West Lebanon, New Hampshire, is a small village (pop. approx 2,500) within the city of Lebanon on the Connecticut River. The village contains both a major regional shopping center serving the "Upper Valley" communities along Interstates 89 and 91 and hosts the Lebanon Municipal Airport, a number of small software and tech businesses, and a regional daily newspaper. The village also serves as a bedroom community for nearby Dartmouth College, and is known for its recreation areas, most notably Civic Memorial Field. The Connecticut River as seen from the French King Bridge in western Massachusetts The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through Western Massachusetts and central Connecticut into Long Island... Lebanon Municipal Airport (IATA: LEB, ICAO: KLEB) is the northernmost commercial airport in New Hampshire, located in West Lebanon, near the Vermont border. ... For other uses of the name Dartmouth, see Dartmouth Dartmouth College is a private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

West Lebanon was the site of Lebanon's first settlement in 1761. Later the village became a regionally important rail hub, although at that time it went by the name of Westboro. By the 1950s, however, the rail industry had shrunken significantly and the town of White River Junction, Vermont, across the river took most of the remaining services, and the rail service through West Lebanon was terminated. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... White River Junction is a census-designated place and village in the town of Hartford located in Windsor County, Vermont. ...

Today commerce has replaced transportation as the basis of the economy, and West Lebanon serves as the commercial hub for a United States micropolitan area second in population only to that of Torrington Connecticut. In 2003, the United States government, through the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget, recognized a new community classification called the micropolitan area. ...

External links

• Valley News article on West Lebanon 's shopping areas
• Lebanon Municipal Airport
• Summary of the micropolitan designation
• Official list of micros