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Interesting Facts ~ New Hampshire is the 41st most populous and the 46th most extensive of the 50 states ~ ~The state attained statehood on June 21, 1788, becoming the 9th state to join the union ~ ~ State is named New Hampshire after the Hampshire County in England ~ ~ Is one of the thirteen original colonies ~ ~ Fourteenth president of the United States Franklin Pierce born in Hillsborough ~ ~ Founders of McDonald’s, Richard and Mac, are from Manchester ~ ~ State motto is “Live Free or Die” ~ First colony to create a constitution ~ ~ State is nicknamed “The Granite State” ~ Has 93 state park properties ~ ~ Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. born in 1961 became the first American to travel into space ~ ~ Has the shortest coastline of any U.S. state with coasts, just 18 miles long ~ ~ State bird of New Hampshire, the purple finch ~ ~ Official state bug is the ladybug ~ Moose is the largest land mammal ~ ~ Virgil White from West Ossipee invented the first snowmobile ~ ~ First alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins from Concorde ~ ~ Famously known as Uncle Sam, Samuel Wilson grew-up in Mason ~ ~ Took nearly 50 years to pave the well known Mount Washington road ~ ~ Only FAA approved ice runway, in the lower 48 states ~ ~ Ralph Baer Memorial in Manchester to honor the “father of video games” ~ ~ One of the moon’s craters is named after astronomer Ambrose Swasey from Exeter ~ ~ First wind farm in US was constructed on Crotched Mountain with 20 wind turbines ~ ~ Stone walls were a standard way to separate land since its beginning ~ ~ World’s first cog railway was built in 1869 and still pushes a train up Mt. Washington ~ ~ Henniker is the place where competitive paintball originated ~ ~ Only state that offers ski jumping as a high school sport ~ ~ First fishing village in New Hampshire was established in 1623 ~ ~ Poet, Sarah Josepha co-authored ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb” was from Newport ~ ~ Oldest summer resort in the US is Wolfoboro ~ ~ One of the most challenging hiking trails is to the summit of Mount Washington ~ ~ Tourism is the state’s second largest industry ~ 4/5 of the state is forested ~ ~ First potato grown in the United States was planted in New Hampshire in 1719 ~ ~ Peterborough established world’s first totally tax-supported public library ~ ~ Produces more than 90,000 gallons of maple syrup every year ~ ~ Jumanji was filmed in Keen ~ ~~~~~~~~ |
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