New Hampshire
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3.1KSeven Fun Facts About Taxes
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...
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4.2K2Six Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine, we at the New England Historical Society have grown fascinated with clerestory...
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11.3KRevolutionary War Veterans Reminisce (And Get Their Pictures Taken)
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
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11.0K6Six Historic One-Room Schoolhouses
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
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8.4K1How the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
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3.9K3Fitz John Porter Unfairly Blamed for Losing the Battle of Bull Run
Tucked away in Haven Park in Portsmouth, N.H. there is an impressive equestrian statue of Fitz John Porter in his Union Army...
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11.1K1The New Hampshire Volcano That Promised Untold Riches
As early as 1735, residents living along what is now the New Hampshire-Vermont border made reports of a New Hampshire volcano violently...
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6.0K2The Tempestuous Life of Tobias Lear, George Washington’s In-Law
Col. Tobias Lear V, known as Toby to his friends, left his mark on the early history of the United States as...
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8.0KThe Catholic Test – When New Hampshire Outlawed Catholics
New Hampshire's Constitution, adopted in 1784, was one of the strictest in the new United States in its restrictions on religious freedoms....
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