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At one time, the state had nearly 400 covered bridges. Many have been lost to fire or flood, but 54 still stand.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

While not many hurricanes make it to New Hampshire, the Sept. 21, 1938, hurricane blew into the White Mountains with considerable force, downing more than 200 million board feet of timber in just a few hours.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

The Contoocook River was a prized water highway by early settlers, trappers, and traders because its unusual northeasterly flow carries one 71 miles into the state from the southwestern town of Rindge (pop. 5,451) north to Concord.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

The lowest temperature ever recorded in New Hampshire was minus 47 degrees on Mount Washington on Jan. 29, 1934.

first appeared: 12/15/2002

Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, campaigning in the 1968 New Hampshire presidential primary, described it as “an opportunity to test oneself against the harshest political judgment in America.”

first appeared: 12/8/2002

One of the first acts of the new Colonial Legislature, meeting in 1699, was to forbid its members from smoking, talking without permission, and sleeping while the body was in session.

first appeared: 12/1/2002

Writers who have called New Hampshire home include poets Donald Hall and Robert Frost, Horace Greeley (“Go West, young man ... ), Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), Sarah Josepha Hale (Mary Had a Little Lamb), and J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye).

first appeared: 11/24/2002

The 1793 Enfield Shaker community was one of 18 Shaker villages, founded in the United States by 1826 and located from Maine west to Kentucky and Ohio.

first appeared: 11/17/2002

In the early 20th century, Berlin (pop. 10,331) had the largest newsprint paper plant in the world, selling to customers such as the Boston Globe, the Boston Sunday Herald, the New York Tribune, and New York News.

first appeared: 11/10/2002

The Puffin III, a 27-foot mahogany launch built in 1928, plies the waters of Squam Lake, frequently carrying wedding parties to ceremonies on Church Island.

first appeared: 11/3/2002

The state was named by John Mason, who never saw it. An investor in early settlement, he named the area after his English county of Hampshire but died in 1635, just before a planned trip to the New World.

first appeared: 10/27/2002

The 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail enters the state from Maine with an ascent up Mount Success (elevation 3,590 feet), continues through the White Mountains, and exits the state in Hanover 161 miles later.

first appeared: 10/20/2002

Daniel Webster once wrote: “Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe, jewelers a monster watch ... but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.” He was referring to the natural stone face in Franconia Notch known as “Old Man of the Mountain.”

first appeared: 10/13/2002

“A sapphire cloud against the sky” was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s description of Mount Monadnock in 1838.

first appeared: 10/6/2002

The word “notch” is used in New Hampshire to designate a pass through high hills or mountains. Within the state, several place names exist with the word notch in them, including Dixville, Franconia, Grafton, and Pinkham notches.

first appeared: 9/29/2002

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), statesman, lawyer, and orator, was born in Salisbury (pop. 1,137). A farmer’s son, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801.

first appeared: 9/22/2002

Mount Washington has a reputation as the most dangerous small mountain in the world. Hurricane force winds (75 mph or higher) and sub-freezing temperatures have been recorded for every month of the year.

first appeared: 9/15/2002

Tide tables and weather forecasts in the Old Farmer’s Almanac, published in Dublin, are often useful, though sometimes unexpectedly. A German spy arrested after landing on the American coast in 1942 carried a copy of the almanac in his pocket.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

Monadnock is a geological word describing rock that did not wear down when all the land around it eroded away. New Hampshire has five such formations, one of which is Mount Monadnock.

first appeared: 9/1/2002

Darby Field, born in Boston, England, was the first European to climb Mount Washington, a feat he accomplished during his exploration of the White Mountains in the 1640s.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

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