tion from the village, are Walker’s
Hill, Livermore Falls, and Pros-
pect Hill. No person will be sat-
isfied with his tour through New-
Hampshire, until he makes a visit
to this delightful town.

Employments. Mercantile trade,
manufacturing, hotel business,
keeping summer boarders, and
professional business are the chief
occupations of the inhabitants, hut
farming is by no means neglected.
There are 6,527 bushels of corn, 9,
000 bushels oats, 15,000 bushels po-
tatoes, 32,000 lbs. butter, 29,000 lbs.
maple sugar, and 3,000 tons of bay,
annually produced; 5,740 doz-
en buck, and 11,000 dozen leather
gloves, annually- manufactured,
valued at $ 120,000; lumber, $ 46,
800; flour and meal, $10,300; be-
sides various other small mechan-
ical shops. The total value of
goods, annually manufactured, is
$224,000. (See tables.)

Resources. Agricultural pro-
ductions, $ 104,175; mechanical la-
bor, $57,400; money at interest
and stocks, $ 9,125; deposits in sa-
vings banks, $51,154; stock in
trade, $36,678; from summer
tourists, $ 50,000; professional bus-
iness, $ 60,000.

Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. Cyrus Richardson,
pastor; members, 149; church val-
ued at $ 10,000; Methodist, Rev.
M. W. Prince, pastor; members,
220; value, $ 19,000. There are
eleven schools in town, two of
which are graded; average length,
for the year, twenty-two weeks.

Literary Institution. State Nor-
mal School, Silas H. Pearl, the
popular principal of this Institu-
tion, died in July, 1873.

Libraries. Private libraries of
over 400 volumes, are Colonel H.

W. Blair, William Leverett, Esq.,
Joseph Burrows, and Samuel A.
Burns.

Hotels. Pemigewasset House,
valued at $ 75,000 and Plymouth
Plouse, valued at $ 10,000. Each
Hotel has a livery stable attached,
with from fifteen to twenty horses
apiece.

First Settlements. This town
was granted to Joseph Blanchard,
and others, July 15, 1763. Zacha-
riah Parker and James Hebert
commenced the first settlement, in
August, 1764, and in the following
autumn, they were joined by Jo-
tham Cumings, Josiah Brown,
David Webster, Stephen Webster,
James Blodgett, and Ephraim
Weston. They organized a Con-
gregational Church in 1765.

First Ministers. Rev. Nathan
Ward, Congregational; ordained
in 1765, dismissed in 1794; Rev.
Drury Fairbanks; ordained in
1800, dismissed in 1818. In 1803,
a Methodist church was formed.

Boundaries. North by Rumney
and Campton, east by Holderness,
south by Bridgewater, and west by
Hebron and Rumney. Area, 16,
256 acres; area of improved land,
10,103 acres.

Distances. Fifty-one miles north
from Concord, by railroad; and
thirty-five south-east from Haver
hill.

PORTSMOUTH.

Rockingham County. Ports-
mouth is the only seaport town in
the State, and is half shire town
of the county. In 1872, with the
exception of Manchester, it was
the wealthiest city in the State,
and the fourth in population.
The first white man, who was ever
known to step foot on the soil