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1763: A Landmark Year In New Hampshire History

This year, 13 New Hampshire towns are celebrating their 250th anniversaries.  As part of a new series called “250 Years In The Making: Stories From 13 New Hampshire Towns," NHPR’s Keith Shields will...

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250 Years In The Making: Towns We're Visiting

Over the next year, producer Keith Shields, will be visiting thirteen New Hampshire towns that are either turning or celebrating 250 years, looking to dig up the interesting, near-forgotten, and quirky...

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New Boston: 250 Years in the Making

New Boston is a town that sounds like it could or should be in Massachusetts, and at one time, it actually was. In the 1730s Boston proprietors were granted a charter to the town, but never did much...

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Plymouth: 250 Years In The Making

The writer Susan Cheever once said that Plymouth, “is a nice enough town but… it’s a town in the middle of nowhere, a town for people on their way to somewhere else”But many locals in the Grafton...

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Gilsum: 250 Years In The Making

As Loudon is to racecars and Hanover to Ivy League students and Canterbury to its Shakers, then Gilsum… is to rocks, and proudly so; just ask one artist who lives in town.“I mean every place we ever...

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Alstead: 250 Years In The Making

Most of the towns granted in 1763 by New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, were named after those Wentworth wanted to impress like personal friends or influential politicians… but...

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Warren: 250 Years in the Making

On paper, Warren may seem like your everyday Northern New England town.  The name is even commonplace… as there is a town called Warren in every New England state and its traditional square shape...

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Haverhill: 250 Years In The Making

If you ask people from Haverhill where they’re from, you may not get the simple answer you’d expect to get.“If somebody said where you from, they’ll say, I’m from Woodsville, long before they’ll say...

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Lisbon: 250 Years In The Making

The story of how Lisbon, New Hampshire got its name is really the story of the New Hampshire economy in the first half of the 19th century.  And it’s all thanks to this animal.“Baahhhh!!!”But that’s...

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Sandwich: 250 Years In The Making

Benning Wentworth was not only the longest serving Provincial Governor of New Hampshire but of any colony in British North America and that’s because he knew how to make people happy.  And one way he...

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Thornton: 250 Years In The Making

Many iconic New Hampshire towns will have a quaint town center, a small general store or café and maybe a couple of businesses clustered together; but not Thornton.Even locals like Sandy McIntosh who’s...

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250 Years In The Making: Stories From 13 New Hampshire Towns

In a year-long series called “250 Years In The Making: Stories From 13 New Hampshire Towns," NHPR’s Keith Shields has traveled all across the Granite State, learning the unique stories of these towns...

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Candia: 250 Years In The Making

“Citizens of Candia, we are gathered here today to celebrate the incorporating of our Parish and to begin the process of creating a government that will ensure its success forever…”That’s Candia...

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Woodstock: 250 Years In The Making

“This is my great grandfather, my great grandmother, my grandfather and his sister Edna and they are in this surrey and they’re going for a ride around the mountains… this is 1908, wow!”Visit Jim...

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1763: A Landmark Year In New Hampshire History

This year, 13 New Hampshire towns are celebrating their 250th anniversaries. As part of a new series called “250 Years In The Making: Stories From 13 New Hampshire Towns," NHPR’s Keith Shields will...

View Article


250 Years In The Making: Towns We're Visiting

Over the next year, producer Keith Shields will be visiting thirteen New Hampshire towns that are either turning or celebrating 250 years, looking to dig up the interesting, near-forgotten, and quirky...

View Article

New Boston: 250 Years in the Making

New Boston is a town that sounds like it could or should be in Massachusetts, and at one time, it actually was. In the 1730s Boston proprietors were granted a charter to the town, but never did much...

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Plymouth: 250 Years In The Making

The writer Susan Cheever once said that Plymouth, “is a nice enough town but… it’s a town in the middle of nowhere, a town for people on their way to somewhere else” But many locals in the Grafton...

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Gilsum: 250 Years In The Making

As Loudon is to racecars and Hanover to Ivy League students and Canterbury to its Shakers, then Gilsum… is to rocks, and proudly so; just ask one artist who lives in town. “I mean every place we ever...

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Alstead: 250 Years In The Making

Most of the towns granted in 1763 by New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, were named after those Wentworth wanted to impress like personal friends or influential politicians but according...

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