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Historic Markers
Designation & date installed: Stewartstown (64) 1970Description:As you stand at this point on the 45th
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Designation & date installed: Manchester (124) 1978 Description:Samuel Blodgett began a canal to bypass the
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Designation & date installed: Bow (36) 1966Description:Just north of this point on the boundary between
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Atlantic Cable Station and Sunken Forest
Designation & date installed: Rye (63) 1970Description:The receiving station for the first Atlantic Cable, laid
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Designation & date installed: Rumney (55) 1968Description: Known to Indians as Asquamchumauke, the nearby river
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Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (137) 1980Description:Built in 1800 by Charles Barrett, as a
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Designation & date installed: Bath (121) 1978Description:Settled in 1766 by Jaasiel Harriman, whose cabin was
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Designation & date installed: Franklin (91) 1979 Description: Daniel Webster was born here January 18,
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Designation & date installed: Amherst (3) 1958Description:About five miles north of Amherst is the birthplace
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Birthplace of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
Designation & date installed: Washington (94) 1974Description: In April 1842, a group of citizens in
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Designation & date installed: Hampton (120) 1978 Description:This rock, originally in the middle of the
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Designation & date installed: Bradford (108) 1976Description: This common, designated the geographical center of the
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Designation & date installed: North Hampton (62) 1970Description:On the hillside to be seen to the
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Bridges House Governor's Residence
Designation & date installed: Concord (61) 1970, 1979 Description:This house, on land long occupied by
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Designation & date installed: Exeter (131) 1979Description:Born in Andover, Mass., June 21, 1736, Enoch Poor
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Brigadier-General James Reed (1722-1807)
Designation & date installed: Fitzwilliam (99) 1975Description:This veteran Captain of the French and Indian War,
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Camp Stark German Prisoner-of-War Camp
Designation & date installed: Stark (150) 1985Description:In the spring of 1944 a high fence and
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Designation & date installed: Canaan (21) 1964Description: First known as "Broad Street," this early venture
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Designation & date installed: Goshen (14) 1980Description: Born November 11, 1812, in Old Center Goshen,
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Captain Josiah Crosby (1730-1793) Lieutenant Thompson Maxwell (1742-1832)
Designation & date installed: Milford (133) 1979Description:These two Revolutionary soldiers were settlers near here in
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Designation & date installed: Ossipee (20) 1964Description: Was fought between 1722 and 1725 against several
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Designation & date installed: Newbury (81) 1971Description: This edifice of Bulfinch design was rebuilt here
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Charles Cogswell Doe (1830-1896)
Designation & date installed: Rollinsford (88) 1972Description:Rollinsford was the home of Charles C. Doe; jurist,
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Designation & date installed: Jefferson (152) 1985Description:On July 10, 1885, at 6 a.m., a slide
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Designation & date installed: Chester (139) 1980Description:This graveyard, one of the oldest in the state,
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Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone
Designation & date installed: Chesterfield (95) 1974Description:Born October 11, 1872, in a modest cottage 1.7
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Designation & date installed: Tamworth (155) 1988Description: Purchased and moved to this site in 1930
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Designation & date installed: Wolfeboro (116) 1977Description: Governor John Wentworth and the King's Council voted
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Designation & date installed: Hillsborough (107) 1976Description: In 1769, Col. John Hill, a Masonian proprietor,
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Designation & date installed: Cornish (158) 1989Description: Built in 1866 at a cost of $9,000,
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Designation & date installed: Carroll (87) 1972Description:Abel Crawford and his son, Ethan Allen Crawford, built
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Designation & date installed: Deerfield (145) 1983Description:The village located to the east was settled circa
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Designation & date installed: Swanzey (22) 1964Description:A famous theatrical trouper who lived and died in
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Dr. Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798)
Designation & date installed: Dover (51), 1968Description:Noted preacher, educator, naturalist, and historian. Born Boston, Mass.
