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Portsmouth and Beyond

by Barbara Rogers

New Hampshire began on the seacoast. Portsmouth www.portsmouthchamber.org was a leading New England harbor and shipbuilding center through the Revolution, and to this day has the look of the prosperous 18th-century port it was. Mansions of its merchants and captains line the brick streets, and well-preserved mercantile buildings along the waterfront house boutiques and restaurants.

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The Quiet Corner of New Hampshire?

by Barbara Rogers

Whoever nicknamed New Hampshire’s southwest “The Quiet Corner” didn’t spend much time there. OK, so it’s filled with classic little New England villages whose white church spires overlook well-mowed town commons. And colonial-period homes arrange themselves is sedate groups, while farmhouses and their scatter of barns sprawl in the foreground of scenic views along the Connecticut River valley.

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