Everything about Hampton Falls New Hampshire totally explained
Hampton Falls (formerly the
Third Parish and
Hampton falls) is a
New England town in
Rockingham County,
New Hampshire,
U.S. (was part of
Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, from 1643 to 1679). The town was settled by Europeans in 1638 and became a town in 1726. As of 2006, an estimated 2,052 people lived within the town of 7,400 acres.
History
The land of Hampton Falls was first settled by
Europeans in 1638, the same time as
Hampton, which it was then part of. The settlement of Hampton joined
Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, in 1643, along with
Exeter,
Dover,
Portsmouth, and
Salisbury and
Haverhill of
Massachusetts. The county existed until 1679, when the modern-day New Hampshire towns separated from
Massachusetts Bay Colony. Records indicate a building that became a church may have existed near where the Weare Monument now is in 1665, but when it was first built is unknown. It wasn't until 1709 that the town was officially established as the "Third Parish" of
Hampton. The Third Parish originally consisted of all land south of the
Taylor River and north of the New Hampshire/
Massachusetts border, or the modern-day towns of
Seabrook,
Kensington, and Hampton Falls. A meeting house was built shortly after and
Thomas Crosby became the town's minister for the church. Forty-nine members of the Hampton Church were dismissed late in 1711, only to become members of the new church in the Third Parish. Parish officers and a representative were chosen in 1718. The first town meeting was held and town records began that year also. The 7,400 acre town received its grant as an independent town with the name "Hampton falls" in 1726, but was still referred to as a parish until the
Revolutionary War. Those who did use its actual name in writing spelled it with a lowercase f until around the same time.
An attempt was made in 1732 to separate the western portion of Hampton falls and make it a parish of
Kingston. The proposal failed in a way, yet succeeded in another; the land was separated, but it didn't become part of Kingston, but became a town of its own, Kensington.
A disease known as the
Throat Distemper (now thought to have been a malignant form of
diphtheria) infected the town with its symptoms in 1735 and 1736. Two-hundred and fourteen people of Hampton Falls perished, 96 of them being under the age of ten. Only two homes in town were throat distemper free. It passed through the town again in 1754, with far fewer casualties, but still many. tornado formed in the town at around 6:30 p.m. EST. It was near
Interstate 95 where it overturned a truck, leaving two injured men and a kayak in a tree.
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Hampton Falls resident
Meshech Weare, a descendant of mill owners, was New Hampshire's first
president, later called
governor, in 1776. Other notable residents include governor
Wesley Powell, politician
Warren Brown, architect
Ralph Adams Cram, and poet
John Greenleaf Whittier, a summer resident.
In addition to Applecrest Orchards,
Elton Orchards operated in Hampton Falls. It was located in the western portion of the town. It closed in c. 1975. A small cul-de-sac, Elton Lane, was named after it. -->
Geography
Hampton Falls borders
Kensington to the west,
Exeter and
Hampton to the north, and
Seabrook to the south. Some other nearby places include
Boston,
Massachusetts, only away, and
Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, a mere to the north.
The highest point in town is the summit of Great Hill, at above
sea level), just north of the Weare mills on the
Hampton Falls River, at an altitude of above sea level.
Demographics
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