History

Historic Markers

45th Parallel

Designation & date installed: Stewartstown (64) 1970Description:As you stand at this point on the 45th
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Amoskeag Mills

Designation & date installed: Manchester (124) 1978 Description:Samuel Blodgett began a canal to bypass the
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Andrew Jackson's Visit

Designation & date installed: Bow (36) 1966Description:Just north of this point on the boundary between
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Atlantic Cable Station and Sunken Forest

Designation & date installed: Rye (63) 1970Description:The receiving station for the first Atlantic Cable, laid
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Baker River

Designation & date installed: Rumney (55) 1968Description: Known to Indians as Asquamchumauke, the nearby river
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Barrett House

Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (137) 1980Description:Built in 1800 by Charles Barrett, as a
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Bath, New Hampshire

Designation & date installed: Bath (121) 1978Description:Settled in 1766 by Jaasiel Harriman, whose cabin was
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Birthplace of Daniel Webster

Designation & date installed: Franklin (91) 1979 Description: Daniel Webster was born here January 18,
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Birthplace of Horace Greeley

Designation & date installed: Amherst (3) 1958Description:About five miles north of Amherst is the birthplace
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Birthplace of the Seventh Day Adventist Church

Designation & date installed: Washington (94) 1974Description: In April 1842, a group of citizens in
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Bound Rock

Designation & date installed: Hampton (120) 1978 Description:This rock, originally in the middle of the
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Bradford Center

Designation & date installed: Bradford (108) 1976Description: This common, designated the geographical center of the
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Breakfast Hill

Designation & date installed: North Hampton (62) 1970Description:On the hillside to be seen to the
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Bridges House Governor's Residence

Designation & date installed: Concord (61) 1970, 1979 Description:This house, on land long occupied by
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Brigadier General Enoch Poor

Designation & date installed: Exeter (131) 1979Description:Born in Andover, Mass., June 21, 1736, Enoch Poor
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Brigadier-General James Reed (1722-1807)

Designation & date installed: Fitzwilliam (99) 1975Description:This veteran Captain of the French and Indian War,
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Camp Stark German Prisoner-of-War Camp

Designation & date installed: Stark (150) 1985Description:In the spring of 1944 a high fence and
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Canaan Street

Designation & date installed: Canaan (21) 1964Description: First known as "Broad Street," this early venture
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Capt. John W. Gunnison

Designation & date installed: Goshen (14) 1980Description: Born November 11, 1812, in Old Center Goshen,
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Captain Josiah Crosby (1730-1793) Lieutenant Thompson Maxwell (1742-1832)

Designation & date installed: Milford (133) 1979Description:These two Revolutionary soldiers were settlers near here in
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Captain Lovewell's War

Designation & date installed: Ossipee (20) 1964Description: Was fought between 1722 and 1725 against several
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Center Meeting House

Designation & date installed: Newbury (81) 1971Description: This edifice of Bulfinch design was rebuilt here
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Charles Cogswell Doe (1830-1896)

Designation & date installed: Rollinsford (88) 1972Description:Rollinsford was the home of Charles C. Doe; jurist,
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Cherry Mountain Slide

Designation & date installed: Jefferson (152) 1985Description:On July 10, 1885, at 6 a.m., a slide
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Chester Village Cemetery

Designation & date installed: Chester (139) 1980Description:This graveyard, one of the oldest in the state,
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Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone

Designation & date installed: Chesterfield (95) 1974Description:Born October 11, 1872, in a modest cottage 1.7
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Chinook Kennels

Designation & date installed: Tamworth (155) 1988Description: Purchased and moved to this site in 1930
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College Road

Designation & date installed: Wolfeboro (116) 1977Description: Governor John Wentworth and the King's Council voted
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Colonial Grant

Designation & date installed: Hillsborough (107) 1976Description: In 1769, Col. John Hill, a Masonian proprietor,
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Cornish-Windsor Bridge

Designation & date installed: Cornish (158) 1989Description: Built in 1866 at a cost of $9,000,
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Crawford House

Designation & date installed: Carroll (87) 1972Description:Abel Crawford and his son, Ethan Allen Crawford, built
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Deerfield Parade

