This Week in Concord History

March 21, 1820: An editorial in Concord's New Hampshire Patriot says the Missouri compromise, while disappointing on the whole, “succeeded in rescuing from slavery a vast tract of country, which would otherwise have been expos'd to this dreadful curse.”

March 21, 1996: Concord City Manger Julia Griffin says she will resign. She will take a job as Hanover's town manager.

March 22, 1851: Former New Hampshire governor and U.S. senator Isaac Hill dies at the age of 63. Hill was once editor of Concord's New Hampshire Patriot and served in President Andrew Jackson's “Kitchen Cabinet.”

March 23, 1867: Forty-two years after becoming Concord's Congregationalist minister, the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton resigns. During his tenure, Bouton became a trustee of Dartmouth College and, in 1856, published a history of Concord. Seven months before leaving the pulpit, he was named state historian.

March 23, 1986: Congressman Bob Smith visits the state prison in Concord to tell veterans jailed there of his efforts to find Americans missing in Southeast Asia. Smith says the inmates seem to identify with American servicemen missing in action and held as prisoners of war.

March 23, 2001: Concord was New Hampshire's fastest-growing city in the 1990s, the U.S. Census Bureau announces. The official 2000 population is listed as 40,687.

March 24, 1967: In their nationally syndicated column written out of Concord, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak say that Richard Nixon's advantage over Michigan Gov. George Romney in next year's GOP presidential primary is “so small it approaches meaningless.”

“We need new blood,” a retired Concord car dealer has told the columnists. Another Concord Republican says: “We all think of Dick Nixon as one hell of a guy who's going exactly nowhere.”

March 25, 1974: Gov. Mel Thomson vetoes legislation raising the campaign spending limit for most major offices from 15 to 25 cents per voter. “I'm not at all surprised,” says Concord Rep. Susan McLane, the sponsor. “I also wouldn't be surprised if he's still putting 3-cent stamps on envelopes.” (The 15-cent rule dates to 1957, when postage was indeed 3 cents per ounce.)

March 25, 1998: Concord officials propose a change in the city's policy toward low-income housing. If the council approves, Concord will no longer actively support the construction of low-income housing, but will support only the rehabilitation of existing buildings for low-income housing.

March 25, 2000: Concord High defenseman Joe Garofalo has been named Division I hockey player of the year, the Monitor reports. It is the second year in a row he has won the award, which he shares this year with Bishop Guertin goalie Dave MacDonald.

March 25, 2003: The House votes to require doctors to notify the parents of girls under 18 seeking abortions. The margin is slim, 187-181. But the outcome marks a momentous political shift in the House, which has rejected dozens of attempts to limit access to abortion over the last 20 years.

March 26, 1853: Concord elects its first mayor, Joseph Low, a grand-looking man with a gold-headed cane. Before this date, the city was a town, run by selectmen.

March 26, 1947: State Sen. Arthur Bean asks the Legislature to allow Concord and Bow to create a man-made lake on the Turkey River, to be called Concord Lake. The lake would be used for recreation and as a backup city water supply. It would be the state's 10th largest, after Winnipesaukee, Squam, Winnisquam, Newfound, Ossipee, Wentworth, First Connecticut and Massabesic. The Legislature will approve the plan, but city voters will ultimately turn it down.

March 26, 2000: Concord's Matt Bonner and the rest of the Florida Gators defeat Oklahoma State, 77-65, to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

Author: The Concord Insider

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