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12 unusual facts about Concord, New Hampshire


Angier Biddle Duke

After a misspent youth, which included an education at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, he dropped out of Yale University in 1936.

British Rail railbuses

Following export around 1981 it was used on an experimental extension of MBTA (Boston) commuter service to Concord, New Hampshire.

Charlie Carver

He attended High School at St. Paul’s Boarding School in Concord, New Hampshire, but left to attend Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan, in his sophomore year.

Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr.

He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then entered Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1879.

James Colgate Cleveland

The first was the renaming of the United States Post Office and Court House building in New Hampshire's capital city, Concord, to the James C. Cleveland Federal Building in 1980.

James Milnor Coit

He was educated at Hobart College, and in 1876, he became master in natural sciences at his alma mater, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he was appointed vice rector in 1904.

Lydia Longley

Lydia was bartered immediately by her captors as they fled north along the Merrimack River: sold to the Pennacook Indians, whose settlement was located in what is today Concord, New Hampshire, probably in exchange for food.

Matthew Francis Brady

Bishop Brady High School in Concord as well as Brady Hall, a residential dormitory on the campus of Saint Anselm College are named in his honor.

Pescadero, California

The coach, built in Concord, New Hampshire, carried passengers and freight on the Pescadero road for the Wells Fargo Company for forty years, and, in 1914, was listed among the company's prized possessions.

Squash tennis

The games of squash racquets and its parent sport, racquets, spread to America in the 1880s with the nation's first courts built at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire.

The Jordan Institute

The Jordan Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the downtown capital city of Concord, New Hampshire.

Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr.

He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lilian Carpenter, and he was born in Concord, New Hampshire.


493d Bombardment Group

Aircrews left McCook in early May and flew the northern transport route to the U.K.; via New Hampshire, Labrador, thence to Debach by way of Iceland and Wales, or by way of Northern Ireland.

Andy Michael

Michael was a scout for the New York Yankees from 1978 to 1982 and was responsible for the signing of Bob Tewksbury and Joe Lefebvre who were both drafted by the Yankees out of Concord, New Hampshire.

Ardsley, New York

This second boom led to the eventual construction of several village schools, including Concord Road Elementary School (1952), Ardsley High School (1958), and Ardsley Middle School (1967).

Calvin Warburton

Entering politics at the age of 66, Warburton ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in 1976.

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

Concord Banking Company

The Concord Banking Company was established on November 18, 1903 to serve the banking needs of Concord, Georgia.

Concord Township, Champaign County, Ohio

Concord Township was the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 which fell to earth in a field following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron on March 9, 1967, triggering substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.

Cox Mill High School

Land was finally found in the burgeoning Cox Mill area of Concord, near the Odell Community approximately three miles from the Mecklenburg County line.

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Ephraim Wales Bull

He moved to Concord in 1836, settling with his wife on a farm next door to Amos Bronson Alcott.

Everett Turnpike

North of Exit 7 in Nashua, the turnpike runs by itself and has no number, but parallels US-3, which is a toll-free local road variously known as Concord Street (within the city of Nashua) and the Daniel Webster Highway (within Merrimack and Bedford).

Exeter incident

The Exeter incident was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.

Franklin Pierce House

Pierce Manse, at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842-1848

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

Gar Heard

This feat is commonly known as "The Shot," or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn," which was written about the Battle of Lexington.

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Guaranteed Kill

Guaranteed Kill is the first album from the New Hampshire group Scissorfight.

Howard Petrie

When Howard was three years old his family moved to Concord, Massachusetts The Petries later lived in Arlington, Massachusetts and then Somerville, Massachusetts, where Howard Petrie received his secondary school education.

James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton

A concord was reached between the King and the Douglas faction at Douglas Castle, in August 1452 that was to last until 1455.

James M. Warner

He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire in 1854, and attended Middlebury College for two years, until he was accepted as a cadet in the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1855.

Jim Forsythe

Jim Forsythe (born October 1, 1968) is a former Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, having represented the 4th District from 2010 to 2012.

John William Gregg

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Louis Whitford Bond

After preparation at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School within Yale University.

Massachusetts Route 62

In Concord, Route 62 joins that town's Main Street, passing the West Concord Depot, a commuter rail stop along the Fitchburg Line.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

New England Interstate Route 10

New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Penacook, New Hampshire

Most of Penacook is located in the Merrimack Valley School District, though part is in the Concord School District.

PhyloXML

A shortcoming of current formats for describing phylogenetic trees (such as Nexus and Newick/New Hampshire) is a lack of a standardized means to annotate tree nodes and branches with distinct data fields (which in the case of a basic species tree might be: species names, branch lengths, and possibly multiple support values).

Port Perry

Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.

Rashad McCants

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Robert Bixby

Before coming to the Concord Coalition, Bixby served as the Chief Staff Attorney at the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Ronald Volstad

His work is best known as box art for DML brand model kits and 1/6 scale military action figures, and as illustrations for books published by the Osprey and Concord brands.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Stacey Bentley

In her high school days she was a diver and later continued her education at Franconia College in New Hampshire.

Thomas Gustave Plant

Plant used his fortune to build Lucknow, an estate on a mountain overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, where he lived with his second wife.

Thomas Wiggin

This document, which some historians have claimed is a forgery, purports to transfer land along the seacoast of present-day New Hampshire from the local Indians to a group of English colonists led by Reverend John Wheelwright.

Tony Bellinger

Tony Bellinger is the head coach for the Bishop Guertin High School (New Hampshire) boys varsity team, a position he has held for over 15 seasons.

U.S. Army Birthdays

Delegate John Sullivan of New Hampshire, a 35-yearold lawyer, became the seventh brigadier general instead of Nathaniel Folsom.

United Family Services

United Family Service (UFS) is a not-for-profit, family service organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in Concord, Huntersville, Monroe and Mooresville, NC.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

West Concord, Minnesota

The early settlers of the area were from New England, New York or Pennsylvania and West Concord, and well as Concord Township which surrounds it, were named after Concord, New Hampshire.