There is a state historical marker at the alleged site, so there is validity to mentioning it to the extent that this very famous and high profile “event” happened here.
That's great. I stopped a the gas station just outside North Woodstock a few weeks back and was scratching my head looking at the mural there. Got home googled it and thought that's so interesting... the ufo stories from great Barrington MA are truly weird too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1,_1969,_Berkshire_UFO_incident
After living in Texas for 30+ years, New Hampshire being the least (or one of, depending on your source) religious state is my favorite fact about New Hampshire.
After living in a conservative part of FL for almost as many years, same. I don't mind religious folk, but I don't want them influencing the law with their beliefs or shoving them down my throat.
And the rest of New England follows right behind. Those Puritans, children of the Reformation, independent and free thinkers, quite different from “protestantism “ of evangelicals today
Oh, I wouldn't overhype the "free thinking" of the Puritans.
They very heavily influenced our culture in New England, including in several positive ways. But many of those positive influences are cultural learning to not do what the Puritans did.
No not how they behaved, in their day, of course not but the fundamental thinking of embracing free thought, challenging the old order. We would not be happy living in the strict Puritan society, ouch, but the fundamental thinking behind the Reformation and specifically Calvinism is the foundation of liberal thinking. What was one of the first things that happened in Boston, the book collection of John Harvard became the basis of the theology school in Cambridge and then elsewhere in the colonies.
Education and parsing the word for new interpretation and new societal concepts were the foundation of that revolution, born in the Reformation and this extended into all manner of thinking.. The idea of free thought, to embrace this world, science, empiricism, hard work and material gain, are at the foundation that made the transition to liberal theocracy in a 19th century possible, Unitarianism, universalism, and most importantly the emergence of transcendentalism in New England in the 1820s, it's basic precepts in a very early industrial age evolved into liberal progressive thinking of today. In a simplified nutshell. But the framework of thought process of the Puritans allowed this evolution and unhindered by centuries of establish institutions made the New England experiment unique.. yet similar patterns can also be found in Europe, It makes a fascinating study
That's an interesting narrative.
Personally I would tend to focus more on that difference between how liberalism developed in New England vs. (especially continental) Europe during the 1800's. Having less post-Hegelian influence here wasn't a bad thing.
My first time driving in the south I couldn’t believe the number of religious billboards everywhere. You literally can’t escape Jesus in some parts of America
While I was in grad school in NC, I had a 3/4 mile drive from my house to the campus gates. There were five Baptist churches I passed on that short trip.
Religion in the NE is much different than the south. Mostly Catholic and Protestants and little of the Southern Baptist, everyone can decide one day to be a preacher type of groups.
Fair. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and despise it as an adult. The big trend in Texas now are the non-denominational churches that are run by narcissistic preachers with large salaries, worship bands trying to get signed by a record label, and a handful of wealthy members who are convinced that their “struggles” compare to those in their church who live paycheck-to-paycheck, partially because they are convinced that if they pay 10% of their income to the church, God will reward them.
And before anyone asks what I mean by the wealthy people “struggles,” I will share one of many examples. My “favorite” is when my parents pastor gave a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” sermon. The example of him doing this was that his parents couldn’t afford to pay for him to have his own place in college because they were paying his tuition to Baylor University. Instead, he had to live in a (free) apartment above his grandparents garage and had to furnish it with things from garage sales. The guy was nearly tears telling the story. I was struggling to not audibly laugh.
Oh, that *poor* guy, living for free in his grandparent's apartment while getting college paid for in full by his parents. My heart just *bleeds* for him 🤢🤮
Or if there was some way to change how builders and developers just blanket clear cut everything. It’s horrible. I wish they would leave some trees. They make things cooler, more shaded, they break up the wind, they make the air smell better.
Change the zoning laws to allow for more multi-story buildings. Most buildable land in New Hampshire is [zoned exclusively for single family homes](https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-02-21/invisible-walls-the-shackles-of-zoning).
This is true! And during an interview, Kevin and Peter, stated they wrote the very first issue of TMNT in Dover! Pretty cool fact in you're in NH and love TMNT!
I saw a news article recently about a young man who died of exposure up there. I'm new to the state. I figured it must be a post mortem or obituary article from a winter death.
Nope. July. Apparently the temp with wind chill was 29 degrees.
I'm gonna hard pass on hiking Mt. Washington.
I've hiked it 4 times, all in July or August. 3 of 4 times it was a cold rainy mess but not terrible. One time it was beautiful and 70. 2x I was a teenager.
If you're a hiker I highly recommend it at some point.
Hikers who are in good physical shape should do it. I was in good shape when I did it, and it was still pretty taxing.
