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Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, built in 1938 at Franconia Notch, is the first aerial passenger tramway in North America.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

Sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) was born in Exeter (pop. 11,500). Perhaps his best-known work is the statue of President Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

Merrimack (pop. 23,000) is home to Clydesdales, the widely known eight-horse hitch maintained by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co. The horses are kept at a Bavarian-style “hamlet” in the town.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Sailing out of Wolfeboro (pop. 2,000), the Blue Ghost—the U.S. mail boat for Lake Winnipesaukee—makes a 60-mile loop delivering mail to 30 stops at camps and islands around the lake.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

White ash, a hard, native New Hampshire wood, is frequently used to make snowshoes.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

Amos Fortune, a freed slave, bequeathed his life’s savings to Jaffrey. (pop. 5,400). Today, his money still provides prizes for high school students in debate and oratory.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Born on a New Hampshire farm, poet and journalist Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) is best known for his poem House by the Side of the Road in which he expressed his desire to “be a friend of man.”

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), born on a farm near Newport, was a journalist and commentator on women’s issues best known for Mary Had a Little Lamb and for editing the 19th-century magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

The Windsor-Cornish covered bridge over the Connecticut River, which we earlier identified as “Vermont’s longest covered bridge” is actually in New Hampshire, whose border extends across the river.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

The Ruggles Mine, the oldest mica, feldspar, and beryl mine in the nation, opened in 1803. Its location atop Isenglass Mountain near Canaan (pop. 700) earned it the nickname “Mine in the Sky.”

first appeared: 4/22/2001

The Nansen Ski Club in Berlin (pop. 13,500), devoted to recreational and competitive skiing, was founded in 1872. It was the first of its kind in the country.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), founder of the Christian Science movement, was born in Bow (pop. 7,000). In frail health from childhood, she wanted to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

In 1916, some 300 motorcyclists gathered at Weirs Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee, thus establishing “Motorcycle Week,” a tradition still observed here in late June every year.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

In 1832, people in the great North Woods area around Pittsburg (pop. 916) declared themselves independent of either the United States or Canada, calling themselves The Republic of Indian Stream. A plaque on Route 3 commemorates the event.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

The Bretton Woods Resort in the White Mountains hosted the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held in July 1944, when representatives of 44 nations created the International Monetary Fund.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

The state is home to several endangered species, including the short-nose sturgeon, Indiana bat, lynx, and Sunapee trout. The latter, also called the blueback or Quebec red trout, derives its Sunapee moniker from the New Hampshire Lake where it is most commonly found.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

With more than 3,000 chapters, the New Hampshire Audubon Society is the state’s largest and most active conservation organization.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

Born in 1925, New Hampshire poet Maxine Kumin received the Pulitzer Prize for one of her 11 volumes of poetry titled Up Country: Poems of New England.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (1923-1998), the first American to travel in space, is from East Derry (pop. 850). Shepard was one of only 12 who walked on the moon. He died in Monterey, Calif., at age 74.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

The first potato known to have been planted in New Hampshire was on the common at Londonderry (pop. 800) in 1719.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

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