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Gen. John Stark (1728-1822) was one of New Hampshire’s Revolutionary War patriots. At Saratoga, N.Y., in 1777, he led attacks that helped bring about the British surrender by blocking the army’s retreat across the Hudson River.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—Some say the name of the stream running through Amherst (pop. 12,000) is as long as the stream itself: Quoquinnapassakessannagnog.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

In 1776, a New Hampshire town was the first in the colonies to honor the name of the fledgling nation’s first great statesman and general. The town called itself Washington (pop. 950).

first appeared: 1/21/2001

On Golden Pond, the 1981 movie starring Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn, was filmed on Squam Lake near Holderness. The movie received 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

first appeared: 1/14/2001

The town of Portsmouth (pop. 27,000), a seaport city on the Piscatagua River, is one of the oldest towns on the Atlantic seaboard. It was settled in 1623.

first appeared: 1/7/2001

The first motorized ascent of Mount Washington, on a road now frequently traveled by cars, was in 1899 by Freelan O. Stanley, inventor of the Stanley Steamer automobile.

first appeared: 12/31/2000

On the tombstone of American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) are his own words: "I had a lover's quarrel with life." Although Frost is buried in Old Bennington, Vt., he spent many years in Derry (pop. 20,400) and Franconia (pop. 600).

first appeared: 12/24/2000

The state house in Concord, which became the capital in 1808, is the only one in the country where the legislature still meets in its original chambers.

first appeared: 12/17/2000

The Women’s Memorial Bell Tower at Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge (pop. 750), dedicated in 1967, honors American women who have given their lives for their country.

first appeared: 12/10/2000

New Hampshire inagurated its "First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary" in 1952, when Republican Dwight Eisenhower defeated the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson.

first appeared: 12/3/2000

Horace Greeley, a noted journalist, founder of the New York Tribune in 1841, and native of Amherst (pop. 900), is credited with having made famous the phrase, “Go west, young man.”

first appeared: 11/26/2000

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.

first appeared: 11/19/2000

Two presidential candidates have won the New Hampshire Presidential Primary without ever setting foot in the state. One was Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952. Serving NATO in Europe, he defeated Sen. Robert Taft. The other was Henry Cabot Lodge in 1964. Serving as U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, he defeated Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater.

first appeared: 11/12/2000

During the summer, mail is delivered on Lake Winnipesaukee by way of a floating post office. Mail service began on the lake in 1892, but it was in 1914 that an act of Congress designated the mailboat as a U.S. Post Office.

first appeared: 11/5/2000

The Rev. Eleazar Wheelock founded Dartmouth College in Hanover (pop. 6,538) in 1769 primarily as a school for Native Americans. The school’s charter created a college “for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land . . . and also of English Youth and any others.”

first appeared: 10/22/2000

The longest covered bridge in America is in Cornish. It measures 460 feet, and connects the town with Windsor, Vt., across the Connecticut River.

first appeared: 10/8/2000

Salem is home to America’s Stonehenge. The 4,000-year-old structure is a series of standing stones covering more than 30 acres. Surveys have determined that it is an accurate astronomically aligned calendar. American Indians or a migrant European culture may have built the structure, according to researchers.

first appeared: 9/24/2000

Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the alarm clock in 1787. The alarm went off only at 4 a.m.—the time Hutchins liked to get up—because the alarm in the clock was pre-set and could not be changed.

first appeared: 9/10/2000

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