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SEACOAST HISTORY
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MARITIME HISTORY
The Shipyard Old Ironsides John Paul Jones
FAMOUS PEOPLE
		Link Free or Die John Paul Jones Celia Thaxter John Smith
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Tobias Lear Framers of Freedom
BLACK HISTORY
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				The Grave Site Isles of Shoals Wentworth by the Sea
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Portsmouth Timeline The Industrial Era	Prehistoric Era	The Contact Era	The Colonial Era	The Revolutionary Era

Maine Yankee Escapes Confederate South

HISTORY MATTERS

As the Civil War loomed, a Maine machinist found himself trapped in Richmond, VA, unable to get his family across the battle lines. A "red hot Unionist", George Washington Frosst and his friend John Hancock were imprisoned in a POW camp, then Frosst struck out for the North.

Bicycles on the Water

ISLES OF SHOALS

The modern bicycle and modern tourism were born in the late 1800s. One Portsmouth entrepreneur asked – why not a bicycle that travels on the water? In 1882 a founder of The Wheelman biked all the way to the Isles of Shoals. Read the full story below.

The Elusive Trail of Lucy Hale

HISTORY MATTERS

Details are few and far between. Was she beautiful? Was she really engaged to John Wilkes Booth? Were they really in love, or was the daughter of a New Hampshire senator, just one more pawn in the assassin’s plan? Here's the complete story from a NH perspective.

Was 1981 NH Bomber Crash Pilot Error?

HISTORY MATTERS (Part 2 of 2)

The official USAF Mishap Report determined that the 1981 crash of an FB-111A was caused by "incorrect" actions of the pilot. But questions still linger. Could mechanical failure have caused the near catastrophic accident in a crowded housing complex in Portsmouth, NH?

The Stones of Monhegan

AS I PLEASE

A trip to an island in Maine reveals a strange phenomenon. The stones seem to stand by themselves, in unique clusters. You have never seen this before and as you spend time on Monheghan, you begin to understand.

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