49-446: The William Hale House is a historic house at 5 Hale Street in Dover, New Hampshire . Built in 1806, it is one of the few early houses in southeastern New Hampshire for which the architect is known with certainty. It is also the only definitively known work of that architect, Bradbury Johnson, who had a reputation for craftsmanship across the state's Seacoast Region. The house was listed on
98-578: A Privy Councillor and Master of the Court of Wards . When the Civil War broke out, however, Saye was on the committee of safety. He was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Cheshire, and raised a regiment that occupied Oxford. He was a member of the committee of both kingdoms; was mainly responsible for passing the self-denying ordinance through the House of Lords ; and in 1647 stood up for
147-494: A " mock battle " near Cochecho Falls. After discharging their weapons, the Native American warriors were captured. Half were sent to Massachusetts for predations committed during King Philip's War , and seven or eight were hanged, and others were sold into slavery . Local Native Americans deemed innocent were released, but considered the deception a dishonorable breach of hospitality. Thirteen years passed. When colonists thought
196-506: A hereditary aristocracy in the colonies met disfavor in New England . Consequently, the plantation was sold in 1641 to Massachusetts and again named Dover. Because it was an early settlement in Abenaki lands, settlers built fortified log houses called garrisons , inspiring Dover's nickname "The Garrison City." The population and business center shifted from Dover Point to Cochecho Falls on
245-495: A jail nearby. The town was called Dover in 1637 by the new governor, Reverend George Burdett . It was possibly named after Robert Dover , an English lawyer who resisted Puritanism. With the 1639 arrival of Thomas Larkham , however, it was renamed after Northam in Devon , where he had been preacher. But Lord Saye and Sele's group lost interest in their settlements, both here and at Saybrook, Connecticut , when their plan to establish
294-495: A preliminary, from which the governors were to be chosen. After Saye's constitutional idea received a hostile reception, the partners in the colony compromised to obtain colonists. Saye concentrated his energies on the settlement of Providence Island, while spreading disparaging reports about New England, including its climate and land. He soon abandoned his enterprises there and surrendered his rights. The New Hampshire settlements were made over to Massachusetts in 1641, and Sayebrook
343-464: A salt works on the property (salt-making was the principal industry in his hometown of Northwich , England). He also served as Deputy to the General Court (the colonial legislature). The Hiltons' name survives at Hilton Park on Dover Point (originally known as Hilton Point). The colony's original townships included Durham , Madbury , Newington , Lee , Somersworth and Rollinsford . In 1633,
392-708: Is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire , United States. The population was 32,741 at the 2020 census , making it the most populous city in the New Hampshire Seacoast region and the fifth most populous city in New Hampshire . It is the county seat of Strafford County, and home to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, the Woodman Institute Museum , and the Children's Museum of New Hampshire. The city
441-645: Is a public charter high school with about 100 students. It was formerly located in Barrington, New Hampshire . The Seacoast Charter School is a publicly funded elementary/middle school that integrates the arts into the core curriculum. The school was founded in 2004 in Kingston, New Hampshire , and relocated to Dover in 2015. Enrollment in January 2016 was 215 students in grades K–8. In the New Hampshire Senate , Dover
490-468: Is bordered by the town of Newington to the south (across the inlet to Great Bay ), Durham to the south across from where the Bellamy River meets the inlet to Great Bay , Madbury to the southwest, Barrington and Rochester to the northwest, and Somersworth and Rollinsford to the northeast. South Berwick, Maine , lies to the northeast, across the tidal Salmon Falls River , and Eliot, Maine ,
539-661: Is in the 4th District and is currently represented by Democrat David H. Watters . On the New Hampshire Executive Council , Dover is in District 2 and is currently represented by Democrat Cinde Warmington . In the U.S. House of Representatives , Dover is included in New Hampshire's 1st congressional district and is currently represented by Democrat Chris Pappas . Dover is a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections. No Republican presidential nominee has carried Dover since George H. W. Bush 's five-point victory in
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#1733085021484588-637: Is named for Dover, Kent , England. First recorded in its Latinised form of Portus Dubris , the word "Dover" derives from the Brythonic word for "waters" ( dwfr in Middle Welsh ). The same element is present in the word's French ( Douvres ) and Modern Welsh ( Dofr ) forms. The first known European to explore the region was Martin Pring from Bristol , England , in 1603. In 1623, brothers William and Edward Hilton settled at Pomeroy Cove on Dover Point, near
