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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.
Prior to, and during the early period of, colonial encroachment Passaconaway presumably followed traditional New England Native lifeways [7] in the Pennacook territories around the Merrimack River, moving among established village sites like Amoskeag and Pawtucket seasonally, which accounts for his historical association with several places in ...
The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston.When operational it was 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) deep, with 20 locks, each 80 feet (24 m) long and between 10 and 11 feet (3.0 and 3.4 m) wide.
Sagamore Bridge: Circumferential Highway: Nashua and Hudson: 1973 (twinned in 2000) WN&R / B&M RR Bridge: 1847 WN&R Railroad - Abutments remain: Taylor Falls Bridge
The Concord River is a 16.3-mile-long (26.2 km) [1] tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Massachusetts, United States. The river drains a small rural, suburban region northwest of Boston . As one of the most notable small rivers in U.S. history, it was the scene of an important early battle of the American Revolutionary War and was the ...
West Newbury is a part of Massachusetts' North Shore, as well as the Merrimack Valley regions of the state. It lies along the south banks of the Merrimack River, 10 miles (16 km) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. The town is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Lawrence and 34 miles (55 km) north of Boston.
The town is also known for the Tyngsborough Bridge, a green painted, single-arched, steel bridge over the Merrimack River. Constructed in 1931 as a replacement for an earlier wooden planked structure, [3] this bridge is a major river crossing for residents of Massachusetts and New Hampshire alike with 22,300 daily crossings as of 2007. [4]
Merrimac is a small town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the southeastern border of New Hampshire, approximately 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Boston and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Atlantic Ocean. It was incorporated on April 11, 1876. It is situated along the north bank of the Merrimack River in the Merrimack Valley.