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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1614   John Smith maps New England   exploration, map, Indians
1615   seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine exact date not known fish, New Hampshire, Maine, settlement
1689   Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH The attack on Waldon's garrison was in part retaliation for a double cross at the end of King Philip's War. Indian, Philip, NH
1704   Deerfield Massacre A winter raid resulted in the deaths or captivities of three-fifths of the town's inhabitants. The attacking force included men from Odanak and Schaghiticoke, where many New England refugees had gathered after King Philip's War. Indians, French, frontier, captivity" Philip
1774   In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire   powder revolution
1802   Reprint of Phillis Wheatley's poems published in NH    
1850   45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont   population distribution
1850   Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"   old man, profile" mountain
1879   The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House See the Old State House time-line on the Bostonian Society Web site revolution
1881   Nantucket's Coffin House restored   maritime, museum, summer
1887   Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison" In 1915, she donated it to Dover, New Hampshire's new "Woodman Institute." Indian wars, door, museum
1930   Nantucket Whaling Museum opened   maritime
1958   Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH In 1957 Dorothy M. Vaughan, Portsmouth librarian, was invited to address the local Rotary Club. As she later recalled, 'I decided to lay it right on the line, and tell them what Portsmouth was throwing away each time a house was torn down or a piece of furniture was sold out of town.' Almost before she had finished, a committee was created to see what could be done to save Portsmouth's heritage. The result was a radical new combination of urban renewal and historic preservation. The Puddle Dock neighborhood was to be saved as a historic museum.  
2003   Old Man of the Mountains collapses   profile

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