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2012 Isles of Shoals, NH - New Hampshire - USGS Topographic Map

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A reprint of a nautical chart of Portsmouth, NH to Cape Ann, MA published in 2013 by the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Including Isles of Shoals, Newburyport, Ipswich, Gloucester, and Rockport. It shows topography, water depths, and nautical features. It includes an inset of Hampton Harbor, NH. We have edited the margins of the original image to make this chart fit standard frames. Original scale: 1:80,000 Original size: 34" x 43". We offer this map reprint in different sizes. Text is difficult to read in smaller sizes. Printed in color on high quality bond paper. Also available on canvas.

Aerial view of Star Island in the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire. Image 381_8183adj

Originally used as seasonal fishing camps, the Isles of Shoals have housed some interesting people and even more interesting stories over the years.

Portsmouth, NH, March 5th, 1873... A confluence of events resulted in the murders of two women and brought national attention to the Maine/NH seacoast area. By mid day of Thursday, the 6th, word reached Portsmouth police that an atrocity had taken place on one of the islands, called Smuttynose. A group of fishermen from the Isles of Shoals were stunned with disbelief and rambling in heavily accented English when they broke the news to authorities. Two of their own were savagely murdered. The killer could still be out there on the small cluster of islands or had somehow made it back to Portsmouth in a dory on a very cold night. He had to be caught and, what's more, they knew who did it. Police Chief Thomas Entwhistle calmed the men and slowly began to piece the story together.The murders of Karen and Anethe Christensen by a Prussian immigrant who rowed ten miles to their deserted island, stirred controversy when it happened and continues to do so today. Cold Water Crossing sheds new light on that event and brings to life, the tragedy of one Norwegian immigrant family.

Where just getting up in the morning can be an adventure. . .

A Collection of Aerial Images of Isles of Shoals.

Best things to do in Portsmouth, NH, include Prescott Park, the Strawbery Banke Museum and the Moffatt-Ladd House.

New Hampshire's Star Island, the only one of the nine Isles of Shoals openly accessible to visitors, is famous for its stunning scenery, history, commitment to sustainability, and one of the best porches in New England.

A reprint of a nautical chart of Portsmouth, NH to Cape Ann, MA published in 2013 by the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Including Isles of Shoals, Newburyport, Ipswich, Gloucester, and Rockport. It shows topography, water depths, and nautical features. It includes an inset of Hampton Harbor, NH. We have edited the margins of the original image to make this chart fit standard frames. Original scale: 1:80,000 Original size: 34" x 43". We offer this map reprint in different sizes. Text is difficult to read in smaller sizes. Printed in color on high quality bond paper. Also available on canvas.

White Island Lighthouse, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, seen from Star Island. For more, see lighthouse.cc/white/ Image 367_6782adj

This book was inspired by town of Rye resident Lisa Moll's University of New Hampshire research paper entitled "Rye's Ode to Olympic Oil," which demonstrated the crucial role Rye played in stopping Olympic Oil's 1974 effort to build the largest oil refinery in the world on Great Bay in Durham, New Hampshire. Rye blocked the Olympic effort to secure a marine terminal on the New Hampshire Isles of Shoals to receive crude oil and the pipelines needed to transport oil for refining inland. Lisa's paper, part of which was researched at the Rye, New Hampshire, Town Museum, also provides a full overview of the role of Durham, New Hampshire and other seacoast NH towns in the defeat of the refinery. The Rye Historical Society (RHS) is grateful to all the people who fought tirelessly to save the coastline of New Hampshire from exploitation. Particular thanks is given to the late Guy Chichester of Rye who fought the proposal tirelessly and donated his collection of material to the Town museum, and to Jessie Herlihy, founder of the Rye Historical Society in 1976, who held anti-refinery meetings in her home in 1973-74. Also key in the battle to save the NH Seacoast was Phyllis Bennett, publisher of the start-up community newspaper, Publick Occurrences, which broke the story that Olympic Oil was planning an oil refinery complex for the Seacoast of New Hampshire. Phyllis led a relentless effort to inform and connect the Seacoast community with facts, and bring the truth of the proposed oil refinery complex out of the shadows of the governor's office and into the light for all to see. This was at a time when NH's largest newspaper, The Manchester Union Leader, and the then governor of New Hampshire, Meldrim Thomson, siding with Aristotle Onassis, were all championing and supporting the building of the oil refinery. On the fortieth anniversary of the oil refinery defeat in 2014, Dudley Dudley, who helped spearhead the defeat of the proposal in Durham and in the New Hampshire legislature, gave a talk in Rye. Peter Horne, one of the key Rye activists against the refinery, spoke about his role in the defeat. Peter's reflections are included in this book, along with other Rye activists. We are forever grateful to the two elderly sisters, Bernice Remick and Frances Tucker, who refused repeated exhorbitant offers to sell their 42-acre farm to Olympic Oil. Their farm on Brackett Rd. in Rye was directly in the path of the proposed pipeline, and in their refusal to sell, the entire Oil Refinery deal came to a halt. Later, the sisters sold their land to Rye Conservation Commission for a mere $12,000. This essay is dedicated to all the people who had the passion and courage to protect and preserve the Seacoast community for future generations. They took on the mighty and the powerful in the "battle of the century." | Author: Lisa Moll | Publisher: Rye Historical Society | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2016 | Number of Pages: 134 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0692692088 | ISBN-13: 9780692692080