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The Old Man in the Mountains is a profile formed by five ledges that give the appearance of an old man. The famous profile is clearly distinct from only a very small spot near Profile Lake.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

The Ruggles Mine, atop Isenglass Mountain near Grafton (pop. 1,138), opened in 1803 and is the oldest mica, feldspar, and beryl mine in the country. More than 150 minerals have been found in the open pit excavation.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

When Sylvester Marsh applied to the Legislature in 1858 to build a railway on Mount Washington, lawmakers thought the idea absurd, suggesting he amend his plan and “continue his railway to the moon.” Marsh opened the cog train to the summit in 1869, and it’s run ever since.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

The state’s first tax-supported school was established in Winnacunnet in 1649 for the education of both boys and girls.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

Ash is the native wood used for splints in the traditional New Hampshire Shaker basket.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

At 172 feet, the widest main street in the United States is in Keene (pop. 22,563).

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The Blue Ghost of Wolfeboro (pop. 2,979) is the U.S. Mail Boat for Lake Winnipesaukee. It makes a daily 60-mile loop delivering mail to 30 stops at camps and islands around the lake.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

The state’s Monadnock Region refers primarily to five mountains whose rock did not wear down when the land around them eroded away some 4 million years ago.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

The Colonial Theatre in Keene (pop. 22,563) opened in 1924 and is still in business today. The Colonial has hosted stars ranging from aviator Amelia Earhart to singers Bonnie Raitt and Shawn Colvin.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

On the slopes to the east of Sugar Hill (pop. 563), Austrian-born Sig Buchmayr established the first organized ski school in the United States in 1929.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Rochester-born U.S. Sen. John Parker Hale (1806-1873) secured the abolition of flogging in the Navy in 1846.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Now remembered with a plaque in the town of Tamworth (pop. 2,400), the Chinook Kennels, founded in 1930, produced sled dogs for exploration, racing, and showing. For almost 50 years Chinook Kennels exerted an influence upon the Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky breeds.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

New Hampshire has more members in its House of Representatives—400—than any other state.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Wallace D. Lovell built the Hampton River Bridge in 1900. Called the mile-long bridge, it was the longest wooden bridge in the country, until it was replaced in 1949. The bridge was actually 540 feet short of a mile.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Born in Exeter (pop. 9,759), novelist John Irving is known in large part for movies based on his novels—especially, The World According to Garp (1982), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), and The Cider House Rules (2000).

first appeared: 12/23/2001

New Hampshire-born Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), attorney, later Ohio governor and senator, and U.S. secretary of the Treasury, was called “The Attorney-General of Fugitive Slaves” because of his passionate anti-slavery position.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

Adopted in 1919, the purple lilac is the state flower. According to state historian Leon Anderson, the lilac was chosen because it’s “symbolic of that hardy character of the men and women of the Granite State.”

first appeared: 12/9/2001

Born in Boscawen (pop. 3,672), Moses Farmer (1820–1893) created an electric train that carried children, invented a process for electroplating aluminum, and installed, in Boston, the first electric fire-alarm service.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

On a rise of the ground west of Effingham (pop. 1,273), the First Normal School in New Hampshire was established in 1830 for the “instruction and training of teachers.”

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Months before Paul Revere’s ride into history (April 18, 1775), made legendary by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Revere galloped to Portsmouth to warn of a potential British troop landing. That ride on Dec. 13, 1774, led to a militia raid on the British garrison at Castle William & Mary, one of the first overt acts of the American Revolution.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

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