637-623: Is to the east, across the Piscataqua River . The Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (COAST) operates a publicly funded bus network in Dover and surrounding communities in New Hampshire and Maine. C&J Bus Lines is a private intercity bus carrier currently connecting Dover with Boston's South Station and Logan Airport , as well as New York City (via Midtown Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal ). Wildcat Transit , operated by
686-545: The Cochecho River , where its drop of 34 feet (10 m) providing water power for industry (Cochecho means "the rapid foaming water" in the Abenaki language). What is now downtown Dover settlers called Cochecho village. On June 28, 1689, Dover suffered a devastating attack by Native Americans. It was revenge for an incident on September 7, 1676, when 400 Native Americans were tricked by Major Richard Waldron into performing
735-475: The National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It presently serves as the parish house for the adjacent St. Thomas Episcopal Church . The William Hale House is located on the south side of Hale Street, opposite Dover City Hall and just east of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. It is a three-story wood-frame structure set close to the street, five bays wide, whose third floor windows are smaller than those on
784-724: The New England Company , again in association with Lord Brooke and ten others. They appointed John Winthrop the Younger to act as governor and established a fort at the mouth of the river, to which they gave the name of "Sayebrook." Next they sent over a shipload of colonists. In 1633, Saye and Brooke also purchased a plantation at Cocheco or Dover, in what is now New Hampshire , from some Bristol merchants. The two men both contemplated settling in New England, but they demanded that an emigrant hereditary aristocracy be established as
833-605: The University of New Hampshire , provides bus service to Durham , which is free for students and $ 1.50 for the public. Amtrak 's Downeaster train service stops at the Dover Transportation Center with service to the Portland Transportation Center , Boston's North Station , and intermediate stops. As of the 2020 census , there were 32,741 people, 14,431 households, and 7,059 families residing in
882-572: The Parliamentarians Nathaniel Fiennes and John Fiennes . His daughter Bridget married her remote cousin Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln , son of the 3rd Earl of Lincoln . Another daughter Ann married Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet . The viscounty of Saye and Sele became extinct in 1781, and the barony was subsequently held by the descendants of John Twisleton (died 1682) and his wife Elizabeth (died 1674),
931-470: The advisers of Charles I by his strict compliance with legal forms, earning him the nickname "old subtlety". Although Saye resisted the levy of ship money , he accompanied Charles on his march against the Scots in 1639; but, with only one other peer, he refused to take the oath binding him to fight for the king "to the utmost of my power and hazard of my life". Then Charles I sought to win his favour by making him
980-466: The army in its struggle with the parliament. In 1648, both at the treaty of Newport and elsewhere, Saye was anxious that Charles should come to terms. After the king was executed, Saye retired into private life. In 1656 he recovered £500 damages from James Whinnel, gentleman of Wisbech. He agreed to donate £100 to the town of Wisbech in the Isle of Ely, with the interest to be used for providing clothing for
1029-411: The attack on Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex . In the parliament of 1626, Saye was back in opposition; he defended the privileges of the peerage against the new king Charles I in the cases of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol and Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel , and intervened on behalf of Dudley Digges when Buckingham accused him of speaking treason. In the autumn of the same year, he
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#17330850214841078-529: The benevolence levied by the king, saying that he knew no law besides parliament to persuade men to give away their own goods; he spent six months in the Fleet Prison , and then had a period of house arrest. When George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham returned from Spain and proposed to break the Spanish match , the duke and baron became temporary allies. Saye became Viscount Saye and Sele in 1624. He pressed home
1127-473: The city center, is the highest point in Dover. Garrison Hill , elevation approximately 290 ft (88 m), is a prominent hill rising directly above the center city, with a park and lookout tower on top. The average elevation above sea level in Dover is 49 feet (15 m). The city is crossed by New Hampshire Routes 4 , 9 , 16 (the Spaulding Turnpike ), 108 , and 155 , plus U.S. Route 4 . It
1176-614: The city has a total area of 29.0 square miles (75.2 km ), of which 26.7 square miles (69.2 km ) are land and 2.3 square miles (6.0 km ) are water, comprising 7.97% of the city. Dover is drained by the Cochecho and Bellamy rivers, both of which flow into the tidal Piscataqua River , which forms the city's eastern boundary and the New Hampshire– Maine border. Long Hill, elevation greater than 300 feet (91 m) above sea level and located 3 miles (5 km) northwest of
