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The Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site commemorates a clash between settlers and Abenaki Indians in Boscawen in 1697. Daniel Webster was born near Franklin in 1782. The village of Canterbury, founded in the late 18th century, contains a re-created Shaker community with 25 original buildings dating from as early as 1785. Colby-Sawyer College, formerly...
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