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The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling [1]) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river [2] in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, [3] flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Merrimack River from its mouth in the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport, Massachusetts, upstream to its source at the merger of two rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire. Some pedestrian bridges and abandoned bridges are also listed.
The Merrimack River Valley is considered the "Valley of the Poets" [10] by some local artists and poets. Anne Bradstreet was a founding mother of three towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony : Boston , Cambridge (then Newtowne), and the original Andover Parish, known now as North Andover , where she lived and wrote for the last half of her life.
The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) [2] while wandering 218 miles (351 km) [3] from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River ...
Populated places on the Merrimack River (2 C) T. Tributaries of the Merrimack River (70 P) Pages in category "Merrimack River"
Beaver Brook (Merrimack River tributary) Beebe River; Big River (New Hampshire) Black Brook (Merrimack River tributary) Blackwater River (Contoocook River tributary) C.
New Hampshire populated places on the Merrimack River (17 P) This page was last edited on 20 June 2021, at 22:43 (UTC). Text is ...
Pawtucket Falls is a waterfall on the Merrimack River at Lowell, Massachusetts. The waterfall and rapids below it drop a total of 32 feet in a little under a mile, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and was an important fishing ground for the Pennacook Indians in pre-colonial times.