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New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the fifth smallest by area and the tenth least populous, with a population of 1,377,529 million residents as of the 2020 census. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city. New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries. It is well known nationwide for holding the first primary (after the Iowa caucus) in the U.S. presidential election cycle, and for its resulting influence on American electoral politics.

New Hampshire was inhabited for thousands of years by Algonquian-speaking peoples such as the Abenaki. Europeans arrived in the early 17th century, with the English establishing some of the earliest non-indigenous settlements. The Province of New Hampshire was established in 1629, named after the English county of Hampshire. Following mounting tensions between the British colonies and the crown during the 1760s, New Hampshire saw one of the earliest overt acts of rebellion, with the seizing of Fort William and Mary from the British in 1774. In January 1776, it became the first of the British North American colonies to establish an independent government and state constitution; six months later, it signed the United States Declaration of Independence and contributed troops, ships, and supplies in the war against Britain. In June 1788, it was the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, bringing that document into effect.

Through the mid-19th century, New Hampshire was an active center of abolitionism, and fielded close to 32,000 soldiers for the Union during the U.S. Civil War. After the war, the state saw rapid industrialization and population growth, becoming a center of textile manufacturing, shoemaking, and papermaking; the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester was at one time the largest cotton textile plant in the world. The Merrimack and Connecticut rivers were lined with industrial mills, most of which employed workers from Canada and Europe; French Canadians formed the most significant influx of immigrants, and today roughly a quarter of all New Hampshire residents claim French American ancestry, second only to Maine. (Full article...)

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John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679) was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1619, he became the vicar of Bilsby, Lincolnshire, until he was removed for simony.

Leaving for New England in 1636, he was welcomed in Boston, where his brother-in-law's wife, Anne Hutchinson, was beginning to attract negative attention for her religious outspokenness. Soon he and Hutchinson accused the majority of the colony's ministers and magistrates of espousing a "covenant of works". As this controversy reached a peak, Hutchinson and Wheelwright were banished from the colony. Wheelwright went north with a group of followers during the harsh winter of 1637–1638, and in April 1638 established the town of Exeter in what would become the Province of New Hampshire. Wheelwright's stay in Exeter lasted only a few years, because Massachusetts activated an earlier claim on the lands there, forcing the banished Wheelwright to leave. He went further east, to Wells, Maine, where he was living when his order of banishment was retracted. He returned to Massachusetts to preach at Hampton (later part of the Province of New Hampshire), where in 1654 his parishioners helped him get the complete vindication that he sought from the Massachusetts Court for the events of 17 years earlier. (Full article...)

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of New Hampshire enjoy most of the same rights as non-LGBT residents, with most advances occurring within the past two decades. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in New Hampshire, and the state began offering same-sex couples the option of forming a civil union on January 1, 2008. Civil unions offered most of the same protections as marriages with respect to state law, but not the federal benefits of marriage. Same-sex marriage in New Hampshire has been legally allowed since January 1, 2010, and one year later New Hampshire's civil unions expired, with all such unions converted to marriages. New Hampshire law has also protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation since 1998 and gender identity since 2018. Additionally, a conversion therapy ban on minors became effective in the state in January 2019.

New Hampshire is regarded as one of the most LGBT-friendly states in the country, with recent polls finding that an overwhelming majority of New Hampshire residents support same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. (Full article...)

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Image 1The New Hampshire State House in Concord (from New Hampshire)
Image 21922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 3Farmers' market of Mack's Apples (from New Hampshire)
Image 4Map showing several claims and disputed borders, 1691–1775 (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 5Downtown Manchester (from New Hampshire)
Image 6Broadside statement of Congress of the Colony of New Hampshire, referencing "sudden & abrupt departure" of Royal Governor John Wentworth, January 1776 (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 7The New Hampshire State House in Concord (from New Hampshire)
Image 8Downtown Manchester (from New Hampshire)
Image 9Order by John Taylor Gilman, State Treasurer and later Governor, 1784 (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 10Mount Adams (5,774 ft or 1,760 m) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range. (from New Hampshire)
Image 11Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data. (from New Hampshire)
Image 12The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876 (from New Hampshire)
Image 13Ethnic origins in New Hampshire (from New Hampshire)
Image 14Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus. (from New Hampshire)
Image 15Ethnic origins in New Hampshire (from New Hampshire)
Image 16Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library (from New Hampshire)
Image 17Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892. (from New Hampshire)
Image 18Map of the Republic of Indian Stream (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 19Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities (from New Hampshire)
Image 20Dartmouth College's Baker Library (from New Hampshire)
Image 21Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains (from New Hampshire)
Image 22Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892. (from New Hampshire)
Image 23Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008 (from New Hampshire)
Image 24Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air (from New Hampshire)
Image 25Fort William and Mary, 1705 (from History of New Hampshire)
Image 26Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities (from New Hampshire)
Image 27Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data. (from New Hampshire)
Image 28Mount Adams (5,774 ft or 1,760 m) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range. (from New Hampshire)
Image 29Shaded relief map of New Hampshire (from New Hampshire)
Image 30Farmers' market of Mack's Apples (from New Hampshire)
Image 31Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus. (from New Hampshire)
Image 32The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876 (from New Hampshire)
Image 33Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library (from New Hampshire)
Image 34Shaded relief map of New Hampshire (from New Hampshire)
Image 35Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains (from New Hampshire)
Image 36Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air (from New Hampshire)
Image 37Dartmouth College's Baker Library (from New Hampshire)
Image 38Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008 (from New Hampshire)
Image 39New Hampshire was named after the English county of Hampshire. (from History of New Hampshire)

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... that one New Hampshire TV station was reportedly dying since its first moment on air?
... that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire?
... that in the 1990s, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire was the largest third party in the United States in terms of state legislators since the Socialist Party of America in the 1930s?
... that The West Wing's "Hartsfield's Landing" is a homage to three tiny towns in New Hampshire?
... that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire, to putting down his dog?
... that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush?

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