[2] Archaeological excavations have confirmed that what is now Hampton Falls has been occupied by humans for roughly 10,000 years.

The settlement of Hampton joined Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, in 1643, along with Exeter, Dover, Portsmouth, Salisbury and Haverhill.

The county existed until 1679, when the modern-day New Hampshire towns separated from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The Third Parish originally consisted of all land south of the Taylor River and north of the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, or the modern-day towns of Seabrook, Kensington, and Hampton Falls.

A meeting house was built shortly after, and Thomas Crosby became the town's minister for the church.

[5] An attempt was made in 1732 to separate the western portion of Hampton Falls and make it a parish of Kingston.

[6] A disease known as the "Throat Distemper" (now thought to have been a malignant form of diphtheria) infected the town with its symptoms in 1735 and 1736.

Hampton Falls was considered one of the leading manufacturing towns in the entire state of New Hampshire around the time of 1770.

A flash of light from a fault in the southern region of the town occurred, with violent trembling shortly following.

[10] The highest point in town is the summit of Great Hill, at 246 feet (75 m) above sea level), just north of Weares Mill on the Hampton Falls River.

According to State figures, "Population in Hampton Falls tripled over the last fifty years, growing above the statewide average rate in three of the five decades.

Town meeting is held annually in the school auditorium, and elections are conducted using a New Hampshire Senate Bill 2 system.

[16] Once a farming and lumbering community, the numerous falls on the Taylor River provided water power for mills operating within the town.

Another school was turned into a home, and another was crushed by a boulder one winter when students pushed it off a hill.

In the mid-1990s Dan Brown, future best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, taught Spanish to the school's 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

In 2003, Lincoln Akerman was cited in The Hampton Union for, according to the New Hampshire Educational Improvement and Assessment Program (NHEIAP), being notable for having scores that were "significantly above the state average" and climbing.

Specific subjects cited were social studies, language arts, and math.