Pembroke is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.

Pembroke's early history is reflected in the various mills of the downtown area, located to use water power from the Suncook River.

Pembroke industries included brickmaking, with bricks manufactured from clay along the Merrimack River.

[1] Pembroke is drained by the Merrimack River and its tributaries, the Suncook and the Soucook.

The highest point in town, Plausawa Hill, elevation 1,000 feet (305 m) above sea level, is in the north.

The school today is public and takes students from Pembroke and from the neighboring towns of Allenstown, Epsom, Chichester, and historically, Deerfield.

An innovative law of 1891 required the state to assist towns that voted to establish a tax-supported, free public library.

To get the local library established, the state gave such towns $100 worth of books and professional guidance in librarianship.

In 1895, the legislature passed a law, the first of its kind in the nation, requiring each town to appropriate funds to establish a public library and to appoint a board of library trustees unless the electorate voted each year specifically not to do so.