Rochester is a city in Strafford County

Strafford County, New Hampshire

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 112,233 people, 42,581 households, and 27,762 families residing in the county. The population density was 304 people per square mile . There were 45,539 housing units at an average density of 124 per square mile...

, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 29,752. The city includes the villages of East Rochester

East Rochester, New Hampshire

East Rochester is a district of the city of Rochester, New Hampshire, located on the banks of the Salmon Falls River, which separates Maine from New Hampshire...

 and Gonic. Rochester is home to Skyhaven Airport

Skyhaven Airport (New Hampshire)

Skyhaven Airport is a public-use airport located three miles southeast of the central business district of Rochester, a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The airport is owned and operated by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation's Bureau of Aeronautics, with fixed...

 and the annual Rochester Fair.
Rochester was once inhabited by Abenaki Indians

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 of the Pennacook

Pennacook

The Pennacook, also known by the names Merrimack and Pawtucket, were a North American people that primarily inhabited the Merrimack River valley of present-day New Hampshire and Massachusetts, as well as portions of southern Maine...

 tribe. They fished, hunted and farmed, moving locations when their agriculture exhausted the soil for growing pumpkins, squash

Squash (fruit)

Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita, also called marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker...

, beans and maize

Maize

Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...

.