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Penacook, originally called "Fisherville", [3] is a village [4] within the city of Concord in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. It lies along Concord's northern border with Boscawen . The name comes from the Pennacook tribe that lived in the area.
Historian David Stewart-Smith suggests that the Penacook were Central Abenaki people. [4] Their southern neighbors were the Massachusett and Wampanoag. [5]Pennacook territory bordered the Connecticut River in the West, Lake Winnipesauke in the north, the Piscataqua to the east, and the villages of the closely allied Pawtucket confederation along the southern Merrimack River to the south.
Location of Merrimack County in New Hampshire. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
The Rolfe Barn is a historic barn at 16 Penacook Street in the Penacook village of Concord, New Hampshire. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [ 1 ] The barn was first added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2003; additional structures on the property were added in 2005 (homestead ...
The Contoocook River (/ k ə n ˈ t ʊ k ə k / ⓘ) is a 71-mile-long (114 km) [1] river in New Hampshire. It flows from Contoocook Lake on the Jaffrey/Rindge border to Penacook (just north of Concord), where it empties into the Merrimack River. It is one of only a few rivers in New Hampshire that flow in a predominantly northward direction.
The Franklin Falls area was occupied by the Penacook tribe of the Abenaki people at the time of European settlement of New England in the 17th century (documentation which has been confirmed by archaeological evidence found at Odell Park). Colonial settlement of the area did not begin until the late 1740s, and the area did not experience ...
Contoocook River Amusement Park was a trolley park in Penacook, New Hampshire.The park was developed along the south bank of the Contoocook River.For twenty cents in 1893, and up until 1925, one could ride 7 miles (11 km) on the trolley from downtown Concord to Penacook to enjoy free entertainment, fireworks, swimming, dancing at a large pavilion, boating, roller-skating, bowling, and even a ...
Local New Hampshire history says that in 1647 John Elliot attempted to speak with Passaconaway but was refused audience again and again before he was finally allowed to talk with the bashaba. Eventually the minister was invited to live with the Pennacook people and teach the elderly sachem about Christianity. Legend says that after the preacher ...