Dover, NH (8/16/2022)

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (continued)

We had lunch at Sunny's in Lee, NH

Nephew Mark W and his wife, Carolin, have moved to Dover, NH. We kept busy in town until they finished their work day.

Former Sawyer Woolen Mills Office (1882, by Charles E Joy)

Sawyer Mills is now an apartment complex

Sawyer Woolen Mills buildings were
constructed in stages between 1873 and 1939

Sawyer Woolen Mills was in operation from 1824 to 1955

Dover Society of Friends Meetinghouse (1768) is the
only surviving 18C Quaker meeting house in NH

St Joseph RC Church has a unique steeple

Woodman Institute Museum in the 1818
Woodman House, which unfortunately was
closed today, is known for its natural history
oddities, such as a 4-legged chicken

Hale House (1813, in Federal  style); in 1840 it became
the home of abolitionist and US Senator John Parker Hale

First Parish Congregational Church (1825,
by Captain James Davies)

First Parish Congregational weather vane

Samuel Wyatt House (1835, in Greek Revival style)

Soldiers and Sailors Monument
(1912, by Lewis J White)

St Thomas Episcopal Church (1891-1892,
by Henry Vaughan in English Perpendicular style)

William Hale House (1806, by Bradbury Johnson) was moved
from across the street in 1891 to make way for City Hall

City Hall (1934-1935 through the New Deal
Public Works Administration)

Post Office (1911, by James Knox Taylor in Beaux Arts style)

Morrill Block (c 1846, in Greek Revival style)

Mill #2 (1880) of the Cocheco Cotton Mills complex

Connected to Mill #2 is Mill #3 (1881)
that spans the Cocheco River

A steel truss bridge (1880s) crosses the river below the dam 

The dam (1905-1925) and in the
foreground is a covered fish ladder

Next in line is Mill #4 (1909) with an ell extension

Mill #5 (1825) is the oldest surving element of
Cocheco Mills, with a Gothic Revival tower
to which a belfry was added in the 1850s

Mill #1 (1908, built from earlier sections that survived a fire)
is separate from the other Cocheco Mills and has a
picker house (to the right behind the mill) where cotton
was received in raw form and picked over before being
sent to the mill for processing into textiles

Sawyer Building (1825) is Dover's Flatiron Building

Michael Reade House (c 1780), a merchant's house

Woodbury Mill (1885) was built by the Dover Improvement
Association to attract small footwear businesses;
it was used to manufacture shoes until 1979

Garrison Hill Park Tower (1993 to replace
previous towers from 1880 and 1913); even earlier
the hill was a signaling site for the indigenous people

View from the tower of the town water storage
and community gardens

View toward the White Mountains

View toward the city of Dover

We were treated to dinner by Carolin and Mark, at
Robert's Maine Grill & Raw Bar in Kittery, ME

Robert's is situated on the marshy banks of Spruce Creek

Who knew there were so many types of oysters?!

Many thanks to Carolin and Mark for a wonderful seafood dinner!

Oh, no! We totally forgot to get a photo of Carolin and Mark, although we have photos of the great work they have been doing on their house in Dover.

New home for Mark & Carolin

Next: The Governor's Inn.