2009 User Group Meeting Event Locations Foot Map

Posted on 7/7/2009

We put together a little Event Location Foot Map to help folks get around Exeter easily.

Below is a quick history on Exeter, some interesting locations around town, and a short restaurant list.

The Town of Exeter

The area was once the domain of the Squamscott Indians, a sub-tribe of the Pennacook nation, which fished at the falls where the Exeter River becomes the tidal Squamscott, the site around which the future town of Exeter would grow. On April 3, 1638, the Reverend John Wheelwright and others purchased the land from Wehanownowit, the sagamore. Wheelwright had been exiled by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a puritan theocracy, for sharing the dissident religious views of his sister-in-law, Anne Hutchinson. The minister took with him about 175 individuals to found the town he named after Exeter in Devon, England.

Interesting Sites

• American Independence Museum

                   One Governors Lane,
                   Exeter, NH 03833
                   (603)-772-2622
                  Open Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
                  Guided tours are offered on the hour,  10 am – 4pm (last tour begins at 3 pm)

                  http://www.independencemuseum.org/

• Gilman Garrison House, 1709 (A National Historic Landmark)

                  12 Water Street
                  Exeter, NH 03833
                  (603) 436-3205
                  Open : July 18, 11am - 4pm on : Tours on the hour, last tour at 3pm.
                  Admission : Free

                  http://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/gilman.htm

• Exeter Historical Society

                  47 Front Street
                  Exeter, NH 03833
                  (603)-778-2335
                  Open : Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

                  http://www.exeterhistory.org/

Restaurants and spots in the area

Exeter

• Pimentos (nice bar and restaurant right next to BRT office)

• Epoch (good drinks and fine dining in your hotel)

• Tavern (good for a drink and awesome nachos)

• Me & Ollies (for coffee & breakfast)

• Blue Moon (good for lunch)

Hampton

• Beach Plum (food shack across from the ocean. Voted best lobster roll in NH)

Portsmouth

• Flatbread (awesome pizza)

• Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Café (great fish)

Maine

Maine is 20 minutes away and if you go, we recommend York, ME.

• Nubble lighthouse

• York Harbor cliff walk and short sands

Massachusetts

Mass is about 10 minutes away and Newburyport is a nice town – about 20 minutes away.  Newburyport is an old town – good for walking and has some great restaurants.  Boston is an hour away.