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Designation & date installed: Center Harbor (7) 1962Description: Author and publisher of almanacs first appearing
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Designation & date installed: Sandwich (82) 1972Description: Built by Jacob Berry of North Conway, this
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Designation & date installed: Chester (14) 1963Description:Isaac Blasdel, 1738-1771, son and father of clockmakers, settled
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Designation & date installed: Weare (145) 1982Description:In 1960 their beautiful community was sacrificed for the
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Ebenezer Mackintosh (1737-1816)
Designation & date installed: Haverhill (104) 1975Description:Born in Boston and a veteran of the 1758
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Designation & date installed: Exeter (97) 1974 Description:The historic Town House of Exeter stood near
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Designation & date installed: Exeter (97) 1974 Description:The historic Town House of Exeter stood near
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Designation & date installed: Bennington (153) 1985, 1987Description:Directly east was the "Great Falls of the
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First Ascent of Mount Washington
Designation & date installed: Pinkham's Grant (11) 1963Description:Darby Field, a New Hampshire settler, accomplished this
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Designation & date installed: Pembroke (144) 1982 Description:Site of the First Meetinghouse built on The
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First Connecticut River Bridge
Designation & date installed: Walpole (61) 1970Description:The first bridge across this river was built approximately
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First Methodist Meeting Place in New Hampshire
Designation & date installed: Chesterfield (60) 1970Description:In 1772, "the people called Methodist" held their first
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First Normal School in New Hampshire
Designation & date installed: Effingham (83) 1972Description: On the rise of the ground just west
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Designation & date installed: Hampton (28) 1965 Description:In New Hampshire, supported by taxation the first
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Designation & date installed: Claremont (4) 1966Description: Southerly on Old Church Road is located the
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Designation & date installed: Sugar Hill (73) 1971Description:In 1929, on the slopes of the hill
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Designation & date installed: Tamworth (9) 1973 Description: Nearby stands "The Barnstormers" summer playhouse, the
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Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (10) 1962Description:Established in New Hampshire at New Ipswich in
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Designation & date installed: Charlestown (2) 1958Description: In 1744 the settlers at No.4 (now Charlestown)
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Designation & date installed: Concord (80) 1971Description:Fourteenth President of the United States (1853 to 1857).
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Designation & date installed: Derry (48) 1967Description:Roger's Ranger and Revolutionary hero, served at Bunker Hill
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General John Stark's expedition to Bennington, August 1777
Designation & date installed: Charlestown (117) 1977Description: To impede a British invasion from Canada into
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George A. Wentworth (1835 to 1906)
Designation & date installed: Wakefield (5) 1962Description: This outstanding teacher and author of mathematical textbooks
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Designation & date installed: Ashland (100) 1975Description: Nearby on Pleasant Street is the birthplace and
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Designation & date installed: Hampton Falls (57) 1978Description:On his way to Portsmouth after entering New
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Gilford Commemorating a Revolutionary War Battle
Designation & date installed: Gilford (118) 1977Description: Gilford, the center of which is opposite this
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Designation & date installed: Keene (86) 191Description:About 150 feet north of here stood the famous
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Designation & date installed: Jaffrey (13) 1963Description:Buried behind Jaffrey's colonial Meeting House nearby are "Aunt"
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Designation & date installed: Boscawen (49) 1967Description:Famous symbol of frontier heroism. A victim of an
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Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States
Designation & date installed: Farmington (98) 1975Description: Born in Farmington on February 16, 1812, Jeremiah
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Designation & date installed: Dover (92), 1973Description:The first settlement at Dover was made here at
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Designation & date installed: Hinsdale (112) 1976Description:In the Holman and Merriman Machine Shop opposite this
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Home of The Molly Stark Cannon
Designation & date installed: New Boston (146) 1984 Description:This brass four-pounder, cast in 1743, was
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Designation & date installed: Richmond (59) 1969Description:Born in an almost uncleared wilderness in an area
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Designation & date installed: Franklin (129) 1979Description: The large mortar found here is in a
