Henniker is a residential town located along the beautiful, meandering Contoocook River. In the settlement of the land dispute between New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1740, Henniker was allotted township number 6 in the lines of towns between the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers. In the Charter of 1768, Governor Wentworth named the town of Henniker in honor of his friend, John Henniker, Esq., a wealthy London merchant of leather and furs.
Today Henniker is a friendly, rural community that is a wonderful place in which to live, work and play. It is the home of New England College, founded in 1946, of Pat's Peak Ski Area, opened in 1963, and a wide variety of other recreational and educational opportunities, plus a full array of community service organizations and businesses. This is small-town America at its best.
