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New Hampshire covers only 9,304 square miles (168 miles from north to south and 90 miles at it's widest)
The highest wind speed recorded at ground level was on April 12, 1934 at Mt. Washington. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
The first potato grown in the United States was planted at Londonderry Common Field (now Derry) in 1719.
The first recorded visit to New Hampshire took place in 1603, when an English sea captain, Martin Pring, explored the shoreline and a small part of the interior.
President Lincoln established the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1863, inspired by letters from Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport.
The First Transatlantic Cable in the Nation stretched 3,100 nautical miles from Balinskelligs Bay, Ireland, to Straw's Point, Rye Beach, NH, completed in 1874
Earl Tupper (1907 - 1983) of Berlin, NH invented “tupperware” while working at a DuPont chemical factory. He founded the Tupperware Plastics Company in 1938.
Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923 - 1998), born in East Derry, NH became the first American in space when he orbited the earth in the rocket Freedom 7 in May 1961.
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