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Placid Echo Lake is a popular draw for tourists, fishermen, and other visitors to New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park. Many notable 19th century painters captured the lake on canvas.
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New Hampshire Information and History

"Representation without taxation" could be this state's motto, as one of only two states with neither general sales nor personal income taxes. Revenues come mainly from corporate income, real estate, tourism, and liquor sales. Property taxes, set at town meetings, fund schools and community services. After a recession in the early 1990s, economic conditions improved. But high-tech companies in southern areas were impacted by a slowdown early in the new century. The White Mountains, the lakes, and the seacoast regions attract vacationers in all seasons. New Hampshire boasts more forests and wildlife today than a century ago.

ECONOMY

Industry: machinery, electronics, metal products.
Agriculture: nursery stock, poultry and eggs, fruits and nuts, vegetables.

Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
New Hampshire Flag and Fast Facts
Flag of New Hampshire
Area
24,216 square kilometers
(9,350 square miles)
Population
1,287,687
Capital
Concord; 41,404
Per Capita Income
U.S. $34,276
Date Statehood Achieved
June 21, 1788
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