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The Lear House is a historic house on Province Road in Goshen, New Hampshire. Built about 1810, it is one of the oldest of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the rural community. Its first owner, Robert Lear, was one of Goshen's first colonial settlers. [2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
One of the four original towns of New Hampshire. Revolutionary War capital of New Hampshire, and site of the ratification of the first state constitution in the North American colonies in January 1776. 1638: Hampton: New Hampshire: United States: Founded by Stephen Bachiler; first known as Winnicunnet. 1638: Sillery: Quebec: Canada [24] Now ...
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 ...
Permanent English settlement began after land grants were issued in 1622 to John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack and Sagadahoc rivers, roughly encompassing present-day New Hampshire and western Maine. Settlers, whose early leaders included David Thomson, Edward Hilton and his brother William Hilton, began ...
Peter Powers settlement marker. Captain Peter Powers (1707–1757), his wife Anna Keyes (1708–1798), and their two children Peter (1729–1800) and Stephen (born 1729) were the first settlers of Hollis, in 1731.
The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Mr. David Thomson, gent. David Thompson first settled at Odiorne's Point in Rye (near Portsmouth ) with a group of craftsmen and fishermen from England [ 8 ] in 1623, just three years after the ...
Density of distribution of listings in New Hampshire in January 2025. This is a directory of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire. There are more than 800 listed sites in New Hampshire. Each of the 10 counties in New Hampshire has at least 30 listings on the National Register.