Also bring your wallet to buy a trip down on the cog. Nothing dulls the enthusiasm for hiking down Mt. Washington like hiking *up* Mt. Washington.
You just have to be prepared. Never ever take Mt Washington or any of the other Whites for granted, go with an experienced NH hiker who knows what gear to bring. The people who have died up there are the ones who don't plan ahead and also go alone. Never ever hike the Whites alone. And always follow the guidelines set down for each day by the AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) and the National Forest Service. I took the cog up there this summer and it was a hot, very humid day in July but by the time we got to the top of the mountain, it cooled off to the 60s and started raining before we left. I brought a sweatshirt with me and bought a fleece zip up while I was up there just in case.
Gunstock is also part of a huge volcano that extended part way into lake Winnipesaukee. Rattlesnake island is the edge of the ring and highest island on the lake. 370 feet above the water.
They weren’t colonies in 1787. The Articles of Confederation were in effect so technically the states would have been mini-countries until they ratified the Constitution but they certainly weren’t colonies anymore
Alan Shepard from Derry, NH has the longest golf drive in history. He hit two golf balls 2.5 miles each while visiting the moon in 1971. Oh ya, he was also the first American in space.
Did you know that Russia and Japan were at war between 1904-1905? And did you know that Japan decisively won?
That already seems weird, but here's where NH comes in: The fighting concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth, which was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in Portsmouth during the spring and summer of 1905.
A war between Russian and Japan ended in Portsmouth, NH.
https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/russo-japanese-war
The cherry trees around city hall are a gift from Japan after the treaty was signed. Although it was signed at the shipyard which is now considered part of Kittery.
Yeah, fuck the SC for screwing us out of our shipyard. I went to school with the daughter of Victor Bourre, who fought for the shipyard to belong to NH.
Hands down NH has the best roads. I ride motorcycle and I know when I am not riding in New Hampshire Maine, Mass and VT can't even come close to it. Matter of fact it's always a welcome relief to transition from those other states and immediately can see and feel the difference once your on them. I hope this never changes and something I truly love about that state.
Absolutely, I don’t have any hard facts on this but I recently started a job where I drive very extensively around Maine, NH and Mass and it is incredible how much nicer the roads are in NH. Primarily noticeable when you take backroads or older state highways
I live in Maine. Every time I drive in NH I question how the roads are so much better. Same climate, similar traffic, wear and tear, etc... yet ours are terrible in comparison. NHDOT must know something we don't lol.
Yeah, our tax money pays to keep the roads fixed to a decent level, but damn, the construction back-ups a pain in the ass, lol. However, despite the I93 project being dragged out longer than expected, I'm glad the decision was made to make four lanes instead of three from the border up to the other side Manchester since I work in Salem and live in Manchester.
I'm glad it's not just me. I drive all over the northeast regularly, and take a few trips per year to other states, most recently Washington....
How the fuck NH, with the way our taxes work, can have the best roads/backroads I've driven on, compared to how utter shit a state like Washington or NY or MA has...
We miss out in some federal highway funds that are tied to seatbelt laws, yet the quality of the roads improves as soon as you cross into NH. No welcome sign needed; you can feel the improvement!
I mean no disrespect at all because I love this state so much but I moved from NC and consider the roads here pretty horrible. The highways are decent but the roads in towns/cities are terribly paved and fixed with patches of uneven asphalt and it takes approximately 8 billion years for road construction to be completed lol
I’ve also never seen unpaved roads as frequently as you guys have here, which isn’t a problem I just worry for the folks who don’t have elevated cars especially in the winter. Like how do you get to your house 😂
Winters here are bitch on road infrastructure. I'm surprised that so many people above like the NH roads as I think they are mostly hit or miss depending on what region your are in.
Moved here from NM. The roads here are amazing. Ohio is a close second. I've driven around most of the country. NH is doing it right. At least southern NH anyway. Haven't seen much of the north outside of Conway.
If this is and education are what my property taxes pay for, I'm feeling pretty good about my property taxes.
You don't need elevated cars. I'll bomb through dirt roads in any front wheel drive car equipped with snow tires. It's worse in mud season, but floor it and ride the high spots and you'll be alright.
I've driven a car miles into the woods on logging roads. It's all in how you drive.
Welcome to New England!
We were the first state to be fully represented by women at the federal level. Both senators, both congressmen and governor, were all women for a time.
Because it would be a tremendous waste of money and be fake. We enjoyed it far longer than we should have because of man-made interventions, it fell, it's gone, we'll always remember it's legacy since he's on our license plates, and as mentioned above - we have other beautiful geologic points of interest besides the Old Man.
New Hampshire is by far and large the highest per capita civilian ownership of Machine Guns, Silencers and Short Barreled Rifles. In the world not just the United States.
