Prescott Park

Harbour Trail Map
Section II:
The South End

Approx 1.0 mile, 1 hour

1 & 2. Market Square and North Church 23. Bankers Row
24. U.S. Custom House
25. Ann Treadwell
Mansion
26. Gov. John Langdon House 27. Thomas Thompson House
28. City Hall
29. Haven Park
30. Lower Pleasant St.
31. Mark Wentworth Home
32. James T. Fields House
33. Joshua and Elizabeth
Peirce House
34. South Ward Meetinghouse 35. Tobias Lear House
36. Wentworth-Gardner House
37. Point of Graves
38. Peirce Island
39. Four Tree Island
40. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 41. Prescott Park 42. Sheafe Warehouse
43. Shaw Warehouse
44. Liberty Gardens
45. Liberty Pole
46. Strawbery Banke 47. Prescott Park Theater
& Dock
48. Oracle House
49. Thomas Shaw House
50. State Street
51. Temple Israel

Prescott Park entrance garden
Morang

Prescott Park exists because of the efforts of two local residents, the Prescott sisters. By the 1930s, this section of the waterfront consisted of coal storage tanks, industrial piers, decaying wharves, empty warehouses, saloons, boarding houses and bordellos. The sisters, who believed that social reform could be achieved through beautification, purchased the land and had the buildings removed. Their gift to the city of the land and funds to create the park dramatically altered the waterfront. In summer, the park is home to the immensely popular Prescott Park Arts Festival.

Across Marcy Street: Strawbery Banke Museum

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