Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making

Winner of the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History (2008)

Strawbery Banke Museum is a rich core sample of an ever-changing America. The ten-acre museum campus, New Hampshire’s earliest neighborhood, began as a British plantation on a tidal inlet. Abandoned by its founders in 1635, the settlement “accidentally” named Strawberry Bank survived to become New Hampshire’s only seaport. A century later the bustling Portsmouth wat…