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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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