Canaan, New Hampshire, the Glossary
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85 relations: Abolitionism, Alton, Illinois, Anna Augusta Truitt, Area code 603, Baker River (New Hampshire), Benning Wentworth, Boston, Boston and Maine Railroad, Canaan, Canaan (CDP), New Hampshire, Canaan Motor Club, Canaan Street Historic District, Canaan Street Lake, Canaan Union Academy, Canaan, Connecticut, Canada, Cardigan Mountain School, Census, Clapboard, Congregationalism, Connecticut River, Daniel Blaisdell, Dorchester, New Hampshire, Drainage basin, Eastern Time Zone, Enfield, New Hampshire, English Americans, Federal Information Processing Standards, Frank D. Currier, Freight train, French Americans, French Canadians, Fugitive slaves in the United States, Gavin Bayreuther, Geographic Names Information System, George Kimball (attorney), Goose Pond (New Hampshire), Grafton County, New Hampshire, Grafton, New Hampshire, Gristmill, Groton, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire, Henry G. Burleigh, Hydropower, Indian River (New Hampshire), Irish Americans, Joshua Smith (minister), Lath, Lebanon, New Hampshire, List of counties in New Hampshire, ... Expand index (35 more) »
Abolitionism
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.
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Alton, Illinois
Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Anna Augusta Truitt
Anna Augusta Truitt (Pattin; after first marriage, Ramsey; after second marriage, Truitt; 1837 – June 9, 1920) was an American philanthropist, temperance reformer, and essayist.
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Area code 603
Area code 603 is the sole area code for the U.S. state of New Hampshire in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).
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Baker River (New Hampshire)
The Baker River, or Asquamchumauke (an Abenaki word meaning "salmon spawning place"), is a river in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire in the United States.
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Benning Wentworth
Benning Wentworth (July 24, 1696 – October 14, 1770) was an American-born merchant and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Boston and Maine Railroad
The Boston and Maine Railroad was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England.
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Canaan
Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.
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Canaan (CDP), New Hampshire
Canaan is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Canaan in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Canaan Motor Club
The Canaan Motor Club (CMC) is a race track in Canaan, New Hampshire, in the United States.
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Canaan Street Historic District
The Canaan Street Historic District encompasses the historic original town center of Canaan, New Hampshire.
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Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake is a water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Canaan.
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Canaan Union Academy
Canaan Union Academy was a whites-only school established in 1839 in Canaan, New Hampshire, after a mob of segregationists and anti-abolitionists destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy in 1835.
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Canaan, Connecticut
Canaan is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Cardigan Mountain School
Cardigan Mountain School, also called Cardigan or CMS, for short, is an all-boys independent boarding school for grades six through nine, located on 62 Alumni Drive, Canaan, New Hampshire, United States.
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Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.
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Clapboard
Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.
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Congregationalism
Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government.
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Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states.
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Daniel Blaisdell
Daniel Blaisdell (January 22, 1762 – January 10, 1833) was an American teacher, farmer, politician and judge.
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Dorchester, New Hampshire
Dorchester is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Dorchester, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Enfield, New Hampshire
Enfield is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Enfield, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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English Americans
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
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Federal Information Processing Standards
The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.
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Frank D. Currier
Frank Dunklee Currier (October 30, 1853 – November 25, 1921) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
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Freight train
A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers.
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French Americans
French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.
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French Canadians
French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.
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Fugitive slaves in the United States
In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery.
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Gavin Bayreuther
Gavin Bayreuther (born May 12, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for Lausanne HC in the National League (NL).
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Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.
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George Kimball (attorney)
George Kimball was an attorney and abolitionist in Canaan, New Hampshire.
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Goose Pond (New Hampshire)
Goose Pond is a water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Canaan and Hanover.
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Grafton County, New Hampshire
Grafton County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
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Grafton, New Hampshire
Grafton is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Grafton, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.
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Groton, New Hampshire
Groton is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Groton, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Hanover, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Henry G. Burleigh
Henry Gordon Burleigh (June 2, 1832 – August 10, 1900) was an American businessman, banker and politician.
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Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
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Indian River (New Hampshire)
The Indian River is a river in western New Hampshire in the United States.
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Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.
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Joshua Smith (minister)
Joshua Smith (1760–1795) was an early American hymn compiler and Baptist minister in New Hampshire, USA.
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Lath
A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster, and in lattice and trellis work.
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Lebanon, New Hampshire
Lebanon is the only city in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
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List of counties in New Hampshire
There are ten counties in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
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Lyme, New Hampshire
Lyme is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Lyme, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
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Mascoma River
The Mascoma River is a river in western New Hampshire in the United States.
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Mascoma State Forest
Mascoma State Forest is an area of forested land in Canaan in Grafton County, New Hampshire, on the west side of the Mascoma River.
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Merrimack River
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling) is a river in the northeastern United States.
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Mount Cardigan
Mount Cardigan is a prominent bare-rock summit in the towns of Orange and Alexandria in western New Hampshire, USA.
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Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.
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New England town
The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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New Hampshire Route 118
New Hampshire Route 118 (abbreviated NH 118) is a secondary north–south highway in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Northern Rail Trail (New Hampshire)
The Northern Recreational Rail Trail, also known as the Northern Rail Trail, is a multi-use rail trail in western New Hampshire, USA, running from Lebanon to Boscawen.
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Northern Railroad (New Hampshire)
The Northern Railroad (sometimes called the Northern New Hampshire Railroad) was a U.S. railroad in central New Hampshire.
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Noyes Academy
The Noyes Academy was a racially integrated school, which also admitted women, founded by New England abolitionists in 1835 in Canaan, New Hampshire, near Dartmouth College, whose then-abolitionist president, Nathan Lord, was "the only seated New England college president willing to admit black students to his college".
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Orange, New Hampshire
Orange is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Canaan, New Hampshire and Orange, New Hampshire are towns in New Hampshire.
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Ox
An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.
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Per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.
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Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Race and ethnicity in the United States census
In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
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Select board
The select board or board of selectmen is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States.
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Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada.
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Sled
A sled, skid, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle that slides across a surface, usually of ice or snow.
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Tanning (leather)
Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.
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Train wreck
A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving two or more trains.
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U.S. Route 4 in New Hampshire
U.S. Route 4 in New Hampshire runs for across the central and southern part of the state, stretching from Lebanon on the Connecticut River border with Vermont southeast to Portsmouth on the eastern coast.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
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ZIP Code
A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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2020 United States census
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan,_New_Hampshire
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