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DOVER, a city and the county seat of Strafford county, New Hampshire,
U.S.A., on the Cochecho river, at the head of navigation, 10 m. N.W. of
Portsmouth. Pop. (1890) 12,790; (1900) 13,207, of whom 3298 were
foreign-born; (1910 census) 13,247. Land area, 26.4 sq m. It is at the
intersection of two branches of the Boston & Maine railway, and is
served by several interurban electric lines. The street plan is
irregular. Dover has a fine city hall of red brick and freestone; a
public library containing (1907) 34,000 volumes, the Wentworth hospital;
the Wentworth home for the aged, a children's and an orphans' home. The
Strafford Savings Bank is said to be the largest and oldest savings
institution in the state. Dover has long had a considerable commerce,
both by rail and by water, that by water being chiefly in coal and
building materials. The navigation of the Cochecho river has been
greatly improved by the Federal government, at a cost between 1829 and
1907 of about $300,000, and in 1909 there was a navigable channel, 60-75
ft. wide and 7 ft. deep at mean low water, from Dover to the mouth of
the river; the mean range of tides is 6.8 ft. The Cochecho river falls
31-1/2 ft. within the city limits and furnishes water-power for
factories; among the manufactures are textiles, boots and shoes, leather
belting, sash, doors and blinds, carriages, machinery and bricks. In
1905 Dover ranked fourth among the manufacturing cities of the state,
and first in manufactures of woollens; the value of the city's total
factory product in that year was $6,042,901. Dover is one of the two
oldest cities in the state. In May 1623 a settlement was established by
Edward Hilton on Dover Point, about 5 m. S.E. of the Cochecho Falls; the
present name was adopted in 1639, and with the development of
manufacturing and trading interests the population gradually removed
nearer the falls; Hilton and his followers were Anglicans, but in 1633
they were joined by several Puritan families under Captain Thomas
Wiggin, who settled on Dover Neck (1 m. above Dover Point), which for
100 years was the business centre of the town. As the settlement was
outside the jurisdiction of any province, and as trouble arose between
the two sects, a plantation covenant was drawn up and signed in 1640 by
forty-one of the inhabitants. Dissensions, however, continued, and in
1641, by the will of the majority, Dover pass