Exeter, New Hampshire Exeter, New Hampshire Water Street in downtown Exeter Water Street in downtown Exeter Official seal of Exeter, New Hampshire Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
The town's populace was 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the governmental center of county until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood.
Home to the Phillips Exeter Academy, a private university-preparatory school, Exeter is situated where the Exeter River feeds the tidal Squamscott River.
Enumeration Bureau as the Exeter census-designated place.
Exeter is titled after the historic town/city in Devon, England.
The region was once the domain of the Squamscott Native Americans, a sub-tribe of the Pennacook nation, which fished at the falls where the Exeter River becomes the tidal Squamscott, the site around which the future town of Exeter would grow.
On July 4, 1639, 35 freemen of Exeter signed the Exeter Combination, a document written by Reverend Wheelwright to establish their own government. The pioneer hunted, planted and fished.
This foundry was established inside the first season of settling in Exeter, and his son Humphrey assumed control of the foundry in 1643, when Thomas died. Some early Exeter pioneer came from Hingham, Massachusetts, including the Gilman, Folsom and Leavitt families. In 1647, Edward Gilman, Jr.
The Gilman Garrison House, a National Historic Landmark, and the American Independence Museum were both former homes of the Gilman family. The Gilman family also donated the territory on which Phillips Exeter Academy stands, including the Academy's initial Yard, the earliest part of campus. The Gilmans of Exeter also furnished America with one of its beginning fathers, Nicholas Gilman, and the state of New Hampshire with treasurers, a governor, delegates to the General Assembly and judges to the General Court. A Declaration of Rights and Plan of Government for the State of New-Hampshire, adopted by New Hampshire Convention at Exeter, June 1779 Enforcing a blockade against the French, Nelson offered ship Captain Stephen Gilman of Exeter a glass of wine and paid him for his cargo in Spanish dollars. The trip demonstrates how far away the ambitious merchants of Exeter reached in their trading forays.
In 1774 the rebellious Provincial Congress began to meet in the Exeter Town House after Colonial Governor John Wentworth banned it from the colonial capitol at Portsmouth.
In July 1775, the Provincial Congress had the provincial records seized from royal officials in Portsmouth and brought to Exeter as well.
And so Exeter became New Hampshire's capital, an honor it held for 14 years. In 1827, the Exeter Manufacturing Company was established beside the river, using water power to produce cotton textiles.
In 1836, the last schooner was launched at Exeter.
According to former governor Hugh Gregg, the United States Republican Party was born in Exeter on October 12, 1853, at the Squamscott Hotel at a secret meeting of Amos Tuck with other abolitionists.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, visited Exeter in 1860.
His son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was attending Phillips Exeter Academy, the college preliminary school established in 1781 by Dr.
The town was also once home to the Robinson Female Seminary, established in 1867 and previously known as the Exeter Female Academy (established in 1826).
In September 1965 Exeter earned a place in UFO history when two Exeter police officers, Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, witnessed a bright red UFO at close range with a small-town teenager, Norman Muscarello.
Their sighting thriving nationwide publicity and became the focus of a bestselling book, Incident at Exeter, by journalist John G.
Exeter has a considerable inventory of structures by prominent architects.
Arthur Gilman, descendant of one of Exeter's beginning families, designed the Old Town Hall of 1855.
The Old Public Library of 1894, which now is home to the Exeter Historical Society, was designed by the Boston firm of Rotch & Tilden.
His firm of Cram & Ferguson designed the entire Phillips Exeter Academy ground between 1908 and 1950.
Daniel Chester French, sculptor and Exeter native, created the town's war memorial in 1922.
He is best known for his statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.at the Lincoln Memorial, which was designed by Henry Bacon, who also designed in 1916 the Swasey Pavilion at Exeter's town square.
The latter was assembled by Edward Mayer, an Exeter judge and resident.
Phillips Exeter in 1910 Current photograph of Exeter Town Hall - Sept 2008 Phillips Exeter Academy, c.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 20.0 square miles (52 km2), of which 19.6 sq mi (51 km2) is territory and 0.4 sq mi (1.0 km2) is water, comprising 1.85% of the town.
Exeter is drained by the Exeter River, which feeds the Squamscott River.
The highest point in Exeter is 250 feet (76 m) above sea level on Great Hill at the town's southwest corner.
Exeter lies fully inside the Piscataqua River (Coastal) watershed. Exeter High School In the town, the age distribution of the populace was 22.6% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 22.5% from 25 to 44, 30.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Amtrak Downeaster stops at Exeter, providing passenger rail service to Portland and Boston.
Company moved to Exeter.
Main article: List of citizens from Exeter, New Hampshire List of newspapers in New Hampshire in the 18th century: Exeter Exeter Congregational Church, established 1638 The Exeter Historical Society & Museum Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter High School a b United States Enumeration Bureau, American Fact - Finder, 2010 Enumeration figures.
History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire.
John Leavitt, beginning deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, was granted territory in Exeter in 1652, but there is no sign that he took up residence.
But his sons Moses and Samuel Leavitt moved to Exeter, presumably to be closer to their maternal grandfather, Edward Gilman Sr."WALF Memoriam to the Children of John Leavitt and Sarah Gilman, Hingham Cemetery, Hingham, Massachusetts".
"Exeter - Its History".
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Exeter town, Rockingham County, New Hampshire".
"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2007-2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Exeter town, Rockingham County, New Hampshire".
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Exeter CDP, New Hampshire".
"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2007-2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Exeter CDP, New Hampshire".
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Images of America: Exeter, Carol Walker Aten; Arcadia Publishers, Dover, NH, 1996, reprint 1998 Postcards from Exeter, Carol Walker Aten; Arcadia Publishers, Dover, NH, 2003 Randall, Publisher, Exeter, NH 1986, 2004 Exeter Municipalities and communities of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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