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Designation & date installed: Rye (18) 1963 Description:About six miles directly out to sea, this
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Joel McGregor - Last surviving soldier of the Revolution
Designation & date installed: Newport (106) 1976Description: Born in Enfield, Conn. in 1760 McGregor enlisted
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Designation & date installed: Fremont (156) 1988Description:Around 1845, John Brown of Poplin, now Fremont, built
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Designation & date installed: Bedford (102) 1975Description:This is considered the site of Squire John Goffe's
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Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (127) 1978Description:John Langdon, merchant and statesman, was born on June
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John Sargent Pillsbury (1828-1901)
Designation & date installed: Sutton (44) 1967Description: Born in a house bordering this common he
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Designation & date installed: Kingston (46) 1967 Description:Distinguished participant in the founding of the Republic
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Designation & date installed: Keene (69) 1971Description:The first of the two famous Keene glass factories
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Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Factory
Designation & date installed: Littleton (71) 1970 Description:Here, from 1867 to 1909, the world famous
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Designation & date installed: Plainfield (77) 1971Description: This school, known first as Union Academy, was
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Designation & date installed: Bartlett (109) 1976Description:This rustic cottage was once the home of Thomas
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Designation & date installed: Northwood (24) 1964 Description:Upon invitation of President Monroe, issued at the
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Designation & date installed: Francestown (43) 1907Description:Born in Francestown, this ardent Jacksonian rose to hold
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Lochmere Archeological District
Designation & date installed: Belmont (149) 1984Description: The history of Lochmere, in the broadest sense,
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Designation & date installed: Stratford (34) 1965Description:The dramatic process of conveying lumber logs and pulpwood
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Major General John Sullivan, 1740-1795
Designation & date installed: Durham (89), 1972Description:Revolutionary patriot, soldier, politician, first Grand Master of Masons
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Designation & date installed: Deerfield (25) 1964Description:Born in Deerfield and buried in Old Center Cemetery
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Designation & date installed: Concord (105) 1976Description:While living at her "Pleasant View" home (1892 to
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Designation & date installed: Wilmot (40) 1966Description: New Hampshire, as granted by authority of the
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Designation & date installed: Fremont (142) 1982Description:Local lumbermen illegally cut Mast Trees reserved for the
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Designation & date installed: Merrimack (79) 1971 Description:One of three New Hampshire men to sign
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Designation & date installed: Stewartstown (47) 1967Description:Hunter, trapper, fisherman, and guide, well and favorably known
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Designation & date installed: Dunbarton (111) 1976Description:Built by her father Capt. Caleb Page, c. 1759,
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Mount Washington Hotel & Bretton Woods Monetary Conference
Designation & date installed: Carroll (122) 1978Description:The Mount Washington Hotel, the large building to the
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Designation & date installed: Hooksett (132) 1979Description:Before the railroads came through New Hampshire, a flourishing
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Designation & date installed: Newington (151) 1985Description:Boundary disputes among the early river settlers caused this
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Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (114) 1976Description:The Town of Portsmouth purchased this land in 1753
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Designation & date installed: Raymond (85) 1972Description:Two miles north of Route 156 (one mile ahead)
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Designation & date installed: Rye (78) 1971Description:Here, in the spring of 1632, was established New
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Designation & date installed: Lisbon (70) 1970Description:A reminder of bygone days, this stone structure was
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Designation & date installed: Merrimack (29) 1965 Description:Was the original town, chartered by Massachusetts Bay
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Designation & date installed: Hampton (119) 1978 Description:This was the roadway from the ancient landing
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Designation & date installed: Gilmanton (17) 1963Description: One of the earliest highways in New Hampshire,
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Designation & date installed: Durham (50), 1967Description:On July 18, 1694, a force of about 250
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Designation & date installed: Durham (154) 1985Description:These scenic falls, 1.6 miles west of here on
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Designation & date installed: Westmoreland (74) 1971Description:This church, built on the northeast corner of Cole
