Portsmouth, New Hampshire was defined from the
very beginning by the Piscataqua River and has seemed to rise and fall with her
tides for the past 400 years.
A city, teaming with history, from the War of Independence through to both World Wars, on a visit to Portsmouth, you’ll frequently see and hear the names
Wentworth, Langdon, Whipple – a signer of the Declaration of Independence – as
well as more familiar ones like Jones, Paul Revere and Theodore Roosevelt. You will
see and hear the diverse voices of women, free and enslaved black men and
immigrants from around the world who arrived at this thriving, and influential,
port city.
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Portsmouth, making it one of the oldest cities in the USA.