Exeter: Phillips Academy and the Revolutionary War Capital
Exeter is a Rockingham County town of about 9,200, settled in 1638 as one of the four original towns of New Hampshire. For a nine-year period during the American Revolution, Exeter served as the state capital while royal authorities held Portsmouth. The New Hampshire Constitution was drafted in Exeter in 1776, making it one of the earliest state constitutions adopted after independence.
Phillips Exeter Academy, founded in 1781 by John Phillips, is one of the oldest and most academically selective independent secondary schools in the United States. Its campus of roughly 671 acres along Front Street and Elm Street occupies a significant portion of central Exeter. The school's Harkness Table method, developed in the 1930s after a gift from oil magnate Edward Harkness, anchors its pedagogy and has been adopted by secondary schools internationally.
The American Independence Museum, located in the Ladd-Gilman House and Folsom Tavern on Water Street, preserves the building where Exeter's role as the revolutionary capital was based. Ioka Theater, on Water Street, operated as a movie theater from 1915 until 2008 and remains part of the downtown streetscape. The Squamscott River, which forms the eastern edge of the downtown, was once navigable to Exeter from the Atlantic via Great Bay, a factor in the town's colonial-era commercial development.
Escort websites covering Exeter and the southern Seacoast region are reviewed and indexed on Escortservice.com. The platform is a directory only. It does not arrange meetings, verify any form of licensing, or operate as a middleman. Users must be 21 or older.
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Exeter is a Rockingham County town of about 9,200, settled in 1638 as one of the four original towns of New Hampshire. For a nine-year period during the American Revolution, Exeter served as the state capital while royal authorities held Portsmouth. The New Hampshire Constitution was drafted in Exeter in 1776, making it one of the earliest state constitutions adopted after independence.
Phillips Exeter Academy, founded in 1781 by John Phillips, is one of the oldest and most academically selective independent secondary schools in the United States. Its campus of roughly 671 acres along Front Street and Elm Street occupies a significant portion of central Exeter. The school's Harkness Table method, developed in the 1930s after a gift from oil magnate Edward Harkness, anchors its pedagogy and has been adopted by secondary schools internationally.
The American Independence Museum, located in the Ladd-Gilman House and Folsom Tavern on Water Street, preserves the building where Exeter's role as the revolutionary capital was based. Ioka Theater, on Water Street, operated as a movie theater from 1915 until 2008 and remains part of the downtown streetscape. The Squamscott River, which forms the eastern edge of the downtown, was once navigable to Exeter from the Atlantic via Great Bay, a factor in the town's colonial-era commercial development.
Escort websites covering Exeter and the southern Seacoast region are reviewed and indexed on Escortservice.com. The platform is a directory only. It does not arrange meetings, verify any form of licensing, or operate as a middleman. Users must be 21 or older.
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