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What Happened to Portsmouth North End? Print Email

urban00Few if any tears were shed over the recently flattened Portsmouth Parade Mall. The NH Business Review recently called it "an eyesore remnant from the urban renewal craze of the 1970s." The new Portwalk project is under construction in its place. But locals cried a river over the demolition of the Italian North End neighborhood that preceded these two massive structures.

 
Prehistoric Artifacts Discovered at Isles of Shoals Print Email

 

Artifacts on Smuttynose (not prehistoric) in 2009 / SeacoastNH.comHISTORY MATTERS

It’s official. Native Americans did inhabit the rocky Isles of Shoals six miles off the Maine and New Hampshire coast. Historians have long assumed that Indians visited and hunted there, but without scientific evidence, no one could say for sure. (continued below)

 

 
Little Girl Opens Big Bridge Print Email

Illustration by Dan Blakeslee of girl opening Memorial Bridge in 1923 / SeacoastNH.ciom
HISTORY MATTERS

In 1923 a five-year old girl cut the ribbon to open New Hampshire’s Memorial Bridge to Maine. That little girl grew up to be mayor of Portsmouth. She had a grand-daughter who re-dedicated the bridge 75 years later. Today, that bridge is among the most endangered historic structures in America.

 
Memoir of a Clever New England Girl Print Email

Charlotte Haven of Portsmouth, NH ? SeacoastNH.com
HISTORY MATTERS 

In an unfinished memoir dictated in her dying days, Charlotte Haven (1819 –1900) of California told of growing up in Yankee society in Portsmouth, NH. Selections from her revealing, but brief autobiography are published here for the first time courtesy of Ruth Given.
 
Lincoln Supporters Trash Copperhead Newspaper Print Email

 

Copperhead cartoon from Civil War / SeacoastNH.com

 

HISTORY MATTERS 

Pro-South "Copperheads" desperately wanted to prevent the North from re-electing Lincoln during th Civil War. Yankee New Hampshire had its own pro-South newspaper run by a feisty publisher. On April 10, 1865, the public stormed his office and tore up his printing press. Here’s the story.

 

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  2. The Many Homes of Daniel Webster
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  4. Black Man with Washington Crossing the Delaware
  5. Ruth Blay Hanged Here in 1768
  6. Ice Storm Photos Frozen in Time
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  8. York Indian Legend Might be Real
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  10. No Thanks Given to NH Founders
  11. The Fall and Rise of Portsmouth NH
  12. Tales of a Real Ghostbuster
  13. Letter to Portsmouth in 2123 AD
  14. Time Capsule Buried in 1998
  15. Love Letters of Dorothy Vaughan
  16. Maine Yankee Escapes Confederate South
  17. Bicycles on the Water
  18. The Elusive Trail of Lucy Hale
  19. Was 1981 NH Bomber Crash Pilot Error?
  20. The Stones of Monhegan
  21. The Day the FB111A Crashed
  22. Like Father, Unlike Son
  23. Dartmouth Conceived as Indian School
  24. Eccentric Pilgrim Stranger Preached to Congress
  25. The UFO Romance of Betty and Barney Hill
  26. Almost Famous in a 1969 Cover Band
  27. Bad Boy Book Genre Born in NH
  28. Collecting John Paul Jones
  29. Why Old NH State House Should Not Be Restored
  30. Why Louis Wagner Was Smuttynose Slayer
  31. Black Heroes and White Voices
  32. Robinson History Added to Portsmouth Herald
  33. Lafayette was the First American Idol
  34. Things You Never Knew About Old Portsmouth Library
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  36. Battle Cry of the eBay Warrior
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  39. The Outlaw Josey Wales
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  50. Ride with the Devil
  51. Purgatory
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  55. I Shot Jesse James
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  57. Jesse James Rides Again
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  78. A Yankee in the Desert, Part Two
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  83. With Apologies to Kittery
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  87. 4000 Yankees Attack Canada
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  89. Daniel Webster Lost in Portsmouth
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  91. The Secret Room of Uncle Em
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