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Symbol Year Image Flag: Flag of New Hampshire: 1931 Seal: Seal of New Hampshire: 1931 Emblem: New Hampshire State Emblem: 1945 [2] Motto: Live Free or Die: 1945 Nickname: The Granite State: Highway sign: Number of route within an outline of the Old Man of the Mountain: Quarter reverse: 2000
The flag of New Hampshire from 1909 to 1932 before standardization of the seal Flag of the New Hampshire State Police. The flag of the state of New Hampshire was adopted in 1909 [6] and consists of the state seal centered on a blue background. Other flags prior to standardization had 45 white stars encircling the seal.
In 1776, the province established an independent state and government, the State of New Hampshire, and joined with twelve other colonies to form the United States. Europeans first settled New Hampshire in the 1620s, and the province consisted for many years of a small number of communities along the seacoast, Piscataqua River, and Great Bay.
The location of the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America. 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.
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
In order to preserve suitable timber for the Royal Navy, the New Hampshire General Court passed an act on May 10, 1708, to preserve all trees in the Province of New Hampshire suitable for masts for use by the Royal Navy. The act replicated a 1691 law in England and declared all pines with diameter greater than 24 inches (61 cm) to be property ...
The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Mr. David Thomson, gent. David Thompson first settled at Odiorne's Point in Rye (near Portsmouth ) with a group of craftsmen and fishermen from England [ 8 ] in 1623, just three years after the ...
Pages in category "Symbols of New Hampshire" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *