Editing Greenland, New Hampshire (section)

== History ==

One of the earliest settlements in the state, Greenland was a [[parish]] of [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth]] (then called [[Strawbery Banke]]) operating in 1638.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.weekslibrary.org/history.html |title=History |access-date=July 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209002140/http://www.weekslibrary.org/history.html |archive-date=December 9, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Captain Francis Champernowne moved from Strawbery Banke in 1640<ref>http://www.weekslibrary.org/history.html#Captain {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209002140/http://www.weekslibrary.org/history.html#Captain |date=December 9, 2013}} Francis Champernowne</ref> and settled in the area of the present Portsmouth Country Club. Although it was originally to be called "Canary", he would call his farm "Greenland". His extensive landholdings included a farm which is now the town of [[Madbury, New Hampshire|Madbury]], named for his ancestral home in [[Devon]], England.

Residents requested and were granted a separate parish in 1706. In {{circa|1710}}, Captain Samuel Weeks constructed a substantial brick house, thought to be the oldest brick house in [[New Hampshire]] still standing. It survived the [[1755 Cape Ann earthquake]]. Only the {{convert|18|in|cm|adj=mid|thick}} beams that supported the structure were cracked during the quake. The Weeks House is denoted by a [[New Hampshire historical marker]] ([[List of New Hampshire historical markers (101–125)#113|number 113]]) along [[New Hampshire Route 33]].<ref name=ByNumber>{{cite web |url=https://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/markers/documents/markers_bynumber.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127063523/http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/markers/documents/markers_bynumber.pdf |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |url-status=live |title=List of Markers by Marker Number |website=nh.gov |publisher=New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources |date=November 2, 2018 |access-date=July 5, 2019}}</ref>

Greenland incorporated in 1721. The town annexed parts of [[Stratham, New Hampshire|Stratham]] in 1805 and 1847.

On September 1, 1824, the [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] was received by the citizens of Greenland at a triumphal arch erected in front of the local hotel.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}