Flagpole installation inDover, NH

Flagpoles in Dover

The oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, running from a mill downtown on the Cochecho out to salt water at Dover Point. We cover Dover and the Strafford County area, including the Cocheco Mills and the falls, Central Avenue and the downtown blocks, the Cochecho waterfront district, Garrison Hill and its tower, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, the Spaulding Turnpike and Dover Point on Little Bay.

Wind here. Dover sits in a tidal, part-sheltered and salty area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. People assume Dover is far enough inland to be spared the salt. It is not. The Cochecho is tidal below the falls in the middle of downtown, and the city runs out to Dover Point on Little Bay, which is salt water off the Great Bay estuary, so river and bay frontage here gets the same stainless hardware and anodized shaft an oceanfront job would. Downtown is the mill: the Cocheco brick stands on a bend of the river beside the falls, and the yards around it are old industrial slab and fill rather than lawn, so we want to know what is under the spot before the concrete is priced, and in a paved yard the quote has to carry breaking out. Garrison Hill behind the town is the opposite case, high open ground with a tower on it and a view in every direction, and a site up there is sized as exposed. Dover has been settled since 1623 and downtown still follows that footprint, so the hard part of a job here is often getting a truck and an auger to the spot at all.

Most of the people who call us from Dover are converted mill offices and downtown businesses, the hospital and medical practices, schools, churches, community associations, city facilities and waterfront properties.