CLAREMONT, a town of Sullivan county, New Hampshire, U.S.A., in the western part of the State, on the Connecticut river, at the mouth of Sugar river; served by the Boston and Maine railroad. The area is 6 square miles. The population in 1920 was of whom 2,179 were foreign-born white ; and was 12,377 in 1930 by the Federal census. The falls of Sugar river (223ft. within the town limits) furnish power for large factories, making shoes, paper, cotton and woollen goods and mining and quarrying machinery. The first settlement here was made in 1762, and the town was organized in 1764. It was named after Lord Clive's country place.