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The Atlantic Heights Development is a historic company-built worker subdivision in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Bounded by I-95, the Piscataqua River, and the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad, this small neighborhood was built in 1918–1920 to meet housing demand for workers at the Atlantic Company Shipyard, located just to the south, and served as a prototype for later residential ...
Portsmouth was established as a town with a royal charter on 2 May 1194. [8] [9] The city is home to the first drydock ever built. It was constructed by Henry VII in 1496. [10] Portsmouth has the world's oldest dry dock, "The Great Stone Dock"; originally built in 1698, rebuilt in 1769 and presently known as "No.5 Dock". [11]
The original buildings were of red brick construction, [3] and the site was in a largely rural area, linked to Portsmouth and the surrounding villages (now suburbs) by a tram service. [3] The demilitarisation of the hospital began in 1926 when it was handed to the Ministry of Pensions, to care for disabled ex-servicemen. [3]
The Governor John Langdon House, also known as Governor John Langdon Mansion, is a historic mansion house at 143 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It was built in 1784 by Founding Father John Langdon (1741-1819), a merchant, shipbuilder, American Revolutionary War general, signer of the United States Constitution ...
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The Portsea area was formerly an expanse of common land located between the original walled town of Portsmouth and the nearby dockyard. The Common, as it was named, began developing as a new settlement at the end of the 17th century as a response to overcrowding within the walls of the old town of Portsmouth. This development worried the ...
The area was incorporated into the city of Portsmouth in 1920. Towards the end of World War II it became clear that to the City Council that a massive programme of house building was needed to replace those homes destroyed by bombing. As part of this programme, land in Paulsgrove was purchased and building began in 1945.