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History
River Story
Earliest Settlers
Trades
Hodge Podge
100
The first people to settle along the Lamprey River.
Who were the Squamscott Native Americans?
100
The name of the river that runs through our town.
What is the Lamprey River?
100
The type of houses the Squamscott Native Americans lived in.
What is a Wigwam?
100
A person whose job it was to make shoes.
What is a cobbler?
100
A JOB that requires special skills and abilities.
What is a trade?
200
The first European settler in Newmarket; the founder of our town.
Who is Edward Hilton?
200
The end of a river.
What is the mouth?
200
The transportation used by the Squamscott Native Americans to go up and down the river.
What is a canoe?
200
A person whose job was to make things out of wood.
What is a carpenter?
200
The towns that border Newmarket.
What are Newfields, Epping, Lee, and Durham?
300
The name of the goods that the Newmarket Manufacturing Company produced.
What are Cotton Textiles?
300
The name of the town where the SOURCE of the Lamprey River can be found.
What is Northwood?
300
Name a type of crop that the Squamscott Native American women harvested.
What are Indian Maize, beans, squash, pumpkins?
300
A person whose job was to make wooden barrels.
What is a cooper?
300
A wide flat bottom boat used to transport goods up and down the river.
What is a Gundalow?
400
The name of the town Newmarket used to be part of.
What is Exeter?
400
The name for a body of water and the land surrounding it (it is important to protect this from pollution!)
What is a watershed?
400
The protective forts the early settlers built to protect themselves against Native American attacks.
What are Garrison Houses?
400
A person whose job was to make things out of iron.
What is a blacksmith?
400
A saying you can use to remember the points on a Compass Rose.
What is Never Eat Soggy Waffles (Wheat)?
500
The name of the town that used to be South Newmarket.
What is Newfields?
500
The name of the body of water that the Lamprey River empties into. (The Lamprey River's MOUTH).
What is Great Bay?
500
A reason the Squamscott Native Americans probably settled by the river.
What is food?
500
A person whose job was to turn animal skins into leather.
What is a tanner?
500
A group of people who live, work, and play together.
What is a community?