Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

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

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Morang

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was founded by the U.S. Congress on June 12, 1800, as the first of six public shipyards. The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, was signed here.

During World War II, it employed 24,000 workers, who produced record numbers of submarines. Today the shipyard's focus is the overhaul of nuclear submarines. The large, white fortress-like building at the eastern end of the shipyard (not shown), a naval prison, was closed in 1974 and remains empty.

Along the waterfront: Prescott Park

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