• Exeter served as the state's capital during the Revolutionary War.
• The first President to visit Exeter was George Washington.
• In 1843, a Democrat named Amos Tuck was thrown out of his party for supporting the abolishment of slavery. On October 12, 1843, Amos formed a new political party call the Republicans. The new party nominated a close friend of Amos named Abraham Lincoln, whose son attended PEA, to run as President and the rest is history.
• During the summer months, the world's oldest continuously organized brass band provides free concerts in the bandstand that is located in the center of downtown.
• The bandstand was designed by Henry Bacon who was the architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Daniel Chester French, a native of Exeter, sculpted the statue of Abe sitting in-front of the Lincoln Memorial as well as Exeter's World War I memorial "Mother Town and Soldier Son".

The Gilman Garrison House built in 1690 is open to the public from June to October. The Ladd-Gilman House, home to the American Independence Museum (AIM), is open from May to October. John Taylor Gilman, an Exeter native and staunch supporter of liberty, read the Declaration of Independence in Exeter on July 16, 1776. During renovation of the AIM, an original copy of the Declaration was discovered behind an old picture - it now alternates between the AIM and the State House in Concord, NH.

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