| Portsmouth
(New Hampshire) is a city in Rockingham County. Portsmouth is located in southeastern New Hampshire. It is a
seaport on the Atlantic Ocean and on the Piscataqua River, opposite
Kittery, Maine; settled 1623, incorporated as a city 1849. It is a
commercial, manufacturing, fishing, and tourist center. Products include
processed seafood, electronic equipment, cable, gypsum goods, and
industrial machinery. The great Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (situated in
Kittery) is important to the local economy. Points of interest include Strawbery
Banke, a restoration of the settlement as it was in colonial times;
the Richard Jackson House (circa 1664); and the John Paul Jones House
(1758), where the naval hero lived in 1777 while his ship, the Ranger, was
being built. The community, named for Portsmouth, England, was the capital
of colonial New Hampshire. The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the
Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1905. |
