Throughout the s and s, New Hampshire’s mill towns were as economically depressed as its farm towns, and the growth of the state’s population slowed markedly. An exceptionally fine example of Georgian architecture , this house was built in as a present from his mother to Thomas Wentworth, a brother of the last royal governor. Phone Sand and gravel are mined in every county, and dimension granite is quarried in Hillsborough, Merrimack, and Coos counties. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper.