What to see in America . the these Concord owes its growth in part to being the statecapital. The growth of the other two, JNIanchester andNashua, can be credited almost wholly to their manufactur-ing. x\t Concord are important granite quarries, but NewHampshire gets its title of the Granite State, and itspeople their nickname of Granite Boys, not from theamount of that stone quarried, but from the amount thatexists within its boundaries. Some of its mountains, suchas Mt. Washington, are almost entirely of granite. Micais an important product of the state, and in Grafton Countyar
What to see in America . the these Concord owes its growth in part to being the statecapital. The growth of the other two, JNIanchester andNashua, can be credited almost wholly to their manufactur-ing. x\t Concord are important granite quarries, but NewHampshire gets its title of the Granite State, and itspeople their nickname of Granite Boys, not from theamount of that stone quarried, but from the amount thatexists within its boundaries. Some of its mountains, suchas Mt. Washington, are almost entirely of granite. Micais an important product of the state, and in Grafton Countyare the nations leading mica mines. 22 What to See in America At Manchester is the largest cotton mill in the world. Itgets its power from the Amoskeag Falls, which have a drop offift^^-five feet. The place was a great fishing resort of theIndians and early settlers, and the shad passing up the fallsin the spring are said to have been so numerous that a mancould not put his hand into the water without touching someof The Waterside at Pobtsmouth
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