1. Six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, New Hampshire became the first state to declare its independence from England.
2. The highest wind speed to be recorded at ground level occurred on April 12, 1934 in Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.
3. The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War was signed in 1905 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, making it the only state to ever host the conclusion of a foreign war.
4. The first potato planted in the United States was planted in 1710 at Londonderry Common Field in New Hampshire.
5. Peterborough, New Hampshire is home to the country’s first free public library, which was opened in 1833.
6. New Hampshire is home to the first legal lottery to be adopted in the United States in the twentieth century.
7. Adopted in 1784, New Hampshire’s constitution is the second oldest in the United States.
8. The first women’s strike in the country took place on December 30, 1828 at Dover Cotton Factory in Dover, New Hampshire.
9. The first alarm clock was invented in 1787 by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire.
10. The oldest manmade tourist attraction in New Hampshire is the Mount Washington auto road in Great Glen.
11. The New Hampshire State House is the oldest state capitol in the country in which legislature still meets in the original chambers.
12. The first enlisted soldier to die in the Civil War, Luther C. Ladd, was born in Alexandria, New Hampshire.
13. Dover, which was settled in 1623, is New Hampshire’s oldest permanent settlement.
14. Numerous animals are included on New Hampshire’s endangered species list. These include the short nose sturgeon, lynx, karner blue butterfly, bald eagle, Atlantic salmon, Sunapee trout and dwarf wedge mussel.
15.The University of New Hampshire in Durham has 10,500 undergraduate students.
16. Wolfeboro, New Hampshire is known as “The Oldest Summer Resort in America.”
17. America’s Stonehenge, which is a 4,000 year old megalithic site, is located in Salem, New Hampshire.
18. Four bronze bas-reliefs that were designed by Norman Rockwell are located at the Memorial Bell Tower at Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, New Hampshire.
19. The Anheuser-Busch Brewery and its Clydesdales call Merrimack, New Hampshire home.
20. North America’s first aerial passenger tramway, the Cannon Aerial Tramway, was built in Franconia, Notch in 1938.
21. The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, which is a state-of-the-art planetarium dedicated to the life of Christa McAuliffe, is located in Concord, New Hampshire.
22. The New Hampshire state motto of “Live Free or Die” was derived from a written statement made by Revolutionary General John Stark.
23. The state of New Hampshire was the first to vote for the Declaration of Independence.
24. America’s oldest unaltered brick knitting mill, Belknap Mill, was built in 1823 in Laconia, New Hampshire.
25. Stoneyfield Farm in Londonderry, New Hampshire shows guests visitors how yogurt is made – all the way from the cow to the cooler.
26. When the USS Albacore prototype was built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, it was the fastest submarine ever designed.
27. Exeter was New Hampshire’s first capital city.
28. “The Old Man of the Mountain,” which is a natural landmark located 1,200 feet above Echo Lake, is in New Hampshire.
29. The Hampton River Bridge in New Hampshire, which is referred to as the “mile-long bridge,” was considered the world’s longest wooden bridge when it was built in 1900.
30. New Castle, which is only 512 acres in size, is the smallest town in New Hampshire.
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