RSA 288:1 makes the biennial election a legal holiday. State offices stay open. A 1913 law bars requiring mill or factory work on legal holidays, with one exception.
New Hampshire’s 400-member House sparks debate as voters weigh its relevance in 2026. With rising costs and demographic shifts, is this large-scale model still effective?
New Hampshire’s House has 400 members, more than any other state legislative body and one of the largest chambers in the English-speaking world; the 1776 decision to keep the House close to the people, and how the constitution entrenched it.
Berlin, Claremont, Franklin, and Manchester were built by rivers, looms, paper presses, and the immigrants who ran them; how New Hampshire’s mill towns rose, fell, and are reinventing themselves, and why the history should not be left to crumble.
From the 1623 settlement at Odiorne’s Point and royal-province status under Charles II to the first state constitution of any colony on Jan. 5, 1776, New Hampshire’s history date by date.
New Hampshire’s UFO history is rich and well-documented, featuring notable events like the Betty & Barney Hill abduction in 1961 and the Exeter Incident in 1965. These incidents spurred national interest, studies, and the establishment of markers and festivals, making the state a significant hub for UFO enthusiasts and researchers.
Franklin Pierce, the 14th president, and Daniel Webster, the Union’s orator and twice secretary of state, were both born in New Hampshire and shaped the volatile decades before the Civil War; their origins, their politics, their controversies, and what they left the state.
The Pine Tree Riot of 1772, the motto that shook the world, abolition, and atomic protest; the true story of the “Live Free or Die” state, where the American Revolution never really ended.
