| Show R v vt e A J 4 4 4 granite quarry in new hampshire pored bythe by the national geographic society washington D C r service EW HAMPSHIRE the granite N NEW state claims prim primacy acy in many things in 1776 its colonial assembly adopted the first written constitution to be enjoyed by any of the states two years before this it was on new harr hampshire soil that the first armed blow was struck at british domination win when en a band of patriots led by john su sullivan alivan and john langdon overpowered the small garrison at fort william and mary in portsmouth harbor barbor and took away the stores of powder these were hidden bidden beneath the pulpit in the old meeting house at durham and were later taken to bunker hill where another new hampshire patriot john stark used the ammunition in the edgag engagement cement which first showed the quality of the new england rebels apropos of stark at bunker there Is a story that two british olli cers were watching the debarkation of their troops and were looking toward the crest of the hill where the colonists had gathered will they fight said one to the other and his companion who had served with stark during the indian wars replied if one john stark Is there fight the annual celebration of bunker hill lay day in boston Is in consequence something of an irritation to the new hampshire mind because it recalls that new hampshire furnished most of the men and that it was the stratty of john stark of th that it state which gave the Colon colonials fals their success it Is som so rat surprising to note that this same who led the midnight marauders at fort william and mary should have proved so cautious as a member of the continental congress which formulated the declaration of independence but when the dle die was cast none was more courageous than he and his march against i the six sir nations Is celebrated even to this day had first free library among the other firsts and one which gives new hampshire much satisfaction is Is the fact that at peter boro was established the first free public library supported wholly by public taxation this library Is now housed in a handsome building the gift of a successful son of the town and in many another community way may be seen similar proofs of affection for the old state and the home town for two centuries new hampshire was a nursery of seamen and from colonial times its seaboard resounds sounded re d to the stroke of the calders cal kers mallet from froin portsmouth set forth the expedition to louisburg lounsburg Lou isburg with new hampshire men carried in new hampshire bottoms and it was at portsmouth too that john paul jones fitted out the ranger and sailed with her flying the stars and stripes strines to which the first official salute was paid by a foreign nation the navy yard at portsmouth dates back to the revolutionary period the house hoose in which john paul jones lived while superintending super intending the building of his ranger Is still standing anil Is the home of the portsmouth historical Eo society clety another of the handsome old properties of those days the moffatt ladd house Is now the home of the colonial dames who upon occasion renew the traditions of the house for gracious hospitality during the days of wooden ships while we were dependent for our defense as was ancient athens upon wooden walls the portsmouth navy yard was a busy place the constitution old Tron ironsides sides was rebuilt there and now rebuilt again she has in recent years paid a visit to her fos ter mother in new hampshire during the world war portsmouth again hummed with industry and the yard has now become the count rys principal base for the construction of submarines one of the two largest of the craft halog baling slid from portsmouth ways ships for the world war during the world war there sprang up on the banks of the just juat above portsmouth two shipyards tine one for wooden and the other for steel these craft of portsmouth 0 origin rl in did their full share in the winning of the war and the yards are now turned to the uses of peace one as a a dye plant and the other for the manufacture of gypsum products til th raw material being brought from nova scotia at portsmouth too was built the Kear Kears arize with oaken timbers taken from the slopes of the mountain whose name she bore she laid her bones upon a caribbean reef but new hampshire does not forget that her record Is written portsmouth cherbourg Cher bourg Ron roncador eador so important indeed was the shipbuilding industry la in new hampshire that the state seat seal bore and still bears the representation of a ship upon the stocks though its heraldry has recently been revised and while the ship still remains upon the states esc escutcheon the barrel of rum which stood so prominently in the foreground for ground was erased in deference perhaps to the eighteenth amendment the embargo act laid a heavy hand upon our shipping but coincident with it came the beginning of that development of our water powers which has created the industrial cities of which xe we continue to be proud thus new hampshire stands forth today the little state with the big history its population Is almost stationary tio nary succeeding censuses giving it little beyond the natural increase its taxable inventory though jacked high by the ingenious devices of modern taxing boards is probably excelled by several private fortunes in the united states but still the people of the state manage to have most of the things which modern life insists to be necessary new Hamp shires automobile registrations trat ions tor for instance are in such number that it Is possible to take the entire population of the state for a sunday afternoon ride to accommodate them the state has developed a series of trunk highways three in number which traverse the state from the massachusetts border to the canadian line piercing cing the white mountains and following the course of the states greatest rivers to these the commonwealth Is I 1 adding cross state roads which will gridiron new hampshire with modern highways good state institutions new Hamp shires state institutions provide for or all the needs of the states dependent delinquent and defectives and for its enterprising youth the university of new hampshire presents expanding courses for the training g of young men and women who unfortunately in too great numbers do not remain in the state to enable it to enjoy the fruits of its bounty to them hem its public schools are now so arranged so equipped and so supported through state aid that no child need lack full 30 36 weeks of each year with free bus transportation and in some instances with a free lunch thrown in its agriculture in particular Is a subject for pride the farmers are hardworking and thrifty and many of them upon their stony acres can realize the truth of the old jest that even sheep in new hampshire had to be provided with steel muzzles to enable them to graze and that most of the crops of the state had to be planted with a shotgun new hampshire agriculture has specialized of late particularly in the dalr dairying ying and truck line but even at its best it cannot yield the rich rewards which tanners farmers have secured in other states in common with the entire agricultural brotherhood of the country new hampshire farmers have hare suffered from changed conditions and from existing depression but they are still self re specking spec ting and self supporting As a matter of fact in the volume of per capita federal taxes paid new hampshire farmers will be found contributing mightily to the proclaimed necessities of their more querulous brethren in other sections but a native points out he supposes that the states chief product will continue to be men in token of which es as webster said the almighty has hung out a sign high up in our hills where the old man of the mountain with the storms of ages beating upon his bis ruggera brow broods ceaselessly over the moving scene which Is unfolded before him these men new hampshire has contributed tri buted without number to sister commonwealths mon and wherever there have been brave deeds to be done wise pub lie ile policies to be formulated generous philanthropy to be administered mighty doctrines to be declared oy 01 indeed any demands upon the still skill genius learning or courage of dinn kind there the sons of now new hampshire have had still have and will to have their full share in the adnia went of human desti destier fr |
