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Cemeteries Famous Souls	Monuments Lost and Gone
Cemeteries
Adams Family Farm Tomb, Durham, NH Obelisk is last reminder of Reformation John's scenic farm. Ambleside Cemetery, Barrington, NH Small above ground 19th-century plot Beebe Cemetery, Isles of Shoals, NH Island cemetery marks a tragic tale. Brackett Lane Massacre Site, Rye, NH Site of a 1690s attack by Native Americans Caesar Brackett Slave Memorial, Greenland, NH A restored memorial to an enslaved Seacoast resident Calvary Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH Catholic cemetery Cape Neddick Baptist Cemetery, Cape Neddick, ME Scenic roadside cemetery Caswell Cemetery, Isles of Shoals, NH A family plot near an 1874 island hotel Cheswell Cemetery, Newmarket, NH Prominent African American Seacoast family First Parish Cemetery, York, ME The second cemetery of historic York First Settlers Burying Ground, Dover, NH Dover's oldest cemetery Greenwood Cemetery, Stratham, NH HIstoric Stratham graveyard Haley Cemetery, Isles of Shoals, ME The burial site of the King of Smuttynose Island Hampton High Street Cemetery, Hampton, NH The "new" 1858 Hampton Cemetery with the giant obelisk Kittery Point Cemetery, Kittery, ME Scenic, historic riverside site with historic house and church in Kittery Point Kittery Town Forest Trails, Kittery, ME Nice woodsy walk near the hectic outlet malls Locust Grove Cemetery, Ogunquit, ME Perkins family dominates Negro Burying Ground, Portsmouth, NH Recently discovered coffins indicate historical Black cemetery North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH An historic Revolutionary War cemetery in the heart of town Ocean View Cemetery, Wells, ME Large central cemetery near the ocean Old Burying Ground, York, ME In the center of historic York Village Oldfields Cemetery, South Berwick, ME A complex and interesting site in a clusteer of pines Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, NH Hampton's oldes cemetery, but how old? Pinkham Cemetery, Dover, NH 1700s cemetery on primary old Dover road Point of Graves, Portsmouth, NH Portsmouth's oldest cemetery from 1671 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Cemetery, Kittery, ME Small veteran's cemetery on historic 1800 federal shipyard Ring Swamp Cemetery, Hampton, NH Earliest graves here is 1800 Riverside Cemetery, New Castle, NH On the New Castle scenic "loop" South Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH Many smaller cemeteries combined St. John's Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH Above ground early church cemetery dwontown includes royal British governor of NH Whidden Grave Yard, Portsmouth, NH Urban sprawl swallows family cemetery Whidden Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH Family plot 1814- 1884 in stone wall off road Winter Street Burial Ground, Exeter, NH Endangered by local vandals
Famous Souls
Capt. George Fishley, Portsmouth, NH One of the only Revoutionary War veterans every photographed Celia Thaxter, Isles of Shoals, ME The poet of the Isles of Shoals Charles W. Brewster, Portsmouth, NH Grave of Portsmouth's key historian David Thomson Monument, Rye, NH Tiny memorial to the founding site of New Hampshire Frank Jones, Portsmouth, NH Portsmouth's ale tycoon FW Hartford, Portsmouth, NH He controlled the news of Portsmouth for 30 years General Jonathan Moulton, Hampton, NH A marker for the missing corpse of Hampton's legendary Moulton Goody Cole Memorial, Hampton, NH Some say she's still angry at the people of Hampton Henry Clay Barnabee, Portsmouth, NH POrtsmouth's most famous touring comedian John Langdon, Portsmouth, NH NH's first governor and member of Continental Congress Karen and Anethe Christensen, Portsmouth, NH Victims of the Smuttynose ax murders Langley Boardman, Portsmouth, NH Famous furniture maker Levi Thaxter & Sons, Kittery, ME Husband of poet Celia Thaxter Ogden Nash, North Hampton, NH America's wittiest poet in NH grave Prince Whipple, Portsmouth, NH African American hero in the American Revolution Sarah Orne Jewett, South Berwick, ME Grave of the region's #1 writer Sir William Pepperrell, Kittery, ME He was the richest man in New England 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 Wentworth Cheswell, Newmarket, NH Black history restoration in progress William Whipple, Portsmouth, NH Signer of the Declaration of Independence Woodbury Langdon, Portsmouth, NH A reluctant early Supreme Court justice
Monuments
Albacore Memorial Garden, Portsmouth, NH memorial to lost Piscatqua mariners and submariners Barrington Veteran's Memorial, Barrington, NH A simple block of granite 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 Thomson Monument, Rye, NH Tiny memorial to the founding site of New Hampshire Epping War Memorial, Epping, NH To the Epping war dead 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 General Jonathan Moulton, Hampton, NH A marker for the missing corpse of Hampton's legendary Moulton Goody Cole Memorial, Hampton, NH Some say she's still angry at the people of Hampton 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) Stone Cairns, Isles of Shoals, ME Who left the mysterious stone monuments? 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
Lost and Gone
BP Shillaber House, Portsmouth, NH He inspired Mark Twain, but alas is forgotten Celia's Cottage, Isles of Shoals, ME Celia's famous cottage, now gone. Globe Tavern at the Plains, Portsmouth, NH Oldest tavern lost to progress Henderson's Point, Kittery, ME Kaboom! Blown to Kingdom Come Hontvet House, Isles of Shoals, ME The infamous 1873 murder house Meserve House, Portsmouth, NH Lost home of exiled Portsmouth tax collector Old Colonial Statehouse, Portsmouth, NH NH's first state capitol now sits in a trailer Old Ironsides Was Here, Portsmouth, NH They took her back to Massachusetts in 1897 Wentworth Great House, Portsmouth, NH This one is on display at the Metroplitan in NYC