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Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
136historic places
—earliest paper
1769formed
314,176pop. 2020
131cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 136 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 12 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Portsmouth, Exeter, Stratham.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New Hampshire is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Rockingham titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

89 of 136 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

136 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Adams Memorial BuildingDerryBuilding1982
Armstrong Memorial BuildingWindhamBuilding2018
Atkinson Academy SchoolAtkinsonBuilding1980
Atlantic Heights DevelopmentPortsmouthDistrict2006
Bartlett, Josiah, House NHLKingstonBuilding1971
Bartlett-Cushman HouseStrathamBuilding2014
Beach Club, TheRyeBuilding2013
Beck, Samuel, HousePortsmouthBuilding1973
Benedict HousePortsmouthBuilding1973
Boardman, Langley, HousePortsmouthBuilding2026
Centennial HallNorth HamptonBuilding2016
Chester Congregational ChurchChesterBuilding1986
Chester Village CemeteryChesterStructure1979
Crockett, John, HouseStrathamBuilding1983
Currier, Capt. Jonathan, HouseSouth HamptonBuilding1983
Dame SchoolNottinghamBuilding1980
Danville MeetinghouseDanvilleBuilding1982
Danville Town HouseDanvilleBuilding2000
Deerfield Center Historic DistrictDeerfieldDistrict2002
Drake FarmNorth HamptonBuilding2016
Dudley HouseExeterBuilding1971
East Derry Historic DistrictEast DerryDistrict1982
Elkins, John, FarmsteadDanvilleBuilding1996
Elm FarmDanvilleBuilding1988
Emery FarmStrathamBuilding2017
Exeter Waterfront Commercial Historic DistrictExeterDistrict1980
Exeter Waterfront Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)ExeterDistrict1986
First ChurchExeterBuilding1971
First Universalist ChurchKingstonBuilding1979
Fort ConstitutionNew CastleSite1973
Franklin BlockPortsmouthBuilding1984
Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope ChurchPortsmouthBuilding2003
Fremont Meeting HouseFremontBuilding1993
Front Street Historic DistrictExeterDistrict1973
Frost, Robert, Homestead NHLDerryBuilding1968
Gilman Garrison HouseExeterBuilding1976
Gilman, Maj. John, HouseExeterBuilding1988
Greeley HouseEast KingstonBuilding1980
Hampstead MeetinghouseHampsteadBuilding1980
Hart, Jeremiah, HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Hart, John, HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Hart, Phoebe, HousePortsmouthBuilding1973
Hart-Rice HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Haven-White HousePortsmouthBuilding1985
Highland Road Historic DistrictSouth HamptonDistrict1983
Isles of ShoalsRyeDistrict1980
Jackson, Richard, House NHLPortsmouthBuilding1968
James, Benjamin, HouseHamptonBuilding2002
Jewell Town DistrictSouth HamptonDistrict1983
Jones, John Paul, House NHLPortsmouthBuilding1972
Kensington Social LibraryKensingtonBuilding2020
Kensington Town Center Historic DistrictKensingtonDistrict2024
Kensington Town HouseKensingtonBuilding2013
Ladd-Gilman House NHLExeterBuilding1974
Lamprey, Reuben, HomesteadHamptonBuilding1982
Lane, Deacon Samuel and Jabez, HomesteadStrathamBuilding1983
Langdon, Gov. John, Mansion NHLPortsmouthBuilding1974
Larkin-Rice HousePortsmouthBuilding1979
Little Boar's Head Historic DistrictNorth HamptonDistrict1999
Locke, Elijah, HouseRyeBuilding1979
MacPheadris-Warner House NHLPortsmouthBuilding1966
Margeson, Richman, EstateNewingtonDistrict1990
Moffatt-Ladd House NHLPortsmouthBuilding1968
