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The Great Gulf, the largest ravine in the White Mountains, is drained by the West Branch of the Peabody River. The gulf forms a divide between Mount Washington and the peaks of the northern Presidentials: Mounts Jefferson, Adams and Madison.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

The outstretched arms of a life-size bronze Pollyanna statue welcome visitors to Littleton (pop. 4,431), where Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), author of Pollyanna (1913) and Pollyanna Grows Up (1915), was born.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

Rising at Lake Umbagog near Errol (pop. 298), the Androscoggin River flows southeastwardly 170 miles before emptying into Maine’s Merrymaking Bay. Its name comes from an American Indian word meaning "fish-curing place."

first appeared: 12/19/2004

At more than 1,800 square miles, Coos County is the largest of the state’s 10 counties. The county’s name is taken from cohos, the Indian word for "pine trees."

first appeared: 12/5/2004

Distance runner Lynn Jennings, 34, of Newmarket (pop. 8,027) has won 39 national titles in 1,500- to 10,000-meter track, road and cross-country races. During the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won a bronze medal in the 10,000-meter event.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

Monson Village in Milford (pop. 13,535) is a Colonial-era "ghost town." Settled in 1737, the village was abandoned in the 1770s. Today, the deserted site includes cellar holes and stonewalls that have remained undisturbed for more than 200 years.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. was formed in 1831 in Manchester and at its height was the world’s largest maker of cotton cloth, employing 17,000 workers.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

New Castle (pop. 1,010), at eight-tenths of a square mile or 512 acres, is the state’s smallest town. It consists of one large island and several smaller ones.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

In 1988, the Wildcat River in Jackson (pop. 835) became the state’s first federally designated Wild and Scenic River.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

The Connecticut River, which defines the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, is actually part of New Hampshire. The state line falls at the low-water mark on the Vermont side.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Levi Hutchins of Concord (pop. 40,687) is credited with inventing the first mechanical alarm clock in 1787. Records of such devices, however, can be traced back three centuries earlier in Europe.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

Born in Ossipee (pop. 4,211) in 1879, Fred Brown briefly played major league baseball for the Boston Beaneaters before turning to politics. He became governor of New Hampshire in 1922 and later served in the U.S. Senate.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

Skiing became the state’s official sport in 1998.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

The 1799 Portsmouth Aqueduct, built from hollowed-out logs, delivered water into the coastal city from springs located more than two miles away. It was Portsmouth’s (pop. 20,784) first public water supply.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

When the state created an artificial wetland alongside Interstate 93 in Northfield (pop. 4,548) in the mid-1990s, residents decorated the area with plastic flamingos and selectmen declared it the Northfield Artificial Wildlife Preserve.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

Richard Potter is credited as America’s first successful stage magician, hypnotist and ventriloquist. Performing throughout New England during the 19th century, Potter settled on a farm in Andover (pop. 2,109), in a village now called Potter Place.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

The Draper-Maynard Co. pioneered the manufacture of baseball gloves. In the 1920s, the Plymouth (pop. 5,892) company claimed that 90 percent of major league players used its gloves.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

The state is home to the oldest after-dinner amateur baseball league, known as the Sunset League. The organization was formed in 1909 in Concord (pop. 40,687).

first appeared: 7/25/2004

Wildflowers bloom at Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam (pop. 2,141). The park’s focal point is a 16-acre grove of rhododendron maximum.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

The gold-painted wooden eagle that perched atop the Statehouse in Concord (pop. 40,687) was given to the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1957 and replaced with a metal replica.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

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