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New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,000 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is the smallest and easternmost town in New Hampshire and the only one located entirely on islands.
Fort Stark is a former military fortification in New Castle, New Hampshire, United States. Located at Jerry's Point (also called Jaffrey's Point) on the southeastern tip of New Castle Island, most of the surviving fort was developed in the early 20th century, following the Spanish–American War , although there were several earlier ...
Dixville Notch State Park: Coös: Dixville: 127 acres (51 ha) Echo Lake State Park: Carroll: Conway: 118 acres (48 ha) Eisenhower Memorial Wayside Park: Coös: Crawford's Purchase: 7 acres (2.8 ha) 1979: Ellacoya State Park: Belknap: Gilford: 82 acres (33 ha) 1956: Forest Lake State Park: Coös: Dalton: 397 acres (161 ha) 1935: Franconia Notch ...
Fort William and Mary was a colonial-era fortification in Great Britain's worldwide system of defenses, defended by soldiers of the Province of New Hampshire who reported directly to the royal governor. The fort, originally known as "The Castle," was situated on the island of New Castle, New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River estuary.
Fort William and Mary by Wolfgang William Romer (1705). Fort Constitution in the 19th century. Battery Farnsworth, 8-inch disappearing gun emplacement, Fort Constitution. The first fort in the Portsmouth area was Fort William and Mary (called The Castle until circa 1692) in New Castle, [8] initially garrisoned before 1632 and perhaps the oldest continuously fortified site in the British ...
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In 1878, a new 48-foot (15 m) cast-iron, brick-lined lighthouse tower was erected on the same foundation as the 1804 tower. When the new tower was completed, the surrounding remains of the 1804 tower were removed. The current light is a fixed green signal that is visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).
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.