City of Dover NH issued the following announcement on July 28.
Dover400, a committee of residents organizing Dover’s 400th Anniversary, continues its virtual lecture series on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, at 7 p.m. with an online presentation about Dover illustrious history as a 19th-century shipping port.
Our speaker for this webinar is George Maglaras, proprietor of George’s Marina which is located at the former epicenter of Dover’s thriving and bustling seaport. This shipping trade, which included all manner of vessels from gundalows to three-masted schooners, also supported many businesses and industries which lined the Cochecho River. This area, along Cochecho Street, was the commercial center of Dover for 200 years, until the great flood of 1896, called “Dover’s Black Day”, wiped out most riverfront businesses and deposited vast amounts of silt and sand into the river, essentially ending large-scale shipping.
George Maglaras grew up along the waterfront and is a highly regarded raconteur of Dover’s maritime history. Maglaras has been a Strafford County Commissioner for 19 terms, and Chairman since 1987. He has over 45 years of involvement in numerous civic, municipal, and state organizations as well, serving in the NH Legislature and as Mayor of Dover in 1990-91. His presentation will combine the waterfront history with a large dose of entertainment through George’s tales of river lore and legend.
Each Dover400 presentation is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. To sign up for the July 13, 2021 lecture, please RSVP on www.Dover400.org.
The earlier seven lectures in the series (presented January through July) can be viewed online if you missed them. They cover early Dover history from the 17th to 19th centuries and can be found here: https://dovernh.viebit.com/index.php?folder=Dover400
Upcoming lectures in the monthly series include:
- Treasures of the Woodman Museum
- Downtown Dover During the early 20th Century
- Dover’s service in the two World Wars
Original source can be found here.
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