NH, USA
Gilman Garrison House
Historic House
A seventeenth-century garrison house that served as a Gilman family residence throughout the colonial and Revolutionary periods. Nicholas Gilman Sr., the state treasurer, used the property as part of the administrative network that kept New Hampshire's revolutionary government functioning from Exeter.
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12 Water St, Exeter, NH 03833
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