• Foreword - Jeffrey H. Taylor, Director, NH Office of State Planning

Project Benefactors

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction - W. Jeffrey Bolster, Editor

The Piscataqua Region: An Ecological Overview - Richard Ober

Tidal writers: the ebb and flow of piscataqua literature - David H. Watters

A sampler of piscataqua writers
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1869)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1881)
Esther Buffler (1988)
Joe Coomer (1995)
Theodore Weesner (2000)

The Isles of Shoals
The Isles of shoals - Maryellen Burke
Local Small Craft: The Hampton Boat, Isles of Shoals Boat & the Piscataqua Wherry - Nicholas B. Brown

Seabrook
Seabrook and Seabrook Station - Peter E. Randall
The clamshell alliance - Michael Gowell

Hampton & North Hampton
Hampton: Town and Beach - Peter E. Randall
Clamming - Dean Merchant

Rye
Odiorne Point: Four Centuries of Land Use - Louise H. Tallman
Fort Dearborn - Tom Mansfield
Lifesaving in the Piscataqua Region - Jeffrey H. Taylor

New Castle
Great Island - W. Jeffrey Bolster
Fort Constitution (Fort William & Mary) - Tom Mansfield
A Short Row from Portsmouth to Revolution - Jeffrey H.Taylor
Fort Stark - Tom Mansfield
Lighthouses of the Piscataqua - Jeffrey H. Taylor
Wentworth-by-the-Sea - Nicholas B. Brown

Portsmouth
Charting the Piscataqua - Karen Alexander
The Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion - Molly Bolster
The Urban Forestry Center - W. Jeffrey Bolster
Strawbery Banke - John Mayer
Puddle Dock - Michael Gowell
From Piers to A Park - Sandra L. DeChard
Contemporary ship operations in Portsmouth - Nicholas B. Brown
The Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden - Barbara McLean Ward
The MacPheadris-Warner House - W. Jeffrey Bolster
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - Richard E. Winslow III
Guidebooks to the Piscataqua Region - Sarah Giffen Rooker
Fishing and Lobstering - Robert Alex Robertson and Madeleine Hall-Arber
The Portsmouth AthenÊum - Jane Porter
John Paul Jones and the Ranger - J. Dennis Robinson
Atlantic Heights: A World War I Shipbuilders’ Suburb - Richard M. Candee

Newington
Shipbuilding - William B. Leavenworth
Bridges of the Piscataqua Bridges - James L. Garvin
The five faces of Newington - W. Jeffrey Bolster

Greenland
Greenland and the Winnicut River - Paul F. Hughes
Gundalows - Michael Gowell
Ice Fishing - Michael Gowell
The Great Bay Coast Watch - Sharon Meeker

Stratham
Stuart Farm - Lorraine S. Merrill
Developmental Pressures in the Piscataqua Region - W. Jeffrey Bolster
Sandy Point Discovery Center and The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Kelle MacKenzie

Exeter
Exeter is a Seaport - Carol Walker Aten
American Independence Museum - Carol Walker Aten
Eels and Eeling - Michael Gowell
Exeter’s Alewives - Carol Walker Aten

Newmarket
Newmarket, NH: Defining Community - Suki Casanave
Sneak Floats and Market Gunning - Michael Gowell
Oystering on the Bay - W. Jeffrey Bolster
The Lamprey River - Karen Alexander
Siltation and Dredging: A Historical and Ecological Look - Matthew Bampton

Durham
Oyster River - Charles E. Clark
Adams Point and the Jackson Estuarine Laboratory - W. Jeffrey Bolster
Race and Place in the Piscataqua Region - W. Jeffrey Bolster
The Ffrost House: Contemporary Commercial Use of a Historic Building - Catherine A. Vaillancourt
Defeating the Onassis Refinery - Dudley Dudley
Wagon Hill Farm - Charles E. Clark

Dover
The Mills in Dover - Cathleen C. Beaudoin
Bud McIntosh: Piscataqua Boatbuilder - Michael Gowell

Rollinsford
Fresh Creek and Sligo Landing - Peter Michaud

South Berwick
First People: Native Americans in the Piscataqua Region - Robert G. Goodby
The Great Works River and Humphrey Chadbourne - Emerson W. Baker
Hamilton House - Peter Michaud

Eliot
Masting on the Piscataqua, 1641–1815 - William B. Leavenworth
Long Reach and The Narrows - Nicholas B. Brown

York
York River, The John Hancock Warehouse, and Marshall Store - Nicholas B. Brown
Sewall’s Bridge and Elizabeth Perkins House - Tom Johnson
“Up River” - Tom Johnson
York’s history of land conservation - Helen Winebaum
Sayward-Wheeler House - Ursula S. Wright

Kittery
Rock Rest: African Americans Vacationing by the Sea - Valerie Cunningham
Fort McClary (Pepperellís Fort) - Tom Mansfield
Fort Foster - Tom Mansfield
Pepperrell Cove - Michael Gowell
Hendersonís Point - Nicholas B. Brown
Sea Point Beach and the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge - Robert Andersen

Epilogue: Sustaining a Sense of Place - W. Jeffrey Bolster

Fold-out Map of the Piscataqua Region