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Collectible Guides to Portsmouth Print E-mail
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SeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #279

For those who effuse over ephemera, Portsmouth offers a treasure chest of collectibles. This group includes only a sampling of the tourist-oriented booklets and brochures used to promote the "Old Town by the Sea" in the 20th century. (Continued below with photo)

 
Stone-throwing Devil Exposed Print E-mail
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Historic Portsmouth #278

Meet the legendary Rock Throwing Devil of New Castle, NH. In 1682 demonic sounds and inexplicable events plagued superstitious residents of the island community. Hundreds of stones rained down on tavern-owner George Walton. (Continued with picture below)

 
Eminent Domain was Extreme Takeover Print E-mail
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Marconia Family photos on SeacoastNH.comSeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #277
FAMILY ALBUM

Readers who looked carefully at our last aerial photograph of Puddle Dock could see this duplex in the center of the iamge. It faced Prescott Park on Marcy Stteet just opposite the historic Liberty Pole. (Click headline for EXCLUSIVE family photo album)

 
Puddle Dock from the Air in 1963 Print E-mail
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Historic Portsmouth #276

This aerial image offers a crisp document of Portsmouth’s changing waterfront in the early 1960s. The two completed portions of modern Prescott Park, as you can see, are separated by the last industrial chunk of the South End. Originally an English plantation with one house in 1631, this area became a world trade center in the 1700s crowded with tall ships. (Continued inside)

 
NH at the Battle of Fort Fisher in January 1865 Print E-mail
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Civil War historian Duane Schaffer offers this stirring tale of New Hampshire men fighting in North Carolina. Read about NH heroes from Dover, Rollinsford, Chester, Wolfeboro and more. This excerpt comes from the author’s new book MEN OF GRANITE and is an exclusive to SeacaostNH.com. (Click to read)

 
Cinerama Holiday Jazzy Soundrack Print E-mail
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Historic Portsmouth #275

Newington-based film producer Louis de Rochemont left behind, not only a wildly diverse collection of movies, but a unique soundtrack as well. De Rochemont published sheet music for key songs in his movies like "Lost Boundaries" and "The Whistle at Eaton Falls". (Click to continue)

 
The Frightening Truth about Native American HIstory Print E-mail
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Historic Portsmouth #274

We live on former Indian territory, yet Portsmouth knows almost nothing of the "People of the Dawnland" who thrived here at least 10,000 years before European settlement. Despite Indian placenames like Piscataqua and Agamenticus, the frightening truth is that we have done a terrible job researching and teaching Native American history and lore here in the NH seacoast (Click above to continue)

 
Gold Diggers of New Hampshire Print E-mail
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Gold DiggersSeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #273

Americans went to the movies a lot back in the Great Depression and were starved for entertainment, especially about the lives of the ultra rich. The Warner Brothers classic musical "Gold Diggers of 1935" tells the tale of a poor hotel desk clerk who falls for a wealthy ingenue. (Continued below)

 
Glamour at the Public Library Print E-mail
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Glamour magazine SeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #272

Five years after her death in 2004, just shy of her 100th birthday, former city librarian Dorothy M. Vaughan is largely remembered as our eldest historian. We rarely, if ever, saw images of her earlier days. (Click to continue)

 
Among the Mountains of Portsmouth Print E-mail
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Founding of Portsmouth, NH / SeacoastNH.comSeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #271

Always searching for more data on the early history of Portsmouth, I spotted an entry from an 1847 book entitled "A Pictorial History of the United States of America". Something is very wrong here. (Continued below)

 
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