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Designation & date installed: Hillsborough (65) 1970Description: The Pierce Homestead was built in 1804 by
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Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (75) 1971Description:In the pre-dawn hours of June 26, 1696, Indians
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Designation & date installed: Andover (54) 1968Description: The community takes its name from Richard Potter,
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Ratification of the Federal Constitution
Designation & date installed: Concord (110) 1976Description:The convention of delegates from 175 New Hampshire towns
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Designation & date installed: Pittsburg (1) 1958Description:In 1832 the settlers of the area between Indian
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Designation & date installed: Exeter (32) 1965Description:Founded by Rev. John Wheelwright in 1638, Exeter was
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Designation & date installed: Derry (126) 1978Description:Some of the best-loved poems in the English language
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Designation & date installed: Haverhill (56) 1968Description:This rivers' junction two miles north was the rendezvous
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Designation & date installed: Cornish (76) 1971Description: In this house was born Salmon P. Chase,
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Designation & date installed: Candia (141) 1981, 1988Description:Candia is the birthplace of the well known
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Samuel Livermore (1732 to 1803)
Designation & date installed: Holderness (39) 1966Description: Proprietor of more than half of the town
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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)
Designation & date installed: Newport (6) 1962Description: Prominent humanitarian poet and author was born and
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Designation & date installed: Derry (58) 1969Description:In April 1719, 16 Presbyterian Scotch-Irish families settled here
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Designation & date installed: Rindge (138) 1980Description:This Meeting House was an outgrowth of the time
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Designation & date installed: Loudon (15) 1963 Description:Take opposite road 2.6 miles to the attractive
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Designation & date installed: Seabrook (103) 1975Description:Based on the 1640 southern boundary of Bachiler's farm,
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Designation & date installed: Durham (8), 1962Description:At end of next road southeast, this engineering feat
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Site of Wilder's Chair Factory
Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (101) 1975Description:In 1810, Peter Wilder, with his son-in-law Abijah
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Designation & date installed: Francestown (23) 1964Description:A large deposit of highest quality was discovered early
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Designation & date installed: Fremont (157) 1989Description:The Cooperage was founded here in 1874 by Jonas
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Designation & date installed: Concord (66) 1970Description:The State Capitol Building of New Hampshire was built
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Designation & date installed: Stoddard (52) 1968Description:Glassmaking in this town covered the years 1842 to
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Designation & date installed: Stoddard (27) 1965Description:This twin arch structure built without mortar and sustained
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Designation & date installed: Franconia (9) 1962Description:Due west stands New Hampshire's sole surviving example of
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Designation & date installed: Concord (148) 1984Description:The Sunset League, the oldest after-supper amateur baseball league
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Surry Mountain Gold Mine and Lily Pond
Designation & date installed: Surry (93) 1973Description:To the east rises Surry Mountain stretching four miles
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Designation & date installed: Sharon (12) 1963Description:Was located at a secluded site in the southwest
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Thaddeus S.C. Lowe (1832-1913)
Designation & date installed: Jefferson (19) 1964Description:Born nearby, this inventor and scientist gained a unique
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Designation & date installed: Haverhill (136) 1979Description:The last of five 19th century bridges which have
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The Belknap Mill/The Busiel Mill
Designation & date installed: Laconia (135) 1979Description: Constructed in 1832, the Belknap Mill is the
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Designation & date installed: Tamworth (31) 1965Description: In several versions, the legend's sequence related the
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Designation & date installed: Concord (128) 1979Description:The Abbot-Downing Company began in 1813 when Lewis Downing
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Designation & date installed: Cornish (134) 1979Description: The Cornish Colony (1885 to 1935) was a
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Designation & date installed: Carroll (30) 1965Description:For whom the Notch is named, included Abel and
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Designation & date installed: Wakefield (123) 1978Description: This name was given to the highway from
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Designation & date installed: Sandown (2) 1964 Description:The erection of this distinctive type New England
