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—Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan of Manchester earned the American League’s 1979 Cy Young award when he won 23 of the 32 games he pitched. Flanagan won 167 games in his 18-year career.

first appeared: 4/22/2007

—Jailed in Massachusetts for his hard-hitting news style, Daniel Fowle moved to Portsmouth (pop. 20,784) in 1756 to start the New Hampshire Gazette, the state’s first newspaper. Steve Fowle, a descendent of Daniel, operates the weekly publication today.

first appeared: 4/8/2007

—The Flag Hill Winery & Distillery in Lee (pop. 4,145) planted its first acre of vineyards in 1990, harvested its first grapes in 1994 and produced its first 500 cases of wine by 1996. The business also is New Hampshire’s first micro-distillery, producing premium vodka from locally grown apples.

first appeared: 3/25/2007

—The Oceanic Hotel was built on Star Island, off the coast of Rye (pop. 5,182), in the 1870s when the island attracted notables such as painter Childe Hassam and author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Today, the hotel is known as the Oceanic House and operated as a summer conference retreat by Star Island Corp.

first appeared: 3/11/2007

—Odiorne Point State Park in Rye (pop. 5,182) was the site of the first European settlement in the state, founded in 1623. Today, the park hosts the Seacoast Science Center and offers visitors a look at the history and nature of the area.

first appeared: 2/27/2007

—After being assembled on the town common in 1885, the 132-foot-long Edgell covered bridge in Lyme (pop. 1,679) was carried by oxcart to its current location on River Road, where it spans Clay Brook. After floodwaters washed the bridge from its northern abutment in 1936, it was moved back on the abutment and secured with cables.

first appeared: 2/11/2007

—Built in 1853, the Dalton/Joppa Road Bridge in Warner (pop. 2,760) is one of the oldest standing covered bridges in use today. Traversing the Warner River, the 76-foot-long bridge was reconstructed from 1963-1964.

first appeared: 1/28/2007

In 2004, the 1775 Folsom Tavern, which through the years has served as a lunch stop, laundry and even a fortune-teller’s shop, was moved to its present location on Water Street in Exeter (pop. 14,058). George Washington stopped at the tavern in 1789 during his tour of New England.

first appeared: 1/14/2007

—The Ladd-Gilman House in Exeter (pop. 14,058), built in the first decades of the 18th century, now is home to the American Independence Museum. During the American Revolution, state treasurer Nicholas Gilman Sr. used one room in his house for the treasury office.

first appeared: 12/17/2006

—The Fells, now open to the public in Newbury (pop. 1,702), is an example of an early 20th-century New England summer estate, complete with exceptional gardens. Situated on the shores of Lake Sunapee, the Fells was the summer home for three generations of the Hay family, beginning with John M. Hay, secretary of state under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

first appeared: 12/3/2006

—The 85-foot-long Blow-Me-Down Bridge in Cornish (pop. 1,662) crosses the brook of the same name. Repaired in 1980 with federal grants, private donations and funds from both the town and the Cornish Historical Society, the bridge is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.

first appeared: 11/19/2006

—Robert “Red” Rolfe, born in Penacook, a section of Concord (pop. 40,687), played third base for the New York Yankees and appeared in six World Series. He led the American League with 15 triples in 1936.

first appeared: 11/5/2006

—The massive Franklin Shiphouse, one of three large buildings at the old Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was destroyed by fire in 1936. U.S. Navy ships and submarines were built and repaired in the shiphouse, located on an island in the Piscataqua River, which separates Maine and New Hampshire.

first appeared: 10/22/2006

—More than 20,000 people flock to Nashua on the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving for the city’s Winter Holiday Stroll. Most of downtown is closed to traffic allowing strollers to wander to performances, take buggy rides and sample vendors’ offerings.

first appeared: 10/22/2006

—The Friends of New Hampshire Skiing grant program has raised more than $700,000 since 1978 to assist talented ski athletes. More than $20,000 was raised during the 2005-06 ski season through sales of tickets donated by state resorts.

first appeared: 10/8/2006

A native of Portsmouth (pop. 20,784) and arguably the city’s most famous writer, Thomas Bailey Aldrich is best known for his Story of a Bad Boy, published in the late 1800s, which was said to be the inspiration for Mark Twain’s mischievous Tom Sawyer. Aldrich also wrote An Old Town by the Sea, a history of Portsmouth.

first appeared: 9/24/2006

The USS Albacore, once an underwater laboratory for the U.S. Navy, today sits in a concrete cradle at Albacore Park in Portsmouth (pop. 20,784) and gives visitors an inside look at a modern submarine. The vessel carried out tests of speed, depth changes, underwater maneuvering and, later, sonar equipment.

first appeared: 9/10/2006

The American Independence Museum in Exeter (pop. 14,058) offers a look into early New Hampshire history through a tour of the 18th-century Ladd-Gilman House and Folsom Tavern. The museum's collections include rare copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 8/27/2006

Gosport Chapel is located on the highest point on Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the state's 18-mile coast. Summer visitors continue a long-standing tradition of holding candlelight services in the stone chapel.

first appeared: 8/13/2006

Built between 1897 and 1899 on high ground west of old Fort Constitution, the massive concrete Battery Farnsworth was meant to bolster and modernize the fort's defenses for the protection of the harbor at Portsmouth (pop. 20,784). Active during the short-lived Spanish-American War, the battery was abandoned in 1917.

first appeared: 7/30/2006

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