What is a fascinating fact about New Hampshire?
Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England — a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry NH Common Field in 1719. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire. In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough NH. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963 On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women’s strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers. New Hampshire’s State House is the oldest state capitol in which a legislature still meets in its original chambers.
