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Daniel Webster Birthplace State Historic Site is a state park and historic house museum in Franklin, New Hampshire. It preserves the two-room log cabin associated with the 1782 birth and early childhood years of Daniel Webster, a noted orator and statesmen. The restored house reflects late 18th-century farm life.
Franklin is located in northern Merrimack County at (43.446956, −71.656966 [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 29.2 square miles (75.5 km 2), of which 27.5 square miles (71.1 km 2) are land and 1.7 square miles (4.5 km 2) are water, comprising 5.95% of the town. [5]
The Franklin Falls Historic District is a 75-acre (30 ha) historic district encompassing most of the civic and industrial heart of Franklin, New Hampshire, which saw its most significant development in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts.
Covered bridge near the Flume A hiking trail through Franconia Notch The Basin. Franconia Notch State Park is a public recreation area and nature preserve that straddles eight miles (13 km) of Interstate 93 as it passes through Franconia Notch, a mountain pass between the Kinsman Range and Franconia Range in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, United States.
This list of museums in New Hampshire is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Since 2017, the division's parent agency has been the New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR). [2] Projects include study and development of the Temple Mountain Ski Area, acquired by the state in 2007, [3] slated to become a state park. [citation needed]
The Sulphite Railroad Bridge is located about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) east of downtown Franklin, and about 350 yards (320 m) south of US Route 3, and crosses the river at a point where its banks are quite steep; it is not readily visible from any roadway, but may be seen from the Winnipesaukee River Trail.