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Exeter, NH

On March 3, 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered his final of four speeches in New Hampshire at Exeter Town Hall.

Salem, NH

Around 1900, this area was settled by Armenian immigrants fleeing massacres and religious persecution in their homeland.

Rye, NH

The receiving station for the first Atlantic Cable, laid in 1874, is located on Old Beach Road opposite this location.

Hampton, NH

This rock, originally in the middle of the Hampton River, indicated the start of the boundary line surveyed by Capt. Nicholas Shapley and...

North Hampton, NH

On the hillside to be seen to the north of this location a band of marauding Indians and their captives were found eating their breakfast...

Exeter, NH

Born in Andover, Mass.

Raymond, NH

In 1930, while living in Raymond, Frank J. Mafera patented a method of forming wire fence fabric that was appealing for residential use...

Chester, NH

This graveyard, one of the oldest in the state, was purchased by Col. John Blunt for 70 pounds in 1751.

Fremont, NH

In 1928, the Exeter News-Letter printed an eye-witness account of Fremont's July 4, 1861 Civil War riot, written by 77-year-old Alden F....

Fremont, NH

Marker 277 has been installed!

Brentwood, NH

In 1941 NH constructed a concrete rigid-frame bridge to carry NH Route 125 over the Exeter River.

Deerfield, NH

The village located to the east was settled circa 1740 on the early postal route between Concord and Portsmouth.

Chester, NH

Isaac Blasdel, 1738-1791, son and father of clockmakers, settled in Chester in 1762 and commenced manufacturing one-day, striking, wall...

Candia, NH

East Candia was a dense neighborhood of workers' housing developed around the local shoe industry in the 1850s, exemplifying a late-19c.

Exeter, NH

The historic Town House of Exeter stood near this site.

Deerfield, NH

Deerfield's first house of worship was erected near this spot in 1770 by the Baptists.

Northwood, NH

Extending 36 miles from Piscataqua Bridge in Durham to the Merrimack River in East Concord, this highway was originally a toll road.

Hampton, NH

In New Hampshire, supported by taxation, the first public school opened in Hampton on May 31, 1649.

Derry, NH

Rogers' Ranger and Revolutionary hero, served at Bunker Hill and in Washington's New Jersey campaign of 1776-77, and commanded the...

Hampton Falls, NH

On his way to Portsmouth after entering New Hampshire on Saturday, October 31, 1789, President Washington accompanied by a splendid...

Danville, NH

Erected prior to June 12, 1775, this is New Hampshire's oldest meeting house in original condition.

Newmarket, NH

N.H.'s most successful jockey of the 20th century, Wajda,, pronounced as .

Newfields, NH

After establishing a fishing settlement in what is now called Dover Point, Edward Hilton, Sr. (1569–1671) settled in the 'New fields'...

Rye, NH

About six miles offshore, these nine rocky islands served Europeans as a fishing station before the first mainland settlements were made...

Fremont, NH

Around 1845 John Brown of Poplin, now Fremont, built this gun shop, and with sons Andrew & Freeman spent 62 years producing fine target...

Portsmouth, NH

John Langdon, merchant and statesman, was born June 26, 1741, on this farm which was first settled by the Langdon family about 1650.

Kingston, NH

Distinguished participant in the founding of the Republic as signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation, and...

Northwood, NH

Upon invitation of President Monroe, issued at the request of Congress, Marquis de LaFayette, Revolutionary War hero, revisited the...

Exeter, NH

Built about 1721 as one of New Hampshire's earliest brick houses, and enlarged and clapboarded in the 1750s, this dwelling served as the...

Londonderry, NH

Stray farm animals were confined here by elected pounders or reeves until ransomed by their owners.

Salem, NH

Incorporated in 1804, this major highway completed the link between Concord, NH and Boston, MA, improving transportation of goods and...

Deerfield, NH

Born in Deerfield and buried in Old Center Cemetery on road west, he gained fame by the unauthorized firing of the first shot at Bunker...

Fremont, NH

Local timbermen illegally cut Mast Trees reserved for the King's Royal Navy.

Salem, NH

Four miles east on Route 111 is a privately owned complex of strange stone structures bearing similarities to early stone work found in...

Newington, NH

Boundary disputes among the early river settlers caused this area to be called Bloody Point.

Portsmouth, NH

The Town of Portsmouth purchased this land in 1753 for 150 pounds from Col. John Hart, commander of the N.H. Regiment at Louisburg.

Raymond, NH

Two miles north of Route 156 (one mile ahead) is Nottingham, home of Revolutionary War patriots, Generals Thomas Bartlett, Henry Butler,...

Nottingham, NH

The Town of Nottingham was created by a Royal Charter in 1722.

Rye, NH

This seaside place is located on N'dakinna, the traditional homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook, and Wabanaki Peoples past and present.

Hampton, NH

This was the first roadway from the ancient landing on Hampton River taken on October 14, 1638, by Rev. Stephen Bachiler and his small...

Deerfield, NH

28 Civilian Conservation Corps camps were established in NH under FDR's New Deal to provide jobs and training to young men during the...

Derry, NH

Incorporated in 1814, Pinkerton Academy is the state's largest independent high school and is one of the oldest.

Portsmouth, NH

In the pre-dawn hours of June 26, 1696, Indians attacked the settlement here.

Exeter, NH

Founded by Rev. John Wheelwright in 1638, Exeter was one of the four original towns in the colony.

Brentwood, NH

Brentwood's meetinghouse could not hold the nearly 2,000 Federalists who gathered for the Friends of Peace rally here on August 5, 1812.

Candia, NH

Candia is the birthplace of the well known poet, journalist and publisher, Sam Walter Foss.

Derry, NH

In April 1719, sixteen Presbyterian Scotch-Irish families settled here in two rows of cabins along West Running Brook easterly of Beaver...

Seabrook, NH

Based on the 1640 southern boundary of Bachiler's farm, it was surveyed by Capt. Nicholas Shapley in 1657, dividing the Province of New...

Fremont, NH

The Cooperage was founded here in 1874 by Jonas Spaulding, Jr. After his death in 1900, his sons, two of whom became New Hampshire...

Portsmouth, NH

Since the first shipbuilders and their families moved into the homes built here between 1918-1920, Atlantic Heights has maintained a...

Hampstead, NH

Donated in 1809 by Mr. Thomas Huse, this bell is likely from Paul Revere Jr.'s foundry.

Portsmouth, NH

The Bypass was part of a major New Deal project to move U.S. Route 1 traffic away from the congested streets of downtown Portsmouth.

Danville, NH

This small building, built ca.

Greenland, NH

Leonard Weeks settled here in 1658 on 33 acres of land which he left to his son Samuel, who built the house about 1710.

Portsmouth, NH

At the end of Little Harbor Road is the farm of Royal Governor Benning Wentworth (1696-1770).

New Castle, NH

Dec. 14–15, 1774, several hundred men overpowered the small British garrison at Castle William & Mary, now Fort Constitution, New Castle,...