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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
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 ...
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).
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 ]
Former populated places in New Hampshire (1 C, 4 P) H. Historians from New Hampshire (4 P) Historic sites in New Hampshire (9 C) History museums in New Hampshire (3 C ...
1974 - New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra formed. 1977 - Mall of New Hampshire opens. 1980 - Population: 90,936. [25] 1982 - Manchester School of Technology established. 1985 - University of New Hampshire at Manchester established. 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Taichung, Taiwan. [26] 1990 - Franco-American Centre founded. [22] 1992
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Before it declared its independence, New Hampshire was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The original 1776 Constitution of New Hampshire did not provide for a chief executive. The office of President was created by the 1784 constitution, and renamed Governor in 1792. [2] Governors served one-year terms until an 1877 amendment increased ...