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99 unusual facts about New Hampshire


2010–11 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season

% = 2010 Ledyard National Bank Classic in Hanover, NH

Abbie Huston Evans

Abbie Huston Evans (20 December 1881, Lee, New Hampshire - October 1983) was an American poet, and teacher.

Ainsworth Blunt

Ainsworth Emery Blunt was born on February 22, 1800 in Amherst, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to John Isaac (1756-1836) and Sarah (Eames) Blunt (1765-1858).

American Discovery Trail

The first hikers to walk the entire trail, Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.

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.

Another Animal

Another Animal is part of the stable of artists who have recorded at Rocking Horse Studio in Pittsfield, New Hampshire.

Anthony Sablan Apuron

He was educated at St. Anthony College in Hudson, New Hampshire, and at Capuchin Seminary in Garrison, New York.

Appleton Syntonic Menagerie

The album was realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Austin F. Pike

Born in Hebron, New Hampshire, he pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Merrimack County in 1845.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 3

It runs from US 3 in Laconia south to US 3 and New Hampshire Route 11 in Belmont, along NH 107 and NH 11A.

Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire

In 1851 the New Hampshire state legislature authorized the governor and council to appoint a land commissioner to sell the public lands, and James Willey of Conway was appointed to that office.

Benedict J. Semmes, Jr.

Semmes was a resident of Wonalancet, New Hampshire, but also lived frequently in the Washington, D.C., area from 1952 until his death.

Benjamin Champney

Most art historians consider him the founder of the "North Conway Colony" of painters who came to North Conway, New Hampshire and the surrounding area during the second half of the 19th century.

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

On removing in 1868 to Franklin, New Hampshire, he entered the Franklin Academy, and after six months there, went to the New London Academy, subsequently Colby–Sawyer College.

Biblical Witness Fellowship

In response to the "Equal Marriage Rights for All" resolution of 2005, BWF Executive Director David Runnion-Bareford, a pastor in Candia, New Hampshire, called for the resignation of UCC President John Thomas.

Bill Beaney

In 1977, Beaney was hired as the head hockey coach at New England College ("NEC") in Henniker, New Hampshire.

Brett Heyl

Brett Heyl (born October 29, 1981 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American slalom canoer who has competed since the late 1990s.

Bretton Woods system

Preparing to rebuild the international economic system while World War II was still raging, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, also known as the Bretton Woods Conference.

British Rail railbuses

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

Burndy

The company, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, has approximately 1,200 employees and operates three manufacturing facilities: in the northeastern United States, in Brazil, and in Mexico.

Carol Shea-Porter

Shea-Porter, like several of her colleagues, found herself on the defensive at two such events held in Portsmouth and Bedford.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

Her baby perished also, and mother and son were later interred together at the Hoyt family plot in Charlestown, New Hampshire.

Center Strafford, New Hampshire

It is one of the two principal settlements in the town, along with Bow Lake Village.

Charles Arthur Willard

From 1974 to 1982 he was the Director of Forensics at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA).

Charles Lincoln White

He was pastor at Somersworth Baptist Church, New Hampshire from 1890-1894, and the First Church of Nashua from 1894-1900.

Charles McRae

Volunteer Network Services was eventually sold and McRae took a position with AllVertical, Inc., a “dot com” based out of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1999.

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.

Chocorua River

Beyond the lake, the river flows south to the village of Chocorua with a picturesque mill dam, then continues into the flat, sandy Ossipee Lake region, reaching the Bearcamp River at West Ossipee.

Christine Lake

Water from Christine Lake flows via the Upper Ammonoosuc to the Connecticut River at Groveton and thence south to Long Island Sound.

Clear Stream

The stream flows southeast through the townships of Dixville and Millsfield before joining the Androscoggin River in the town of Errol.

Cobb Divinity School

From 1854 to 1870, the divinity school was located in New Hampton, New Hampshire and affiliated with the New Hampton Institute.

Cynthia Huntington

Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.

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.

Dave Lapham

His nephew, Richard Lapham, earned first-team accolades as a high schooler at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire in 2005 and played offensive tackle for Boston College.

Ebenezer Washburn

He was captured but released to visit his father, who supported the rebels, in Keene, New Hampshire.

Ebenezer Webster

He was at various times a member of one or the other branch of the legislature, and from 1791 till his death was judge of the court of common pleas of Hillsborough County.

Eli Woods

One was Jack Casey—tall and stick-thin, with a bony face and a stammering delivery—who originally appeared as 'Bretton Woods' (named after the site of the famous 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference), and was only later christened Eli (often 'Our Eli').

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.

Fabyan

Carroll, New Hampshire, mountain town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States that contains the railroad junction of Fabyan

Fletcher Hale

Later, he moved to Laconia in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession, serving as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor for Belknap County 1915-1920.