Moses-Kent HouseExeterBuilding1985
Neal, James, HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
New Castle Congregational ChurchNew CastleBuilding2015
New Hampshire Bank BuildingPortsmouthBuilding1979
Newington Center Historic DistrictNewingtonDistrict1987
Newington Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)NewingtonDistrict1991
Newington Railroad DepotNewingtonBuilding2010
Newmarket Industrial and Commercial Historic DistrictNewmarketDistrict1980
Nichols Memorial LibraryKingstonBuilding1981
North Hampton LibraryNorth HamptonBuilding2014
North Hampton Town HallNorth HamptonBuilding2013
North SchoolKensingtonBuilding2013
Northwood Congregational ChurchNorthwoodBuilding1979
Nutter-Rymes HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Old Deerfield Center Historic DistrictDeerfieldDistrict2020
Old North CemeteryPortsmouthSite1978
Parsons HomesteadRyeBuilding1980
Pinkham, Daniel, HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Plains CemeteryKingstonSite2021
Plaistow CarhousePlaistowBuilding1980
Porter, General, HousePortsmouthBuilding1985
Portsmouth AthenaeumPortsmouthBuilding1973
Portsmouth Cottage HospitalPortsmouthBuilding1996
Portsmouth Downtown Historic DistrictPortsmouthDistrict2017
Portsmouth Harbor LightNew CastleBuilding2009
Portsmouth Public LibraryPortsmouthBuilding1973
Prescott, Benjamin Franklin, HouseEppingBuilding1987
Pulpit Rock Base-End Station (N. 142)RyeStructure2010
Raymond Boston and Maine Railroad DepotRaymondBuilding1979
Rockingham HotelPortsmouthBuilding1982
Rogers, George, HousePortsmouthBuilding1976
Rundlet-May HousePortsmouthBuilding1976
Rye Town HallRyeBuilding2020
Salem Common Historic DistrictSalemDistrict2011
Sanborn SeminaryKingstonBuilding1984
Sandown Depot, Boston and Maine RailroadSandownBuilding1986
Sandown Old MeetinghouseSandownBuilding1978
Scamman FarmStrathamBuilding2019
Scammon Farm Historic DistrictStrathamDistrict2023
Searles School and ChapelWindhamBuilding1982
Sewall, Edward, GarrisonExeterBuilding1980
Shapley Town HousePortsmouthBuilding1973
Sherburne, Henry, HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Smith's Corner Historic DistrictSouth HamptonDistrict1983
Smith, Simeon P., HousePortsmouthBuilding1972
Smyth Public LibraryCandiaBuilding2007
South MeetinghousePortsmouthBuilding1982
South ParishPortsmouthBuilding1979
Square SchoolhouseNottinghamBuilding1980
St. Andrew's By-The-SeaRyeBuilding2001
St. John's ChurchPortsmouthBuilding1978
Stevens Memorial HallChesterBuilding2004
Stone SchoolNewmarketBuilding1978
Strawbery Banke Historic DistrictPortsmouthDistrict1975
Tenney, Samuel, HouseExeterBuilding1980
Thornton, Matthew, House NHLDerry VillageBuilding1971
Town Center Historic DistrictSouth HamptonDistrict1983
Town HouseDeerfieldBuilding1980
USS ALBACORE NHLPortsmouthStructure1989
Union Meetinghouse-Universalist ChurchKensingtonBuilding2013
Unitarian ChurchHampton FallsBuilding1984
Watson AcademyEppingBuilding1982
Weare, Gov. Meshech, HouseHampton FallsBuilding1973
Weeks HouseGreenlandBuilding1975
Wentworth, Gov. John, HousePortsmouthBuilding1973
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion NHLPortsmouthBuilding1968
Wentworth-Gardner House NHLPortsmouthBuilding1968
Wentworth-Gardner and Tobias Lear HousesPortsmouthDistrict1979
Whidden-Ward HousePortsmouthBuilding1971
Wiggin Memorial LibraryStrathamBuilding1993
Wiggin, Cornet Thomas, HouseStrathamBuilding1983
Woodman Road Historic DistrictSouth HamptonDistrict1983
Young, Gen. Mason J., HouseLondonderryBuilding1986

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rockingham was formed in 1769 (1769-04-29) from unknown / original county.

