Capital: Concord
Estimated 2004 population: 1,299,500
Change from 2000: +63,714
2004 housing units: 575,671
Housing units change from 2000-2004: +27,089

Top New Hampshire Cities
Berlin | Claremont | Concord | Derry | Keene | Lancaster | Lebanon | Littleton | Manchester | Nashua | North Conway | Plymouth

New Hampshire Economy
Agriculture in New Hampshire is hampered by the mountainous topography and by extensive areas of unfertile and stony soil, but farmers are helped by the cooperative marketing that has expanded since World War II. Their main sources of income are dairy products, greenhouse products, apples, cattle, and eggs.

Since the late 1800s manufacturing has been important in the state. The textile mills and factories producing leather goods (such as shoes and boots) that once lined the state's fast-moving rivers have given way to high-technology firms, many of them migrating from the Boston area and its higher tax rates. Electrical and other machinery, as well as fabricated metals and plastics, are also manufactured.

Lumbering has been important since the first sawmill was built on the Salmon Falls River in 1631. Most of the timber cut now is used in paper production. Although New Hampshire has long been known as the Granite State, its large deposits of the stone—used for building as early as 1623—are no longer extensively quarried, the use of steel and concrete in modern construction having greatly decreased the granite market. Mineral production, chiefly of sand, gravel, and stone, is today a minor factor in New Hampshire's economy.

Top New Hampshire Attractions
Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington
Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, Bretton Woods
Franconia Notch State Park, Franconia
Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth
Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury
Cannon Mountain, Franconia
Hampton Beach State Park, Hampton
Waterville Valley Resort, Waterville Valley
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, Concord
Old Man of the Mountain Historic Site, Franconia