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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 ...
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 ...
Principal village Penacook, New Hampshire. The Pennacook were once a large confederacy who were politically distinct and competitive with their northern Abenaki neighbors. Smaller tribes: Amoskeay; Cocheco; Nashua; Ossipee, lived along the shores of Ossipee Lake in east-central New Hampshire. Often classed as Eastern Abenaki.
Sep. 9—New Hampshire's Attorney General argued in a response to a new lawsuit over school funding that disparities between the money spent in rich and poor districts arises from some schools ...
Kancamagus (pronounced "kan-kah-mah-gus", "Fearless One", [1] "Fearless Hunter of Animals" [2]), was the third and final Sagamore of the Penacook Confederacy of Native American tribes. Nephew of Wonalancet and grandson of Passaconaway, [3] Kancamagus ruled what is now southern New Hampshire.