Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 


LANDMARKS:  Horne’s Hill

NAMES:   BADGER, Gov. William; PAUL, Capt. Moses; HORNE, William; 		    	      
	 STARBUCK, Nathaniel; STARBUCK, Edward;

	Horne’s Hill.  Mentioned in 1834, when it is related that the Strafford Guards of 
Dover, returning from the inauguration of Gov. William Badger, were met  at Horne’s hill 
by Captain Moses Paul and a cavalcade of citizens, who escorted them into town.  This 
hill is on sixth street, at that time called the "new upper Factory road,"  and afterwards 
"Brick street," from a brickyard where is now Snow’s tenement house.  The name is 
derived from Wm. Horne, to whom Nathaniel Starbuck conveyed 240 acres of land 
between Cochecho and Tolend Sept. 20, 1661.  This land was originally granted to Elder 
Edward Starbuck in 1643.  
	Before the Cochecho railroad was built, the intervale on this shore was used by the 
Dover military companies for target practice, with Horne’s hill for a background.  The 
river at this place was long used by the Free Will Baptist society for the rite of immersion, 
the bank being low, and the water shoal.  It is now a favorite bathing-place.


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