Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
[22] [23] New Hampshire was the winner, with Wyoming coming in second by a 57% to 43% margin. [22] [24] Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont were also on the list. [18] New Hampshire was chosen because the perceived individualist culture of the state was thought to resonate well with libertarian ideals ...
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).
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 ...
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 ]
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 this to two years. [3] There have never been any term limits for the office, nor is there a ...
New Hampshire on Wednesday officially set the date of its presidential primary for Jan. 23, defying a plan pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to have the state give up its ...
New Hampshire and Vermont are the only states that still elect governors to two-year, rather than four-year, terms. Agency appointments are generally for terms of four or five years, which means that a New Hampshire governor is unable to form a new cabinet when first taking office. New Hampshire does not have a Lieutenant Governor as most ...