Facts!
1. Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
2. The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
3. New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
4. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
5. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
6. In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough.
In the town of Warner the last passenger train stopped on November 4, 1955, and the last freight in 1961. Since then the tracks through town were torn up and sold as scrap iron.
7. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
8. Cornish Hill Pottery Company handcrafts functional stoneware decorated in the traditions of Early American and European potters with a method known as "slip trailing". 9. The slip is a creamy mixture of clay and water and is applied to moist, almost hardened pots by hand. The slip contains various colorants, including natural clay colors and metals.
10. New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country.
11. On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers.
12. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
13. The Irish-born American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens lived and worked in Cornish from 1885 until his death at age 59 in 1907.
14. The Mount Washington auto road at Great Glen is New Hampshire's oldest manmade tourist attraction.
15. In the fall of 1999, the Town of Newbury officially opened a B&M caboose as a visitor center at Bell Cove, Newbury Harbor.
16. Daniel Webster was a politician and statesman, born at Franklin in 1782. He was known in his day as a mighty orator, a reputation preserved in the Stephen Vincent Benet story 17.The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which he beats the original lawyer, Lucifer, in a contract case over a man's soul.
18. New Hampshire's State House is the oldest state capitol in which a legislature still meets in its original chambers.
19. Alexandria was the birthplace of Luther C. Ladd, the first enlisted soldier to lose his life in the Civil War.
20. The very first motorized ascent of the Mount Washington auto road was by Feelan O. Stanley, of Stanley Steamer fame, in 1899.
2. The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
3. New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
4. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
5. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
6. In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough.
In the town of Warner the last passenger train stopped on November 4, 1955, and the last freight in 1961. Since then the tracks through town were torn up and sold as scrap iron.
7. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
8. Cornish Hill Pottery Company handcrafts functional stoneware decorated in the traditions of Early American and European potters with a method known as "slip trailing". 9. The slip is a creamy mixture of clay and water and is applied to moist, almost hardened pots by hand. The slip contains various colorants, including natural clay colors and metals.
10. New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country.
11. On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers.
12. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
13. The Irish-born American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens lived and worked in Cornish from 1885 until his death at age 59 in 1907.
14. The Mount Washington auto road at Great Glen is New Hampshire's oldest manmade tourist attraction.
15. In the fall of 1999, the Town of Newbury officially opened a B&M caboose as a visitor center at Bell Cove, Newbury Harbor.
16. Daniel Webster was a politician and statesman, born at Franklin in 1782. He was known in his day as a mighty orator, a reputation preserved in the Stephen Vincent Benet story 17.The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which he beats the original lawyer, Lucifer, in a contract case over a man's soul.
18. New Hampshire's State House is the oldest state capitol in which a legislature still meets in its original chambers.
19. Alexandria was the birthplace of Luther C. Ladd, the first enlisted soldier to lose his life in the Civil War.
20. The very first motorized ascent of the Mount Washington auto road was by Feelan O. Stanley, of Stanley Steamer fame, in 1899.