New Hampshire Auto Transport

Paying too much for New Hampshire auto tansport? We might be able to help. We've built a database of auto movers across the whole of the US. When you provide us with details of your move we'll get you as many quotes as we can so that you can compare costs. Our service is easy and FREE to use.

New Hampshire Car Shipping

By comparing New Hampshire car shipping costs you could find a much cheaper service and save yourself money. Price comparison is becoming increasingly common and the internet has made it alot easier to shop around. We'll do our best to get you as many quotes as we can so that you can find a cheap and reliable auto mover.

Moving to New Hampshire?

Long after sailors, fishermen, and agricultural colonists had domesticated the entire coastline of New England, the harsh, glacier-scarred interior of New Hampshire remained the exclusive preserve of the Abenaki Indians. Only a few coastal settlements, such as Portsmouth, signalled the European presence, and the people here were more concerned with fighting the oppressive rule of Massachusetts than dealing with the tribes. Even when the Abenaki were driven out, the settlers made little headway. The Granite State offered little to farmers: although towns grew up in the fertile Merrimack Valley, most of the region remained untouched and the economy was accordingly slow.

This worried the idiosyncratic New Hampshirites little: they were the first to declare independence from Britain in 1774 and have gone their own way ever since. As the state motto declares, “Live free or die!” Abolitionists from Dartmouth College founded the experimental, interracial Noyes Academy in Canaan in 1835. Within months of its inception, rural opponents of the school dragged the school away with oxen before lighting it ablaze to protest integrated education. The abolitionists were later vindicated. To this day, the ninth state to have entered the Union retains an inordinate political clout, as the home of the first primaries in the presidential election cycle and the place where the first results are declared in November.

The Industrial Revolution blasted open the future. Numerous textile mills attracted large flows of immigrants from Quebec and Ireland. In the north, lumber companies used steam powered technology to such good effect that the White Mountains were nearly deforested before state authorities realised what a valuable commodity their beauty might turn out to be. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, New Hampshire began to be posited as a tourist resort.

Like its British namesake, Manchester in the Merrimack Valley was a major cotton producer in the nineteenth century. After the industry declined, the city went with it but it does have an excellent art museum and a stunning building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Nearby Canterbury Shaker Village was the sixth Shaker community that Ann Lee founded: as well as explanations of the way of life there are craft exhibitions and workshops. The coast is ornamented only with a power station: better to avoid it and go to Lake Winnipesaukee, which forms the center of the vacation-oriented Lakes Region. Long segments of its three-hundred-mile shoreline consist of thick forests sweeping down to waters dotted with little islands, which are best explored by boat. On the lakefront, sophisticated Wolfeboro claims to be “the oldest summer resort in America”, while Weirs Beach is tacky but fun.

The jewels of New Hampshire are the White Mountains. Now a year round tourist destination, they retain their grandeur. Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, demands respect, claiming some of the most severe weather in the world; the wind exceeds hurricane speed on more than a hundred days a year. From the top, climbers can see both Canada and the US. The backcountry in this region is glorious, especially in autumn when the forests seem to burst into flame: no visit is complete without setting off into the forest, on foot or on skis, to discover the hidden secrets of the woods. For the immobile and terminally lazy, Kancamagus Highway is a wonderful drive with excellent views. Halfway along, a trail leads half a mile up a narrow rocky cleft in the forest to Sabbaday Falls, a succession of idyllic waterfalls.

From the experimental poetry of E E Cummings to the wild musings of J D Salinger, all these glories have produced a very creative population. Poet Laureate Robert Frost wrote it best:

“The more the sensibilitist I am
The more I seem to want my mountains wild…
For all her mountains fall a little short,
Her people not quite short enough for Art,
She's still New Hampshire; a most restful state.”

NH auto shipping

If you're moving to New Hampshire and looking for an NH auto shipping company we'll do our best to help. When you fill out our form we'll try and match you to shipping companies on our database to get you quotes.