Incorporated: 1764
Population: 796
County Name: Rockingham
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Newington
205 Nimble Hill Road
Newington, NH 03801

Phone: 603-436-7640
Fax: 603-436-7188
Website: www.newington.nh.us

Origin:
This town was first named Bloody Point, in memory of a victory by the early colonists over an attacking band of Indians in the late 1600s. Early in the 1700s, it was renamed Newington Parish. Newington is surrounded on three sides by the Piscataqua River and Great Bay, and is home to the Pease International Trade Port, formerly Pease Air Force Base, and the NH Air National Guard.

More about Newington:
Newington's 110 acre Old Town Center Historic District features an eighteenth century parsonage, a nineteenth century Town Hall, the 1892 Langdon Library, the oldest Town Forest in the United States, the oldest New Hampshire meetinghouse (circa 1712) in continuous use, and a row of horse sheds behind the meetinghouse that were once commonplace, but are now quite rare. The entire district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.