The Seacoast New Hampshire: A Visual History

The New Hampshire Seacoast: A Visual History encompasses three and a half centuries of the region's past. Beginning with the early settlements of English colonists in Dover, Hampton, Exeter, and Portsmouth, this book covers pioneering commercial activities such as seafaring, and lumbering which provided a living for the first settlers. A section on eighteenth-century seacoast New Hampshire emphasizes the pre-eminence of the Wentworth family, a political triumph overshadowed by the turbulence caused by the growing crisis in relations with Britain. The American Revolution brought the capture of Fort William and Mary by local patriots and the overthrow of royal government. With the removal of the state capital from Portsmouth, political power in the seacoast diminished. The rise of the textile industry brought new live...The authors have searched through photographs housed in libraries, historical societies, and private collections in order to illustrated these dramatic changes in the history of one of New England's most beautiful regions.