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The Contoocook River and Nubanusit Brook offered numerous sites for watermills, and Peterborough became a prosperous mill town.
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Contoocook and River
In the 19th century, Concord became a hub for the railroad industry, with Penacook a textile manufacturing center using water power from the Contoocook River.
In the northern part of the city, the Contoocook River enters the Merrimack at the village of Penacook.
Roughly the western half of Dublin lies within the Connecticut River watershed, drained by tributaries of the Ashuelot River, with the eastern half located in the Merrimack River watershed, drained by tributaries of the Contoocook River.
A branch of the Contoocook River rises from Long Pond, and in the southern part of Nelson, a branch of the Ashuelot River rises.
The Contoocook River flows north to the Merrimack River, thence to the Gulf of Maine, and the Millers River flows southwest to the Connecticut River, thence to Long Island Sound.
The central and eastern portions of town drain to the North Branch of the Contoocook River and eventually to the Merrimack River.
The main village of the town, where 381 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Bennington census-designated place ( CDP ), and is located on the Contoocook River at the intersection of New Hampshire routes 31 and 47.
Located at the Great Falls of the Contoocook River, which drop over, Bennington provided water power for mills.
Bennington is drained by the Contoocook River, which forms Powder Mill Pond on the southern boundary.
Greenfield is drained by Stony Brook, Otter Brook and the Contoocook River ; the town lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed.
Hancock started as an unidentified settlement on the Contoocook River, in lands known as Society Land or Cumberland, which had been reserved for the proprietors of the lands which became New Hampshire.
Hancock is drained by the Contoocook River.
It is drained by the Merrimack River and Contoocook River.
Contoocook is named after the Contoocook River that runs through it.
Contoocook and Nubanusit
The eastern slopes of the mountain drain to Thorndike Pond, the outlet of which ( Stanley Brook ) flows northeast to Nubanusit Brook, then into the Contoocook and the Merrimack.
Peterborough is drained by Nubanusit Brook and the Contoocook River.
Contoocook and Brook
To the southeast of the mountain, Mead Brook and Stony Brook flow to Mountain Brook, a tributary of the Contoocook River, which flows to the Merrimack River and ultimately the Gulf of Maine.
With falls providing water power, Great Brook was once lined with over twenty mills along its course from Gregg Lake to the Contoocook River.
Antrim is drained by the Contoocook River and its North Branch, in addition to Great Brook.
Henniker is drained by the Contoocook River and Amey Brook ; the town lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed.
The western slopes of the mountain drain into Cascade Brook, which flows north to the Blackwater River, a stream which flows around the northern and eastern base of Kearsarge, eventually draining into the Contoocook River, a tributary of the Merrimack.
The southern face of Mount Kearsarge drains into Meadow Brook, a tributary of the Warner River, which flows southeast to the Contoocook River.
Contoocook and for
On April 22, 1760, Contoocook Plantation was incorporated as a town by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for Edward Boscawen, the British admiral who distinguished himself at the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg.
Bounded by the Merrimack and Contoocook rivers, it had abundant sources of water power for mills.
A substantial portion of the town in the north was named " Contoocook Village " for a tribe of the Pennacook Indians who once lived there.
Due to its position along the Contoocook River, it became a center for water-powered industry, particularly lumber and textiles.
The Contoocook River provided water power for mills.
* Contoocook, New Hampshire, a village in the town of Hopkinton, named for the river
Contoocook and Peterborough
* Pack Monadnock and North Pack Monadnock are two peaks in the Wapack Range, to the east across the Contoocook River valley from Mount Monadnock, in Greenfield and Peterborough, New Hampshire.
The central settlement in town, where 3, 103 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place ( CDP ) and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of U. S. Route 202 and New Hampshire Route 101.
# Contoocook Valley Regional High School ( Peterborough, New Hampshire )
Contoocook and town
Contoocook is a village and census-designated place ( CDP ) within the town of Hopkinton in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
The town is home to the Hopkinton State Fair, adjacent to Contoocook village.
The primary settlement in town, where 2, 757 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Jaffrey census-designated place ( CDP ) and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of U. S. Route 202 and New Hampshire routes 124 and 137.
Jaffrey lies mostly within the Merrimack River watershed, via the Contoocook River in the eastern part of the town, with the northwest corner of town lying in the Ashuelot River watershed, part of the larger Connecticut River watershed.
The main village of the town, where 1, 747 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Henniker census-designated place ( CDP ), and is located along the Contoocook River at the junction of New Hampshire Route 114 with Old Concord Road.
The main village of the town, where 1, 976 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Hillsborough census-designated place ( CDP ), and encompasses the central urban area of the town, located along the Contoocook River at the junction of New Hampshire Route 149 with Henniker Street and Main Street.
Contoocook and .
Graduating tenth in the class of 1868, Thompson first went to sea in Contoocook in the West Indian Squadron.
File: Contoocook Covered Railroad Bridge. JPG | Oldest Covered Railroad Bridge in the United States, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Hubbard Pond is in the northeast, Contoocook Lake on the northern boundary, and Lake Monomonac on the southern boundary.
The native Pennacook tribe called the area Contoocook, meaning " place of the river near pines.
Contoocook is located at ( 43. 223588 ,-71. 714627 ).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP of Contoocook has a total area of, of which is land and ( 4. 24 %) is water.
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