Francis Okaroh

Currently, he runs Francis Okaroh's Ultimate Soccer Academy in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Franklin Hooper

He was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of William Hooper and Elvira Pulsifer Hopper, and grew up on his parents' farm.

George C. Whipple

Whipple was born in 1866 in the small town of New Boston, New Hampshire, which is located a few miles due west of Manchester, New Hampshire.

George Punchard

From 1830 until 1844, he was pastor of a Congregational church in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Gillian Apps

As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey.

Gregory Douglass

While attending Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Douglass composed and recorded the material for his first two albums.

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

Harry Hartz

Hartz was badly burned and injured in a crash in 1927 at the Rockingham Speedway in Salem, New Hampshire, requiring him to spend the next two years in hospitals.

Heisler locomotive

Clark's Trading Post in Lincoln, New Hampshire, operates the White Mountain Central RR #4 (s/n 1594).

Henry W. Keyes

He died in 1938 in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and is buried at the Oxbow Cemetery in Newbury, Vermont.

Hermon Hosmer Scott

In the early 1960s, Mr. Scott served as a special lecturer at the Tuck School of Business, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Hideaki Miyamura

Hideaki Miyamura (1955 - ) is a Japanese-born American potter working in Kensington, New Hampshire.

Holy Roller

Time on March 4, 1929: "In the village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, 'Holy Roller' Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up."

Israel River

It arises in the township of Low and Burbank's Grant and runs 24 miles (38 km) generally northwest along U.S. Highway 2, traversing the towns of Jefferson and Lancaster, before joining the Connecticut River.

James H. Hobby

Born at New Boston, New Hampshire, Hobby was appointed 3rd Assistant Engineer in 1848.

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 DiStaso

Today DiStaso writes the paper's weekly political column, "Granite Status" and was one of the moderators for the 2004 Democratic presidential candidates debate held on January 22, 2004 in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

John Morressy

John Morressy (December 8, 1930 - March 20, 2006, Sullivan, New Hampshire) was a science fiction and fantasy writer and a professor of English at Franklin Pierce College.

Joseph Wilton

By some accounts, the town of Wilton, New Hampshire is said to have been named after Sir Joseph in 1762.

Julius Converse

In 1873 Converse married 31 year old Jane Martin (born North Stratford, New Hampshire, March 24, 1842, died Lowell, Massachusetts, June 22, 1916).

Khonnor

Connor Long (born July 24, 1986) is an electronic musician from New London, New Hampshire who releases music under the name Khonnor.

Lake steamers of North America

A new twin-screw vessel was designed for the hull being welded back together at Lakeport.

Laura Silverman

Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966, in Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American actress/voice actress, and the elder sister of actress/comedian Sarah Silverman.

Mammoth Road

After another 0.2 mile (0.4 km), at mile 27.7 (44.5 km), Mammoth Road crosses the county line into Merrimack County and the town of Hooksett.

At mile 10.3 (16.6 km) Mammoth Road (NH-128) crosses the county line into Rockingham County and into the town of Windham.

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.

Michael Whalley

Michael D. Whalley (November 16, 1953 – March 1, 2008) was a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Belknap 5th District since 2002, after having served the towns of Bow and Dunbarton since 1992.

Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey

Minnesota put its first women's team on the ice, in 1997-98 and Nadine Muzerall, a Canadian who graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, was among its initial recruits.

Mollidgewock Brook

The brook flows west and north through swampy areas and past low hills in the township of Cambridge before joining the Androscoggin River in the town of Errol.

New Hampshire state elections, 2006

In 2006, Democrats regained control of both the New Hampshire House and the Senate for the first time since the 1850s.

Okkervil River

Okkervil River's founding members became friends at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and after parting ways for college moved to Austin, Texas to live together and start a band.

Oliverian Brook

The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.

Oney Judge

Their January 1797 marriage was listed in the town records of Greenland and published in the local newspaper.

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.

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.

Phillips Brook

Phillips Brook rises in the township of Erving's Location, New Hampshire in the vicinity of Kelsey Notch and flows south through Odell, Millsfield and Dummer to join the Upper Ammonoosuc River in the town of Stark near the village of Crystal.

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.

Renee Mallett

Renee Mallett is also the owner and art director of Nolia Gallery, a fine art gallery located in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Richard M. Langworth

Richard M. Langworth CBE (born 1941- ) is a Moultonborough, New Hampshire- and Eleuthera, Bahamas-based author of books and magazine articles, specializing in automotive history and Winston S. Churchill.

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).

Sandwich Fair

Carroll County's 4-H members can submit projects and show animals, and as of May 5, 2007, young equestrians will be allowed to mount and dismount in Dutch form.