Designation & date installed: Deerfield (145) 1983Description:The village located to the east was settled circa
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Denman Thompson (1833-1911)

Designation & date installed: Swanzey (22) 1964Description:A famous theatrical trouper who lived and died in
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Dr. Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798)

Designation & date installed: Dover (51), 1968Description:Noted preacher, educator, naturalist, and historian. Born Boston, Mass.
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Dudley Leavitt (1772-1851)

Designation & date installed: Center Harbor (7) 1962Description: Author and publisher of almanacs first appearing
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Durgin Bridge

Designation & date installed: Sandwich (82) 1972Description: Built by Jacob Berry of North Conway, this
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Early American Clocks

Designation & date installed: Chester (14) 1963Description:Isaac Blasdel, 1738-1771, son and father of clockmakers, settled
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East Weare Village

Designation & date installed: Weare (145) 1982Description:In 1960 their beautiful community was sacrificed for the
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Ebenezer Mackintosh (1737-1816)

Designation & date installed: Haverhill (104) 1975Description:Born in Boston and a veteran of the 1758
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Exeter Town House

Designation & date installed: Exeter (97) 1974 Description:The historic Town House of Exeter stood near
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Exeter Town House

Designation & date installed: Exeter (97) 1974 Description:The historic Town House of Exeter stood near
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Factory Village

Designation & date installed: Bennington (153) 1985, 1987Description:Directly east was the "Great Falls of the
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First Ascent of Mount Washington

Designation & date installed: Pinkham's Grant (11) 1963Description:Darby Field, a New Hampshire settler, accomplished this
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First Church and Meetinghouse

Designation & date installed: Pembroke (144) 1982 Description:Site of the First Meetinghouse built on The
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First Connecticut River Bridge

Designation & date installed: Walpole (61) 1970Description:The first bridge across this river was built approximately
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First Methodist Meeting Place in New Hampshire

Designation & date installed: Chesterfield (60) 1970Description:In 1772, "the people called Methodist" held their first
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First Normal School in New Hampshire

Designation & date installed: Effingham (83) 1972Description: On the rise of the ground just west
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First Public School

Designation & date installed: Hampton (28) 1965 Description:In New Hampshire, supported by taxation the first
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First Roman Catholic Church

Designation & date installed: Claremont (4) 1966Description: Southerly on Old Church Road is located the
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First Ski School in America

Designation & date installed: Sugar Hill (73) 1971Description:In 1929, on the slopes of the hill
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First Summer Playhouse

Designation & date installed: Tamworth (9) 1973 Description: Nearby stands "The Barnstormers" summer playhouse, the
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First Textile Mill

Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (10) 1962Description:Established in New Hampshire at New Ipswich in
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Fort at No.4

Designation & date installed: Charlestown (2) 1958Description: In 1744 the settlers at No.4 (now Charlestown)
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Franklin Pierce 1804-1869

Designation & date installed: Concord (80) 1971Description:Fourteenth President of the United States (1853 to 1857).
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General John Stark 1728-1882

Designation & date installed: Derry (48) 1967Description:Roger's Ranger and Revolutionary hero, served at Bunker Hill
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General John Stark's expedition to Bennington, August 1777

Designation & date installed: Charlestown (117) 1977Description: To impede a British invasion from Canada into
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George A. Wentworth (1835 to 1906)

Designation & date installed: Wakefield (5) 1962Description: This outstanding teacher and author of mathematical textbooks
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George Hoyt Whipple

Designation & date installed: Ashland (100) 1975Description: Nearby on Pleasant Street is the birthplace and
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George Washington's Visit

Designation & date installed: Hampton Falls (57) 1978Description:On his way to Portsmouth after entering New
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Gilford Commemorating a Revolutionary War Battle

Designation & date installed: Gilford (118) 1977Description: Gilford, the center of which is opposite this
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Hampshire Pottery

Designation & date installed: Keene (86) 191Description:About 150 feet north of here stood the famous
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Hannah Davis - Amos Fortune

