New Hampshire the Beautiful
New Hampshire the beautiful, where the quality of life is the reason many newcomers cite for moving to New Hampshire. Whether you enjoy the conveniences of living in a small city or the charm of country villages, it's all at your fingertips. This is an area where neighbor knows neighbor, where strong ties develop within a community, where friendships endure. There is an unmistakable feeling of COMING HOME, where the beauty of the land overwhelms you and makes you want to live here forever.
New Hampshire emerged as a "watering spot" for visitors with summer homes and later became a location
Mecca for people of every taste and income because its myriad of attractions were so accessible to major metropolitan centers of the eastern seaboard. Southern New Hampshire sprang to life in the sixties when modern industries replaced the fading textile mills, and major interstate highways were completed.
Tucked into a corner of the northeastern United States, New Hampshire is the most mountainous of the six contiguous states which comprise New England. One third of the state has an elevation of 2,000 feet or more and eighty-five percent of its land is forested, especially in the North Country.
Shaped like a right triangle, the "Granite State" shares a boundary with the Canadian province of Quebec to the north, the winding Connecticut River and the state of Vermont to the west, the state of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Massachusetts to the south.
The Merrimack Valley and Seacoast regions, which make up most of the southern tier, are especially well located, each being about an hour from the many attractions of the greater Boston area. Less than a 2-hour drive to the north are the majestic mountains of the Presidential range and the extensive waterways which form the Lakes Region. Within the regions are a myriad of communities offering a variety of lifestyles to suit anyone's taste.
But that's not all... it's a region steeped in tradition, settled in 1623 under the authority of an English land grant and named after Hampshire, England. In the late nineteenth century, a more industrialized state attracted French Canadians to the many new jobs available in the bustling textile mills. The French influence pervades the region, witnessed by the sign at the southern border which reads, "Welcome to New Hampshire" above the French "Bienvenue Au New Hampshire". But many other factors make New Hampshire attractive. Here are just a few... New Hampshire's weather is as varied as its terrain featuring a special four-season appeal. The winters differ in their severity, with January and February usually being the coldest and snowier months with the average snow fall being about 40 inches annually. March drags on, but April signals the warming trend with apple blossom festivals and maple sugaring just around the corner. Summers have warm days and cool nights in preparation for spectacular falls. In October, the leaves explode into a collage of magnificent colors while the days become cooler as winter approaches.
