Site of The Temple - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Site #16 on Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail
About: Black abolitionists were the driving force through 90 years that culminated in the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865. Several spoke at a 1,000-seat public lecture hall called the Temple, which opened in 1844 at the corner of Chestnut and Porter Streets.