Dover: The Cochecho River and Four Centuries of Settlement
Dover is the oldest permanent European settlement in New Hampshire, founded in 1623. It sits on the Cochecho River where that waterway joins the Piscataqua about ten miles upstream from Portsmouth and the Atlantic. With a population around 32,000, Dover is the largest city in the Seacoast region outside of Portsmouth itself and anchors Strafford County.
The Cochecho Falls provided the waterpower that drove the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, a textile and printworks operation that ran from the 1820s through the 1930s. At its peak the Cocheco Print Works produced some of the most widely circulated printed cottons in the country. The surviving mill buildings along Central Avenue and Washington Street have been adapted into offices, apartments, and restaurants, and the Cochecho Falls Millworks complex is on the National Register.
The Woodman Institute Museum, founded in 1916, occupies four historic buildings and holds colonial-era weapons, natural history specimens, and the William Damm Garrison, a 1675 fortified house moved to the site. The Children's Museum of New Hampshire relocated to Dover in 2008 and occupies a former mill building on Washington Street. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, although located across the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine, employs many Dover residents and shapes the local economy. Dover sits on the main Amtrak Downeaster route between Boston and Brunswick, Maine.
Escort sites covering Dover and the Seacoast region are reviewed and indexed on Escortservice.com. The platform is a directory and only a directory; it does not set up meetings, confirm any licensure, or operate as a go-between. Users must be 21 or older.
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Dover is the oldest permanent European settlement in New Hampshire, founded in 1623. It sits on the Cochecho River where that waterway joins the Piscataqua about ten miles upstream from Portsmouth and the Atlantic. With a population around 32,000, Dover is the largest city in the Seacoast region outside of Portsmouth itself and anchors Strafford County.
The Cochecho Falls provided the waterpower that drove the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, a textile and printworks operation that ran from the 1820s through the 1930s. At its peak the Cocheco Print Works produced some of the most widely circulated printed cottons in the country. The surviving mill buildings along Central Avenue and Washington Street have been adapted into offices, apartments, and restaurants, and the Cochecho Falls Millworks complex is on the National Register.
The Woodman Institute Museum, founded in 1916, occupies four historic buildings and holds colonial-era weapons, natural history specimens, and the William Damm Garrison, a 1675 fortified house moved to the site. The Children's Museum of New Hampshire relocated to Dover in 2008 and occupies a former mill building on Washington Street. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, although located across the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine, employs many Dover residents and shapes the local economy. Dover sits on the main Amtrak Downeaster route between Boston and Brunswick, Maine.
Escort sites covering Dover and the Seacoast region are reviewed and indexed on Escortservice.com. The platform is a directory and only a directory; it does not set up meetings, confirm any licensure, or operate as a go-between. Users must be 21 or older.
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