South Sutton Meeting House

South Sutton Meeting House is a historic meeting house at 17 Meeting House Hill Road in South Sutton, New Hampshire.

South Tamworth, New Hampshire

Route 25 continues east past the village of Whittier to West Ossipee, where it intersects New Hampshire Route 16.

Spaulding Turnpike

Exit 1, on the border between Portsmouth and Newington, was previously an at-grade crossing with traffic lights, most likely due to the proximity of the entrance to Pease Air Force Base.

Steve Vaillancourt

Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House.

Suncook River

The village of Gilmanton Ironworks is located at the lake's outlet.

Swift Diamond River

The river passes through the townships of Dixville and Dix's Grant before joining the Dead Diamond River in the Dartmouth College Grant.

The Advertiser Democrat

Taking his cue from Sanborn's example, Osgood invited his nephew, Robert C. Sallies, of Weirs Beach, New Hampshire to summer in Norway and learn the newspaper trade, beginning in 1949.

Thomas M. Edwards

He resumed his former business pursuits and died in Keene, May 1, 1875.

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase was sold by Commissioner Willey to Samuel W. Thompson of Conway and George P. Meserve of Jackson, New Hampshire in 1855 for $500 USD.

United Baptist Church of Lakeport

United Baptist Church of Lakeport (also known as Lake Village Free Baptist Church or Park Street Baptist Church) is a historic church at 23 Park Street in the village of Lakeport in Laconia, New Hampshire.

University System of New Hampshire

In summer 1974, the newly designated USNH staff moved five miles west of Durham in Lee.

Upper Ammonoosuc River

: Phillips Brook, rising in Erving's Location,

Vulcanized fibre

In 1922 National Vulcanized Fiber Company emerged as the main competitor to Spaulding Fibre, which had begun developing vulcanized products in Rochester, New Hampshire and Tonawanda, New York, nearly a quarter century after the industry began in Delaware.

William Bourne Oliver Peabody

Peabody was born in Exeter, New Hampshire to Judge Oliver Peabody, graduated from Harvard College in 1816, and subsequently served as an assistant instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1817.

Wonalancet River

The river flows south, paralleled by the Dicey Mill Trail, out of the mountains into the communities of Ferncroft and Wonalancet.


1852 in sports

3 August — The first Harvard-Yale Regatta is a 2-length win for Harvard in a single eight-oar, two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee, 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.

Alan Reich

Reich was born in Pearl River, New York, and graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he was an all-American track and field athlete.

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.

Captain Stone House

A native of New Hampshire who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Stone moved to Cincinnati after the war and became a leading businessman.

Commodore Nutt

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

Daniel Innis

Innis is a Republican candidate in the 2014 election for the United States House of Representatives in New Hampshire for the 1st congressional district.

Eight Cousins

The Alcotts themselves would summer in a location called "Happy Corner" in Walpole, New Hampshire, but the description of "Cosey Corner" places it within walking distance of Mount Washington, very likely in Intervale.

Elizabeth M. Tamposi

During the 1988 congressional election, Tamposi sought election to the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire, but lost out during the Republican primary, largely due to her opponent's assertions that it would be inappropriate for a mother of young children to leave the home and hold political office.

Ethan Allen

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

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.

Guaranteed Kill

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

Jeff Conine

Though sidelined for two months by the accident, he still managed to compete in the Ironman as well as the St. Anthony's 32 mile Olympic-style race in St. Petersburg, Florida, the half Ironman at Disney and the Timberman 70.3 in New Hampshire.

John Paul Jackson

In the summer of 2001, Jackson moved his headquarters to the Lake Sunapee region of New Hampshire.

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.

Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute

The institute conducts projects and partnerships with the National Weather Center, the University of New Hampshire, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mount Washington Observatory, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and many other agencies.

Lost Boundaries

The film is based on the book by William Lindsay White, relating the true story of Dr. Albert Chandler Johnston, a graduate of Rush Medical College whose family passed for white while living in New Hampshire.

Lucy Lambert Hale

Lucy Lambert Hale (January 1, 1841 – October 15, 1915) was the daughter of US Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, DC society belle.

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.

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.

Sabacon cavicolens

It was originally described from Bat Cave, Carter County, Kentucky and New Hampshire, and a year later found under rotten logs in a deep gorge at Ithaca, New York.

Stacey Bentley

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

State and Main

After the leading man's penchant for underage girls gets them banished from their New Hampshire location, the crew relocates to the small town of Waterford, Vermont, to finish shooting "The Old Mill".

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 States Customs District of Salem and Beverly

He was a governor of the Arkansas Territory before being elected to Congress in 1824 for New Hampshire.

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.