HISTORY

SEACOAST HISTORY
			As I Please Historical Societies Jesse James Films
MARITIME HISTORY
The Shipyard Old Ironsides John Paul Jones
FAMOUS PEOPLE
		Link Free or Die John Paul Jones Celia Thaxter John Smith
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Tobias Lear Framers of Freedom
BLACK HISTORY
			NH Black History Black Heritage Trail Black History Links
PLACES & EVENTS
Smuttynose Murders Brewster's Rambles Historic Tours
				The Grave Site Isles of Shoals Wentworth by the Sea
		NH History Old Portsmouth
TIMELINE
Portsmouth Timeline The Industrial Era	Prehistoric Era	The Contact Era	The Colonial Era	The Revolutionary Era

Measuring the History Payback

History
THE HISTORY BIZ

The past packs economic impact, but not for its front line troups. Portsmouth's growing history tour industry is held together with chewing gum and string while the city benefits on the rising "green" cultural toruism industry.

Misty Legends of Sam Haley

History Exclusive:
King of the Isles of Shoals

He built an island kingdom, but only one house remains. Did he really find pirate treasure? Did he bury frozen shipwrecked sailors? Did his father spend the American Revolution isolated on Smuttynose Island?

The Brief Passage of Maydeth Scott

Maydeth

Even a short life makes history

History ignores the young. But history also lives in the human heart, not just in textbooks. A vintage baby book discovered in an antique shop reveals the short life of a lost child.

Guess Who Came to Dinner

Black History of the Seacoast

Three years before Sidney Poitier confronted Spencer Tracey at the dinner table, two Seacoast men faced off. James Smith denied Emerson Reed his civil right to dine in a public restaurant. Reed fought back – and won.

What Martin Pring Was Really After

Sassafras

The search for this tree led to the
discovery of Seacoast, NH?

Was Marting Pring the first white man to set foot in the Piscataqua region in 1603. If so, why had he traveled the Atlantic for to dig up trees? The true story of the European discovery of New Hampshire is one rarely whispered by the history books.

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