President James Garfield’s grandfather
Lived in Richmond.
John Stark and the Devil
He killed him.
Henry David Thoreau’s Grandmother.
Lived in Keene.
The Last Wolf on Monadnock
Killed in 1819
Captain Salter’s Ferry
A sly Yankee lad gets revenge in Newcastle.
A Comical Death
Guy from Temple “buys it” at Bunker Hill.
Samuel Jones’ Leg.
It’s buried in Washington, NH, but he’s not.
America’s First Insanity Defense
Guy from Pembroke hanged in Hopkinton.
Rindge Man Kills Bear with Bare Hands
Rams his fist down the bear’s throat.
Bear Tears Guy’s Clothes Off in Hancock.
Ran home naked.
Gravestone in the Shape of a Dog
It’s in Mont Vernon.
Lincoln’s Favorite Marching Band
From New Hampshire, of course.
Tinker to Evers to Chance
And a guy from Amherst.
A Ghost on the Fourth of July
Rings bell in Peterborough
The Largest American Flag Ever
Made in Manchester
Public Floggings
On Wilton Common.
Hancock’s Toughest Teacher
Beat up a student and got respect.
The Pine Tree Riot in Weare
First Revolutionary act (not the Tea Party).
A Hanging in Amherst
Ten thousand people turned out.
Griffin’s Falls
Death in Bedford.
Fence Viewers in Peterborough
And other arcane town offices.
Maude, Mollie, and Maggie
Horse Cemetery in Littleton.
North America’s First Potato
Planted in Derry.
First Automobile in Jaffrey
A Ford.
First Shot at Bunker Hill
Guy is buried in Deerfield
The Bass Violin
Splits the congregation in Brookline.
The Captivity of Mrs. McCoy.
She didn’t want to come back to Epsom.
A Slave to an Indian Princess
A guy from Nelson
Woman Scalped Alive in Portsmouth
Lived to be 87
The Silk Stockings
Bedford woman grew own silk to make them.
Sleeping with His Dead Wife
A guy from Derry
A Terrible Death in Jaffrey
Schoolgirl stuck in schoolhouse window.
The Concord Massacre
Worst Indian attack in Concord history.
Flywheel Disaster
Tore a hole out of the Amoskeag Mills.
The Fitzwilliam Highwayman
So handsome the jury found him innocent.
Farming Out the Poor in Fitzwilliam
Mrs. Rice was worth fifteen pounds.
The Smallpox Cemetery
In Jaffrey
Derryfield Beef
Slimy eels in Manchester.
Cash and Carry in West Manchester
A woman plays a joke on a man.
Epping Ghosts
Cows haunt a church.
Alstead Becomes a Town
Named for a guy who wrote an encyclopedia.
Quoquinnapassakessanananagnog
Amherst
The NH Legislature Moves to Concord
Exeter was too expensive
How NH Got Her State Flower
The purple lilac
The NH State Seal
It used to be in Latin
Declaration of Independence in Portsmouth
Everyone yelled, “huzza!”
Cowbell Corner
This part of Salem is not named for a cowbell.
Exeter
It used to be called, Squamscott.
Henniker
Only town in the world with this name.
Amy Beach
Classical composer from Henniker
