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Home to Keene State College and Antioch University, Keene is a city in, and the seat of Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Settled sometime after 1736, it was intended to be a fort town protecting the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the French and Indian Wars. When New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts in 1741, it became part of New Hampshire. It was named for Sir Benjamin Keene, English minister to Spain and a West Indies trader.

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