DOVER, N. H., city and county-seat of Strafford County, 11 miles by rail northwest of Portsmouth, at the head of minor navigation on the Cocheco River, and on the Boston and Maine Railroad. The city has fine power fa cilities derived from the Cocheco River, which here has falls over 30 feet high. It contains cotton and woolen mills. printing press fac tories, machine works, boot and shoe factories, leather belt works, iron castings works, cutlery works, brick and lumber yards, etc. The United States census of manufactures for 1914 recorded within the city limits 58 indus trial establishments of factory grade employ ing 2,678 persons; of whom 2,483 were wage earners, receiving annually $1,219,000 in wages. The capital invested aggregated $5,703,000, and the year's output was valued at $5,682,000: of this, $1,425,000 was the value added by manu facture. Its principal public buildings are the city hall, public library, opera house, two hos pitals, home for the aged, two orphan homes and three banks. The total value of its tax
able property is estimated at $10,686,000. The government is vested in a mayor, elected for two years, a board of aldermen and a common council. The waterworks are the property of the city and are operated by the Municipal Water Commission. Dover was settled in 1623 and is the oldest city of New Hampshire; was organized as a township 10years later, and re ceived its city charter in 1855. In its first cen tury of existence it experienced all the anxieties of a frontier town, being often attacked by the Indians, the worst affair of this nature occurring in 1689 when several buildings were burned, 29 persons taken prisoners and 23 slain. Pop. 14,000.