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Historic Houses
Abbott Store, Portsmouth, NH Fascinating WW2 era store reconstruction American Independence Museum, Exeter, NH A musuem about the Revolutionary War Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH Arestored village of a Shaker religious society Clark House Museum Complex , Wolfeboro, NH OPen summers with firehouse and school Daniel Webster House, Portsmouth, NH Webster's only surviving Portsmouth home Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH An experimental project created to orient, ediucate and entertain residents and visitors about the cultural riches of Portsmouth, NH Emerson-Wilcox House, York, ME Lovinly restored home shows two centuries of life in the Seacoast region Folsom Tavern, Exeter, NH Washington stopped here. Gen. Jonathan Moulton House, Hampton, NH A ghostly home featured in a Whittier poem Gilman Garrison, Exeter, NH A unique early garrison inside a colonial home Gov. John Wentworth Home, Portsmouth, NH Where NH's last Royal Governor lived Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth, NH Home of Portsmouth's most famous patriot, Constution signer and ship builder Haley House, Isles of Shoals, ME A restored 18th century home of Captn Sam Haley Hamilton House, South Berwick, ME A superbly restored 1785 mansion and grounds above the Salmon Falls river with formal garden History Center of Kennebunkport, Kennebunkport, ME Five buildings including jail cells, school, exhibits, shipwright house Jackson House, Portsmouth, NH NH's oldest surviving wooden frame house built in 1664 James House Museum, Hampton, NH A first period colonial currently being studied and open for open houses Jefferd's Tavern, York, ME A 1750 tavern welcomes visitors to Old York Historical tours and events John Parker Hale House, Dover, NH John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth, NH The Portsmouth Historical Society is a museum of stories and artifacts. Kennebunkport Walking Tour, Kennebunkport, ME One hour introduction to an historic village Moffatt-Ladd House, Portsmouth, NH Home of a NH signer of the Declaration Moses-Kent House, Exeter, NH Historic sculpture gardens outside a French empire mansion NH Farm Museum, Milton, NH A family farm with family events in rural NH Nott House, Kennebunkport, ME A greek Revival home in a wealthy New England seaport Old Parsonage, Newington, NH Recently restored old town treasure Old York Historical Society, York, ME Seven builgings in downtown York highlighting local history with events Rockingham Hotel, Portsmouth, NH Once Portsmouth's most elegant hotel owned by a "robber baron" Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, NH A modern house as it was in 1807 Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick, ME Home of the skilled author Sarah Orne Jewett Stoodley's Tavern, Portsmouth, NH Revolutionary tavern where Revere visited Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH Tour 400 years of history in NH's oldest neighborhood museum The Hill, Portsmouth, NH Only 14 houses of 200 survived urban renewal Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial, Portsmouth, NH The literary home of a very bad boy Tobias Lear House, Portsmouth, NH Home of the man who was George Washington's secretary 16 years Wadsworth-Longfellow House & Garden, Portland, ME Home of Maine's famous poet Walker's Point, Kennebunkport, ME Former Bush summer White House Warner House, Portsmouth, NH A rare 1716 brick ship owner's home with extraordinary painted murals Wedding Cake House, Kennebunk, ME The most photographed house in Maine Week's House, Greenland, NH 1710 brick house with bricks made on site by owners Wells Windmilll, Wells, ME The only surviving Seacoast windmill Wentworth Gardner House, Portsmouth, NH An architectural marvel and 1750 Georgian Mansion Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, NH The royal mansion of NH's British Gov. Benning Wentworth William Damm Garrison , Dover, NH Zimmerman House, Manchester, NH New Egnland's only public Frank Lloyd Wright house
Museums
Abbott Store, Portsmouth, NH Fascinating WW2 era store reconstruction Albacore Park, Portsmouth, NH Once the world's fastest sub and now a museum American Independence Museum, Exeter, NH A musuem about the Revolutionary War Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH Arestored village of a Shaker religious society Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, Concord, NH Planetirum dedicated to NH's teacher in space Clark House Museum Complex , Wolfeboro, NH OPen summers with firehouse and school Counting House Museum, South Berwick, ME Museum, resarch site and hsitorical society on the old mill Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH New Hampshire's art museum Fifth Marine Regiment Museum, Portland, ME