Portsmouth: The Colonial Seaport and the Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth is New Hampshire's only ocean-accessible city, founded in 1623 at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. With a population of about 22,000, it is smaller than Nashua or Manchester but carries an outsized cultural presence because of its four hundred years of continuous settlement and its role as the colonial-era center of New Hampshire government. The city served as the provincial capital until the state government moved permanently to Concord in 1808.
Strawbery Banke Museum occupies ten acres in the South End and preserves more than thirty buildings dating from 1695 to 1950 on their original sites. The museum is a working outdoor museum where costumed interpreters demonstrate trades and household life across four centuries. Market Square, the triangular public space at the intersection of Market, Daniel, Pleasant, and Congress streets, has been the commercial heart of Portsmouth since the seventeenth century.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located on Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua, is technically in Kittery, Maine, but has been economically and socially tied to Portsmouth since it was established in 1800. It was the first federal navy yard and has built or serviced submarines since the early twentieth century. The Piscataqua River is the second-fastest navigable tidal river in North America, and shipping still moves through the port to oil terminals and salt piles on both banks.
The city was the site of the 1905 signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War and earned President Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize. Negotiations took place at the shipyard. The Treaty of Portsmouth Trail now marks locations associated with the diplomatic event.
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Portsmouth is New Hampshire's only ocean-accessible city, founded in 1623 at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. With a population of about 22,000, it is smaller than Nashua or Manchester but carries an outsized cultural presence because of its four hundred years of continuous settlement and its role as the colonial-era center of New Hampshire government. The city served as the provincial capital until the state government moved permanently to Concord in 1808.
Strawbery Banke Museum occupies ten acres in the South End and preserves more than thirty buildings dating from 1695 to 1950 on their original sites. The museum is a working outdoor museum where costumed interpreters demonstrate trades and household life across four centuries. Market Square, the triangular public space at the intersection of Market, Daniel, Pleasant, and Congress streets, has been the commercial heart of Portsmouth since the seventeenth century.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located on Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua, is technically in Kittery, Maine, but has been economically and socially tied to Portsmouth since it was established in 1800. It was the first federal navy yard and has built or serviced submarines since the early twentieth century. The Piscataqua River is the second-fastest navigable tidal river in North America, and shipping still moves through the port to oil terminals and salt piles on both banks.
The city was the site of the 1905 signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War and earned President Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize. Negotiations took place at the shipyard. The Treaty of Portsmouth Trail now marks locations associated with the diplomatic event.
Escortservice.com reviews and lists escort websites covering Portsmouth and the Seacoast region. The site is a directory only. It does not arrange meetings, verify any form of licensing, or act as a middleman in any capacity. Users must be 21 or older.
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