ROCKINGHAM created as one of five original counties.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Rockingham County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

314k179k43k179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
43,16945,42755,24645,77150,12249,06451,11852,49858,14270,05999,029190,345277,359314,176

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

131 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 131 listed
NameLatLon
African Burial Ground43.07499-70.75894
Auburn Cemetery43.0073-71.34534
Bartlett Cemetery43.24063-71.24868
Batchelder Cemetery43.10641-71.29534
Beebe Cemetery42.97452-70.61337
Bennett Cemetery43.21146-71.17979
Berry Family Cemetery43.00937-70.81324
Boyd Cemetery42.83147-71.38895
Brackett Cemetery43.0573-70.9595
Brackett Massacre Burial Ground43.01805-70.74346
Brentwood Cemetery42.9635-71.08502
Brown Cemetery42.98619-70.79766
Burbank Cemetery43.14564-71.19574
Calvary Cemetery43.05514-70.93755
Calvary Cemetery43.05675-70.78516
Caswell Cemetery42.97745-70.61529
Caswell Family Cemetery43.01499-70.74743
Cemetery On The Hill42.78647-71.28951
Center Cemetery42.92563-71.18617
Center Cemetery42.93036-71.12311
Center Cemetery42.98205-70.84271
Central Cemetery43.00938-70.77227
Cheswell Cemetery43.07602-70.94366
Dalton Cemetery42.9962-70.79135
Danville Cemetery42.93702-71.1179
Dearborn Cemetery43.16364-71.19774
Deerfield Parade Cemetery43.14501-71.22255
Doe Cemetery43.06368-70.99991
Dow Family Cemetery43.03103-70.72764
Dow Family Cemetery43.00307-70.80464
Dudley Cemetery42.9874-71.01139
East Kingston Cemetery42.91921-70.99052
Elkins Cemetery42.95527-70.85583
Elmwood Cemetery42.90232-70.86966
Exeter Cemetery42.97551-70.96023
Fairview Cemetery43.22631-71.25519
Forest Hill Cemetery42.89063-71.29395
Foss Family Cemetery43.01236-70.74263
Foye Family Cemetery43.0349-70.73552
Glenwood Cemetery42.86118-71.37322
Gove Cemetery43.08525-71.12801
Greenland Cemetery43.03345-70.83521
Greenwood Cemetery43.02847-70.91099
Hadley Cemetery42.87804-71.13302
Happy Hollow Cemetery42.86704-71.08935
High Street Cemetery42.94175-70.83227
Highland Cemetery42.87493-71.04353
Hillside Cemetery42.9191-71.01094
Hillside Cemetery42.87416-70.86855
Holbrook Cemetery43.05896-71.29201
Holy Angels Cemetery42.83224-71.11319
Holy Cross Cemetery42.86057-71.34112
Jenness Cemetery42.99332-70.76832
Ladd Cemetery43.06459-71.07488
Lakeview Cemetery42.89042-71.18519
Lawrence Yard Cemetery43.07731-71.04923
Locke Cemetery42.99343-70.75497
Locke Family Cemetery43.02019-70.74548
Long Meadow Cemetery42.97305-71.31574
Lovering Cemetery43.00654-71.16973
Marden Cemetery43.02303-70.74921
Marden Family Cemetery42.99663-70.80028
Mill Hill Cemetery42.88646-71.07849
Mount Pleasant Cemetery42.83723-71.2257
New Cemetery42.83996-71.15245
Newfields Cemetery43.04548-70.93188
North Cemetery42.95701-71.18934
North Cemetery43.07854-70.76317
Norton Cemetery43.07001-70.98159
Odiorne Cemetery43.04516-70.72066
Old Burying Ground42.9756-70.61353
Old Cemetery42.87592-71.18221
Old Cemetery42.92267-71.00075
Old Plains Cemetery42.79217-71.30275
Old Town Hall Cemetery42.86775-71.03415
Philbrick Family Cemetery42.99055-70.76314
Philbrick Family Cemetery 242.99116-70.76587
Pickering Cemetery43.05699-70.95972
Pike Cemetery42.96459-70.9102
Pine Grove Cemetery42.79272-71.19982
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Puddle Dock43.07537-70.75533

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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