Dover, New Hampshire

== History == === Settlement === The first known European to explore the region was Martin Pring from Bristol, England, in 1603.

In 1623, brothers William and Edward Hilton settled at Pomeroy Cove on Dover Point, near the confluence of the Bellamy and Piscataqua rivers.

In 1631, however, the colony contained only three houses.

In 1633, the plantation was bought by a group of English Puritans who planned to settle in New England, including Viscount Saye and Sele, Baron Brooke and John Pym.

The town was called Dover in 1637 by the new governor, Reverend George Burdett.

With the 1639 arrival of Thomas Larkham, however, it was renamed after Northam in Devon, where he had been preacher.

Consequently, the plantation was sold in 1641 to Massachusetts and again named Dover.

It was revenge for an incident on September 7, 1676, when 400 Native Americans were tricked by Major Richard Waldron into performing a "mock battle" near Cochecho Falls.

=== Cochecho Massacre === On June 28, 1689, Dover suffered a devastating attack by Native Americans.

During Father Rale's War, in August and September 1723, there were Indian raids on Saco, Maine, and Dover, New Hampshire.

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But cotton textile manufacturing actually began about two miles upstream with the Dover Cotton Factory, which was incorporated in 1812, its mill built in 1815.

In 1823, it was renamed the Dover Manufacturing Company, but was not successful.

So in 1827 the Cocheco Manufacturing Company was founded (the misspelling a clerical error at incorporation), and the next year, the mill was the site of the first women's strik...

"The Strike of the Mill Girls" took place on December 30, 1828, when about half of the 800 women employed at the mill walked out over lower wages and longer hours that the new o...

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Expansive brick mills were constructed downtown, linked to receive cotton bales and ship finished cloth when the railroad arrived in 1842.

Incorporated as a city in 1855, Dover for a time became a leading national producer of textiles, the mill complex dominating the riverfront and employing 2,000 workers.

It would expand to include 15 major buildings over 8.5 acres (3.4 ha), and by 1883 was the largest woolen manufacturer in the state.

In 1889, it was acquired by the American Woolen Company, but closed and was sold off in 1955.

The mills were purchased in 1909 by the Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts, which closed the printery in 1913 but continued spinning and weaving.

The printery buildings were demolished in 1913; their site is now Henry Law Park.

In 1922, it was affected by the 1922 New England Textile Strike, shutting down the mills in the city over an attempted wage cut and hours increase.

Dover's millyard shut in 1937, then was bought at auction in 1941 by the city itself for $54,000.

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Dover was the birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, created by comic book writers Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and first published by Mirage Studios—then ba...

Bush's five-point victory in the town over Michael Dukakis in 1988.

The school was founded in 2004 in Kingston, New Hampshire, and relocated to Dover in 2015.

For the period 2009–2011, the estimated median annual income for a household in the city was $55,040, and the median income for a family was $69,980.

The city grew by 2,754 residents between 2010 and 2020, the third-largest numeric growth of a town or city in New Hampshire, after Manchester and Nashua.

Enrollment in January 2016 was 215 students in grades K–8.

== Demographics == As of the 2020 census, there were 32,741 people, 14,431 households, and 7,059 families residing in the city.

In early May 2021, waypoint signs were sporadically added to help drivers and walkers navigate Dover with the expansions that are underway.