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Greenland is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,067 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 3,549 at the 2010 census. It is drained by the Winnicut River and bounded on the northwest by Great Bay .
The Weeks House, also known as the Old Brick House, is a historic house museum on Weeks Avenue in Greenland, New Hampshire. Built about 1710, it is one of the oldest brick buildings in New England. It was built by an early colonial member of New Hampshire's politically prominent Weeks family, and is now maintained by a family association.
The following table is a partial list of properties in the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places. [3] [2] The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources is the agency responsible for overseeing the State Register, and other state historic preservation programs. All properties added to the State Register through July 2012 are ...
"The convention of delegates from 175 New Hampshire towns took place on June 21, 1788 in the Old North Meeting House which stood on this site from 1751 until destroyed by fire in 1870. The delegates approved the Federal Constitution by majority vote. New Hampshire, the ninth state to ratify this historic document, thereby assured its adoption ...
According to the Rye Historical Society, Samuel De Champlain first documented New Hampshire's islands, which were inhabited by Indigenous peoples, in 1605. Yet, the English did not settle the land ...
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts.
Founded in 1769, the school is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the Revolutionary War.
The U.S. state of New Hampshire has, since 1958, [1] placed historical markers at locations that are deemed significant to New Hampshire history. The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (DHR) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) are jointly responsible for the historical marker program. [ 2 ]