Place:Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

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NameStratham
TypeTown
Coordinates43.017°N 70.9°W
Located inRockingham, New Hampshire, United States
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Stratham is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town had a population of 7,669 at the 2020 census. It is bounded on the west by the Squamscott River. The town is the home of the only U.S. Lindt & Sprüngli factory and the headquarters of the Timberland Corporation.

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Stratham was settled in 1631 and incorporated in 1716. The area, called Winnicutt by the Pennacook people, was known as "Squamscott Patent" or "Point of Rocks" because of its location between Great Bay and the Squamscott River. The sixth town in the colony to be incorporated, the town was named for Wriothesley Russell, Baron Howland of Streatham, a friend of New Hampshire Royal Governor Samuel Shute.

The town is unusual among New England settlements of its size in having been comprehensively mapped in 1793 by Phinehas Merrill. It is therefore possible to identify how many of the extant buildings of the town predate the map.

Each summer since 1967, the town hosts the Stratham Fair, held at Stratham Hill Park. However, the fair was canceled two years in a row (2020 and 2021) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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