Golf Scorecard History 101, New Hampshire
Set #8
Some facts about New Hampshire:
- Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
- The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
- New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
- The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
- Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
- In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough.
- In the town of Warner the last passenger train stopped on November 4, 1955, and the last freight in 1961. Since then the tracks through town were torn up and sold as scrap iron.
- New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
- Cornish Hill Pottery Company handcrafts functional stoneware decorated in the traditions of Early American and European potters with a method known as "slip trailing". The slip is a creamy mixture of clay and water and is applied to moist, almost hardened pots by hand. The slip contains various colorants, including natural clay colors and metals.
- According to golflink.com there are 123 golf courses in New Hampshire.
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