New Hampshire Fast Facts

Statehood: 1788

Division of Vital Records Administration
Archives Building
71 S. Fruit St.
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-4650

• The Civil War Archive: New Hampshire Union Regimental Index
• Cyndi’s List: New Hampshire
• The Franco-American Centre
• New Hampshire Almanac
• The New Hampshire Civil War History and Genealogy Project
• New Hampshire Genealogy
• New Hampshire Genealogy and History
• New Hampshire GenWeb Project
• New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association Master Burial Site Index
• The Tombstone Transcription Project

Resources

• Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire by Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
• Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records by Ann Smith Lainhart (NEHGS)
• Directory of Repositories of Family History in New Hampshire by Scott E. Green (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
• Early Maine and New Hampshire Settlers CD (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
• The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius (Family Tree Books)
• Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles T. Libby and Walter G. Davis (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
• The History of New Hampshire by Jeremy Belknap (Bradford and Read)
• New Hampshire Families in 1790 by Diane Florence Gravel and David Watson Kruger (New Hampshire Society of Genealogists)
• New Hampshire Name Changes: 1768-1923 by Richard P. Roberts (Heritage Books)

• Massachusetts Archives, 220 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, (617) 727-2816,<www.sec.state.ma.us/arc>
• NARA Northeast Region—Boston, Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center, 380 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02452, (781) 663-0130, <archives.gov/northeast/boston>
• New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116, (617) 536-5740, <www.newenglandancestors.org>
• New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives, 71 S. Fruit St., Concord, NH 03301, (603) 271-2236, <www.sos.nh.gov/archives>
• New Hampshire Historical Society, Tuck Library, 30 Park St., Concord, NH 03301, (603) 228-6688, <www.nhhistory.org>
• New Hampshire Society of Genealogists, Box 2316, Concord, NH 03302, <nhsog.org>
• New Hampshire State Library, 20 Park St., Concord, NH 03301, (603) 271-2144, <www.nh.gov/nhsl>

• 1679 New Hampshire becomes a separate royal province1769 The Granite State’s first counties are formed
• 1804 The first cotton mill opens in New Ipswich
• 1846 Manchester becomes the state’s first incorporated city
• 1916 New Hampshire holds its first presidential primary
• 1918 The Navy finishes its first submarine at Portsmouth Navy Yard
• 1938 Berlin native Earl Tupper invents Tupperware
• 1986 Concord native Christa McAuliffe becomes the first private citizen to travel into space
• 1998 New Hampshire is first state to install a green LED traffic light

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