Strawbery Banke Museum
14 Hancock St
PortsmouthNH03801
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Strawberry Bank Museum is located at 454 Court St, Portsmouth, NH. This business specializes in Museums & Galleries.
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The first English settlers named the area around today's Portsmouth for the wild strawberries along the shores of the Piscataqua River. The name survives in this 10-acre outdoor history museum, one of the largest in New England. The compound has 46 buildings dating from 1695 to 1820—some restored and furnished to a particular period, others used for historical exhibits. Half the interior of the...
A history lesson: sample three centuries of life on the New Hampshire coastline.:
The BackgroundMost "restored" New England villages are just that--restored to a certain frozen moment in time. What makes Strawbery Banke so interesting is that its "moment" spans 300 years. Most museum curators would have ripped out the Elvis-era to get at the earlier days. But in some buildings on the 10-acre site, you can see the layers of time preserved, from linoleum flooring in one house...
