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Hampton Falls was considered one of the leading manufacturing towns in the entire state of New Hampshire around the time of 1770. [5] A plan to unite Seabrook and portions of Hampton Falls was proposed in 1782. The town would have been called "New Hampton Falls", but Hampton Falls was successful in making the proposal fail.
Hampton, Exeter, Dover, and Portsmouth were governed at two levels, town and province/colony, until 1769, when New Hampshire was itself divided into counties, so that Norfolk ceased to exist. The former Norfolk County is often referred to as "Old Norfolk County."
The Gov. Meshech Weare House is a historic house on Exeter Road (New Hampshire Route 88) in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. It was built in 1723, and is notable as the home of Meshech Weare, the first Governor of New Hampshire after it declared independence from the British crown. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Location of Hampton in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampton, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
According to city directories, Frank Darling, a member of his father's oyster firm, president of the streetcar company, vice-president of the Hampton Bank, trustee of the Hampton Institute, founder of the Hampton Fire Department and Dixie Hospital, was the first resident in the area, building his house at 4403 Victoria Boulevard around 1895.
Also among Hampton's earliest settlers was Thomas Leavitt, who previously had been among the first settlers at Exeter. His descendant Thomas Leavitt, Esq., lived in Hampton Falls, and was the leading Democratic politician in southern New Hampshire for many years. [8] He made a noted early survey and plan of the town of Hampton in 1806. [9]
1871 – Hampton Institute Press was founded. [10] 1872 – Hampton Institute's Southern Workman journal began publication. [10] 1875 – Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute. [8] 1876 Hampton Monitor newspaper began publication. [11] County courthouse was built. [6] 1878 – Little England Chapel was built. [12] 1882 ...
It flows east into the town of Hampton Falls and follows a winding course north, then east, then southeast through the rolling lowlands of the region, reaching tidewater at a dam and fish ladder where Interstate 95 crosses the river. For the lower four miles of the river, it forms the boundary between Hampton Falls and Hampton, New Hampshire ...