We have no seat belt laws over the age of 18.
No helmet laws over the age of 18
No mandatory car insurance if you own your vehicle out right.
We have no sales or income tax
- 1. Captain John Smith named New Hampshire after the town of Hampshire, England.
2. Sarah Josepha Hale author and journalist who wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830 is from Newport, New Hampshire.
3. The first free public library in the United States was established at Peterborough in 1833.
4. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
5. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
6. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
7. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
8. Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
9. The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
10. New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.