All posts tagged "Portsmouth NH"
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10.4K2bostonThe Great Boston Fire of 1872
In 1871, a Boston fire department engineer name John Damrell traveled to Chicago to examine the smoking ruins of the Great Chicago...
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22.5K8bostonThe 21 New England Colonial and State Capitals
New England cities and towns used to vie for colonial and state capitals the way they now court sports stadiums, with the...
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58.0K30ConnecticutU-Boat Attacks Of World War II: 6 Months of Secret Terror in the Atlantic
On Jan. 13, 1942, German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. From then until...
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13.0K8ConnecticutThe Deadly October Gale of 1841
So many Cape Cod fishermen perished in the Great October Gale of 1841 that the peninsula’s young women refused to court men...
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26.5K4New HampshireThe Mysterious Death of Tobias Lear
Tobias Lear meticulously recorded the details of George Washington’s death, but was strangely silent about the events leading to his own. As...
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8.2K3Crime and ScandalThe Scandalous Wedding of N.H. Gov. John Wentworth
John Wentworth followed his uncle Benning by serving as royal governor of New Hampshire – and by taking a bride in a...
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