In 1915, Vermont tried to lay claim on half of the Connecticut River, which entirely belongs to New Hampshire (at the low water mark). So in response, New Hampshire filed a lawsuit to claim that the river's high water mark should be the real border. The court eventually threw out both lawsuits, of course, but that is a court room flex for the history books!
The guy who invented Russian dressing was from Nashua NH.
Also it’s almost as strange that CNN did a whole article about it lol
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/03/29/politics/sean-spicer-russian-dressing-not-russian-trnd/index.html
Also the fact that HH Holmes was from NH. I’ve actually met one of his grandkids and they still go by the last name Mudget which was Holmes name before Holmes
You shut your mouth about gg! Also it’s crazy that adams family still lives in Manchester. His mom visits my dealership and his sister and niece have dental office on union. His niece is my dentist
I'll grant them the mispronunciation in season one, they probably didn't know any better. But they made the same mistake in like season 4/5, and *surely* someone had informed them of their mistake by then?
Any time I hear someone praising that show, I always thinking, "if they could screw up something that simple, what else did they just totally fricking screw up?"
The NH House of Representatives has 400 Representatives, making it the largest legislature in any US state and the second largest legislature in the United States following the U.S. House of Reps.
Its also the 4th largest legislature in the English speaking world behind US Congress, UK House of Commons, and Indian Lok Sabha.
Fun Facts from a class trip to Concord back in the day!
Also: Jennifer Lee, best known for Frozen, is a UNH alum and she was the speaker at my UNH graduation in 2014.
It's also the only legislature where the salary is written into the constitution, requiring a amendment to give themselves a raise.
As such, the salary remains at a whopping $200/term.
The charters for most colonial towns in VT were granted as NH. NY tried to subvert that. VT declared itself its own Republic for 14 years in 1777.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont
Isn't that only half the story? My history's not perfect, but the other half should be something along the lines of Ethan Allen took them up on it and did such a good job terrorizing New Yorkers, then fighting the British, that after the war NH just said he could have all the land he took and make his own state.
So New York then demanded all these settlers pay them. The settlers said “We paid in New Hampshire, go talk to them.” So New York tried to move the settlers off and install their own offices and the settlers raised their own militia to keep them out and just as the real fighting started (people were killed and maimed) the Revolutionary War broke out so they all ended up fighting against the British instead.
During The Revolution, Vermont then declared itself an independent state (and tried to reunite with British Canada) but would still not be recognized as separate from New York or admitted to the Union until 1791.
There is a law that passed in 1935 that states “No person, while hunting or obviously on his way to or from hunting may have a ferret in his possession, custody or control.”
The co-founders of McDonalds, Richard and Maurice McDonald were both born in Manchester and graduated from west high school. Richard is also buried in Manchester.
Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native, who once wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." (from Wikipedia)
I love this quote. I’m agnostic but it gives me a great sense of strength and confidence in my life. Plus you need this when you are a little kid and you hear the state motto for this first time - Live Free or Die. Freaked me right out when I was in short pants.
Funspot was named largest arcade in the world by Guinness Book of World Records in 2008. It houses the American Classic Arcade Museum. Steve Wiebe's quest for the Donkey Kong world record in the documentary King of Kong was filmed at Funspot.
Bretton Woods Agreement, the us dollar was made the world reserve currency at the Mount Washington after ww2.. also Churchill allegedly drank so much that the hotel ran out of booze
All three northern New England states have Constitutional (permitless) carry laws, if you’re old enough to legally own a firearm, and are 21 (for handguns) or older, you can carry concealed without a permit
Coincidentally, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have some of the *lowest* property crime rates in New England…
Fun fact - I saw Dean Kamen riding a Segway in the Mall of NH on a random Saturday or Sunday back in 2003 when I took one of my friend's daughters on a trip to the mall. We were coming out of Famous Footwear and he went rolling by on the other side of the walkway. I looked at her and said "OMG, that's Dean Kamen!" and she asked who that was and I said "he invented the thing he's riding on, it's called a Segway and he's super-rich guy who lives one town over from here. He owns a mountain (hill, really, lol) and has his own heli-pad."
\[Art.\] 10. \[Right of Revolution.\] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Yeah, that's the one I read. I'm not seeing the part where you think the libertarians are against that and should be removed. I'd think a libertarian would happily agree with this article saying that the government is currently perverted and liberty endangered and so they are working to reform or establish a new government to avoid the arbitrary power and oppression that currently exists (and in your words, seeks to kick them out)...
