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HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #104
Before the Revolution women from Kittery and Eliot rowed canoes to hawk their vegetables with the fishermen on Market Street in Portsmouth. By the 1840s the city was formally renting indoor space to fisherman (middle) by Spring Hill at the corner of Ceres and Bow Streets. Today tourists dine and drink here overlooking the scenic tugboats at what later became the railroad ferry landing.
HISTORIC PHOTOS of the Greater Portsmouth Area appear here weekly
From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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