Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Dover, NH

Dover is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, with a population of 32,741 at the 2020 census, making it the most populous city in the New Hampshire Seacoast region and the fifth most populous city in the state.

Dover is the county seat of Strafford County, and the 2020 census counted 14,431 households in the city.

Brothers William and Edward Hilton settled at Pomeroy Cove on Dover Point in 1623, making Dover the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire and the seventh oldest in the United States.

The city is named for Dover, Kent, England, and it was called Dover in 1637 by the new governor, Reverend George Burdett.

Dover is nicknamed the Garrison City because early settlers built fortified log houses called garrisons in Abenaki lands.

The population and business center shifted to Cochecho Falls on the Cochecho River, where a drop of 34 feet provided water power for sawmills and later textile mills.

On December 30, 1828, about half of the 800 women employed at the Cocheco Manufacturing Company mill walked out in the Strike of the Mill Girls, the first women's strike in the United States.

Dover was incorporated as a city in 1855 and for a time became a leading national producer of textiles, with its mill complex employing 2,000 workers.

The Sawyer Woolen Mills, established beside the Bellamy River in 1824, had expanded to 15 major buildings by 1883 and was then the largest woolen manufacturer in the state.

Dover's millyard shut in 1937 and was bought at auction by the city itself in 1941 for 54,000 dollars, and it is now called Cocheco Falls Millworks, with technology and government services tenants plus a restaurant, brewery and bar.