The East Jaffrey Historic District is a historic district

Historic district

A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries, historic districts receive legal protection from development....

 running roughly along NH Route 124

New Hampshire Route 124

New Hampshire Route 124 is a long east–west highway in southern New Hampshire. It runs from Marlborough to the Massachusetts border....

 (Main Street) through Jaffrey, New Hampshire

Jaffrey, New Hampshire

Jaffrey is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,457 at the 2010 census.The primary settlement in town, where 2,757 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Jaffrey census-designated place and is located along the Contoocook River at the...

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 2002.

Nomenclature

There is no longer an "East Jaffrey". There are two business centers within Jaffrey, called "Jaffrey" and "Jaffrey Center". Jaffrey, the location of the East Jaffrey Historic District, lies to the east of Jaffrey Center, which has its own historic district, the Jaffrey Center Historic District. An "East Jaffrey" post office once existed, but a 1959 decision by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names

United States Board on Geographic Names

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established that the name of the eastern village had become simply "Jaffrey".