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Rochester is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 28,461, the largest in the seacoast region. It includes the villages of East Rochester and Gonic (many households of which were reported to have been missed during the last census). Called "the Lilac City," Rochester is home to Skyhaven Airport and the annual Rochester Fair.

Rochester was once inhabited by Abenaki Indians of the Pennacook tribe. They fished, hunted and farmed, moving locations when their agriculture exhausted the soil for growing pumpkins, squash, beans and maize. Gonic was called "Squamanogonic," meaning "the water of the clay place hill."