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    The Cocheco Mills comprise a historic mill complex in the heart of Dover, New Hampshire. The mills occupy a bend in the Cochecho River that has been site...
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    Cochecho River (redirect from Cocheco River)
    Revolution, these industries would be supplanted by cotton textile mills. In 1827, the Cocheco Manufacturing Company was founded, and its brick buildings would...
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  • Winooski, VT, in 1907 Model Mill Settlement, Chadwick Mills, Charlotte, N.C. Published c. 1905–1915 White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C. c. 1914 Aerial...
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    Dover, New Hampshire (redirect from Cocheco)
    So in 1827 the Cocheco Manufacturing Company was founded (the misspelling a clerical error at incorporation), and the next year, the mill was the site of...
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    70°52′38″W / 43.19833°N 70.87722°W / 43.19833; -70.87722 Owned by Cocheco Mills (station) New Hampshire Department of Transportation (platform) CSX...
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    drained by the Merrymeeting, Cocheco and Ela rivers, and is known for Merrymeeting Lake. New Durham is home to the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery, located on...
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    central business district, on the east side of Main Street opposite the Cocheco Mills complex. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable...
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  • which can be viewed by clicking the number. Address based on USPS website. Accessed March 27, 2016 Draft NRHP update form for Wiswall Falls Mills Site...
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    "Cochecho Massacre", Dover Library, http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/DoverHistory/cocheco.htm Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine Garland, Caroline Harwood...
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    rivers flow into the system between Furber Strait and the open coast: the Cocheco, Salmon Falls, Bellamy, and Oyster rivers. The Piscataqua River is an ocean-dominated...
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    In the fall of 1869 she spoke in support of striking workers at the Cocheco Mill in Dover, New Hampshire. At one event, she addressed a crowd of thousands...
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    National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Mill complex along the Cocheco River in Rochester Show map of New Hampshire Show map of the...
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  • tributary) North River Bean River Pawtuckaway River North Branch River Cocheco River Isinglass River Berrys River Rattlesnake River Mad River Ela River...
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    to Dover, New Hampshire and assisted in starting the Cocheco Mill, one of the largest cotton mills in New England. He remained three years as overseer...
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    economic success was primarily due to the development of textile mills along the Cocheco River, with shoemaking little more than a cottage industry. The...
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  • important leaders of his alliance, he met with Captain Richard Waldron in Cocheco. Waldron, however, broke their peace deal and took them all prisoner. While...
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    for two mills. The first was called the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Company, with the second smaller one built upstream and called the White Mill. Between...
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    whirl of machinery, old Dover passed away and new Dover began its life." "Cocheco Burial Ground" (gravestone transcript) at: Currie-Waldron Family Tree at:...
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    began construction of the canal in the 1850s. Other mills, such as Cocheco Woolen Mills in East Rochester, benefited in subsequent decades. The canal was...
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    up, and local farmers were using water from the Salmon Falls River and Cocheco River to provide water for their livestock. Fire risk was high. On October...
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  • textile mills, including Pemberton Manufacturing Company, Cocheco Manufacturing Company, Hooksett Mills, Massachusetts Mills, Blackton Mills, Stark Mills and...
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    Strafford (seat) Council-manager 32,741 26.7 1623 Bellamy, Boston Harbor, Cocheco, Dover, Gates Corner, Sawyers, Wentworth Terrace Rochester City Strafford...
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  • Claremont and Concord Railway CLCO 1954 1988 Claremont Concord Railroad Cocheco Railroad B&M 1847 1863 Dover and Winnipiseogee Railroad Concord Railroad...
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  • Flood of October 1785. In New Hampshire, a significant flood struck the Cocheco, Baker, Pemigewasset, Contoocook and Merrimack rivers on 23 October which...
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    Avenue as it transitions into an urban route. The highway crosses the Cocheco River and crosses South Main Street (which carries NH 108 and NH 202A,...
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  • New Hampshire history. In New Hampshire, a significant flood struck the Cocheco, Baker, Pemigewasset, Contoocook and Merrimack rivers on October 23 which...
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  • in Antrim Cluffs Crossing - in Salem Coburn - in New Durham Cocheco - in Dover Coffins Mill - in Hampton Colby - in Henniker Cold River - in Walpole Colebrook...
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    Richard Waldron 1666–1668 Cocheco Thomas Clarke 1669–1670 Thomas Savage 1671 Boston Thomas Clarke 1672 Richard Waldron 1673 Cocheco Joshua Hubbard 1673–1674...
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    a mile. Mills have been located here since 1783. In 1810, one of New England's first cotton mills started here. There has been a paper mill at the site...
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    grist mills, forge shops, and paper mills. The first cotton factory, owned by Major Caleb Stark, was built here in 1811. By 1900, Pembroke Mill, Webster...
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