| Page Views: 194 Last Visit to Portsmouth: October, 2008 | More Behind the sign by BruceDunning - last update: Oct 20, 2008 |
Depicting the begininng of our country's time | They do really welcome you with splendor |
With a current day population of 21,000, this medium sized town is rather quaint and easy to manuever around to see the sites. There is also shopping in entrepreneurial specialties, and the walking to see first hand the wonderful buildings and preservation is the key item of why you are here, I hope. It has been said this town is the 3rd oldest, and has been a prime seaport for years, starting arounf 1640's. They also were a large shipbuilding port for a century, or so |
| Still a place to dock the sail boat |
|  | The bay is serene and peaceful The bay is the -anchor,so to speak of the town. It had been an active seaport and ship building town until the demand from mill towns wained and the fish were depleted. Situated on the Piscataqua River helped move goods to the port. The town carried on with a Navy yard close by in Kittery and took some time, but converted to, of all things a tourist town. |
| Typical row of old homes in neighborhood |
| | Federal, Colonial and Georgian Styles The variety of the style of homes impressed me, as well as the great preservation that the town and its people did to keep the community looking as if it came back from the mid 1700-1800's. |
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| Pros: | "Many fine homes to tour and buildings plus shopping" | | Cons: | "Not too much I can recite as dislikes-maybe tourists" | | In A Nutshell: | "This is a nice town that has gone into renovation to peak" |
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LoriPori Tue Oct 27, 2009 17:36 UTC
Gotta love Portsmouth. We attended a big VT Meet there in September 2007 and we also stayed at the Motel 6 -great location. | kenHuocj Fri Aug 7, 2009 07:55 UTC
not too far a long weekend for us, so thanks for tips ;-))) | Rich62 Thu Jul 2, 2009 03:29 UTC
We will be visiting Portsmouth in September (from Nebraska) so we really enjoyed your informative pages. Thanks much. | hunterV Thu Feb 5, 2009 18:43 UTC
Hello, Bruce! Thanx for your virtual tour! |
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