NH American plate atlas
New Hampshire
The Granite State
Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.
Capital
ConcordState bird
Purple finchRatified the Constitution
June 21, 178801
A quick trip through time
The New Hampshire story
New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the Constitution. Granite, mills, mountain tourism, town meetings, and its first-in-the-nation presidential primary shape its reputation.
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Bumper-sized history
About the plate
Live Free or Die gives New Hampshire one of the nation’s most famous plate slogans. The phrase has appeared on plates since the 1970s.