Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Official seal of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
State New Hampshire Hampton Falls (formerly the Third Parish and Hampton falls) is a New England town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
A map of the center of what is now Hampton Falls in 1638 The territory of Hampton Falls was first settled by Europeans in 1638, the same time as Hampton, which it was then part of.
The settlement of Hampton joined Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, in 1643, along with Exeter, Dover, Portsmouth, and Salisbury and Haverhill of Massachusetts.
The county existed until 1679, when the modern-day New Hampshire suburbs separated from Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was not until 1709 that the town was officially established as the Third Parish of Hampton.
The Third Parish originally consisted of all territory south of the Taylor River and north of the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, or the modern-day suburbs of Seabrook, Kensington, and Hampton Falls.
Forty-nine members of the Hampton Church were dismissed late in 1711, only to turn into members of the new church in the Third Parish.
The first town meeting was held and town records began that year also.
The 7,400-acre (30 km2) town received its grant as an autonomous town with the name "Hampton falls" in 1726, but was still referred to as a church until the Revolutionary War.
An attempt was made in 1732 to separate the portion of Hampton falls and make it a church of Kingston.
Two-hundred and fourteen citizens of Hampton Falls perished, 96 of them being under the age of ten.
Seventy-two citizens wanted Hampton Falls (which then encompassed Seabrook and Kensington) to turn into a part of Massachusetts in 1739, including Meshech Weare, but the proposal floundered in the end.
In 1765, the Presbyterians of the town wanted to form a new church in the southern portion of the town, where a church of their religion existed.
A town meeting was held on December 30 when the rest of the villagers learned of the Presbyterians' plans, and it was decided that the town would be separated into two.
Hampton Falls was considered one of the dominant manufacturing suburbs in the entire state of New Hampshire around the time of 1770. A plan to unite Seabrook and portions of Hampton Falls together was thought up in 1782.
The town would've been called New Hampton Falls, but Hampton Falls was prosperous in making the proposal fail.
In 1835, the town of Hampton Falls had a new meeting-house erected.
Another, more harsh earthquake also hit Hampton Falls on November 18, 1755, causing more, but not a lot of damage. Hampton Falls borders Kensington to the west, Exeter and Hampton to the north, and Seabrook to the south.
The highest point in town is the summit of Great Hill, at 230 feet (70 m) above sea level), just north of the Weare mills on the Hampton Falls River, at an altitude of 61 feet (19 m) above sea level. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 12.5 square miles (32.4 km2), of which 12.2 sq mi (31.6 km2) is territory and 0.3 sq mi (0.78 km2) is water, comprising 2.4% of the town.
Hampton Falls lies fully inside the Piscataqua River (Coastal) watershed. Route 1, New Hampshire Route 84 and New Hampshire Route 88.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 30.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to State figures, "Population in Hampton Falls tripled over the last fifty years, burgeoning above the statewide average rate in three of the five decades.
Population in Hampton Falls interval by a total of 1,251 residents, going from 629 in 1950 to 1,880 inhabitants in 2000." Like many New England towns, Hampton Falls has a town meeting/board of selectmen form of government.
Town meeting is held annually in the school auditorium, and elections are conducted using a New Hampshire Senate Bill 2 system. Once a farming and lumbering community, the various falls on the Taylor River provided water power for mills operating inside the town.
Currently, the Lincoln Akerman School is the only enhance school in town.
High school students attend Winnacunnet High School in the neighboring town of Hampton. Heronfield Academy, a private Episcopal middle school, is positioned on Exeter Road on the border of Hampton Falls and Exeter. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
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