1225-572: The city. The city grew by 2,754 residents between 2010 and 2020, the third-largest numeric growth of a town or city in New Hampshire, after Manchester and Nashua . The population density in 2020 was 1,224.88 people per square mile (472.93/km ). There were 15,166 housing units at an average density of 567.38 per square mile (219.07/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 87.2% White, 1.7% African American, 0.20% Native American, 5.1% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 1.2% some other race, and 4.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.9% of
1274-619: The confluence of the Bellamy and Piscataqua rivers. This first settlement makes Dover the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire , and seventh in the United States. The Hiltons were fishmongers sent from London by the Council for New England 's Laconia Company to establish a colony and fishery on the Piscataqua. In 1631, however, the colony contained only three houses. William Hilton built
1323-484: The episode forgotten, they struck. Fifty-two colonists, a quarter of the population, were either captured or slain. Incursions against the frontier town would continue for the next half century. During Father Rale's War , in August and September 1723, there were Indian raids on Saco, Maine , and Dover, New Hampshire. The following year Dover was raided again and Elizabeth Hanson wrote her captivity narrative . Located at
1372-682: The estimated median annual income for a household in the city was $ 55,040, and the median income for a family was $ 69,980. Male full-time workers had a median income of $ 51,891 versus $ 36,167 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 30,590. About 6.8% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 13.2% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over. The Dover School District serves approximately 4,000 pupils, attending Horne Street Elementary School, Garrison Elementary School, Woodman Park Elementary School, Dover Middle School and Dover High School . Dover High's athletic teams are known as "The Green Wave," and
1421-667: The group of Puritan entrepreneurs, a company to settle the Providence Island colony . It was to be developed on what is now known as Isla de Providencia in the Caribbean Sea , part of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina , and a department of the nation of Colombia . Saye obtained a patent for a large tract of land on the Connecticut River on 19 March 1632 from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick and
1470-551: The head of navigation , Cochecho Falls brought the Industrial Revolution to 19th-century Dover in a big way. But cotton textile manufacturing actually began about two miles upstream with the Dover Cotton Factory, which was incorporated in 1812, its mill built in 1815. The business would move to Cochecho Falls when it acquired water privileges occupied since the 17th century by sawmills and gristmills . In 1823 it
1519-540: The influx of new residents retreating from the high housing prices in Portsmouth . Recently, a plan to develop the waterfront on the other side of the river from the traditional downtown area was approved for $ 6 million. In early May 2021, waypoint signs were sporadically added to help drivers and walkers navigate Dover with the expansions that are underway. According to the United States Census Bureau ,
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1568-402: The lower floors. The center entry is sheltered by a modest portico supported by Doric columns and matching pilasters. At the back of the house is a modern parish hall, which physically connects the house to the adjacent church. The house was built in 1806 for William Hale by Bradbury Johnson, a noted local builder-designer of the period. William Hale was a successful merchant, and this house
1617-559: The middle school's teams are "The Little Green." Saint Mary Academy, a Catholic school, has been in downtown Dover since 1912, currently serving about 200 students from pre-kindergarten to 8th grade. Many students at Saint Mary's subsequently attend St. Thomas Aquinas High School , a Catholic high school located on Dover Point. Portsmouth Christian Academy is located west of the Bellamy River in Dover, serving preschool through 12th grade. The Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy (CATA)
1666-502: The new owners had implemented. Expansive brick mills were constructed downtown, linked to receive cotton bales and ship finished cloth when the railroad arrived in 1842. Incorporated as a city in 1855, Dover for a time became a leading national producer of textiles , the mill complex dominating the riverfront and employing 2,000 workers. The mills were purchased in 1909 by the Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts , which closed
1715-461: The plantation was bought by a group of English Puritans who planned to settle in New England , including Viscount Saye and Sele , Baron Brooke and John Pym . They promoted colonization in America, and so that year Hilton's Point received numerous immigrants, many from Bristol . They renamed the settlement Bristol. Atop the nearby hill they built a meetinghouse surrounded by an entrenchment , with
1764-458: The poor and administered by his son Richard Fiennes. Saye became a privy counsellor again upon the restoration of Charles II . He died at Broughton Castle on 14 April 1662. Fiennes married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of John Temple of Stowe , in 1600. She was born in May 1585 and was about fifteen at marriage. Their eldest son James (c. 1603–1674) succeeded him as 2nd viscount; other sons were
