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"One of three New Hampshire men to sign the Declaration of Independence, Matthew Thornton, physician, soldier, patriot, agitated against the Stamp Act of 1765, presided over the Provincial Congress in 1775, served in the State Senate and as an associate justice of the Superior Court. The nearby monument honors his memory.
Delta-Montrose Stamp Club (Grand Junction) [26] Denver Germany Stamp Club [26] Denver Stamp Club [26] [27] Longmont Stampers [26] North Suburban Stamp Club [26] Northern Colorado Philatelic Society (Fort Collins) [21] Pueblo Stamp Club [26] Rocky Mountain Philatelic Exhibition [26] Stamp Club of Grand Junction [26] [21]
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
U.S. Route 6 is known as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway for its entire length. [1] At the final encampment in 1949, the Post Office Department issued a three-cent commemorative postage stamp. [2] Two years later, it printed a virtually identical stamp for the final reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. [3]
Captain Mason was granted several land grants describing land in present day New Hampshire and Maine in the years from 1621 - 1631. [ 5 ] In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a land patent from the Plymouth Council for New England for the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, extending 60 miles inland. [ 6 ]
Following the First Great Awakening (1730–1755), the number of regular places of worship in New Hampshire had grown to 46 in 1750 (40 Congregational, five Presbyterian, and one Anglican), [16] and to 125 regular places of worship by 1776 (78 Congregational, 27 Presbyterian, 13 Baptist, four Friends, two Episcopal, and one New Light ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of New Hampshire: New Hampshire – U.S. state in the New England region of the United States of America, named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It was one of the original thirteen states that founded the U.S.