Old Civil War vet lodge is island museum Folsom Tavern, Exeter, NH Washington stopped here. Historical Society of Wells & Ogunquit, Wells, ME A church full of history History Center of Kennebunkport, Kennebunkport, ME Five buildings including jail cells, school, exhibits, shipwright house John Parker Hale House, Dover, NH John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth, NH The Portsmouth Historical Society is a museum of stories and artifacts. John York Cider Mill, Milton, NH In the olden days every down had a cider mill or two. Kittery Historical and Naval Museum, Kittery, ME A compact museum near Kittery Mall filled with fascinating local artifacts Millyard Museum, Manchester, NH 1,000 years of Manchester history Museum of Lighthouse History, Wells, ME Dedicated to the history of saving lives at sea Museum of New Hampshire History, Concord, NH NH's history museum Newmarket Engine House, Newmarket, NH Restored 1853 firehouse in progress Newmarket Historical Society, Newmarket, NH A grandmother's attic of artifacts from the history of a seacoast mill town NH Boat Museum, Wolfeboro, NH It's a boat time NH Farm Museum, Milton, NH A family farm with family events in rural NH Old Gaol, York, ME A super cool tour of an authentic 1700s jail with museum Old Parsonage, Newington, NH Recently restored old town treasure Peace Treaty Room, Kittery, ME A small memorial museum to the 1905 Russo-Japanese War at the Naval Shipyard Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, Kittery, ME 200 years of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard history Rochester Historical Society, Rochester, NH Free museum open twice weekly for largest SeacoastNH city Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, ME The oldest and biggest trolley museum Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH Tour 400 years of history in NH's oldest neighborhood museum Thaxter Museum at Vaughan Cottage, Isles of Shoals, NH A charming small museum to Celia Thaxter in a stone building on Star Island Tuck Memorial Museum, Hampton, NH A small museum of Hampton History and rock garden Wells Auto Museum, Wells, ME 80 classoc anituqe cars and more William Damm Garrison , Dover, NH Woodman Institute, Dover, NH Wright Museum, Wolfeboro, NH Bob Dole says this is a unique American museum
Historic Sites
Brackett Lane Massacre Site, Rye, NH Site of a 1690s attack by Native Americans Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, ME SUMMER Restored garden on Appledore Island David Thomson Monument, Rye, NH Tiny memorial to the founding site of New Hampshire Downtown Kensington, Kensington, NH An old fashioned rural town center for a scenic Sunday drive Durham Town Pound, Durham, NH A cool example of a colonial town animal pen Enoch Poor Marker, Exeter, NH Washington's favorite general was from Exeter Exeter Bandstand, Exeter, NH Open air brass band concerts since the 19th century Exeter Historic District, Exeter, NH NH's Revolutionary Capital and scenic historical walking town Exeter Powder House, Exeter, NH A restored powder house used in the War of 1812 Exeter Revolutionary War Festival, Exeter, NH JULY -- See how the lived in the days of the Revolution First Parish Church Site, Dover, NH 1654 church location Flo's Famous Hotdogs, Cape Neddick, ME A hotdog stand that locals call "historic" Fort Constitution, New Castle, NH Site of one of the first acts of American agression against the British in 1774 Frisbee's Store, Kittery, ME Run by the Frisbee Family since 1828 Fuller Gardens, North Hampton, NH Former Fuller estate is now a nonprofit dummer garden display Garrison Hill Park and Tower, Dover, NH George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME An mid-1800s store converted to a modern art gallery Gosport Chapel, Isles of Shoals, NH A 200-year old stone chapel on Star Island still in use Gundalow Company, Portsmouth, NH A reconstructed barge once popular on the Piscataqua River basin Hackmatack Playhouse, Berwick, ME Over 30 dramatic seasons in rural Maine Historic Newmarket Mills, Newmarket, NH A mill town in the midst of a rebirth Historic Salmon Falls, Rollinsford, NH An indistrial town lost in time Ioka Theater, Exeter, NH Enhance movie going in an historic cinema John Hancock Wharf & Warehouse, York, ME A very early warehouse along the scenic York River Kittery Town Forest Trails, Kittery, ME Nice woodsy walk near the hectic outlet malls Laudholm Farm, Wells, ME Explore the estuarin ecology at this 250 year old salt marsh farm Liberty Pole, Portsmouth, NH A surviving memory of the British Stamp Tax Lunging Island, Isles of Shoals, NH Small private isle among the Isles of Shoals Market Square, Portsmouth, NH The hub of historic Portsmouth Maud Muller Spring, York, ME The spring that inspired a poem Music Hall in Portsmouth, Portsmouth, NH