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State of New Hampshire Text on New Hampshire State Map coffee mug: New Hampshire, one of the six New England states and one of the smaller states of the United States. Concord is the capital of New Hampshire. Manchester is the largest city. Settled only three years after the landing of the Pilgrims, New Hampshire was one of the original 13 colonies and the ninth state to ratify the Constitution. New Hampshire is known as the Granite State because of its extensive granite formations and deposits. The state was named by Captain John Mason, who in the early 17th century received one of the first land grants in what was to become New Hampshire. He named the area after the English county of Hampshire, where he had spent time as a youth.
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