All posts tagged "Concord NH"
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262.7K69Connecticut1816: The Year Without a Summer
The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June...
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7.5K3New HampshireCount Rumford, Woburn’s Answer to Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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21.7K16Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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17.3K5Arts and LeisureThe Tragedy of Hobey Baker: Too Good a Life at Too Young an Age
Hobey Baker as a young man received the kind of adulation that only a few people ever get. He was the ideal...
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