West Lebanon, New Hampshire

For other places with a similar name, see Lebanon (disambiguation).

West Lebanon, New Hampshire, is a small village (pop. approx 2,500) within the city of Lebanon on the Connecticut River. The village contains both a major regional shopping center serving the "Upper Valley" communities along Interstates 89 and 91 and hosts the Lebanon Municipal Airport, a number of small software and tech businesses, and a regional daily newspaper. The village also serves as a bedroom community for nearby Dartmouth College, and is known for its recreation areas, most notably Civic Memorial Field.

West Lebanon was the site of Lebanon's first settlement in 1761. Later the village became a regionally important rail hub, although at that time it was better known to rail travelers as Westboro. By the 1950s, however, the rail industry had shrunk significantly. The village of White River Junction, Vermont, across the Connecticut River, took most of the remaining services, and the rail service through West Lebanon was terminated.

Today commerce has replaced transportation as the basis of the economy, and West Lebanon serves as the commercial hub for a United States micropolitan area of over 170,000 people.

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