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Merrimack Valley

February 15, 2024

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 larger waterways in New England and has helped to define the livelihood and culture of those living along it for millennia.

Merrimack Valley
Long-axis directionNorthwest–southeast
Geology
TypeRiver
Geography
Location Massachusetts
 New Hampshire
Population centers
In New Hampshire
In Massachusetts
Borders onWhite Mountains
Plum Island, Massachusetts
Atlantic Ocean
Traversed byInterstate 93, Interstate 495, Haverhill Line (MBTA)
RiversMerrimack River

Major cities in the Merrimack Valley include Concord, Manchester, and Nashua in New Hampshire, and Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill in Massachusetts. The Valley was a major center of the textile industry in the 19th century.

Geography and demographics edit

Massachusetts edit

 
Towns in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts

The Merrimack Valley area in Massachusetts is a community of towns and cities flanking the Merrimack River along the New Hampshire border, a portion of which is defined by a line approximately 3 miles (5 km) north and west of the Merrimack. The cities (marked with italics) and towns in this area are:[1][2]

The population of the region in 2010 was 631,477, slightly more than that of Boston, and about one tenth of the state's.

The Merrimack Valley contains a mixture of 19th-century industrial cities and mill complexes built to take advantage of the river's waterpower, modern suburbs (many built over towns dating from the 17th century), and some relatively rural areas. The western part, including Greater Lowell and Haverhill–Lawrence–Methuen, is generally more urban than the eastern part. The entire Merrimack Valley region in Massachusetts is part of Greater Boston. Broader definitions for the region include other areas of Middlesex County, including the Route 2 corridor from Devens east to Lexington.

Automobile travel through the Massachusetts section of the Merrimack Valley is served primarily by Interstate 495. From Lowell and Lawrence, U.S. Route 3 and Interstate 93, respectively, head north along the valley, joining in Manchester, New Hampshire.

New Hampshire edit

 
Towns in the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire

In New Hampshire, the Merrimack Valley Region is an area of the south-central part of the state, about 35 miles (56 km) wide, centered on the Merrimack River, and running from Canterbury[3] south to the Massachusetts border. Henniker marks the western extent, and Nottingham the eastern. It includes parts of Hillsborough, Rockingham and Merrimack counties, namely the following towns and cities (in italics):

The state capital, Concord, and the state's two largest cities, Manchester and Nashua, are in the valley. Manchester has a large regional airport, with scheduled commercial services.

To the east is the Seacoast Region, to the west is the Monadnock Region, and to the north is the Lakes Region.

Interstate 93 bisects the region, which is also served by Interstate 293, U.S. Route 3, and many New Hampshire state highways.

History and culture edit

 
The second largest city on the Merrimack River, Lowell, owes its existence to the waterpower the river provided to run its mills.

Pre-contact edit

The original settlers of the Merrimack Valley were various tribes of the Pennacook Indians. The river provided an easy means of transportation, an exceptional source of salmon as well as other fish, and the land along the river banks was suitable for hunting and sometimes farming.[4]

Colonization and the early federal period edit

The earliest European records of the river date to a French expedition under Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts, in 1605. By 1629, the British were moving into the area, and a land grant delineated by the river was made to a Jonathan Wheelwright in 1629.[5]

The city of Newburyport, first settled in 1635, at the river's mouth, became an important shipbuilding center during the colonial era, using lumber floated downriver from the White Mountains. Its prominence was diminished when the Middlesex Canal was completed in the first quarter of the 19th century, allowing lumber to be shipped directly downriver from the White Mountains to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and improving connections between Boston and the Merrimack Valley.[6] Prior to this time, other small canals had been built around falls and rapids to make the Merrimack navigable, such as the Pawtucket Canal at East Chelmsford, which became Lowell.[7]

Industrial revolution edit

 
The Amoskeag Mills in West Manchester, New Hampshire, circa 2006. The massive structure once housed the largest cotton textile manufacturing plant in the world. Since the late 20th century, it has been rehabilitated for mixed use development.