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Designation & date installed: Concord (125) 1978Description:One tenth of a mile east of here stands
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Designation & date installed: Orford (33) 1965,1974Description: Orford's seven Ridge houses were built over a
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Designation & date installed: Rochester (42) 1966Description: At nearby Rochester were the homes of the
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Designation & date installed: Barrington (96) 1974Description: Granted in 1719 to encourage industrial development in
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Designation & date installed: Sharon (68) 1970Description:A Toll House and Toll Gate stood on this
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Designation & date installed: Greenfield (130) 1979Description:The oldest original meeting house in New Hampshire serving
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Designation & date installed: Mason (35) 1966Description:Nearby stands the boyhood home of Samuel Wilson (1766
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Designation & date installed: Claremont (57) 1968Description: Located easterly on Old Church Road, his wood-frame
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Designation & date installed: Greenland (157) 1976Description:Leonard Weeks settled here in 1658 on 33 acres
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Designation & date installed: Wolfeboro (53) 1968Description: This marker stands on the northwesterly part of
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Designation & date installed: Conway (38) 1966Description:Since Thomas Cole's visit in 1828, New Hampshire's splendid
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Designation & date installed: Concord (147) 1984Description:One of the oldest municipal parks in New Hampshire,
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Designation & date installed: Lancaster (84) 1970Description:This structure, erected by Major Jonas Wilder, from boards
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Designation & date installed: New Castle (4) 1958Description:December 14-15, 1774, several hundred men overpowered the
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Designation & date installed: Cornish (16) 1963Description: American author of best-selling novels such as "Coniston,"
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Historic Places
Nashua
Restored Federal home (circa 1804). Call for hours. Free admission. (603) 883-0015.
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1 Governors Lane, off Water Street, Exeter.(The Ladd-Gilman House). May through October, Wednesday through Sunday,
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Open Memorial Day weekend, May 23 and 24, through Columbus Day weekend, October 10 and
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Andover Historical Society Museum
Potter Place
Memorial Day to Columbus Day, Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 3
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New Ipswich
Open June 1 to October 15, Saturdays, Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 pm. Society for
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Haverhill
This classic Connecticut River floodplain farmland was the site of the second longest two-span covered
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Bedford
Kendall Shop Museum, in restored 1847 building, houses artifacts pertaining to Bedford's history as a
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Mostly 18th and 19th century artifacts including Shaker farm and household items, medical equipment, early
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Canterbury
The 25 historic buildings and furnishings are a tangible reminder of the lives and achievements
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Carpenter Museum of Antique Outboard Motors
Laconia
Open all year, by appointment. Donations accepted. (603) 524-7611.
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Rindge
Cathedral of the Pines is a natural sanctuary, literally a "cathedral without walls," where all
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Charlestown
60+ historic structures along beautiful Main Street. Rural activities included miles of snowmobile trails through
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Chatham
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Chester
One of two New Hampshire cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places dating from
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Claremont Historical Society Museum
Claremont
Collection of early Claremont and New England memorabilia. June 14 through September 13, Sundays, 2
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Claremont
Beautifully restored 800 seat, 101-year-old historic gem (with AC) presenting the Upper Valley's best entertainment.
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Franklin
One mile south of Franklin. Daniel Webster, one of the U.S.'s most distinguished statesmen and
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Dorchester Historical Society Museum
Dorchester
Artifacts, documents, maps. Donations. (603) 786-9363 or (603) 523-7716.
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Durham Historic Association Museum
Main Street, Route 108, DurhamOpen September through May, Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m.
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Main Street, Conway.Open June 6 through Columbus Day Weekend, Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to
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Laconia
At the south end of Weirs Beach where the Winnipesaukee River begins is a large
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Enfield Historical Society Museum at Enfield Center
Enfield
Open Saturday, mid-June to Labor Day weekend, 2 to 4 p.m. General local historical items.
