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“Hardly any other medical name in New Hampshire stands out brighter than that of Hall Jackson,” according to an online medical encyclopedia,

It all started with a hotdog at Gilley's

Amid a pandemic, trapped indoors, a virtual team of historians tracks a one-of-a-kind theater cast image found on eBay

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the new decade began, we had no clue what was coming. This article appeared in December 2019 as COVID lurked only a few months over the horizon.  400 years ago Portsmouth has a love-hate relationship with the arrival of the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620. This city likes to …

Wait a minute. Before you start designing your company float for the city’s next anniversary celebration, answer this question: Was Portsmouth actually founded in 1623? And no, that big rock with the carved date at the foot of Market Street does not prove a thing. Rocks can lie. Historians …

On Star Island, the Caswell family dominated the harsh fishing village in the 19th century. Hardworking and hard-drinking, they scraped out a living on the Isles of Shoals for generations. Then, in 1873, the Caswells and all the citizens of Gosport Village, NH disappeared./ From Thomas …

I happened to be among those passing the intersection of Chestnut and Court streets

Even local historians stare back blankly when asked about Estwick Evans.

Inside the mind of 12-year-old Celia Thaxter

The 2017 fire scarred the historic corner of State and Pleasant streets and almost took out my old aparemtn!