25 Stories for 250 Years

John Milton Hay was an American statesman, diplomat, author, and trusted adviser to President Abraham Lincoln.

The story of The Rocks is filled with fascinating people, but few left a legacy quite like Frances Glessner Lee, a pioneer whose work helped transform criminal investigation in America.

At the heart of downtown Laconia, the Belknap Mill stands as one of New Hampshire’s most significant industrial landmarks, representing the rise of early American textile manufacturing along the Winnipesaukee River.

Discover the history of National Dairy Month and its connection to dairy farming, pasteurization, and public health.

Explore Indigenous history, art, and resilience through a perspective that reaches far beyond the nation’s 250th anniversary.

In the final months of World War II, young American soldiers crossed the Rhine River in small wooden boats, trusting their lives to vessels built with urgency, precision, and quiet bravery.

Discover how the Portsmouth-built USS Albacore set submerged speed records and helped advance submarine design.

The story of Portsmouth’s Pitt Tavern explores John Stavers and the tensions surrounding loyalty during the American Revolution.

Discover the Granville brothers of Madison, New Hampshire, and their place in aviation history through radical racing aircraft designs.

Photographer and photojournalist Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was best known for portraits of Germany’s leading theater actors, artists, writers, and political figures.

Explore the lives of John and Lucy Hale, including Senator John P. Hale’s opposition to slavery and its expansion.

For over 150 years, the Mount Washington has been cruising the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee, embodying the linked histories of lake transportation and tourism in the Lakes Region.

In May of 1780, a young man named Peter Ayers met Shaker leader Ann Lee in the tiny community of Niskayuna, New York.

A Portsmouth community effort saved a historic Georgian home from demolition, showing how local action can preserve history.

Discover how Thomas G. Plant developed his mountain estate in the Ossipee Mountains, creating the landmark now known as Castle in the Clouds.

These flags, carried by the Second New Hampshire Continental Regiment, are the only known surviving stand, or set, of national and regimental flags from the Revolutionary War, but that is not the only remarkable thing about them.

Explore the lives of John and Molly Stark and their contributions to New Hampshire’s Revolutionary War history.

In 1907, Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell adapted his military training program as “a game with a purpose”.

A flax-processing tool opens a window onto textile production and the taxes that helped fuel colonial resistance.

On the afternoon of December 14, 1774, John Sullivan and John Langdon led patriotic supporters in a raid against Fort William and Mary, now Fort Constitution, in Portsmouth.