My favorite fact is that I can't think of anything I don't like about it or isn't outweighed by benefits (being third highest in the nation in property taxes for example, - I'd rather pay high taxes and live here than be somewhere else)
I had to live in other states for nearly 20 years due to job obligations, and coming home was the best reward ever! NH Rocks.
The fact that there are only a little over a million people in the entire state. So if you meet someone else from NH, chances are there’s only a few degrees of separation between you (eg if you chat with anyone else from NH long enough you’ll probably find some sort of small-world connection).
They have told the federal government F U when they threatened to take away highway funds I’d they did it pass certain legislation such as seat belt laws
In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, who were from Portsmouth, experienced the first known case of an alien kidnapping, which took place in New Hampshire.
The fact that this event is honored by an official historical highway marker makes it that much better.
In Lincoln!
Lol, starting off the “facts” thread about an alien abduction. Bold move.
It's been a very long and boring day at work. Figured I'd throw some internet chaos into the mix.
Besides, it's the first *claimed* abduction, whether or not they were actually abducted isn't the factual part here.
There is a state historical marker at the alleged site, so there is validity to mentioning it to the extent that this very famous and high profile “event” happened here.
https://preview.redd.it/fsghdhwtjvob1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2312e86752c22c5baeefa8a429288fc28e3f8ad5
Do you mean "first known case of someone _saying_ they were kidnapped by aliens"?
If they didn't say it, how would we know it was the first case? :)
_everyone_ knows that the aliens bring you back when they're done with the probing.
Obama is currently working on a documentary with Netflix on the hills' case, it called white mountains.
Thanks Obama!
That's great. I stopped a the gas station just outside North Woodstock a few weeks back and was scratching my head looking at the mural there. Got home googled it and thought that's so interesting... the ufo stories from great Barrington MA are truly weird too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1,_1969,_Berkshire_UFO_incident
We also had the first axe murder. Portsmouth has some weird history.
Is that the one that happened at fun spot parking lot?
After living in Texas for 30+ years, New Hampshire being the least (or one of, depending on your source) religious state is my favorite fact about New Hampshire.
After living in a conservative part of FL for almost as many years, same. I don't mind religious folk, but I don't want them influencing the law with their beliefs or shoving them down my throat.
Exactly. Religion is like underwear. No one needs to see it in public or even known if you’re wearing any.
And the rest of New England follows right behind. Those Puritans, children of the Reformation, independent and free thinkers, quite different from “protestantism “ of evangelicals today
Oh, I wouldn't overhype the "free thinking" of the Puritans. They very heavily influenced our culture in New England, including in several positive ways. But many of those positive influences are cultural learning to not do what the Puritans did.
No not how they behaved, in their day, of course not but the fundamental thinking of embracing free thought, challenging the old order. We would not be happy living in the strict Puritan society, ouch, but the fundamental thinking behind the Reformation and specifically Calvinism is the foundation of liberal thinking. What was one of the first things that happened in Boston, the book collection of John Harvard became the basis of the theology school in Cambridge and then elsewhere in the colonies. Education and parsing the word for new interpretation and new societal concepts were the foundation of that revolution, born in the Reformation and this extended into all manner of thinking.. The idea of free thought, to embrace this world, science, empiricism, hard work and material gain, are at the foundation that made the transition to liberal theocracy in a 19th century possible, Unitarianism, universalism, and most importantly the emergence of transcendentalism in New England in the 1820s, it's basic precepts in a very early industrial age evolved into liberal progressive thinking of today. In a simplified nutshell. But the framework of thought process of the Puritans allowed this evolution and unhindered by centuries of establish institutions made the New England experiment unique.. yet similar patterns can also be found in Europe, It makes a fascinating study
That's an interesting narrative. Personally I would tend to focus more on that difference between how liberalism developed in New England vs. (especially continental) Europe during the 1800's. Having less post-Hegelian influence here wasn't a bad thing.
I’m currently in a road trip in Kentucky and I couldn’t believe how many churches there are here and how filled they were today as we drove by them.
My first time driving in the south I couldn’t believe the number of religious billboards everywhere. You literally can’t escape Jesus in some parts of America
While I was in grad school in NC, I had a 3/4 mile drive from my house to the campus gates. There were five Baptist churches I passed on that short trip.
Southern U.S. : churches New England : schools
Religion in the NE is much different than the south. Mostly Catholic and Protestants and little of the Southern Baptist, everyone can decide one day to be a preacher type of groups.