Designation & date installed: Jaffrey (13) 1963Description:Buried behind Jaffrey's colonial Meeting House nearby are "Aunt"
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Hannah Dustin 1657-1737

Designation & date installed: Boscawen (49) 1967Description:Famous symbol of frontier heroism. A victim of an
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Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States

Designation & date installed: Farmington (98) 1975Description: Born in Farmington on February 16, 1812, Jeremiah
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Hilton's Point, 1623

Designation & date installed: Dover (92), 1973Description:The first settlement at Dover was made here at
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Hinsdale's Auto Pioneer

Designation & date installed: Hinsdale (112) 1976Description:In the Holman and Merriman Machine Shop opposite this
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Home of The Molly Stark Cannon

Designation & date installed: New Boston (146) 1984 Description:This brass four-pounder, cast in 1743, was
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Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)

Designation & date installed: Richmond (59) 1969Description:Born in an almost uncleared wilderness in an area
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Indian Mortar Lot

Designation & date installed: Franklin (129) 1979Description: The large mortar found here is in a
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Isles of Shoals

Designation & date installed: Rye (18) 1963 Description:About six miles directly out to sea, this
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Joel McGregor - Last surviving soldier of the Revolution

Designation & date installed: Newport (106) 1976Description: Born in Enfield, Conn. in 1760 McGregor enlisted
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John Brown Family - Gunsmiths

Designation & date installed: Fremont (156) 1988Description:Around 1845, John Brown of Poplin, now Fremont, built
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John Goffe

Designation & date installed: Bedford (102) 1975Description:This is considered the site of Squire John Goffe's
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John Langdon (1741-1819)

Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (127) 1978Description:John Langdon, merchant and statesman, was born on June
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John Sargent Pillsbury (1828-1901)

Designation & date installed: Sutton (44) 1967Description: Born in a house bordering this common he
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Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795)

Designation & date installed: Kingston (46) 1967 Description:Distinguished participant in the founding of the Republic
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Keene Glass Industries

Designation & date installed: Keene (69) 1971Description:The first of the two famous Keene glass factories
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Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Factory

Designation & date installed: Littleton (71) 1970 Description:Here, from 1867 to 1909, the world famous
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Kimball Union Academy

Designation & date installed: Plainfield (77) 1971Description: This school, known first as Union Academy, was
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Lady Blanche House

Designation & date installed: Bartlett (109) 1976Description:This rustic cottage was once the home of Thomas
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Lafayette's Tour

Designation & date installed: Northwood (24) 1964 Description:Upon invitation of President Monroe, issued at the
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Levi Woodbury (1798-1851)

Designation & date installed: Francestown (43) 1907Description:Born in Francestown, this ardent Jacksonian rose to hold
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Lochmere Archeological District

Designation & date installed: Belmont (149) 1984Description: The history of Lochmere, in the broadest sense,
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Log Drives

Designation & date installed: Stratford (34) 1965Description:The dramatic process of conveying lumber logs and pulpwood
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Major General John Sullivan, 1740-1795

Designation & date installed: Durham (89), 1972Description:Revolutionary patriot, soldier, politician, first Grand Master of Masons
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Major John Simpson

Designation & date installed: Deerfield (25) 1964Description:Born in Deerfield and buried in Old Center Cemetery
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Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910

Designation & date installed: Concord (105) 1976Description:While living at her "Pleasant View" home (1892 to
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Mason's Patent

Designation & date installed: Wilmot (40) 1966Description: New Hampshire, as granted by authority of the
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Mast Tree Riot of 1734

Designation & date installed: Fremont (142) 1982Description:Local lumbermen illegally cut Mast Trees reserved for the
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Matthew Thornton (1741-1803)

Designation & date installed: Merrimack (79) 1971 Description:One of three New Hampshire men to sign
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Metallak

Designation & date installed: Stewartstown (47) 1967Description:Hunter, trapper, fisherman, and guide, well and favorably known
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Molly Stark House

Designation & date installed: Dunbarton (111) 1976Description:Built by her father Capt. Caleb Page, c. 1759,
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Mount Washington Hotel & Bretton Woods Monetary Conference