1813-406: The population. There were 12,827 households, out of which 27.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were headed by married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.0% were non-families. 31.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
1862-602: The printery in 1913 but continued spinning and weaving . The printery buildings were demolished in 1913, their site is now Henry Law Park. In 1922, it was affected by the 1922 New England Textile Strike , shutting down the mills in the city over an attempted wage cut and hours increase. During the Great Depression , however, textile mills no longer dependent on New England water power began moving to southern states in search of cheaper operating conditions, or simply went out of business. Dover's millyard shut in 1937, then
1911-726: The town over Michael Dukakis in 1988. Dover was used as the fictional setting for the Hallmark Channel movie Christmas Incorporated . Dover was the birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, created by comic book writers Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and first published by Mirage Studios —then based in Dover—in 1984. William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele (28 June 1582 – 14 April 1662)
1960-402: Was 2.27, and the average family size was 2.89. In the city, the population was spread out, with 20.3% under the age of 18, 11.0% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males. For the period 2009–2011,
2009-566: Was among those who refused to pay the forced loan. In the parliament of 1628, he employed with success the right of peers to protest. In the debates on the Petition of Right , he opposed the reservations and amendments of the court party. During the personal rule of Charles I , Saye devoted time and money to schemes of colonisation: his motives were in part financial, but also religious and political. In 1630 he established, together with Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke , John Pym , and others from
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2058-474: Was an English nobleman and politician. He was a leading critic of Charles I's rule during the 1620s and 1630s. He was known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies. He was born at the family home of Broughton Castle near Banbury , in Oxfordshire , the only son of Richard Fiennes, 7th Baron Saye and Sele , and his wife Constance, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill. He
2107-595: Was bought at auction in 1941 by the city itself for $ 54,000. There were no other bids. Now called the Cocheco Falls Millworks, its tenants include technology and government services companies, plus a restaurant, brewery and bar. Textile manufacturing in Dover wasn't limited to cotton. In 1824, Alfred I. Sawyer established the Sawyer Woolen Mills beside the Bellamy River. It would expand to include 15 major buildings over 8.5 acres (3.4 ha), and by 1883
2156-399: Was brought into a disused mill building with a lease of $ 1 a year. Henry Law Park, a grassy waterfront stretch of land, was given a brand new playground. Small businesses moved into the mills, such as restaurants, toy stores, real estate offices, and barber shops. Old buildings have been refurbished or outright rebuilt to provide new housing. An $ 87.5 million high school was built to handle
2205-407: Was educated at New College, Oxford . He was a descendant and heir of the sister of William of Wykeham , the college's founder. Fiennes succeeded to his father's barony in 1613. During the latter part of James I's reign, Saye was one of the most prominent opponents of the court. In 1621 he was active against Francis Bacon , and urged that he should be degraded from the peerage. In 1622 he opposed
2254-464: Was one of the finest of the Federal era in Dover. The house was originally located nearer the center, on the site where Dover City Hall now stands, overlooking the waterfront where Hale owned a wharf. In 1890 it was moved to its present location after the city took the land by eminent domain . The property was purchased by the church from Hale's descendants in 1901. Dover, New Hampshire Dover
2303-634: Was renamed the Dover Manufacturing Company, but was not successful. So in 1827 the Cocheco Manufacturing Company was founded (the misspelling a clerical error at incorporation), and the next year, the mill was the site of the first women's strike in the United States. "The Strike of the Mill Girls" took place on December 30, 1828, when about half of the 800 women employed at the mill walked out over lower wages and longer hours that
2352-557: Was sold to Connecticut three years later. Saye was one of the commissioners for the government from Westminster of the plantations appointed on 2 November 1643. Old Saybrook, Connecticut is named after Viscount Saye and Lord Brooke. Leading puritans, including John Pym, who were members of the Providence Island Company met Saye at Broughton Castle to coordinate their opposition to the King. On several occasions, Saye outwitted
2401-481: Was the largest woolen manufacturer in the state. In 1889 it was acquired by the American Woolen Company , but closed and was sold off in 1955. The buildings have been repurposed into housing. With the closing of the mills, the downtown area of Dover sat vacant and lifeless for a long time. With the turn of the century, the city government began to revitalize the area. The Children's Museum of New Hampshire
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