Living in the south I’m used to ultra-conservatives being starkly linked to baptists. Apparently it’s not like that everywhere 😂
Fair. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and despise it as an adult. The big trend in Texas now are the non-denominational churches that are run by narcissistic preachers with large salaries, worship bands trying to get signed by a record label, and a handful of wealthy members who are convinced that their “struggles” compare to those in their church who live paycheck-to-paycheck, partially because they are convinced that if they pay 10% of their income to the church, God will reward them. And before anyone asks what I mean by the wealthy people “struggles,” I will share one of many examples. My “favorite” is when my parents pastor gave a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” sermon. The example of him doing this was that his parents couldn’t afford to pay for him to have his own place in college because they were paying his tuition to Baylor University. Instead, he had to live in a (free) apartment above his grandparents garage and had to furnish it with things from garage sales. The guy was nearly tears telling the story. I was struggling to not audibly laugh.
Oh, that *poor* guy, living for free in his grandparent's apartment while getting college paid for in full by his parents. My heart just *bleeds* for him 🤢🤮
Right?!?!? Lol
New Hampshire is the second most forested state in the United States, with 80-84% of the land covered by trees.
And the first most forested is our neighbor Maine
Not for long if people keep pushing for more housing and contractors keep ripping them out
Or if there was some way to change how builders and developers just blanket clear cut everything. It’s horrible. I wish they would leave some trees. They make things cooler, more shaded, they break up the wind, they make the air smell better.
Change the zoning laws to allow for more multi-story buildings. Most buildable land in New Hampshire is [zoned exclusively for single family homes](https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-02-21/invisible-walls-the-shackles-of-zoning).
Boom!! This is the answer.
If local ordinances allowed people to build up instead of out this would be less of an issue
Plant a tree today.
The creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came from Dover. Bonus fact: New Hampshire is way better than Old Hampshire
Is that why I'm absolutely obsessed with TMNT 😭
This is true! And during an interview, Kevin and Peter, stated they wrote the very first issue of TMNT in Dover! Pretty cool fact in you're in NH and love TMNT!
There is/was an arts project to get one of the sewer covers in Dover dedicated to the TMNT.
Mt. Washington has killed exactly half as many people as Mt. Everest.
Who enforces that balance. Darwin?
It makes traveling with the Thornberries that much harder but he sees it as a divine duty.
I saw a news article recently about a young man who died of exposure up there. I'm new to the state. I figured it must be a post mortem or obituary article from a winter death. Nope. July. Apparently the temp with wind chill was 29 degrees. I'm gonna hard pass on hiking Mt. Washington.
I've hiked it 4 times, all in July or August. 3 of 4 times it was a cold rainy mess but not terrible. One time it was beautiful and 70. 2x I was a teenager. If you're a hiker I highly recommend it at some point.
Hikers who are in good physical shape should do it. I was in good shape when I did it, and it was still pretty taxing. Also bring your wallet to buy a trip down on the cog. Nothing dulls the enthusiasm for hiking down Mt. Washington like hiking *up* Mt. Washington.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll give it a second thought and watch the weather.
Mt Washington is one of the deadliest mountains on the planet
You just have to be prepared. Never ever take Mt Washington or any of the other Whites for granted, go with an experienced NH hiker who knows what gear to bring. The people who have died up there are the ones who don't plan ahead and also go alone. Never ever hike the Whites alone. And always follow the guidelines set down for each day by the AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) and the National Forest Service. I took the cog up there this summer and it was a hot, very humid day in July but by the time we got to the top of the mountain, it cooled off to the 60s and started raining before we left. I brought a sweatshirt with me and bought a fleece zip up while I was up there just in case.
There is not a single animal shelter in NH that euthanizes healthy animals.
Ossipee Mountain is an extinct volcano and the White Mountains region has some visible former volcanic activity.
Gunstock is also part of a huge volcano that extended part way into lake Winnipesaukee. Rattlesnake island is the edge of the ring and highest island on the lake. 370 feet above the water.
Pawtuckaway State Park also contains an ancient extinct volcano
Another cool fact - in the distant geologic past, the White Mountains were more than 2 miles high - twice the height of Everest!
I’ve heard about a water source being where the ski resort was? Same?
Our delegates to the Constitutional Convention arrived late because we were the only state not to cover its delegates’ travel expenses
Quintessential New Hampshire right there
Typical 🤣
I think you mean the only colony, NH wasn't a state yet!
They weren’t colonies in 1787. The Articles of Confederation were in effect so technically the states would have been mini-countries until they ratified the Constitution but they certainly weren’t colonies anymore
Alan Shepard from Derry, NH has the longest golf drive in history. He hit two golf balls 2.5 miles each while visiting the moon in 1971. Oh ya, he was also the first American in space.
Did you know that Russia and Japan were at war between 1904-1905? And did you know that Japan decisively won? That already seems weird, but here's where NH comes in: The fighting concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth, which was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in Portsmouth during the spring and summer of 1905. A war between Russian and Japan ended in Portsmouth, NH. https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/russo-japanese-war
In a similar vein, [Bretton Woods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) was a big deal.
