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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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In 1713 a new meetinghouse was built at "Pine Hill", where Dover's center is now located, and services were halted at this location around 1720. The building was demolished later in the 18th century and the site abandoned, but its location remained well known, and was documented in local histories.
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.
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 ...
One of the finest early-Georgian brick houses in New England: Newington Meeting House Newington: 1717 Oldest church building in New Hampshire James House Hampton 1723 First period house, dated by dendrochronology [6] Jaquith House (Farley Garrison House) Gilmanton: c.1725 [7] Building was moved to NH from Billerica, Massachusetts, in 2010. Once ...