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Also known as: The Granite State
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R. Stuart Wallace
Independent scholar and Adjunct Professor, Plymouth State University and University of New Hampshire-Manchester.
R. Stuart Wallace,
Jere R. Daniell
Professor of History, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Author of Colonial New Hampshire: A History and others.
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New Hampshire, constituent state of the United States of America. One of the 13 original U.S. states, it is located in New England at the extreme northeastern corner of the country. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Quebec, to the east by Maine and a 16-mile (25-km) stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Massachusetts, and to the west by Vermont. The capital is Concord, located in the south-central part of the state. The Granite State, as New Hampshire is popularly known, is a study in contrasts. Since the late 19th century it ...(100 of 4725 words)

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