State bird: Purple finch State flower: Purple Lilac Population: 1,235,786 people
Nickname: Granite State Economy: Dairy products, nursery stock, cattle, apples, eggs, machinery, electronic equipment, rubber and plastic products, tourism Fun facts: The first potato planted in the US was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787. State motto is "Live Free or Die" and comes from a statement written by the Revolutionary General John Stark, hero of the Battle of Bennington. Sarah Josepha Hale, author and journalist from Newport, New Hampshire, wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830. It takes approximately 40 gallons of sap to make approximately 1 gallon of maple syrup. Captain John Smith named New Hampshire after the town of Hampshire, England. In 1833 the first free public library was opened in Petersborough. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the US in 1963.
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