Home, town, community : earliest New Hampshire neighborhood; oldest unrestored congregational meetinghouse; oldest first-generation Shaker meetinghouse; first free library and first funded library; largest textile mills under one roof; first women's strike; pioneer woman editor: Sarah Josepha Hale; visionary religious leader: Mary Baker Eddy
Government, politics and war : first incident in the Revolutionary War; first state constitution; early roots of the Republican party; largest state legislature; first international peace treaty signed in the United States; first primary in the nation: the Balsams; first international monetary summit: the Mount Washington Hotel; first and only "Altar of the Nation": Cathedral of the Pines
Ingenuity and enterprise : early school for Native Americans; Concord Coach: stagecoach of the nation; oldest covered bridge and longest covered bridge; tallest Shaker dwelling; largest stereoscopic view company in the world; first Transatlantic cable; pioneer granite quarriers build the Library of Congress; first medical x-ray
Creativity and culture : New Hampshire's island poet: Celia Thaxter; first sculptor to design an American coin; first and largest artist colony in the nation; first state to support the arts and first crafts fair in the nation; oldest professional summer theater in the nation; war memorial to women: Cathedral of the Pines; most celebrated poet: Robert Frost; US first: pioneering science and technology education
Seasons: work and recreation : the oldest summer resort in America; oldest ski club: pioneers in ski jumping; largest icehouse in the world; pioneers in ski instruction; pioneers in ski racing; pioneers in ski trail and resort design; ski mechanization: first aerial tramway in North America; pioneers in dog sledding: Admiral Byrd Expeditions; the Nashua Dodgers: pioneers in the integration of baseball
Forests and mountains : "first citizen": the Old Man in the Mountain; fastest wind speed on Earth; the earliest continuous mountain footpath in the United States; first mountain-climbing train; oldest conservation and mountaineering club in America; first mountaintop newspaper: Among the Clouds; oldest and largest private wild game preserve; pioneers in forest management; first organization to protect forests; first Mount Washington road race; first bird club
Sea, lake, sky : first warships built in North America; the Piscataqua River gundalow; first government-sanctioned shipyard in the nation; first intercollegiate rowing regatta; Isles of Shoals sailing regatta: first American's cup?; pioneers in submarine technology; first American in space; first private citizen in space: Christa McAuliffe.