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Tag Archives: New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s Year Without a Summer
The year 1816 is known among the few old men who remember it as “the year without a summer.” … Continue reading
Posted in History, Oddities, Accidents and Crazy Weather
Tagged 1815, 1816, atmosphere, census, crops, debris, drop, eruption, Frost, Hampshire, harvest, ice, Java, lowered, Midwest, moved, new, New Hampshire, NH, no, Ohio, Summer, Tamboro, temperature, town, volaano, west, winter, without
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Milford New Hampshire Black Novelist and Spiritualist: Harriet "Hattie" E. (Green) Adams Wilson Robinson (1825-1900)
Harriet “Hattie” E. (Green) Adams is believed to have been born on March 15, 1825(?), possibly in Milford, New Hampshire. … Continue reading
Berlin New Hampshire Tupperware Inventor: Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983)
American manufacturer Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, was born in New Hampshire.
He graduated from Fitchburg [MA] High school … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, New Hampshire Inventors, New Hampshire Men
Tagged Costa Rica, inventor, New Hampshire, NH, Tupper, tupperware
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The Transatlantic Cable & New Hampshire
In order to speed up delivery of messages and news between Europe and the United States (normally it took weeks … Continue reading
Posted in History, N.H. Historical Markers, Structures
Tagged 1866, Atlantic, Beach, Cable, Cyrus, Cyrus West, Field, Hampshire, historic, Historical, Jenness, marker, new, New Hampshire, NH, ocean, Rye, Telegraph, Trans, trans-Atlantic, U.S., United States, west
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New Hampshire: How the "Granite State" Got Its Name
Back in the 1820s New Hampshire residents were coasting along, not even realizing that their state needed a nickname.
Out … Continue reading
Posted in History, N.H. Missing Places, New Hampshire Men, Travel
Tagged bedrock, city, Columbia, Congress, DC, District, granite, Granite State, Jefferson, Library, memorial, moniker, name, named, Nations, new, New Hampshire, NH, origin, quarries, state, United, Washington, York
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