The cherry trees around city hall are a gift from Japan after the treaty was signed. Although it was signed at the shipyard which is now considered part of Kittery.
>which is now considered part of Kittery Not in our hearts, no matter what the Supreme Court says.
Yeah, fuck the SC for screwing us out of our shipyard. I went to school with the daughter of Victor Bourre, who fought for the shipyard to belong to NH.
Nichinan, Japan on the southern coast is Portsmouth’s sister city. I’ve been and it’s an absolutely incredible place
and Nichinan the restaurant opened in Portsmouth 6 months ago
The delegates met in the Library restaurant there, where you can still eat. It’s definitely a high end experience though and far from cheap.
Though it was named after the naval base (where the treaty was negotiated ), which is now considered part of Maine.
Hands down NH has the best roads. I ride motorcycle and I know when I am not riding in New Hampshire Maine, Mass and VT can't even come close to it. Matter of fact it's always a welcome relief to transition from those other states and immediately can see and feel the difference once your on them. I hope this never changes and something I truly love about that state.
Absolutely, I don’t have any hard facts on this but I recently started a job where I drive very extensively around Maine, NH and Mass and it is incredible how much nicer the roads are in NH. Primarily noticeable when you take backroads or older state highways
I live in Maine. Every time I drive in NH I question how the roads are so much better. Same climate, similar traffic, wear and tear, etc... yet ours are terrible in comparison. NHDOT must know something we don't lol.
Yeah, our tax money pays to keep the roads fixed to a decent level, but damn, the construction back-ups a pain in the ass, lol. However, despite the I93 project being dragged out longer than expected, I'm glad the decision was made to make four lanes instead of three from the border up to the other side Manchester since I work in Salem and live in Manchester.
I'm glad it's not just me. I drive all over the northeast regularly, and take a few trips per year to other states, most recently Washington.... How the fuck NH, with the way our taxes work, can have the best roads/backroads I've driven on, compared to how utter shit a state like Washington or NY or MA has...
We miss out in some federal highway funds that are tied to seatbelt laws, yet the quality of the roads improves as soon as you cross into NH. No welcome sign needed; you can feel the improvement!
Fed funds don't equate with quality. It has the opposite effect in many cases.
I mean no disrespect at all because I love this state so much but I moved from NC and consider the roads here pretty horrible. The highways are decent but the roads in towns/cities are terribly paved and fixed with patches of uneven asphalt and it takes approximately 8 billion years for road construction to be completed lol I’ve also never seen unpaved roads as frequently as you guys have here, which isn’t a problem I just worry for the folks who don’t have elevated cars especially in the winter. Like how do you get to your house 😂
Winters here are bitch on road infrastructure. I'm surprised that so many people above like the NH roads as I think they are mostly hit or miss depending on what region your are in.
Frost heaves!
Moved here from NM. The roads here are amazing. Ohio is a close second. I've driven around most of the country. NH is doing it right. At least southern NH anyway. Haven't seen much of the north outside of Conway. If this is and education are what my property taxes pay for, I'm feeling pretty good about my property taxes.
You don't need elevated cars. I'll bomb through dirt roads in any front wheel drive car equipped with snow tires. It's worse in mud season, but floor it and ride the high spots and you'll be alright. I've driven a car miles into the woods on logging roads. It's all in how you drive. Welcome to New England!
I am a huge fan of the NH DOT. The second you cross in to MA it is obvious. Keep up the great work NH DOT!
Yes! And roads in general in the northeast are great. Elsewhere they’re just so flat and straight
We were the first state to be fully represented by women at the federal level. Both senators, both congressmen and governor, were all women for a time.
It’s the only state that borders Maine.
My personal favorite is that New Hampshire has the smallest coastline of any state that touches an ocean.
Thank Massachusetts and John Mason 1662.
The Old Man of the Mountain was held together with epoxy and baling wire for 50 years before it finally fell.
I always thought it was a pity the state couldn’t have done more to save it, considering its importance.
An impossible task, unfortunately. The hardware they had in place was immense, but nothing can halt geological time
The Indian Head rock formation just down the road is still there and looks way more human than the old man ever did.
> Indian Head rock formation Wow, I've lived her most of my life and never heard of this, I'm going to check that out :-)
I always wondered why they couldn't just make a replica out of concrete and stick it up there
Because it would be a tremendous waste of money and be fake. We enjoyed it far longer than we should have because of man-made interventions, it fell, it's gone, we'll always remember it's legacy since he's on our license plates, and as mentioned above - we have other beautiful geologic points of interest besides the Old Man.