Designation & date installed: Carroll (122) 1978Description:The Mount Washington Hotel, the large building to the
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New Hampshire Canal System

Designation & date installed: Hooksett (132) 1979Description:Before the railroads came through New Hampshire, a flourishing
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Newington

Designation & date installed: Newington (151) 1985Description:Boundary disputes among the early river settlers caused this
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North Cemetery

Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (114) 1976Description:The Town of Portsmouth purchased this land in 1753
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Nottingham chartered 1722

Designation & date installed: Raymond (85) 1972Description:Two miles north of Route 156 (one mile ahead)
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Odiorne's Point

Designation & date installed: Rye (78) 1971Description:Here, in the spring of 1632, was established New
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Old Coal Kiln

Designation & date installed: Lisbon (70) 1970Description:A reminder of bygone days, this stone structure was
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Old Dunstable

Designation & date installed: Merrimack (29) 1965 Description:Was the original town, chartered by Massachusetts Bay
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Old Landing Road

Designation & date installed: Hampton (119) 1978 Description:This was the roadway from the ancient landing
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Old Province Road

Designation & date installed: Gilmanton (17) 1963Description: One of the earliest highways in New Hampshire,
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Oyster River Massacre

Designation & date installed: Durham (50), 1967Description:On July 18, 1694, a force of about 250
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Packer's Falls

Designation & date installed: Durham (154) 1985Description:These scenic falls, 1.6 miles west of here on
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Park Hill Meeting House

Designation & date installed: Westmoreland (74) 1971Description:This church, built on the northeast corner of Cole
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Pierce Homestead

Designation & date installed: Hillsborough (65) 1970Description: The Pierce Homestead was built in 1804 by
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Portsmouth Plains

Designation & date installed: Portsmouth (75) 1971Description:In the pre-dawn hours of June 26, 1696, Indians
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Potter Place

Designation & date installed: Andover (54) 1968Description: The community takes its name from Richard Potter,
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Ratification of the Federal Constitution

Designation & date installed: Concord (110) 1976Description:The convention of delegates from 175 New Hampshire towns
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Republic of Indian Stream

Designation & date installed: Pittsburg (1) 1958Description:In 1832 the settlers of the area between Indian
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Revolutionary Capital

Designation & date installed: Exeter (32) 1965Description:Founded by Rev. John Wheelwright in 1638, Exeter was
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Robert Frost 1874-1963

Designation & date installed: Derry (126) 1978Description:Some of the best-loved poems in the English language
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Rogers Rangers

Designation & date installed: Haverhill (56) 1968Description:This rivers' junction two miles north was the rendezvous
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Salmon Portland Chase

Designation & date installed: Cornish (76) 1971Description: In this house was born Salmon P. Chase,
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Sam Walter Foss 1858-1911

Designation & date installed: Candia (141) 1981, 1988Description:Candia is the birthplace of the well known
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Samuel Livermore (1732 to 1803)

Designation & date installed: Holderness (39) 1966Description: Proprietor of more than half of the town
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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)

Designation & date installed: Newport (6) 1962Description: Prominent humanitarian poet and author was born and
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Scotch-Irish Settlement

Designation & date installed: Derry (58) 1969Description:In April 1719, 16 Presbyterian Scotch-Irish families settled here
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Second Rindge Meeting House

Designation & date installed: Rindge (138) 1980Description:This Meeting House was an outgrowth of the time
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Shaker Village

Designation & date installed: Loudon (15) 1963 Description:Take opposite road 2.6 miles to the attractive
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Shapley Line

Designation & date installed: Seabrook (103) 1975Description:Based on the 1640 southern boundary of Bachiler's farm,
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Site of Piscataqua Bridge

Designation & date installed: Durham (8), 1962Description:At end of next road southeast, this engineering feat
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Site of Wilder's Chair Factory

Designation & date installed: New Ipswich (101) 1975Description:In 1810, Peter Wilder, with his son-in-law Abijah
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Soapstone

Designation & date installed: Francestown (23) 1964Description:A large deposit of highest quality was discovered early
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Spaulding and Frost Cooperage

