Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Strafford County, NH Events Date Type 10/06/1859 High winds devastate the New Hampshire State Fair at Dover, New Hampshire Crime/Disasters 05/06/1859 Joseph Brown Smith, the first fully blind American college graduate, dies in Louisville, Kentucky Personal 01/06/1862 The central square of Dover, New Hampshire is heavily damaged in a morning fire Crime/Disasters People Burial Place of Hale, John Parker Documents Images