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Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
The USS Albacore was a prototype submarine built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and commissioned in 1953. At the time she was the fastest submarine ever designed.
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1756 - First Newspaper in New Hampshire
The first [newspaper] in New Hampshire was "The New Hampshire Gazette," printed at Portsmouth in the summer of 1756.
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1761 - First regular U.S. stagecoach run is begun, from Boston to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996
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1774 - December 14 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary
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History of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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1813 - Devastating fire in Portsmouth
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1854 - Portsmouth
Portsmouth, a city, port of entry, and semi-capital of Rockingham county, New Hampshire, 54 miles N. by E. from Boston, is situated on the right bank ... Read MORE...
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1854 - The Destructive Gale - Its Effects at the East.
...The depot of the Concord Railroad at Portsmouth, N. H., was partly torn down by the wind... The New York Times
New York, New York
March 21, 1854
1868 - A female financier in Portsmouth, N. H., recently had her trunk robbed in Boston of one hundred and twenty shares of bank stock of nearly $7,000 value,
and knew nothing about it until the stock had been sold in New York. St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 6, 1868
1870 - A tradesman of Portsmouth, N. H., has advertised in every issue of a paper of that city for the last twenty-two years.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
January 8, 1870
1870 - The funeral of Admiral Farrigut, at Portsmouth, N. H., on the 17th, was attended by a larger concourse of people than ever assembled in that State on a similar occasion.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 27, 1870
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1895 - Portsmouth
Portsmouth, a city, a port of entry, and semi-capital of Rockingham co., N.H., 54 miles N. by E. of Boston, is situated on the right bank of the... Read MORE...
1898 - Received a Painful Wound
Lewis B. Hanson, who has been employed as a blacksmith at the navy yard, met with a painful accident on Friday. He was hammering a bar of steel when... Read MORE...
1898 - SERIOUS ACCIDENT. William Fernald Felled by a Falling Electric Light Pole
The North end was the scene of another terrible accident this morning when William Fernald of Eliot, received injuries that will likely prove... Read MORE...
1904 - Brewing Company Fire
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 17. - The malt house of the Frank Jones Brewing Company's immense plant here was ruined by fire to-day, entailing a loss of... Read MORE...
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1906
Portsmouth, a city, port of entry, and semi-capital of Rockingham co., N.H., 58 miles N. by E. of Boston, is situated on the right bank of the... Read MORE...
1909 - EDWIN HARNDEN KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK. NOON PASSENGER TRAIN FROM BOSTON COLLIDES WITH SHIFTER IN YARD. SEVEN MEN SERIOUSLY INJURED AND ALL THE OTHERS WERE SHAKEN UP IN TODAY'S ACCIDENT.
One of the worst train wrecks that has taken place for many years occurred shortly after noon today, in the Boston and Maine railroad yard, at the... Read MORE...
1939 - May 23 - Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
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May 23, 1939
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1953 - USS Albacore was a prototype submarine built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and commissioned in 1953. At the time she was the fastest submarine ever designed.
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