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Location in Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire.
State New Hampshire New Castle is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
The populace was 968 at the 2010 census. It is the smallest and easternmost town in New Hampshire, and the only one positioned entirely on islands.
It is home to Fort Constitution Historic Site, Fort Stark Historic Site, and the New Castle Common, a 31-acre (13 ha) recreation region on the Atlantic Ocean.
New Castle is also home to a United States Coast Guard station, as well as the historic Wentworth by the Sea hotel.
The chief island on which the town sits is the biggest of a several at the mouth of the Piscataqua River and was originally called Great Island.
Settled in 1623, an earthwork defense was assembled on Fort Point which would evolve into Fort William and Mary (rebuilt in 1808 as Fort Constitution).
Chartered in 1679 as a church of Portsmouth, it was incorporated in 1693 and titled New Castle after the fort.
News of it traveled throughout America and England.
Within a several years, accusations of witchcraft would occur in other New England towns, culminating in the famous witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.:177-201 Fort William and Mary was the site of one of the first acts of the American Revolution.
A new route to the island was created in 1821 when three bridges (now two bridges and a causeway) connected Frame Point in Portsmouth with the northwestern corner of Great Island.
Previously, a bridge on the southwestern point had been the only way to reach New Castle without a boat.
When President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War, envoys from both countries stayed at the Wentworth by the Sea, ferried by launch to negotiations held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2), of which 0.8 sq mi (2.1 km2) is territory and 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km2) is water, comprising 65.13% of the town. New Castle is situated in an archipelago, consisting of one chief island (Great Island) and a several smaller islands surrounded by the Piscataqua River and Atlantic Ocean.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 17.8% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 20.8% from 25 to 44, 34.0% from 45 to 64, and 24.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $83,708, and the median income for a family was $93,290.
New Castle was New Hampshire's wealthiest town in terms of median per capita income.
Fort Constitution State Historic Site Fort Stark State Historic Site New Castle Historical Society & Museum Portsmouth Harbor Light (or Fort Point Light) a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): New Castle town, Rockingham County, New Hampshire".
A History and Description of New England.
Piscataqua Pioneers: Selected Biographies of Early Settlers in Northern New England, pp.
The Devil of Great Island, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007.
John Albee, New Castle, Historic and Picturesque; Cupples, Upham & Company, Boston, Massachusetts 1884 Brewster & Son; Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1859 Kehr, "The Seizure of his Majesty's Fort William and Mary at New Castle, New Hampshire, December 14 15, 1774," Essays and Articles, New Hampshire Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at Piscataqua Pioneers: Selected Biographies of Early Settlers in Northern New England, Piscataqua Pioneers, 2000 History of New Castle, New Hampshire, 1984.
Town of New Castle official website New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile Seacoast Forts of Portsmouth Harbor from American Forts Network New Castle, NH Historical Society website New Castle Municipalities and communities of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States Atkinson Auburn Brentwood Candia Chester Danville Deerfield Derry East Kingston Epping Exeter Fremont Greenland Hampstead Hampton Hampton Falls Kensington Kingston Londonderry New Castle Newfields Newington Newmarket Newton North Hampton Northwood Nottingham Plaistow Raymond Rye Salem Sandown Seabrook South Hampton Stratham Windham
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Towns in Rockingham County, New Hampshire - Populated places established in 1623 - 1623 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies - Towns in New Hampshire - Populated coastal places in New Hampshire - New Castle, New Hampshire
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