The Placenames of Portsmouth (The Placenames of America)

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The business of naming is as old as language itself. The names a town bestows on its rivers and river banks, streets, buildings and other landmarks provide a window into the soul of that town, in the course of the history it chooses to celebrate. In 1623, the first settlers arrived in what would sooner or later be referred to as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Native Americans in these parts already had a name for the swift flowing Piscataqua River. The settlers took over from there. Delighted with the vegetation they discovered, they named their new home Strawbery Banke. Sign up for Portsmouth author, artist and amateur historian Nancy Grossman for an informative and entertaining stroll in the course of the town’s historic South End and downtown, its Victorian neighborhoods and the newer streets of the 20 th century – and beyond. 466 Streets, 253 Images, 16 Maps Meet a colorful array of Portsmouth’s citizens – heroes, heroines, on a regular basis folks and pillars of the community, even the atypical scoundrel. Visitors from ‘away’ have made their mark too, but let there be no mistake – this can be a Portsmouth story, through and through.

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