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History of Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA
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(Salmon Falls) (Sligo)
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Around 1630, the land was part of Dover. The area was first called "Sligo", likely after County Sligo in Ireland.
In 1729 the area was established as a parish called "Summersworth", meaning summer town, because the ministers preached here during the summer. In 1754, it was set off and incorporated as a town by colonial governor Benning Wentworth, although thereafter spelled "Somersworth".
The village of Salmon Falls was founded in 1823 by a group of local investors led by James Rundlet of Portsmouth, who on June 17, 1822, incorporated the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company to manufacture woolen cloth using the power of the Salmon Falls River, a Piscataqua River tributary.
Beginning in the early 1820s, water powered textile mills were established at the larger falls, and the town was divided between them—Great Falls became Somersworth, and Salmon Falls became Rollinsford, incorporated in 1849.
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Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA
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 (Sligo) - Franklin High School, Salmon Falls, N.H., 1908){kind=small}
Franklin High School, Salmon Falls, N.H., 1908
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Salmon Falls Railroad Depot, 1914
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1854 - Rollingsford
ROLLINGSFORD, a new township of Strafford county, New Hampshire, on the Salmon Falls river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad, 71 miles N. E. from Boston, contains 1 bank. The Great Falls branch railroad partly intersect it. Population, 1862.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
ROLLINGSFORD, a new township of Strafford county, New Hampshire, on the Salmon Falls river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad, 71 miles N. E. from Boston, contains 1 bank. The Great Falls branch railroad partly intersect it. Population, 1862.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
1895 - Rollinsford
Rollinsford, a township of Strafford co., N.H. Pop. 1800. It contains SALMON FALLS. Rollinsford Station on the Boston & Maine Railroad is at the junction of the Great Falls Branch, 1 mile W. of Salmon Falls.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
Rollinsford, a township of Strafford co., N.H. Pop. 1800. It contains SALMON FALLS. Rollinsford Station on the Boston & Maine Railroad is at the junction of the Great Falls Branch, 1 mile W. of Salmon Falls.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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