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Portsmouth, passes out between Fort Constitution and Kittery Point; the oth- er flows out through Little Harbor, between Frank Jones’ famous Wentworth Hotel and the ancient and picturesque Governor Wentworth Mansion, now owned by the Coolidge family of Boston. Just above where the river is divided by the island of Newcastle is the Ports- mouth Navy Yard on the east side, the city of Ports- mouth being on the oppo- site west bank. On Bad- ger’s Island, next above the Navy Yard Island, is the terminus of the Ports- mouth, Kittery &, York Beach Electric Railway, and also the terminus of the Portsmouth & Dover Electric Railroad. From long before the Revolu- tion, down to about 1850, Badger’s Island was fa- mous for its ship build- ing. It was there that Paul Jones’ ship, the “Ranger,” was built in 1777, and a large stone post with a bronze tablet on it marks the spot near which the ship was built. The great railroad coal pockets are directly opposite, on the west shore. Next above this point in the river is the long
railroad bridge, stand- ing on piles. Passing un- der the bridge the city is left behind and the most beautiful part of the river is entered upon. On the east is Eliot and on the west is the rural part of Portsmouth and the town of Newington. The first object that greets the eye above the bridge is the huge paper mill on Free- man’s Point, where sev- eral mints of money have been expended in the con- struction and equipment of the largest paper mill in America, if not in the world.
Passing around Free-
man’s Point, the course changes a little to the west, and is at its nar- rowest point, although it is there a third of a mile wide and very deep. The high ledge there on the west shore is called “The Pulpit,” in passing which the old boatmen always took off their hats and “made their manners,” for good luck. Bad luck was always sure to befall them soon of after if they failed in this observance. Just above there, on the
Eliot shore, is “Boiling Rock,” which causes the swift flowing tide to “boil” as it whirls round the im- movable boulder or pro-
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truding ledge. From there to Dover Point, about five miles, the river is perfectly straight, with high, even shores on both sides It is called the “Long Reach,” and is one of the most beautiful sheets of water in New Hampshire, or any- where else. The cultivated fields on the high bluffs come to the water’s edge, and the views from the
residences are beautiful. Summer residences are being built all along the shores in Newington and in Eliot, which anciently was a part of Kittery. “The Pulpit” was so named in the very earli- est history of New Hamp- shire. President Cutt in his will gives his wife the use of land at “Ye Pulpit,” till his son Samuel should
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be of age. It was here that Madam Ursula Cutt re- tired after his death and was killed by the Indians in 1694. Cutt’s Cove is between The Pulpit and Freeman’s Point, which locality for two hundred years was called Ham’s Point, from William Ham who had a grant of land here in 1652. The ancient name ought to be restored and forever retained. On the Kittery shore, op- posite, are the “Adams Oaks.” The coves along the
west shore have various names that they have borne for two hundred and fifty years or more. For example, the Lower Huntress, from which a ferry once ran to the Eliot shore at Paul’s shipyard, whence another road led into the country. Boiling Rock is on the Eliot shore side there. Between the Lower Huntress and the Upper Huntress is Can- ney’s Creek, which was the boundary line between ancient Dover (which in- cluded Newington) and Portsmouth. Next above See PASCATAQUA on 18
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