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Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge was formed by three land transfers from the U.S. Army's Fort Devens military installation, and a recent purchase of private land in Harvard. Two of the transfers from the Army (May 1974 and February 1988) formed the original 711-acre (2.88 km 2 ) portion of the Refuge located south of Massachusetts Route 2 .
Bellamy Reservoir. Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in New Hampshire.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
First settled about 1765, the town was incorporated on 17 January 1774, by John Wentworth, governor of the Province of New Hampshire. He named it "Deering" after the maiden name of his wife, [3] Frances Deering Wentworth, just as two years earlier he had bestowed Francestown with her first name. Deering had 928 residents when the first census ...
English: A map of Ox Bow (Oxbow), made in 1864. At this time Oxbow's population was much higher than today, likely around 300 residents. At this time Oxbow's population was much higher than today, likely around 300 residents.
The wilderness is located primarily in unincorporated Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire, near the Maine border, and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. [1] Within the wilderness's 24,032 acres (97.25 km 2 ) are 29.7 miles (47.8 km) of hiking trails.
New Hampshire Route 49 (abbreviated NH 49) is a 11.297-mile-long (18.181 km) east–west state highway in Grafton County, within the White Mountains in central New Hampshire. It runs from Campton to Waterville Valley , and serves mainly to allow traffic to access the Waterville Valley Resort ski area.
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The Piscataquog River is a 34.7-mile-long (55.8 km) [1] river located in southern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Merrimack River , which flows to the Gulf of Maine . The Piscataquog River begins at the outlet of Deering Reservoir , a lake in Deering, New Hampshire .