"[4] An Instagram post and photo by the Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective shows that the text on this marker has been revised since originally installed—the current marker reads:[5] "This seaside place is located on N'dakinna, the traditional homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook, and Wabanaki Peoples past and present.

In 1623, David Thompson settled here to fish, farm, and trade under a grant from the British Council for New England, displacing the Native peoples.

1660 and his descendants farmed the property until 1942, when the federal government took the land to construct Fort Dearborn as a coastal defense.

The fort was decommissioned after World War II and in 1972 the site was designated for recreation and dedicated as Odiorne Point State Park."

They built a stone manor house, smithy, cooperage, fort and stages for drying fish on nearby Flake Hill.

"[6][a] "One of three New Hampshire men to sign the Declaration of Independence, Matthew Thornton, physician, soldier, patriot, agitated against the Stamp Act of 1765, presided over the Provincial Congress in 1775, served in the State Senate and as an associate justice of the Superior Court.

Native son of New Hampshire, graduate of Bowdoin College, lawyer, effective political leader, Congressman and U.S.

Senator, Mexican War Veteran, courageous advocate of State's Rights, he was popularly known as 'Young Hickory of the Granite Hills.

Its beautiful high colonial pulpit, with pews facing the vestibule, renders it unique among New Hampshire churches.

"[14] "On the rise of the ground just west of here, on the 2nd floor of the old Effingham Union Academy Building (1819), was the First Normal School in New Hampshire.

It was in this Academy in 1830 that James W. Bradbury, later United States Senator from Maine, took the school only on condition that it should be for the 'instruction and training of teachers.'

"[15] "This structure, erected by Major Jonas Wilder, from boards planed and nails wrought on the site, originally possessing a four-fireplace chimney and Indian shutters, is Coos County's first two-story dwelling.

"[16] "Two miles north of Route 156 (one mile ahead) is Nottingham, home of Revolutionary War patriots, Generals Thomas Bartlett, Henry Butler, Joseph Cilley, and Henry Dearborn who was later a Congressman, Secretary of War, and Minister to Portugal.

Monuments in Nottingham Square, five miles north, commemorate these men and the 1747 massacre of Elizabeth Simpson, Robert Beard and Nathaniel Folson by Indians of the Winnipesaukee Tribe.

[19] "About 150 feet north of here stood the famous Hampshire Pottery Works, founded by James Scolly Taft[b] for the manufacture of earthware.

Among them have been Daniel Webster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier and Presidents Pierce, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Harding.

His outstanding opinions as Chief Justice indicate his unusual legal attainments and left an indelible impression on the law of New Hampshire.

For many years, mines yielding small amounts of mica, copper, lead, silver and gold were operated along the ridge.

In January 1842, these Washington Sabbathkeepers, after meeting for many years as a loosely knit group, organized the first Seventh Day Adventist Church.

"[35] "Granted in 1719 to encourage industrial development in the province and called New Portsmouth, this two-mile wide strip of land was set aside to provide homesites for imported workers at the Lamprey Ironworks.

"[38] "Born in Farmington February 16, 1812, Jeremiah Jones Colbath, this self-educated farm boy changed his name when of age to Henry Wilson.

[40] "This veteran Captain of the French and Indian War, born in Woburn, Mass., settled here about 1765 as an original proprietor of Monadnock No.

"[41] "Nearby, on Pleasant Street, is the birthplace and childhood home of George Hoyt Whipple, pathologist, researcher, and teacher.