Durham, New Hampshire
Town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Dover, New Hampshire
City in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.
One of the colony's four original townships, it then included Durham, Madbury, Newington, Lee, Somersworth and Rollinsford.
Piscataqua River
Not to be confused with Piscataquog River.
Once salmon, sturgeon, oysters, clams, scallops, lobsters, mussels, eels, seals, and many others species of marine life were common in the river, evidenced by such tributaries as the Salmon Falls River, Sturgeon Creek and Seal Rock in Eliot, Maine, the Oyster River in Durham, New Hampshire, and the Lamprey River in Newmarket, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire
State in the New England region of the United States.
By 1631, the Upper Plantation comprised modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham; in 1679, it became the "Royal Province".
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
Founded and incorporated in 1866, as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College.
In 1893, NHC moved to Durham, where it became the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1923, by an act of the New Hampshire General Court.
King William's War
The North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.
On July 18, 1694, French soldier Claude-Sébastien de Villieu with about 250 Abenakis from Norridgewock under command of their sagamore (paramount chief) Bomazeen (or Bomoseen) raided the English settlement of Durham, New Hampshire, in the Oyster River Massacre.
John Sullivan (general)
American General in the Revolutionary War winning several key battles most notably the Delaware crossing.
He began the practice of law in 1763 at Berwick, now in Maine, and continued in the practice when he moved to Durham, New Hampshire, in 1764.
Oyster River (New Hampshire)
17 mi river in Strafford County, southeastern New Hampshire, United States.
It rises in Barrington, flows southeast to Lee, then east-southeast in a serpentine course past Durham to meet the entrance of Great Bay into Little Bay.
Newmarket, New Hampshire
Town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Some residents are students and employees at the nearby University of New Hampshire in Durham.