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Although New Hampshire faced hard times after most of the mills and factories in the state closed in the early part of the 20th century, new businesses began to emerge in the state by the end of the 1900s. Many of these businesses focused on new technology, like video games and computers. One New Hampshire inventor named Dean Kamen came up with a whole new way to get around: the Segway Personal Transporter. When the Segway was unveiled to the world in 2001, many people thought it would change the way people traveled, particularly in cities. Instead of walking or driving around a city, people would ride a Segway. The Segway never became as popular as Kamen hoped, but they are still used in many major cities around the world. Some companies even offer Segway tours, when whole groups of people riding Segways travel around cities together learning about history and culture and seeing the sights. 

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The Old Man of the Mountain has been one of New Hampshire’s most popular tourist destinations since the 1800s. By the early 1900s, though, there were signs that the Old Man wasn’t as stable as he should be. In the 1920s, scientists installed a series of steel rods and clamps to keep the Old Man in place. These worked well for many decades. Unfortunately, on the morning of May 3, 2003, people awoke to find that the Old Man was gone! The rocks that made up his face slipped off of the side of the mountain overnight. Many of the people in New Hampshire mourned the Old Man’s loss. Now there is a park where people can stop and see where the Old Man once stood. The park has even found a way to duplicate how the Old Man once looked on the side of his mountain. The Old Man remains one of the most popular symbols of New Hampshire. 

 

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In 2012, New Hampshire became the first state in the country to have all its representatives to the federal government be women. The Granite State’s two senators that year were Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte. New Hampshire’s two delegates to the House of Representatives were Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea Porter. New Hampshire’s governor was also a woman, Maggie Hassan. 

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The African Burying Ground Memorial Park opened in Portsmouth in 2015. The park is on the site of a Black cemetery from the 18th century. Workers discovered the cemetery in 2003. It had been used to bury Black residents of Portsmouth hundreds of years ago, but over time it had been forgotten and paved over. When it was rediscovered, the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, along with city officials and other community leaders, built a memorial where the cemetery had been. The park has sculptures, historic information, and a community plaza.

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In the 2018, Granite Staters came together to preserve New Hampshire's forests. Energy companies had a plan to run power lines through the White Mountains to bring energy from Canada to New England. This plan might have lowered the cost of electricity. But it also would have cut down a lot of forests to build big towers. That might ruin the tourism industry. Thousands of people contacted their representatives in state government, and the state stopped the project.