Cornish Flat is an

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in the town of Cornish in

Sullivan County, New Hampshire Sullivan County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,063, making it the second-least populous county in New Hampshire. Its county seat is Newport. Sullivan County is included in the Cl ...

, United States. The village is located in the northeastern corner of Cornish, at the southern end of a valley floor which is bordered westerly by Cornish Stage Road, easterly by

New Hampshire Route 120 New Hampshire Route 120 is a secondary north–south state highway in Sullivan and Grafton counties in the upper Connecticut River Valley region of New Hampshire. Its southern terminus is at New Hampshire Route 11 and New Hampshire Route 103 in ...

, and whose northerly end is in the town of Plainfield. The headwaters of

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gather in a swampy lowland at the valley's north end formed by the confluence of Notch, Leavitt, Wine, and Penniman brooks entering the valley from the uplands of

Corbin Park Corbin Park (also known as the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve) is a private game preserve in New Hampshire. It contains land in Croydon, Cornish, Plainfield, and Grantham. It occupies somewhere between of land and was started in 1889 by ...

(a private game preserve) to the east and southeast, and by seasonal streams from the west side of the valley. Route 120 connects the village with Claremont to the south and Meriden and

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to the north. The village green has a life-size

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soldier statue elevated on a

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carved in granite with the names of Cornish

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dead. Adjacent are a

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memorial to World War I and granite

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s commemorating

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, the

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and

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. A

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eulogy and parade begin here, led by the local Boy Scout troop. The old meeting house on the green has a spire and mostly reliable clock, whose bell tolls hourly. Recent upgrades to the meeting house windows do not meet

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standards for historical preservation, but make the building more usable and energy efficient. The local industry includes Dingee Machine, which outfits and repairs fire trucks and equipment, situated next to the #2 Cornish Fire Station on Route 120. Other businesses include Cornish General Store and the Cornish Flat post office, as well as the family-owned GMC dairy farm, an Angus beef farm neighboring it with substantial feed corn acreage. The village has a separate ZIP code (03746) from the rest of the town of Cornish.

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