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Dover, New Hampshire

Garrison Houses

There were up to 50 garrison houses in and around Old Dover Township during the 1689 Indian attack, which would include present-day Somersworth (until 1754), Rollinsford, Madbury, Durham, and Lee.

South Side of the Cocheco River:

1. Capt. Peter Coffin's Garrison

• Built: 1650s (approx.), fortified in 1683
• Location: Orchard Street near Central Ave.
• Status: Burned in 1689

2. Tristram Coffin's Garrison (Son of Peter Coffin)

• Location: Near the old Belknap School
• Status: Burned in 1689

North Side of the Cocheco River:

1. Major Richard Walderne's (Waldron's) Garrison

• Built: 1664, fortified in 1674
• Location: Marker on National Block
• Status: Burned in 1689

2. Richard Otis' Garrison

• Fortified: 1683
• Location: Site on Mt. Vernon Street
• Status: Burned in 1689

3. Capt. John Heard's (Hurd's) Garrison

• Built: 1660s (approx.), fortified in 1675
• Location: Central Ave. near Garrison Hill
• Status: Survived the 1689 attack

4. Paine's Garrison

• Location: Rogers Street and Portland Ave.
• Status: Burned in 1689

Along the Bellamy (Back) River:

1. Capt. John Gerrish's Garrison

• Built: 1670
• Location: Bellamy
• Status: Survived the 1689 attack

2. Richard Pinkham's Garrison

• Fortified: 1675, dismantled in 1825

3. Tibbet's Garrison

• Location: Between Pinkham's Garrison and the second Meeting House
• Status: Survived the 1689 attack

4. (Ebenezer?) Varney's Garrison

• Date: Unknown
• Dismantled: 1830s

5. Lt. Zachariah Field's Garrison

• Built: 1690 or 1694, fortified in 1707
• Location: "Field's Plains"

6. Meserve's Garrison

• Date: Unknown

7. Benedictus Torr's Garrison

• Built: Around 1700
• Status: Burned and rebuilt

8. Ezekiel Wentworth's Garrison

• Built: 1700s

9. Lt. John (Jonathan) Hayes' Garrison

• Built: Around 1707, dismantled in 1812

10. William Damme Garrison

• Built: 1675
• Original Location: South of the Bellamy (Back) River near Garrison Road - Spruce Lane
• Relocated: Moved to the Woodman Institute Museum in 1916 (admission fee)
• Status: The only remaining intact garrison house in Dover

The second Dover Meeting House (1654) on Dover Neck (Nutter Hill) was fortified in 1667 and 1683 with a 100-foot square, eight-foot high stockade around the house. It was demolished by 1695. Site is marked with monument. Hilton's Point was first settled in 1628 (local tradition 1623), and was probably palisaded across the neck.

A Powder House (date ?) was once located on the banks of the Cocheco River, extant as late as 1877.