New Hampshire Homes For Sale

<body> <p> <P align=center><IMG border=0 src="statemore.jpg"></P><FONT color=black face="Times New Roman" size=3> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=black face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><div align=justify> Travel and tourism is a key part of the New Hampshire economy. It is not a single industry, but a diverse collection of activities practiced by local people committed to their communities. The visitor industry enlivens New Hampshire’s downtowns, rebuilds roads and airports and elevates residents’ year-round lifestyle with fine hotels, restaurants, attractions, museums and art galleries, theaters, parks and sports facilities. Among the 50 states, New Hampshire's economy ranks 7th in travel and tourism. It is the second largest industry in the state. Travel and tourism brings more than $8.6 billion annually into the economy and employs over 65,000 of residents. <br><br> The state entertains annually over a million summer visitors who resort in the mountain, lake and seashore scenery. The soil is suitable for fruits, flowers and vegetables. The forests of pine, spruce and hardwood add beauty to the landscape and wealth to the land. <br><br> The White Mountains are the natural feature that has the widest fame. New Hampshire bodies of water cover one hundred and fifteen thousand acres and vary from small ponds to Lake Winnipesaukee, which is 22-miles long and eight miles wide. New Hampshire's publicly-owned aerial tramway, the first erected to a mountain top in North America, is located in Franconia Notch near The Old Man of the Mountain. <br><br> New Hampshire is also famous for her products made from the sap of the maple tree. And, according to locals, no state grows apples of finer flavor than come from the hillsides of New Hampshire. In the southern part of the state, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and products of the garden are grown in great quantities and shipped hundreds of miles. <br><br> The state has a seaboard of about eighteen miles. Hampton and Rye beaches have been famous summer resorts since the days Whittier pitched his "tent on the beach." The salt waves of the Atlantic lap the sometimes sandy, sometimes rocky coast into one continuous pleasure ground, where surf bathing and scenic beauty enchant the visitor. In the early fall of 1915 a disastrous fire at Hampton Beach destroyed many of the hotels and places of business there, but the resort has since been rebuilt from the ruins until it is larger and more attractive than ever. <br><br> The Division of Parks and Recreation operates 43 state parks, 12 historic sites, 7 recreational trails, 39 islands, 4 state fishing piers and marinas, 14 natural areas and numerous wayside and miscellaneous areas. <br><br> Among New Hampshire's all-year, all-season recreation attractions, none are more popular than its winter sports. Mount Washington is the highest mountain east of the Rockies and north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Its privately owned cog railway was the first mountain climbing railway in the world. New Hampshire has some of the finest ski terrain in the east where the sport may be enjoyed well into July and August. Its many lifts include the widely known Cranmore skimobile, operated all year, and Tuckerman, Cannon, Sunapee and Gilford slopes. <br><br> Portsmouth, the only sea city, has an historic past and a prosperous present with its large navy yard. New Castle is a place of romance and aesthetic beauty and adventure. A large part of the Isles of Shoals in Portsmouth harbor belongs to New Hampshire, with their cottages and hotels. Lobster fishermen find the Isles of Shoals and the New Hampshire coast favorable areas for taking this famous seafood. The state highways are as fine as any state can boast of and are kept in excellent driving condition the year round. New Hampshire is open to visitors, from the coast to the mountains, 12 months of the year. <br><br> New Hampshire is sometimes known as the "Mother of Rivers." Five of the great streams of New England originate in its granite hills. The Connecticut River rises in the north; the Pemigewasset River starts in the Profile Lake in the Franconia mountains and joins the Winnipesaukee at Franklin to form the Merrimack River; the Cocheco and Salmon Falls rivers join at Dover to form the Piscataqua River; and two of the principal rivers of Maine, the Androscoggin and the Saco, have their beginnings in northern New Hampshire. <br><br> The state has a changeable climate, with wide variations in daily and seasonal temperatures. The variations are affected by proximity to the ocean, mountains, lakes or rivers. The state enjoys all four seasons. Summers are short and cool; winters are long and cold; fall is glorious with foliage. The weather station on Mount Washington has recorded some of the coldest temperatures and strongest winds in the continental United States. <br><br> The state’s history dates back to 1623, when under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton, fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. <br><br> <BR clear=all style="mso-special-character: line-break"></P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> <P align=center><A href="http://www.househunt.com/new-hampshire/"><FONT size=4><STRONG> Back to New Hampshire's Home Page</STRONG></FONT></A>   <FONT size=4><STRONG>   </STRONG></FONT><FONT size=4><STRONG>  </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.househunt.com"><FONT size=4><STRONG>Nationwide Search</STRONG></FONT> </A></P> <P></P> <P></P> <H1 align=justify></H1></SPAN></FONT> <DIV></DIV></FONT></SPAN> <script type="text/javascript"> var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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