"[5] "Samuel Downing, born in Newburyport MA in 1764,[b] was enticed to Antrim while still a boy to be an apprentice of Robert Aiken, a Scots-Irish spinning wheel maker.

"[7][8] "Named for local farmer Jacob Smith, the first bridge at this site was begun before 1786 and completed with the aid of a lottery authorized in that year.

Built with glue-laminated timbers and arches at a cost of $3.3 million and dedicated in 2001, the new span was designed to bear the same loads as interstate highway bridges.

So 'under the great canopy of Heaven,' Daniel Webster read his 'Rockingham Memorial,' opposing the United States' entry into the War of 1812.

"[10] "Extending 36 miles from Piscataqua Bridge in Durham to the Merrimack River in East Concord, this highway was originally a toll road.

The first of more than 80 New Hampshire turnpikes built by private corporations in the nineteenth century,[d] this was the only one connecting Portsmouth, the state's seaport, with the interior settlements.

A group of citizens formed the Cooperative and, with funding from the federal Rural Electrification Administration (REA), built and maintained its own power lines.

As a result, Turkey Pond was used to store almost 12 million board feet[e] of salvaged white pine logs, more than anywhere in New England.

After the Littleton Lumber Company opened in 1870, the village grew rapidly to include stores, a post office, a school, railroad siding, and a hall.

"[17] "In 1771, Timothy Nash of Lancaster and Benjamin Sawyer of Conway made a bargain with Governor John Wentworth to bring a horse through Crawford Notch in order to prove the route's commercial value.

Sawyer's Rock symbolizes the determination and foresight that helped open and develop trade and travel into the White Mountains Region.

During the debate, the political foes shook hands and pledged to create a bi-partisan commission to study federal limits on lobbying and the financing of election campaigns.

This famous 'handshake' on campaign finance reform was carried live on television and received widespread media coverage including front page attention in newspapers nationwide.

In 1903, with funding from the State of New Hampshire, the U.S. Geological Survey began to measure the discharge of the river to determine available waterpower and the effects of White Mountain deforestation.

Built with 3-by-10-inch planks that were probably sawn at an adjacent mill, the span is the earliest surviving example of the lattice bridge truss that was patented in 1820 by Connecticut architect Ithiel Town (1784-1844).

"[24] "Designed and built between 1881 and 1883 by Silas Hussey, Jr. (1828-1913), this bridge is unique in New Hampshire in having heavy brick arches faced with split granite.

Appointed in 1741 by George II, Wentworth governed the province of New Hampshire for 25 years, promoting expansion as far west as Bennington, in present-day Vermont.

The Cushing family acquired the farm in 1816, and by the 1840s began to show the mansion as one of America's first historic houses open to the public.

Hearing about the clash at Lexington and Concord while planting peas at this site, he immediately marched to Cambridge and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Captured and imprisoned for nine months under deplorable conditions, Fogg returned to Pittsfield and married Sarah Cram, daughter of the town's founder.

The mill employed as many as 40 to 60 men and cut as much as 3 to 5 million board feet[h] each year of lumber, clapboards, lath and shingles.

He participated in the December 1774 raids on the British Fort, William & Mary in New Castle, at which time powder and munitions were seized.

Learning of the pending conflict at Bunker Hill while tilling his land just south of here he left his plow in the furrow in his haste to meet the challenge.

A British cannonball felled him as the battle ended, prompting the eulogy: 'His sun went down at noon on the day that ushered in our nation's birth'.