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Enfield
Open Memorial Day to Columbus Day, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
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Exeter Historic House: Gilman Garrison House
12 Water Street, Exeter.Open June 1 to October 15, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.
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Florence Hyde Speare Memorial Building
Nashua
Open March through November. Call for seasonal hours. Two-story brick building with eight exhibit galleries,
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Fort at No. 4 Springfield Road
Charlestown
Experience life in the northern-most outpost of the frontier between New England and New France
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Fort Constitution Historic Site
Route 1B, New Castle.At US Coast Guard Station. Originally Fort William and Mary, a British
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Rye
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Wild Rose Lane, New Castle.Military fortification on 10-acre site overlooking Little Harbor. First used in
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Hillsboro
National Historic Landmark. Near the junction of Routes 9 and 31. Home of Franklin Pierce,
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Gorham Historical Society and Rail Museum
25 Railroad Street, Gorham.Open late spring to fall, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1 to 5
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143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth.Open June 1 to October 15, Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m.
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Governor John Wentworth Historic Site
Wolfeboro
Location of the former summer estate of Governor John Wentworth, the last of New Hampshire's
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Boscawen
Monument on a small island at the confluence of the Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers commemorating
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South Sutton
Circa 1800 church meeting house, circa 1850 Old Store Museum housing over 4000 items of
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Historical Society of Cheshire County
246 Main Street, Keene.Open all year, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
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Main Street, Mason Library, Keene State College, Keene.Open September to June, Monday through Friday, 10
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199 Main Street, Keene. 1806 home of Horatio Colony housing his world-wide collections of art,
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76 Northwest Street, Portsmouth.Open Saturday, Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.. June 1 to October
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Jaffrey Historic District-Melville Academy Museum
Thorndike Pond Road, Jaffrey Center.Open in July and August, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to
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Route 2, Jefferson.Open June to mid-October, Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment.
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Route 3, Lancaster.Mountaintop park on Mount Prospect. Estate of John Wingate Weeks (1860 to 1926),
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Concord
Open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May to October. Main House
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Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum & Max I. Silber Library
Manchester
Displays of the world's finest collection of Scouting memorabilia and books. Artifacts from world and
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Little Nature Museum Boyce Road
Weare
Open all year, by appointment. Fossils, rocks, shells, bird mounts, exhibits, trails, programs. Admission charged.
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Enfield
Open mid-June to Labor Day weekend, Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. Authentically furnished one-room
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High Street, Peterborough.Annual open house and presentation of MacDowell medal takes place August 16 from
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Manchester Historic Association
Manchester
Open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to
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Mary Baker Eddy Historic Homes
Open May 1 to October 31, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday,
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Market Street, PortsmouthOpen June 15 through October 15, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4
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Warner
Open May through October daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday from noon to
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Mount Washington Observatory Resource Center
Main St. North ConwayOpen seven days 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. year round. Free exhibits
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Mount Washington Observatory Summit Museum on summit of Mount Washington
Over 100 specimens of local flora; White Mountains literature; artifacts; historical photos; educational material, books,
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Museum Complex-Bear Brook State Park
Allenstown
Snowmobile, Civilian Conservation Corps, Family Camping museum; Old Allenstown Meetinghouse. (603) 485-9874.
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Haverhill
Exhibits graphically illustrate weather events; 1888 blizzard, 1927 Vermont flood, 1938 hurricane, Worcester tornado. Free.
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Museum of Childhood of Wakefield
Wakefield
Museum of memories for all ages. Children's sled exhibit, 1890 one room school, 3000 dolls,
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New Hampshire Antiquarian Society
Hopkinton
History museum; changing exhibits and public monthly programs; geneological research center. Open Thursdays and Fridays
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New Hampshire Historical Society Geneological Library
Concord
Open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 8:30 p.m. Collections. Free,
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New Hampshire Historical Society Museum
Concord
New Hampshire's only statewide history museum exhibits hundreds of objects including an original Concord Coach.
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New Hampshire State House and Visitor's Center
Concord
Open all year, weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Self-guided tours of State House or
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New London
Open for scheduled events, call for information. Eleven buildings. Free admission. (603) 526-6564.