Boston-quality performaces in a restored 19th century theater Negro Burying Ground, Portsmouth, NH Recently discovered coffins indicate historical Black cemetery Newmarket Engine House, Newmarket, NH Restored 1853 firehouse in progress NH State Capitol, Concord, NH Tour the site of the largest democratic house North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH An historic Revolutionary War cemetery in the heart of town Odiorne Point State Park , Rye, NH State park with science center, history, hiking abd bike paths Old Gaol, York, ME A super cool tour of an authentic 1700s jail with museum Old Schoolhouse, York, ME An in tact one-room schoolhouse from 1745 Oldest Maine Farm Stand, Wells, ME The Littlefield family farmland for over 350 years Peace Treaty Room, Kittery, ME A small memorial museum to the 1905 Russo-Japanese War at the Naval Shipyard Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH A top American private school founded in 1782 Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, NH An early private library now with public access and exhibits Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Portsmouth, NH A self-guided tour of local African American heritage Portsmouth Harbor Light, New Castle, NH New Hampshire's online mainland lighthouse Portsmouth Harbour Trail, Portsmouth, NH Self-guided downtown tour with 70 historic sites Portsmouth Naval Prison, Kittery, ME Now closed, for 66 years the most feared US naval prison Portsmouth South End, Portsmouth, NH A scenic quiet neighborhood in an old fishing town Rochester Opera House!, Rochester, NH Rochester's arts center is located in a unique 1908 theater inside City Hall Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH The ultimate kid place in the Seacoast Seacoast Trolley, Portsmouth, NH A one-hour 17-mile introduction to piscuresque, historic Seacaost, NH Smuttynose Island, Isles of Shoals, ME Private island, site of the 1873 ax murders in Weight of Water South Church, Portsmouth, NH An historic stone church built in 1826 Stoodley's Tavern, Portsmouth, NH Revolutionary tavern where Revere visited The History Store, Greenland, NH One-stop shopping for the history lover Two-Mile Streak, Barrington, NH Portsmouth settlers move West Wentworth by the Sea Hotel, New Castle, NH 130 year old grand hotel reopening this year Wood Island Lifesaving Station, Kittery, ME An endangered historic site off Kittery
Forts
Battery Farnsworth, New Castle, NH Built for the Spanish American War and a ruin ever since Fort Constitution, New Castle, NH Site of one of the first acts of American agression against the British in 1774 Fort Dearborn, Rye, NH The ruins of a World War 2 gun battery at Odiorne State Park on the Atlantic Fort Foster Park, Kittery, ME Unique scenic park build around ruinted 20th century fortifications Fort McClary, Kittery, ME A superb 19th century hexagonal fort with sceniv views Gilman Garrison, Exeter, NH A unique early garrison inside a colonial home Portsmouth Naval Prison, Kittery, ME Now closed, for 66 years the most feared US naval prison Walbach Tower, New Castle, NH An 1814 tower never used in defense against the British William Damm Garrison , Dover, NH World War II Tower, Isles of Shoals, ME A defunct WW2 observatoin tower WW2 Tower Houses, Rye, NH Old towers make great oceanfront homes
Monuments
Albacore Memorial Garden, Portsmouth, NH memorial to lost Piscatqua mariners and submariners Berwick Civil War Monument, Berwick, ME Dedicated to Berwick veterans Civil War Memorial, South Berwick, ME memorial to those lost from the Berwick area Civil War Monument, York, ME A generic unknown figure in the town square David Hamilton, Rollinsford, NH Site of 17th cetnury Scottish settler homestead David Thomson Monument, Rye, NH Tiny memorial to the founding site of New Hampshire Fisherman's Memorial, York, ME For Seaocast fishermen lost at sea Fitz-John Porter Monument, Portsmouth, NH Monument to a court marshalled Civil War general from Portsmouth Founder's Park, Hampton, NH A circle of stones in a green celebrating Hampton's 1638 founding Gen. John Sullivan Monument, Durham, NH A controversial NH Rev. war General honored Gen. William Whipple Monument, Portsmouth, NH To a NH man who signed the Declaration John Smith Monument, Isles of Shoals, NH He named New England in 11614 Kensington Social Library & Memorial, Kensington, NH A unique small library and WW I monumnet Korean War Monument, York, ME Modern memorial to recent war Liberty Pole, Portsmouth, NH A surviving memory of the British Stamp Tax Maud Muller Spring, York, ME The spring that inspired a poem Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, NH An endangered 1923 lift bridge over the Piscataqua Neil R. Underwood Jr. Memorial Bridge, Hampton, NH Once reportedly the longest wooden bridge in the world