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The Winnipesaukee River provided water power for mills, and by 1859, when the population was 1, 332, Northfield had a woolen factory and a wrapping paper mill.
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The first County Court was held within the town of Meredith, at a village known as Meredith Bridge on the Winnipesaukee River.
Much of the town is drained by the Gunstock River, a tributary of Lake Winnipesaukee.
A large Abenaki Indian settlement called Acquadocton Village once existed at the point now known as The Weirs, named by colonists for fishing weirs discovered at the outlet of the Winnipesaukee River.
Laconia is drained by the Winnipesaukee River.
Tilton is a town located on the Winnipesaukee River in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States.
These two names refer to the bridge, built in 1763, that crossed the Winnipesaukee River from Canterbury to Sanbornton and onto what is presently Main Street in Tilton.
Charles E. Tilton also donated what is perhaps the most notable landmark in the area, the hilltop Memorial Arch, located in the neighboring town of Northfield, across the Winnipesaukee River from the center of Tilton.
Image: Winnipesaukee River, Tilton, NH. jpg | Tilton Island Park c. 1908
Tilton is drained by the Winnipesaukee River.
It is drained by the Merrimack River, primarily by way of the Winnipesaukee River and its tributary Williams Brook.
The CDP encompasses the town centers of both Tilton and Northfield, located on either side of the Winnipesaukee River.
Outflow is regulated by the Lakeport Dam ( in Lakeport, New Hampshire ) on the Winnipesaukee River.
" At the outlet of the Winnipesaukee River, the Winnipesaukee Indians, a subtribe of the Pennacook, lived and fished at a village called Acquadocton.
When glacial debris blocked this path, flow was redirected westward through Paugus Bay into the Winnipesaukee River.
Wolfeboro is drained by the Smith River, which is the outlet of Lake Wentworth and an inlet of Lake Winnipesaukee.
* The Smith River, a tributary of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire
* Tioga River ( New Hampshire ), a tributary of the Winnipesaukee River
Originally rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, it has since moved to the Thames River, New London, Connecticut.
It flows south through the White Mountains and merges with the Winnipesaukee River to form the Merrimack River at Franklin.
The river crosses one additional hydroelectric dam below Franklin Falls before joining the Winnipesaukee River in the center of Franklin.
Winnipesaukee and water
According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, of which is land and ( 14. 35 %) is water, most of which is part of Lake Winnipesaukee.
The Native American name Winnipesaukee means either " smile of the Great Spirit " or " beautiful water in a high place.
The Weirs Beach area also contains a water slide, a drive-in movie theater, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, and several motels and cottage complexes.
Winnipesaukee and for
The stream was also the transportation route for their birch bark canoes, which could travel from Lake Winnipesaukee to the Atlantic Ocean.
Lake Winnipesaukee has been a tourist destination for more than a century, especially for residents seeking respite from the summer heat of Boston and New York City.
Along with the rest of New Hampshire's Lakes Region, which also encompasses Lake Winnisquam, Lake Wentworth, Squam Lake and Newfound Lake, Winnipesaukee has been a vacation community for at least a century, particularly drawing people from the Boston region.
Lake Winnipesaukee is known for its annual Ice-Out Contest, in which people try to guess the earliest date that the Mount Washington can safely leave her port in Center Harbor and motor to four other ports ( Weirs Beach, Alton Bay, Wolfeboro, and Meredith ).
* 3 August — inaugural Harvard-Yale Regatta, a 2-length win for Harvard in a single eight-oar, two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
Production had to go south because at the real Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, the leaves were already turning for the fall season.
Picture of Lake Winnipesaukee at sunset for use on Lake Winni page.
It served as the stand-in for Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.
The creation of these organizations set the stage for the first intercollegiate sporting event in the U. S. This event took place in 1852, when the rowing team from Yale competed against the rowing team from Harvard at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
Weirs Beach, or " The Weirs " as it is referred to by locals, is named for a wide, sandy, public beach on Lake Winnipesaukee.
A large public dock is also evident at this popular stop for boaters on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Winnipesaukee and mills
Image: View on the Winnipesaukee, Tilton, NH. jpg | View of the mills in 1908
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Center Harbor witnessed the first intercollegiate sporting event in the United States, as Harvard defeated Yale by two lengths in the first Harvard-Yale Regatta on August 3, 1852 on Lake Winnipesaukee .< ref name =" hyr ">
It is bounded in the southwest by Winnisquam Lake, and by Lake Winnipesaukee in the northeast.
Moultonborough is bounded in part by Lake Winnipesaukee in the southwest and Squam Lake in the northwest corner.
Long Island, the largest island in Lake Winnipesaukee, is connected to Moultonborough Neck by a bridge.
Bounded on the southwest by Lake Winnipesaukee, Tuftonboro includes the villages of Tuftonboro Corner, Center Tuftonboro, Melvin Corner, Melvin Village and Mirror Lake.
The town was site of a massacre in 1747, when Elizabeth Simpson, Robert Beard and Nathaniel Folson were slain by Indians of the Winnipesaukee tribe.
The outcome was repeated 100 years later when the schools celebrated the centennial of the race by again competing on Lake Winnipesaukee ( Harvard winning by 2. 7 seconds ).
Meredith is bounded to the northeast by Lake Winnipesaukee.
It is bordered by the towns of Sanbornton to the southwest, New Hampton to the west, Center Harbor to the north, Moultonborough to the northeast across Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford to the southeast, and Laconia to the south.
While there is a lake in New Hampshire named Winnipesaukee, there is no town by that name ( as the film implies ).
The lake is primarily fed by the outlet from Lake Winnipesaukee, and Winnisquam's outlet is the Winnipesaukee River, flowing to the Merrimack River.
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