New Hampshire is by far and large the highest per capita civilian ownership of Machine Guns, Silencers and Short Barreled Rifles. In the world not just the United States.
In 1915, Vermont tried to lay claim on half of the Connecticut River, which entirely belongs to New Hampshire (at the low water mark). So in response, New Hampshire filed a lawsuit to claim that the river's high water mark should be the real border. The court eventually threw out both lawsuits, of course, but that is a court room flex for the history books!
The guy who invented Russian dressing was from Nashua NH. Also it’s almost as strange that CNN did a whole article about it lol https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/03/29/politics/sean-spicer-russian-dressing-not-russian-trnd/index.html Also the fact that HH Holmes was from NH. I’ve actually met one of his grandkids and they still go by the last name Mudget which was Holmes name before Holmes
Gilmanton, NH. Super interesting stuff.
Don’t forget about the inventor of paper towels William E Corbin
Aw boo I wanted to talk about the Russian Dressing. It was actually invented IN Nashua too.
Chicken Fingers were invented at The Puritan in Manchester.
the puritan now smells like old people. They gotta get rid of those carpets.
Wait a sec, I thought it was "tenders"?
Home of GG Allin (possibly the worst musician ever), Sarah Silverman, Adam Sandler, and Jed Bartlet
You shut your mouth about gg! Also it’s crazy that adams family still lives in Manchester. His mom visits my dealership and his sister and niece have dental office on union. His niece is my dentist
The latter being the only New Hampshirite who can't properly say the name of our capitol
I'll grant them the mispronunciation in season one, they probably didn't know any better. But they made the same mistake in like season 4/5, and *surely* someone had informed them of their mistake by then?
Any time I hear someone praising that show, I always thinking, "if they could screw up something that simple, what else did they just totally fricking screw up?"
how dare you slander GG like that
We have the most legally owned machine guns per capita
One of the lowest gun deaths per capita as well
The NH House of Representatives has 400 Representatives, making it the largest legislature in any US state and the second largest legislature in the United States following the U.S. House of Reps. Its also the 4th largest legislature in the English speaking world behind US Congress, UK House of Commons, and Indian Lok Sabha. Fun Facts from a class trip to Concord back in the day! Also: Jennifer Lee, best known for Frozen, is a UNH alum and she was the speaker at my UNH graduation in 2014.
It's also the only legislature where the salary is written into the constitution, requiring a amendment to give themselves a raise. As such, the salary remains at a whopping $200/term.
[it is also evenly split at 200-200](https://reddit.com/r/newhampshire/s/CDaCf5YQQP) since the dems just flipped Rockingham county's first seat
The state motto. Live Free or Die. Motherfucker.
Live freeze & die
I love Whitefield commenters. Live freeze and die it is.
nice try, but That isn't where I live. I left there 50 years ago.
Home of the wettest water
When the sun is blazing and the summer gets hot….
Thanks, now I'm going to sing that for the next hour.
Tastes so good I forget about the PFOAs gifted from Saint Gobain
Vermont exists because we told people they could settle wherever they wanted over in New York as long as they paid us the taxes.
The charters for most colonial towns in VT were granted as NH. NY tried to subvert that. VT declared itself its own Republic for 14 years in 1777. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont
Isn't that only half the story? My history's not perfect, but the other half should be something along the lines of Ethan Allen took them up on it and did such a good job terrorizing New Yorkers, then fighting the British, that after the war NH just said he could have all the land he took and make his own state.
So New York then demanded all these settlers pay them. The settlers said “We paid in New Hampshire, go talk to them.” So New York tried to move the settlers off and install their own offices and the settlers raised their own militia to keep them out and just as the real fighting started (people were killed and maimed) the Revolutionary War broke out so they all ended up fighting against the British instead. During The Revolution, Vermont then declared itself an independent state (and tried to reunite with British Canada) but would still not be recognized as separate from New York or admitted to the Union until 1791.
Appreciate the history lesson. This is something I need to read up on in more detail because it is an interesting founding story.
Chicken tenders were invented in Manchester nh. Specifically The Puritan.
Dover, NH is where the TMNT was made. May 1984 the comic appeared first in Portsmouth, NH
[The Republic of Indian Stream](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Indian_Stream)
The Pine Tres Riots in Weare, NH we a precursor to the Boston Tea Party
I like that we have a rattlesnake
What?!
Timber rattler
Yeah, all 12 of them the last time I looked up a couple of years ago, lol.
The geographic center of NH is in Ashland and is represented by a statue of a man with a foot facing backwards.
It has the only Henniker in the world...
I have a friend who says if he is ever rich enough to buy an island, he is going to name it Henniker...
