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NH Merchants Mint Their Own Money Print Email

Portsmouth NH Merchants / SeacoastNH.comHISTORY MATTERS 

Private "scrip notes" replaced small currency when the New England economy was strapped for cash. These paper promissary notes replaced legal tender in times of fiscal crisis, bouying up the local economy. Call it financial Darwinsim, but merchants printed their own dough simply to stay alive. (story below)

 
Privateer Lynx Heads East Print Email

Privateer Alex Peacock of Newmarket,NH in San Diego / SeacoastNH.comHISTORY MATTERS

We traveled 6,000 miles last week to celebrate the departure of Privateer Lynx for the East Coast. We took a plane. They’re taking the ocean by sail. We joined the Lynx crew for their last mock battle in San Diego Bay, and it turned out to be more exciting than anyone had bargained for. (Read all about it below)

 
Best Clam Chowder Recipe is Our Family Heirloom Print Email
Ipswich_clamsHISTORY MATTERS

If it’s thick, taste’s like Snows, looks like an art project or contains anytthing but fresh clams, potatoes, onions, water and milk – it ain’t ours. A New England native reveals the puritanical truth about making clam chowder the way God intended, and throws in a little family history to boot. (Click for history and rec,ipte below)

 
Shifting Street Names is Portsmouth Tradition Print Email
 Music_Wall_WayHISTORY MATTERS

City councilors recently nixed a name change to Chesnut Stret. Was that decision an act of hsitoric preservation, or merely an exercise in nostalgia? History Matters explores the way we name (and rename and remane) or streets and talks to "Road Warrior" Nancy Grossman. (read full article below)

 
Thomsons were First NH Settlers in 1623 Print Email
Portsmouth, NH Settled in 1623 / SeacaostNH.com
HISTORY MATTERS

Portsmouth loves to flaunt its founding date. A big new chunk of granite at the corner of Deer and Market Streets welcomes visitors to the city, settled in 1623. One might infer from the carved stone that the first European settlers climbed ashore at this very spot. They didn’t. (Full article below)

 

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  2. Inside the Media Morgue
  3. How the Coolidge Family of Boston Saved Wentworth Mansion
  4. The Perils of Privateer Andrew Sherburne
  5. The Agony and the Ecstasy of James Kennard Jr
  6. What Happened to Portsmouth North End?
  7. Prehistoric Artifacts Discovered at Isles of Shoals
  8. Little Girl Opens Big Bridge
  9. Memoir of a Clever New England Girl
  10. Lincoln Supporters Trash Copperhead Newspaper
  11. Stamp Act Agent Burned in Effigy
  12. The Many Homes of Daniel Webster
  13. Louis de Rochemont in Hollywood NH
  14. Black Man with Washington Crossing the Delaware
  15. Ruth Blay Hanged Here in 1768
  16. Ice Storm Photos Frozen in Time
  17. Fire and Ice in Downtown Portsmouth
  18. York Indian Legend Might be Real
  19. White Men Invented Saint Aspinquid
  20. No Thanks Given to NH Founders
  21. The Fall and Rise of Portsmouth NH
  22. Tales of a Real Ghostbuster
  23. Letter to Portsmouth in 2123 AD
  24. Time Capsule Buried in 1998
  25. Love Letters of Dorothy Vaughan
  26. Maine Yankee Escapes Confederate South
  27. Bicycles on the Water
  28. The Elusive Trail of Lucy Hale
  29. Was 1981 NH Bomber Crash Pilot Error?
  30. The Stones of Monhegan
  31. The Day the FB111A Crashed
  32. Like Father, Unlike Son
  33. Dartmouth Conceived as Indian School
  34. Eccentric Pilgrim Stranger Preached to Congress
  35. The UFO Romance of Betty and Barney Hill
  36. Almost Famous in a 1969 Cover Band
  37. Bad Boy Book Genre Born in NH
  38. Collecting John Paul Jones
  39. Why Old NH State House Should Not Be Restored
  40. Why Louis Wagner Was Smuttynose Slayer
  41. Black Heroes and White Voices
  42. Robinson History Added to Portsmouth Herald
  43. Lafayette was the First American Idol
  44. Things You Never Knew About Old Portsmouth Library
  45. NH Woman Meets Mormon Founder Joseph Smith
  46. Battle Cry of the eBay Warrior
  47. Maryellen’s Magic Wedding Dress
  48. Jesse James Women
  49. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  50. Why Bob Ford Could Not Kill Jesse James
  51. Dark Command
  52. Jesse James Complete Movie List
  53. Shakespeare and Me
  54. The Long Riders
  55. Renegade Girl
  56. The Return of Frank James
  57. The Remarkable Andrew
  58. The Haunting of Hibbard House
  59. The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
  60. Ride with the Devil
  61. Purgatory
  62. Kansas Raiders
  63. American Outlaws
  64. Bronco, Shadow of Jesse James
  65. I Shot Jesse James
  66. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
  67. Jesse James Rides Again
  68. Lady Bird Flies Though Portsmouth
  69. The Great Missouri Raid
  70. Frank & Jesse
  71. Jesse James 1939
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  73. The Outlaws Is Coming
  74. Legends of the American West
  75. Jesse James at Bay
  76. Carpe Diem Cultural Center
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  78. How a Monument Gets Made
  79. Digging into the Oyster River Massacre
  80. Among the Ghosts of Gardner Street
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  82. Saga of the Jenny Lind Figurehead
  83. Snowbound With Mr Whittier
  84. The Day They Took the Old NH Statehouse
  85. NH Coast Considered for National Park
  86. George Orwell Makes CIA Movie
  87. Seeking Blackbeard’s Pirate Treasure
  88. A Yankee in the Desert, Part Two
  89. A Yankee in the Desert
  90. The Devil With Jonathan Moulton
  91. Atlantic Heights was Architecture for the Poor
  92. Webster Farm Calling All Angels
  93. With Apologies to Kittery
  94. How NH Was Settled by Mistake
  95. The Truth About Ocean Born Mary
  96. The Day Lincoln Died for Me
  97. 4000 Yankees Attack Canada
  98. Portsmouth Genealogy and History Research Archives
  99. Daniel Webster Lost in Portsmouth
  100. Who Really Started Strawbery Banke?

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