CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE Drone Video Tour

Welcome to New Hampshire's colorful capital city! This burgeoning town of more than 43,000 Concordians was home to the 14th President, Franklin Pierce, whose house you can tour while visiting (it's the Pierce Manse in this video). While here, check out the other sites in this video, including the State House, Legislative Office Building, State Library, Department of Justice, McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, NH Technological Institute, NH Historical Society, and the awesome array of shops in the city's commercial center.

More than one thousand years ago, a strong Native American people called Penacook inhabited present day Concord. In 1726, the English colonized the area, calling the town Rumford. The city earned its new name in 1765 after a bitter land dispute between the towns Rumford and Bow struck a concord. Concord was named capitol of New Hampshire in 1807, after Sam Blodget opened a canal there to allow logging boats from the Amoskeag Falls area to reach the Boston docks.

This town revolutionized America by contributing the Concord Stagecoach, which was the #1 way people traveled west during the American Manifest Destiny years. Another contributor to American science is teacher and astronaut, Christa McAuliffe, who died in the space shuttle Challenger disaster January 28, 1986. The city's science museum and planetarium are named after her and Admiral Alan Shepard.