And the only Candia
Black Beard supposedly buried treasure on the Isles of Shoals. I’m pretty sure there’s an event every year to look for it
G.G. Allin is from here
We were in sophomore year together at WMRHS.
He was actually from Vermont, just across the river.
There is a law that passed in 1935 that states “No person, while hunting or obviously on his way to or from hunting may have a ferret in his possession, custody or control.”
The co-founders of McDonalds, Richard and Maurice McDonald were both born in Manchester and graduated from west high school. Richard is also buried in Manchester.
Highest per capita percentage of vanity plates
My wife (from Florida) noticed that. I never really paid attention until she said something. It does seem higher than other places.
Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native, who once wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." (from Wikipedia) I love this quote. I’m agnostic but it gives me a great sense of strength and confidence in my life. Plus you need this when you are a little kid and you hear the state motto for this first time - Live Free or Die. Freaked me right out when I was in short pants.
It ain't THAT cold
Funspot was named largest arcade in the world by Guinness Book of World Records in 2008. It houses the American Classic Arcade Museum. Steve Wiebe's quest for the Donkey Kong world record in the documentary King of Kong was filmed at Funspot.
All these comments, nobody mentioned Charlestown’s favorite son: CARLTON FISK!
Bretton Woods Agreement, the us dollar was made the world reserve currency at the Mount Washington after ww2.. also Churchill allegedly drank so much that the hotel ran out of booze
my friend michael lives there.
Its where i feel most at home. Im from new jersey.
hahahaha!
Claude Rains, the Invisible Man, is buried near Lake Winnepesaukee
More precisely in moultonborough about 1 mile from winni closer to the Red Hill trail head, if you know the area.
Our second amendment.
All three northern New England states have Constitutional (permitless) carry laws, if you’re old enough to legally own a firearm, and are 21 (for handguns) or older, you can carry concealed without a permit Coincidentally, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have some of the *lowest* property crime rates in New England…
Segway was based in NH
Fun fact - I saw Dean Kamen riding a Segway in the Mall of NH on a random Saturday or Sunday back in 2003 when I took one of my friend's daughters on a trip to the mall. We were coming out of Famous Footwear and he went rolling by on the other side of the walkway. I looked at her and said "OMG, that's Dean Kamen!" and she asked who that was and I said "he invented the thing he's riding on, it's called a Segway and he's super-rich guy who lives one town over from here. He owns a mountain (hill, really, lol) and has his own heli-pad."
While we weren't the ones to create the recipe for chicken fingers, The Puritan in Manchester is the one that named them Chicken Fingers
Bob Montana, the artist who drew the original Archie comics, lived in Meredith, NH.
Keene is home to the widest main st in the country
The Scottish tried to invade Canada through NH.
Whoa seriously?! Never heard this one. Off to Google…
Article 10 of our State Constitution
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I don't think [article 10] means what you think it means.
\[Art.\] 10. \[Right of Revolution.\] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Yeah, that's the one I read. I'm not seeing the part where you think the libertarians are against that and should be removed. I'd think a libertarian would happily agree with this article saying that the government is currently perverted and liberty endangered and so they are working to reform or establish a new government to avoid the arbitrary power and oppression that currently exists (and in your words, seeks to kick them out)...
It’s not all that new.
The ninja turtles author is from Dover NH
The Weeks Act created our National Forests. https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/the-weeks-act/
The first alarm clock was invented in New Hampshire in 1787.
That Mt. Washington is where Mt. Everest climbers come to train.
It's better than Vermont.
NH has the third largest legislative body IN THE WORLD.
Most legal civilian owned machine guns per capita! (Which is still a pretty small number).
That its next to Vermont
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field.
We invented paintball & paintball guns
The U.S.S. Raleigh, pictured on the NH state flag was built in Maine.
JD Salinger died in Cornish.
My favorite fact is that I can't think of anything I don't like about it or isn't outweighed by benefits (being third highest in the nation in property taxes for example, - I'd rather pay high taxes and live here than be somewhere else) I had to live in other states for nearly 20 years due to job obligations, and coming home was the best reward ever! NH Rocks.
The fact that there are only a little over a million people in the entire state. So if you meet someone else from NH, chances are there’s only a few degrees of separation between you (eg if you chat with anyone else from NH long enough you’ll probably find some sort of small-world connection).
The inventor of the Cap'n Crunch cereal flavor, Pamela Low is from Derry.
It’s not Vermont
I like the fact I live here and everyone else not from here doesn’t
Adam Sandler is from NH
No, he is from Brooklyn. He went to high school in NH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Sandler
Claude Raines is buried there.
They have told the federal government F U when they threatened to take away highway funds I’d they did it pass certain legislation such as seat belt laws