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==History== [[File:General John Stark.GIF|left|thumb|200px|General [[John Stark]]]] Granted in 1774, Stark was originally named "Percy", after [[Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland]]. The town was incorporated in 1795, and renamed "Stark" in 1832, after General [[John Stark]], who wrote the words that became New Hampshire's motto, "[[Live Free or Die]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nh.gov/almanac/emblem.htm |title=State Emblem, New Hampshire Almanac |website=NH.gov |access-date=August 24, 2019}}</ref> === World War II POW camp === In early 1944, the remains of a former [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] camp in the town were converted to form Camp Stark, which held about 250 German [[POW#World War II|POW]]s. This was the only [[World War II]] POW camp located in New Hampshire. Most of the men in the camp performed hard labor in the nearby forests, supplying wood for the paper mills in [[Berlin, New Hampshire]]. Some of the men eventually came back to live in the United States and [[Canada]] after the war ended, and the camp was closed in 1946.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newhampshirelakesandmountains.com/Articles-c-2010-03-30-150876.113119_Stark_remembers_former_POW_Camp.html#123 |title=Stark remembers former POW Camp |first=Kayti |last=Burt |work=Coos County Democrat |via=newhampshirelakesandmountains.com |date=March 31, 2010 |access-date=July 6, 2020}}</ref> {{see also|List of New Hampshire historical markers (126β150)#150}}
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