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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]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
Thomas Leavitt arrived in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1635, [2] and a city record from the following year shows him assessed a fine. [3] Leavitt departed in 1639 for Exeter, Province of New Hampshire, where the Rev. John Wheelwright, a Puritan clergyman forced to flee England because of fears of persecution—and later forced to leave Massachusetts because of run-ins with ...
Englishmen first landed in New Hampshire to establish a fishing colony in 1623. ... Exeter and Hampton, these early settlements became a royal province in 1679, existing under the jurisdiction of ...
Density of distribution of listings in New Hampshire in December 2009. 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.
The Benjamin James House is a historic house museum at 186 Towle Farm Road in Hampton, New Hampshire.Built in 1723, it is believed to be the oldest surviving example in New Hampshire of the traditional five-bay Georgian Colonial house, with a possibly older building attached as an ell.
Hampton Beach is a village district, census-designated place, and beach resort in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, United States, along the Atlantic Ocean. Its population at the 2020 census was 2,598. [2] Hampton Beach is in Rockingham County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Portsmouth. The community is a popular tourist destination ...
Hampton, New Hampshire [ edit ] In 1638, Bachiler and others, including his son-in-law Christopher Hussey, successfully petitioned to begin a new plantation at Winnacunnet, to which he gave the name Hampton when the town was incorporated in 1639. [ 17 ]