The ELMM Community Center offers sports and recreation for people of all ages.
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21 Durkee Street
Wi******er, NH
03470
| Monday | 10am - 2pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 2pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 2pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 2pm |
| Friday | 10am - 2pm |
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80 YEARS OF COMMUNITY IN WI******ER, NH Governor Francis Parnell Murphy's community center in Wi******er, New Hampshire lives on, honoring the sacrifices of his late mother, Ellen Lambert Murphy.
Born in Wi******er in 1877 to a poor Irish family, Francis would walk by the Alexander farm on his way to school from their rocky farm on Manning Hill Road and dream of owning it one day. 60 years later, he purchased the 29 acre farm and invested almost half a million dollars of today's money to transform the 11-room house and barn into a community center as a gift to the people of Wi******er. A self-made millionaire, found of WMUR radio and tv, and co-founder of the Thom McAn shoe company, then Governor Murphy envisioned the E.L.M.M.C.C. as a place for the community to come together.
From its opening in 1938 until his death, the town would throw a birthday celebration weekend for Governor Murphy called, "Murphy Days" as a way of showing appreciation. In return, each year he would unveil something new: from a bowling alley in 1941 to a rifle range in 1949.
Labor unions met there in the 1920s, and Wi******er women made bandages for the war effort in the 1940s. The boy scouts and girl scouts began meeting in the center in the 1970s and the Wi******er Star had offices there in the 1980s. And many Wi******er residents are part of the bowling leagues that use the center’s vintage four-lane candle pin bowling alley, which was built in the late 1940s.
