GET THE GUIDE Includes Color Photos And Color Map With Descriptions Of Over 70 Historic Sites On Downtown Walking Tour ---------------------------- Send a check for $2.50 to: Portsmouth Harbour Trail 500 Market Street PO Box 239 Portsmouth, NH 03802-0239
About The Harbour Trail The Portsmouth Harbour Trail celebrates the historical significance of Portsmouth New Hampshire. It embodies our commitment to preservation of our arts and culture. We invite you to explore our galleries and gift shops, our historic buildings and museums, our waterfront and a host of restaurants tucked into the many corners of our city. The Harbour Trail covers the following three areas of the city: Downtown And The Waterfront This first section explores the development of the commercial downtown and waterfront area. It should take about an hour on foot. The South End This section of the trail explores the commercial development of Pleasant Street and State Street and the residential character of the South End. The walk will take about an hour. State Street To Haymarket Square And Congress Street This section of the tour explores the commercial and residential areas of Portsmouth developed between 1800 and 1900. It will take about a half hour to walk. GUIDED TOURS: Tours will be offered on Mondays, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday through the Columbus Day weekend. All tours begin and end at the Market Square Kiosk. Tickets are $7.00 for adults, $4.00 for children 8 to 14 years. Under 8 years are free. Group tours may be arranged by calling Marge Hubbard, Tourism Manager, at (603) 436-3988. The schedule is as follows: 10:30 AM - Harbour Trail Highlights Tour. Discover Portsmouth's history and beauty as you walk through the city's quaint downtown, along the waterfront, and through neighborhood streets that date back to the 17th century. Knowledgeable tour guides will enlighten you with stories of coloful Portsmouth residents and dignitaries and answer your questions during the hour and a half tour. Highlights Tour - Thursday through Saturday and Monday at 10:30 AM, Sunday at 1:30 PM 5:30 PM - Twilight Tour Hear tales of the "Merchants and Madams, Sailors and Immigrants" that mingled in Portsmouth at the turn of the 20th century (late 1800's and early 1900's). You'll learn how bordellos and bars that catered to both sailors and politicians were allowed to exist and were eventually put out of business and then "swept under the carpet" when Portsmouth's pristine Prescott Park and Strawbery Banke Museum were created. Tour lasts about an hour. Twilight Tour - Thursday through Saturday and Monday at 5:30 PM Contributions to the Portsmouth Harbour Trail, a non-profit organization, are always welcome. Portsmouth Harbour Trail PO Box 239 Portsmouth, NH 03802 Make checks payable to the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Foundation Sites Along The Harbour Trail
Downtown & Waterfront 1. Market Square 2. North Church 3. The Athenaeum 4. Market Street 5. Merchants Row 6. Moffatt-Ladd House 7. Granite State Mineral 8. USS Albacore 9. Ceres Street 10. Moran Tugboats 11. Bow Street	12. View of Piscataqua River 13. St. John's Church 14. Portsmouth Brewery 15. Harbour Place 16. Memorial Bridge 17. Warner House 18. Old Portsmouth High School 19. McIntyre Federal Building 20. 1817 US Custom House 21. Sheafe Street 22. Rockingham County Jail
South End 23. Bankers Row 24. US Custom House 25. Ann Treadwell Mansion 26. Gov. John Langdon House 27. Thomas Thompson House 28. City Hill 29. Haven Park 30. Lower Pleasant Street 31. Mark Wentworth Home 32. James T. Fields House 33. Joshua & Elizabeth Peirce 34. South Ward Meetinghouse 35. Tobias Lear House 36. Wentworth-Gardner House 37. Point of Graves	38. Pierce Island 39. Four Tree Island 40. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 41. Prescott Park 42. Sheafe Warehouse 43. Shaw Warehouse 44. Liberty Gardens 45. Liberty Pole 46. Strawbery Banke 47. Prescott Pk Theater & Dock 48. Oracle House 49. Thomas Shaw House 50. State Street 51. Temple Israel
State Street to Haymarket Sq. 52. South Church 53. State Street 54. Abraham Shaw House 55. Rockingham Hotel 56. Haymarket Square 57. John Peirce Mansion 58. Rundlet-May House 59. Langley Boardman House 60. John Paul Jones House 61. Portsmouth Library	62. Islington Street 63. North Cemetery 64. Richard Jackson House 65. Congress Street 66. YMCA 67. Keasarge House 68. Music Hall 69. Franklin Block 70 National Block 71. Faye Block
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