

Someone must lead them.


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Re: Coos County - Rural West in North NH

« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2005, 03:06:02 pm »

Anybody have any prices on land in Coos County? price per acre, or 100 acres or 1000 acres? thanks


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« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2005, 03:09:34 pm »

Joe, all of your posts on Coos County are leading me to consider that area.

Quote from: boxwoods on July 15, 2005, 03:06:02 pm

Anybody have any prices on land in Coos County? price per acre, or 100 acres or 1000 acres? thanks

Prices seem to vary quite a bit, but I've seen quite a few 5-10 acre lots in the $4000-$7000 per acre range.Â Larger parcels will be less of course.Â jnoyes may have the right idea with the White Mountain Land Club to bring that price per acre down a lot further.Â I like to use the NNEREN site to get an overview of the land available.Â It doesn't list everything available, but it provides links to the RE agents where you can find other parcels for sale.


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« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2005, 05:49:41 pm »

Thanks for info.

Anyone think along the lines of a new incorporated town in that area? ex; buy up 500 to 1000 acres and start a township, selling to FSP members or at least like minded persons.


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« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2005, 11:32:12 pm »

Here are the three Berlin-based realtors I check regularly:

http://www.gallusandgreen.com/

http://www.pcre.com

http://www.lizrealty.com

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Re: Coos County - Rural West in North NH

« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2005, 03:48:28 am »

If your looking for something inexpensive, and would like to get to know the area before buying a large lot, or expensive land, I would suggest buying a house in Berlin. I've worked there for the last couple of years, and I've found the people to be really nice. I can't believe how inexpensive the houses are. Yes there is the paper mill, and depending on where you buy in the city you may get the smell, but you do get used to it. The majority of the people have lived there most of their lives. They usually move out to go to college, and come back to raise their family.


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