Designation & date installed: Fremont (157) 1989Description:The Cooperage was founded here in 1874 by Jonas
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State Capitol

Designation & date installed: Concord (66) 1970Description:The State Capitol Building of New Hampshire was built
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Stoddard Glass

Designation & date installed: Stoddard (52) 1968Description:Glassmaking in this town covered the years 1842 to
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Stone Arch Bridge

Designation & date installed: Stoddard (27) 1965Description:This twin arch structure built without mortar and sustained
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Stone Iron Furnace

Designation & date installed: Franconia (9) 1962Description:Due west stands New Hampshire's sole surviving example of
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Sunset Baseball

Designation & date installed: Concord (148) 1984Description:The Sunset League, the oldest after-supper amateur baseball league
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Surry Mountain Gold Mine and Lily Pond

Designation & date installed: Surry (93) 1973Description:To the east rises Surry Mountain stretching four miles
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Temple Glass Factory

Designation & date installed: Sharon (12) 1963Description:Was located at a secluded site in the southwest
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Thaddeus S.C. Lowe (1832-1913)

Designation & date installed: Jefferson (19) 1964Description:Born nearby, this inventor and scientist gained a unique
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The Bedell Bridge

Designation & date installed: Haverhill (136) 1979Description:The last of five 19th century bridges which have
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The Belknap Mill/The Busiel Mill

Designation & date installed: Laconia (135) 1979Description: Constructed in 1832, the Belknap Mill is the
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The Chocorua Legend

Designation & date installed: Tamworth (31) 1965Description: In several versions, the legend's sequence related the
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The Concord Coach

Designation & date installed: Concord (128) 1979Description:The Abbot-Downing Company began in 1813 when Lewis Downing
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The Cornish Colony

Designation & date installed: Cornish (134) 1979Description: The Cornish Colony (1885 to 1935) was a
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The Crawford Family

Designation & date installed: Carroll (30) 1965Description:For whom the Notch is named, included Abel and
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The Governor's Road

Designation & date installed: Wakefield (123) 1978Description: This name was given to the highway from
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The Old Meeting House

Designation & date installed: Sandown (2) 1964 Description:The erection of this distinctive type New England
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The Pierce Manse

Designation & date installed: Concord (125) 1978Description:One tenth of a mile east of here stands
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The Ridge

Designation & date installed: Orford (33) 1965,1974Description: Orford's seven Ridge houses were built over a
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The Spaulding Brothers

Designation & date installed: Rochester (42) 1966Description: At nearby Rochester were the homes of the
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The Two-Mile Streak

Designation & date installed: Barrington (96) 1974Description: Granted in 1719 to encourage industrial development in
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Toll House and Toll Gate

Designation & date installed: Sharon (68) 1970Description:A Toll House and Toll Gate stood on this
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Town Meeting House

Designation & date installed: Greenfield (130) 1979Description:The oldest original meeting house in New Hampshire serving
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Uncle Sam's House

Designation & date installed: Mason (35) 1966Description:Nearby stands the boyhood home of Samuel Wilson (1766
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Union Church

Designation & date installed: Claremont (57) 1968Description: Located easterly on Old Church Road, his wood-frame
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Weeks House

Designation & date installed: Greenland (157) 1976Description:Leonard Weeks settled here in 1658 on 33 acres
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Wentworth Estate

Designation & date installed: Wolfeboro (53) 1968Description: This marker stands on the northwesterly part of
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White Mountain School of Art

Designation & date installed: Conway (38) 1966Description:Since Thomas Cole's visit in 1828, New Hampshire's splendid
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White Park

Designation & date installed: Concord (147) 1984Description:One of the oldest municipal parks in New Hampshire,
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Wilder-Holton House

Designation & date installed: Lancaster (84) 1970Description:This structure, erected by Major Jonas Wilder, from boards
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William and Mary Raids

Designation & date installed: New Castle (4) 1958Description:December 14-15, 1774, several hundred men overpowered the
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Winston Churchill

Designation & date installed: Cornish (16) 1963Description: American author of best-selling novels such as "Coniston,"
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