7.1% of families and 11.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over. Education Hillsborough is part of School Administrative Unit (SAU) 34. Public schools serving the community of Hillsboro include: Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School Hillsboro-Deering Middle School Hillsboro-Deering High School Sites of interest Contoocook Mills Industrial District DAR Museum Room, in the Fuller Public Library Five Stone Arch Bridges Franklin Pierce Homestead (1804) Railroad Bridge (1903–1985) Union Chapel (1887) Notable people Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1922), soldier, diplomat, newspaperman, author, forester David Bailey, abolitionist in Abraham Lincoln legal case Cromwell vs. Bailey and militia officer in the Black Hawk War (1832) Wilson Bethel (born 1984), actor James Frankland Briggs (1827–1905), politician Benjamin Pierce Cheney (1815–1895), a founder of American Express James Hill (1825–1897), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate Benjamin Franklin Keith (1846–1914), vaudeville theater owner Timothy G. O'Connell (1868–1955), architect Benjamin Pierce (1757–1839), governor of New Hampshire and father of President Franklin Pierce Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1790–1850), United States Army officer, son of Benjamin Pierce, brother of Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th President of the United States John Butler Smith (1838–1914), manufacturer, 44th governor of New Hampshire Gertrude Bass Warner (1863–1951), art collector, pioneer of museum studies References External links Greater Hillsborough Area Chamber of Commerce Fuller Public Library New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile Towns in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Populated places established in 1772 Towns in New Hampshire