If you found this review helpful, please click THANK below. I rate Memorial Park at 4.25 and can recommend a visit. In the shaded area near some picnic tables, there were a lot of white mushrooms growing from all he rain the area got over the summer. He was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative from New Hampshire as he lived in Portsmouth at the time. In walking around the points of interest in the park, I came upon a boulder with a memorial plaque for William Whipple, who was born and raised in Kittery. The other is a flagpole next to the Kittery Historical & Naval Museum on the other side of Town Hall.īesides the Threshers memorial, the park is also intended to have future memorials to Kittery citizens in the Memorial Park Circle of Honor. A tall flagpole and large stone marker are on the traffic circle. This thresher memorial is one of three in close proximity. During the early days, Bing's reputation as an 'honest horse trader. At that time the store was a modest one-room trading post / gas station. Philip (Bing) Adams acquired Kittery Trading Post in 1938. There was also an info board about the submarine and the incident.Īlthough quite young when that happened, I remember the new reports vividly. Specialties: Brand name casual/outdoor apparel, footwear and recreational gear for: Fishing, shooting Sports, Camping, Hiking, Water Sports, Winter Sports and Cycling. Since 1938 we've been outfitting people for the great outdoors. Join our ECLUB today and receive a FREE digital coupon book Our Services. 109,656 likes 174 talking about this 81,490 were here. IMHO it has advantages over the competition as they have just about everything for everyone. I saw a plaque with all the names of 129 crew members lost in that tragic accident during deep-diving tests off Cape Cod April 10, 1963. Kittery Trading Post is open 9am - 7pm every day. Kittery Trading Post is an iconic VERY LARGE sporting goods, apparel, hunting and fishing store. There was a big monument to the USS Thresher. I learned that the park was dedicated in 2014. It had been hidden from my view by trees for years. Driving along Rogers Road near Town Hall, I spotted a memorial in a park.
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