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In 1812, Mason (pop. 1,147) resident Samuel Wilson supplied beef to the Army in barrels carrying the brand “U.S.” The brand—and Wilson—were soon transformed into the nation’s avuncular symbol, Uncle Sam.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire is one of the world’s two most climbed mountains, the other being Mount Fuji in Japan.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

Boise Rock in Franconia Notch State Park is named for 19th-century traveler Thomas Boise, who huddled beneath the glacial boulder with his horse when heavy snows blocked their passage. Both survived.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

The first Royal Governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, served from 1741-1767. Born in Portsmouth (pop. 20,784) in 1696, he was one of 14 siblings.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

The Marine Memorial in Hampton (pop. 14,937) honors all men and women lost at sea in all wars with the words, “Breathe soft, Ye winds, Ye waves in silence rest.”

first appeared: 8/31/2003

Balladeer Walter Kittredge, who composed the Civil War song Tenting on the Old Campground in 1863, was born in Merrimack (pop. 25,119), earning him the nickname “the minstrel of Merrimack.”

first appeared: 8/24/2003

The Dartmouth College Outing Club held the nation’s first modern downhill ski race on March 8, 1927, at Mount Moosilauke.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

Endicott Rock at Weirs Beach in Laconia (pop. 16,411) marks what was the northern boundary of Massachusetts in Colonial times.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

Lake Winnipesauke has 72 square miles of surface water and 244 islands. Its American Indian name means, “Smile of the Great Spirit.”

first appeared: 8/3/2003

The tiny Karner Blue butterfly was adopted as New Hampshire’s state butterfly in 1992, the same year it was designated an endangered species.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

The first resort-based ski school in the United States opened in 1929 at Peckett’s Inn in Sugar Hill (pop. 563), providing impetus for the sport’s growth in the United States.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, was born in Bow (pop. 7,138) in 1821 to Congregationalist parents.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

The Old Man of the Mountains, a natural rock profile on Cannon Mountain first noticed in 1805, tumbled from its rocky perch May 3. The Granite State symbol was secured for decades with a system of turnbuckles.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mount Washington, famous for its steep headwall and snow-filled bowl, was first skied in 1926.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

American sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, best known for his Seated Lincoln in the nation’s capital, summered in Cornish (pop. 1,661). His 1885 home, studios, and gardens are now a National Historic Site.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire doctor and delegate to the Continental Congress, was the first person to cast a vote in favor of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

Fast Day, first proclaimed in New Hampshire in 1680, was a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer.” It was replaced in 1991 with Civil Rights Day.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

New Hampshire is sometimes called the “Mother of Rivers.” Several great watercourses—the Connecticut, Pemigewasset, Cocheco, Salmon Falls, Androscoggin, and Saco—have their sources in the state.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

Mount Whittier in Ossipee (pop. 3,376), like the village of the same name, honors 19th-century poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Whittier’s ballads immortalized characters from the state’s lakes, mountains, and seacoast.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

The New England Sled Dog Club was formed in 1924 at the home of Arthur Walden in Tamworth (pop. 2,510). Walden and his lead dog, Chinook, accompanied Admiral Richard Byrd on the first Antarctic expedition to the South Pole.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

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