Dover History
Dover is the oldest continuous settlement in New Hampshire and the seventh oldest in the United States. The permanent settlement occurred in what is now the Dover Neck area. For a few years Dover was an independent colony named Northam. In 1692 Northam became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The original township of Dover included the present towns of Dover, Durham, Lee, Madbury, Somersworth, Rollinsford, and parts of Newmarket, Newington, and Greenland.
Dover has always used the Cocheco and Bellamy Rivers to its economic advantage. The first use of the water power of the Cocheco River was in 1642, when a sawmill was built. In the 1700s Dover had an extensive shipbuilding industry. By 1830, the city had become a leading manufacturer of cotton goods in the country, using the river to power several mills. Later in the nineteenth century, a brick industry flourished and shoe manufacturing developed in the 1900's.
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- A History of Fires in Dover
- A Whale In Dover
- A Yarn to Follow: The Dover Cotton Factory 1812—1821
- Brick Making in Dover
- Calamity on the Cocheco
- Christine Otis Baker, captured by Indians
- Dover's First Hanging
- Dover's Trade with the West Indies
- Dover Historical Dates
- Dover Public Library History
- Dover Streets and Squares
- Fire at the Insane Asylum
- Fire at the Strafford County Farm Poor House
- Fiske Brick Plant
- Flu Epidemic of 1918 Strikes Dover
- Garrisons around Dover
- General Questions of Cotton Mill Fires
- Historical Sketch, Views and Business Directory of Dover, N.H.
- Historic Infrastructural Timeline of Dover, NH
- History Of Dover Schools
- John Williams and Dover's Mills
- Marilla Marks Ricker
- Middlebrook Farms
- Millworker - Mr. Daniel Buckley
- Millworker - Mr. James Rogers
- Millworker - Mr. Thomas Cash
- Nellie Brown Mitchell
- Pacific Mills Hospital
- Railroads Coming into Dover
- Report on the Cocheco Mill Fire
- Samuel Slater's Mill Machinery
- Sarah Low Civil War Nurse
- Shipping in Dover
- Sketch of Dover, NH
- Enslaved People in Dover
- Strafford County Court House
- Strafford Guards
- The Blowing Up of Andy Kimball
- The Cloth Manufacturing Process--3. Carding
- The Cloth Manufacturing Process--4. Drawing Frame
- The Cloth Manufacturing Process--2. Pickers
- The Dover Combination
- The Cloth Manufacturing Process--1. Opening
- The Philistine Marilla Ricker
- The Roberts Farm
- The Strike of the Mill Girls
- The Temperance Movement
- William Gookin