NH Marine Memorial, Hampton, NH A poignant memorial to lost sailors be a noted woman sculptor Oldest Town Forest in the USA, Newington, NH The first town buildigs were created from this forest Ranger Monument, Kittery, ME A monumnet to John Paul Jones ship Ranger launched from Badger's Island in 1777 Raymond Civil War Memorial, Raymond, NH Single standing soldier statue Rev. Amos Main Monument, Rochester, NH Rochester's first settled minister still guards over the Lilac City Rev. Tucke Memorial, Isles of Shoals, NH A tall granite memorial to an early Star Island missionary Rochester Soldier's Memorial, Rochester, NH Dedicated to Rochester Civil War veterans Sacrifices of War Memorial, Kittery, ME A powerful WWI sculpture that was considered an anti-war statement Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Portsmouth, NH A renovated Civil War monument in the newly redeisgned Goodwin Park St. Aspinquid Memorial, York, ME A non-Native memorial to a Christianized Native American atop Mt. Agamenticus Stage Coach Stone, Portsmouth, NH The spot where the stage coach stopped (or close to it) USS Squalus Memorial, Kittery, ME A military memorial to the only successful submarine rescue Viking Rock (Thorvald's Grave), Hampton, NH Sorry, this one is a hoax, but it was long believed to he Thorvald the Viking's tomb Wiggly Bridge, York, ME A 1930s suspension bridge leading to a protected wooded area WW I Memorial in Gale Park, Exeter, NH Daniel Chester French statue, the man who created the Minuteman
Research Archives
Counting House Museum, South Berwick, ME Museum, resarch site and hsitorical society on the old mill Exeter Historical Society, Exeter, NH Preserving Exeter's heritage Historical Society of Wells & Ogunquit, Wells, ME A church full of history History Center of Kennebunkport, Kennebunkport, ME Five buildings including jail cells, school, exhibits, shipwright house Old York Historical Society, York, ME Seven builgings in downtown York highlighting local history with events Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, NH An early private library now with public access and exhibits Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, Kittery, ME 200 years of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard history The History Store, Greenland, NH One-stop shopping for the history lover
Lighthouses
Boon Island Lighthouse, York, ME A tall offshore lighthouse on a barren island best seen by boat Goat Island Lighthouse, Cape Porpoise, ME An island light house visible from the harbor Jeremy's Lighthouse Guide, Seacoast, NH A new lighthouse every week Museum of Lighthouse History, Wells, ME Dedicated to the history of saving lives at sea Nubble Light and Shoier Park, York, ME The highly photographed Cape Neddick light on a rocky offshore island at York Portsmouth Harbor Light, New Castle, NH New Hampshire's online mainland lighthouse Whaleback LIghthouse, Kittery, ME This 1872 lighthouse is centered in the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth Harbor White Island Lighthouse, Isles of Shoals, NH An endangered landmark and NH's only offshore lighthouse.
Historical Societies
Barrington Historical Society, Barrington, NH Housed in an 1899 school building Counting House Museum, South Berwick, ME Museum, resarch site and hsitorical society on the old mill Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH An experimental project created to orient, ediucate and entertain residents and visitors about the cultural riches of Portsmouth, NH Durham Historic Assoc, Durham, NH Est. 1851 in the curved brick building Epping Historical Society, Epping, NH First NH town founded by land grant Exeter Historical Society, Exeter, NH Preserving Exeter's heritage Historical Society of Wells & Ogunquit, Wells, ME A church full of history History Center of Kennebunkport, Kennebunkport, ME Five buildings including jail cells, school, exhibits, shipwright house John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth, NH The Portsmouth Historical Society is a museum of stories and artifacts. Newmarket Historical Society, Newmarket, NH A grandmother's attic of artifacts from the history of a seacoast mill town Old Kensington Schoolhouse, Kensington, NH One-room brick school house in historic Kensington Old York Historical Society, York, ME Seven builgings in downtown York highlighting local history with events Raymond HIstorical Society, Raymond, NH Downtown Raymond, just follow the tracks Rochester Historical Society, Rochester, NH Free museum open twice weekly for largest SeacoastNH city Stratham Historical Society, Stratham, NH Now open in the former town library building Summersworth Historical Society, Somersworth, NH History of a former textile mill river town Tuck Memorial Museum, Hampton, NH A small museum of Hampton History and rock garden