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    The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river in the northeastern United States. It rises...
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    The Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Merrimack is one of the...
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  • Merrimack may refer to: Merrimack, New Hampshire, a town Merrimack County, New Hampshire Merrimack River, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Merrimack...
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    the last ice age. Merrimack is a Native American term meaning sturgeon, a type of fish. The Pennacook people named the Merrimack River after this fish because...
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    Mountains and merges with the Winnipesaukee River to form the Merrimack River at Franklin. The Merrimack then flows through southern New Hampshire, northeastern...
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  • commissioned in the United States Navy and named after the Merrimack River. USS Merrimack (1798), a ship placed in service in 1798 and sold into mercantile...
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    to be named for the Merrimack River. Shakedown cruises took the new screw frigate to the Caribbean and to Western Europe. Merrimack visited Southampton...
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    down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads,...
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    of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties, and is named for the Merrimack River. Merrimack County comprises the Concord, NH Micropolitan Statistical Area...
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  • Little River is a 12.9-mile-long (20.8 km) river in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States. It is a tributary of the Merrimack River, part...
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    boat trip with his brother on the Concord River and Merrimack River. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip...
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    Concord, New Hampshire (category New Hampshire populated places on the Merrimack River)
    chambers. Concord is entirely within the Merrimack River watershed and the city is centered on the river. The Merrimack runs from northwest to southeast through...
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    Lawrence, Massachusetts (category Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River)
    city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding...
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    eastern part of the town of Merrimack, bordered to the west by the Everett Turnpike and to the east by the Merrimack River, which forms the town boundary...
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  • Blackwater River Little River Merrimack River Back River (Merrimack River tributary) Powwow River Back River (Lake Attitash) Back River (Powwow River tributary)...
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  • River Taylor River Drakes River Old River Merrimack River Powwow River Back River Little River Spicket River Beaver Brook Salmon Brook Nashua River Nissitissit...
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    Hooksett, New Hampshire (category New Hampshire populated places on the Merrimack River)
    Merrimack or from early fishermen, who called the area "Hookline Falls". Rocky ledges flank the Merrimack River, and there were several cross-river ferries...
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    the Merrimack River (in which stands Badgers Rock), the western portion by the Plum Island River in the north (which joins the mouth of the Merrimack to...
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    The Souhegan River is a tributary of the Merrimack River in the northeastern United States. It is 33.8 miles (54.4 km) long, with a drainage area of 171 sq mi...
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    Amesbury, Massachusetts (category Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River)
    States, located on the left bank of the Merrimack River near its mouth, upstream from Salisbury and across the river from Newburyport and West Newbury. The...
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    Salmon Brook is one of the six major tributaries of the Merrimack River in northeastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its watershed is 31 square...
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    as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In the early 1820s it became a major...
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    Hudson, New Hampshire (category New Hampshire populated places on the Merrimack River)
    junctions of New Hampshire routes 102, 111 and 3A, directly across the Merrimack River from the city of Nashua. Hudson began as part of the Dunstable Land...
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    7-mile-long (49.4 km) river located in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States. It is a tributary of the Merrimack River, part of the Gulf of...
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    Dracut, Massachusetts (category Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River)
    Indian settlements were served by fishing at Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River and abundant game in the surrounding marsh areas. From the late 16th...
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    Salisbury, Massachusetts (category Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River)
    At the Morrill Point burial mound site on the north shore of the Merrimack River, there are human remains dating to 7,000 years ago with some dating...
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    The Nashua River, 37.5 miles (60.4 km) long, is a tributary of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States. It is formed...
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    The Concord River is a 16.3-mile-long (26.2 km) tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Massachusetts, United States. The river drains a small rural...
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    Newburyport, Massachusetts (category Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River)
    activity, especially in the sometimes dangerous tidal currents of the Merrimack River. At the edge of the Newbury Marshes, delineating Newburyport to the...
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    Manchester, New Hampshire (category New Hampshire populated places on the Merrimack River)
    northern end of the Northeast megalopolis and straddles the banks of the Merrimack River. It was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodget(t)...
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