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Newport
1886 Performing Arts Center, monthly adult, family and school programming, community theater, free concerts on
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Webster
By appointment except in July and August, when the building is open Sunday from noon
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Peterborough Historical Society & Museum
Grove Street, Peterborough.Library open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; museum open 1 to
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Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum and Albacore Park
Market Street, Portsmouth.Open year-round. June to shortly after Columbus Day, seven days a week, 9:30
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Derry
National Historic Landmark. South of Derry. Home of poet Robert Frost and his family from
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Route 302, Bethlehem.Year round. Located on 1,400 acres, the estate includes a Christmas Tree Farm,
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Portsmouth, NH
Merchant James Rundlett's 1807 home rises above the street, proclaiming his early success in the
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Portsmouth, NH
Merchant James Rundlett's 1807 home rises above the street, proclaiming his early success in the
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Portsmouth, NH
Merchant James Rundlett's 1807 home rises above the street, proclaiming his early success in the
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Saint Gaudens National Historic Site
Cornish
North of Claremont. Visit the home, gardens and studios of Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848 to
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Sandown Historical Society & Museum
Route 121A, Sandown.Built in 1873, the Sandown Railroad Depot handled the largest volume of single
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Freemont Road, Sandown.Meeting house built 1773 to 1774. Original condition, box pews, slave pews, paupers
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Center Sandwich
Also, Quimby Barn Museum,, transporting and agricultural memorabilia. (603) 284-6269.
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Sunapee NH Historical Society Museum
Sunapee
Memorial Day through June, weekends from 1 to 4 p.m.. During July and August, open
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Route 10, West Swanzey.Steam fire pumper, stage-coach, tools, household artifacts, photos. Monday through Friday 1
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Taylor Mill State Historic Site
Derry, NH 03038
This renovated sawmill was built in the 1800s. It oeprates on certain weekends. Call for
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Derry
Recently renovated 1800s up and down sawmill. Call for dates and times. Open during summertime.
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Derry
Recently renovated 1800s up and down sawmill. Call for dates and times. Open during summertime.
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The Lakes Region's year-round art center and the oldest unaltered brick textile mill in America.
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Newbury
Located at the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, The Fells is the large summer retreat
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www.fortat4.comSpringfield Road Rte. 11,Charlestown Phone (603) 826-5700 Fax: (603) 826-3368The Fort at Number
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Fanconia Sugar Hill
Poet Robert Frost's 1915 farm homestead, now a center for poetry and the arts. Open
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Groveton
Early artifacts and exhibits. Excite and fun for all ages. Open summertime.
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Mt. Washington State Park, located on the summit of Mount Washington.After its completion in 1853,
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Hunking Street, Portsmouth.Open Wednesdays in summer, 1 to 4 p.m., and by appointment. Tobias Lear
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Tuck Museum (Hampton Historical Society),
Meeting House Green, Park Avenue, Hampton.Open Sundays 1 to 4 p.m. during June; Wednesdays 6
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Tuftonboro Historic Society Museum
Melvin Village
Open July and August Monday through Friday 2 to 4 p.m. Exhibits of local history.
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Daniel Street, Portsmouth.Considered New England's finest example of a brick, urban 18th Century English Georgian
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Hanover
Built in 1780 for daughter of Dartmouth College founder. Early American and Shaker furniture, Daniel
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Off Route 1A, Portsmouth.At end of Little Harbor Road, two miles from downtown. Rambling structure,
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Portsmouth, NH 03801
Built in 1760, the Wentworth-Gardner house is a fine example of the American Georgian style.
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Ashland
Open July through Labor Day, Wednesday and Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Historical museum,
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Wolfeboro Historical Society Museum
Wolfeboro
Three museums: Clark House, 18th century home; Schoolhouse (1868), from Pleasant Valley; Firehouse Museum (antique
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A three-building complex on National Register of Historic Houses: Woodman House (1818); Dame Garrison House
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Wolfeboro
Houses the largest collection of the homefront America during the war years of 1939 to
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Main Street, Keene.Period house museum, built in 1762. First meeting place of Dartmouth trustees, 1770,
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