History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . Free-will Baptist, February 4, 1840, and the FriendsSociety, whose meeting was established about 1680. Each of thesedenominations has a church edifice, and the central part of the city con-tains school-houses, two of which are rarely surpassed. Dover becamea city, September 1, 1855. Hon. Andrew Peirce was the first is the shire town of Strafford county, and has a jail and court-house,and county offices: also, four banks, with an aggregate capital of$420,000, and two savings banks; an academy, a library, a post-ofTice,twelve school
History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . Free-will Baptist, February 4, 1840, and the FriendsSociety, whose meeting was established about 1680. Each of thesedenominations has a church edifice, and the central part of the city con-tains school-houses, two of which are rarely surpassed. Dover becamea city, September 1, 1855. Hon. Andrew Peirce was the first is the shire town of Strafford county, and has a jail and court-house,and county offices: also, four banks, with an aggregate capital of$420,000, and two savings banks; an academy, a library, a post-ofTice,twelve school districts, and other social and business advantages jiropor-tionate to its wealth. Hon. John P. Hale, United States senator fromNew Hampshire, and Ex-goveriK)r Noah Martin, are residents of this.•ity. The situation of Dover is exceedingly pleasant. Gentle elevations,40 474 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND. easy swells of land, and winding streams, charactrrizf its the liish ridsre between the rivers Newichawannock and Jicllaiuv,. 4?^5F ..r-^ and from another elevation overlooking the waters of Great Bay withthe AVinnicumet, the Lamprey, the Swamscott, the the Newichawannock (with its tributary the Cochecho), all unitingto form the Piscataqua, rolling away in the distance, views may !><• Iiadof uncommon beauty. The Newichawannock (which divides the townfrom the State of Maine), and the Bellamy and Cochecho, which (lowthrough the town in a southeast direction, not only add to its beauty,but also to its wealth, by their direct and navigable connection with theocean. In the last named, the tide flows to the centre of the city, fur-nishing a highway, which was of great value Ijcfore tlie construction otthe Boston and Maine Railroad, and which a line of packets still im-proves. The Cochecho Railroad, on the north, furnishes also a directcommunication with Lake Winnepesaukee, and thus to the interiorof New Hampshire. Population, 8,186 ; va
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