Once known to the Pennacook Abenaki as Cocheco (meaning “place of the rapid current”) and known to early English colonists as the Cocheco Plantation, Dover, New Hampshire, is a city familiar with Major Richard Waldron.

Many streets, buildings, and civic properties bear his name. In 1698, Waldron was executed by the Pennacooks in an event that came to be known as the Cocheco Massacre.

The life and livelihood of Major Waldron is celebrated in colonial-era histories and resonates to the present day.