East Kingston

Web site: http://www.eastkingston.org/

Population: 1,352 (1990); 1,784 (2000); 2,306 (2006)

Overview
This township started as a portion of Kingston called Kingston East Parish. Residents of the parish petitioned Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts for a separate charter, because its location was too distant from the Kingston school and place of worship and they wished to establish their own. Their petition was granted in 1738. Sandown and Danville were also separated from the original Kingston settlement. The location of the boundary line between Kingston and East Kingston was under dispute for a long time thereafter.

Geography
Region: Seacoast
County: Rockingham
Distance from:
o Manchester, NH: 25 miles
o Boston, MA: 30 miles
o New York, NY: 238 miles
o Montreal, Quebec: 314 miles

Town Hall
East Kingston Town Clerk
24 Depot Rd
East Kingston, NH 03827
(603) 642-8794

Municipal Information
Government: Town Meeting
Planning Board: Appointed
Police Department: 1 full time
Fire Department: Not full time
Nearest Hospital: Exeter in Exeter (7 miles)

Election Districts
State House District: 81
State Senate District: 23
Executive Council District: 3
U.S. Congress House of Representatives District: 1

Schools
Exeter Regional Cooperative School District
http://www.sau16.org/

East Kingston Elementary School
5 Andrews Lane
East Kingston, NH 03827
(603) 642-3511
http://eks.sau16.org/

Services
East Kingston Fire Department
5 Main St
East Kingston, NH 03827
(603) 642-3141

East Kingston Town Library
41 Depot Rd
East Kingston, NH 03827
(603) 642-8333

Utilities
Electric: Exeter and Hampton Electric
Gas: Granite State
Water Supplier: Private wells
Sanitation: Private septic
Curbside Trash Pickup: Yes
Telephone: Verizon
Cable television service: Yes