HistoricSomersworth.com
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- The site “Historic Somersworth” was created to bring attention to the historic downtown section of the city of Somersworth New Hampshire. If you have never visited, or drove through the downtown section of Somersworth, let me tell you a little about our small city. First and foremost, we are a very small city as far as cities go nowadays. The area we encompass is approximately ten square miles, with a downtown that borders the Salmon Falls River. In the record books, and articles on historic communities, we were once considered a “mill town”, before that, Somersworth was just a farm. Historians are left to debate who our actual founding fathers were, the “Masonian Proprietors” or the humble yet Methodist “Horne” family who ran the grist mill that operated on the banks of the Salmon Falls River (known as the Newichawannock by the native Americans before the advent of the early settlers), either way, the history of Somersworth was the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Created, incorporated, and built in the early eighteen twenties by an energetic Quaker named Isaac Wendell, who bought the grist mill of Andrew Horne. In many ways the rest is history, Isaac built the first mills (cotton), Somersworth grew, and here we are.