While the Merrimack had been used for small manufacturing concerns for decades, in the early 1820s, a group of investors from Boston founded the city of Lowell, to take advantage of the 32-foot (9.8 m) drop of the Merrimack over the Pawtucket Falls. Lowell, the first large-scale planned textile center in America, remained the nation's largest into the 1850s. Textile production spread up and down the Merrimack Valley in both states for the next century, but eventually was eclipsed after the Second World War.

Manchester's Amoskeag Mills was once the largest cotton textile plant in the world. Other major textile companies based in the Merrimack Valley included the Merrimack Manufacturing Company in Lowell, the American Woolen Company in Lawrence (headquarters moved to Andover in 1919), Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, and the Nashua Manufacturing Company in its namesake city. Lawrence was the site of the Bread and Roses strike, a landmark event in the history of labor relations in the United States.

Modern era edit

 
Merrimack River watershed

After World War II, the textile industry collapsed rapidly. After a few decades of stagnation, the "Massachusetts Miracle" came to the valley, bringing the headquarters of Wang Laboratories to Tewksbury, then Lowell. Apollo Computer located in Chelmsford and Nashua Corporation in Nashua moved beyond printing to computer products. The defense industry, for example, Raytheon in various sites and Sanders Associates in Nashua, became a major local employer. Increased development pressure from Greater Boston and the proliferation of the automobile pushed development outside of Massachusetts Route 128 to Interstate 495 and up Routes 3 and 93 into southern New Hampshire, greatly increasing the populations of these communities over the postwar years.

On September 13, 2018, several gas lines suffered leakage due to high pressure in the tubes of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, causing several fires and explosions, and homes were evacuated.[8][9]

Culture edit

The Merrimack River Valley is considered the "Valley of the Poets"[10] by some local artists and poets.

Anne Bradstreet was a founding mother of three towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Boston, Cambridge (then Newtowne), and the original Andover Parish, known now as North Andover, where she lived and wrote for the last half of her life. The first published poet of the New World, she died in North Andover in 1672.[11]

In Haverhill and Amesbury, the family of John Greenleaf Whittier settled. Mr. Whittier was so well thought of during his lifetime, his birthday was celebrated as a national holiday.[citation needed]

Lawrence is the birthplace of actress Thelma Todd, composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein and actor/singer Robert Goulet. Robert Frost spent his teenage years there, as did his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. They were co-valedictorians (1892) at Lawrence High School.[12] Actress Bette Davis and the writer Jack Kerouac were born in Lowell.

West Newbury is the birthplace of John Cena, a WWE professional wrestler, actor, former rapper, and television personality.

The Merrimack Valley is one of the few places in the United States where the card game Forty-fives is popular.

The Merrimack Valley was once home to numerous apple and fruit orchards, of which several still remain. Some of the larger remaining orchards include Apple Hill, Cider Hill, Long Hill Orchard, Mann Orchards, and Smolak Farms. Apple picking is a popular pastime in the Merrimack Valley during the late summer and fall months.

The Merrimack Valley's leading boarding schools, such as Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts; Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; and The Governor's Academy in Newbury, Massachusetts, provide cultural institutions to the public, including the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Andover.

Economy edit

Massachusetts edit

The Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts is divided into three New England city and town areas (NECTAs) by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget: Lowell–Billerica–Chelmsford, MA–NH; Lawrence–Methuen Town–North Andover, MA–NH; and Haverhill–Newburyport–Amesbury Town, MA–NH.[13] The M3 Coalition serves several towns that expand the definition. Most large employers are in the sectors of health care and higher education.[14][15] Institutes of higher learning include Hockey East rivals UMass Lowell and Merrimack College. The region was once a technology hub, reaching its peak during the 1970s and 1980s with corporations such as Wang Laboratories in Lowell among the largest technology employers, though it has since gone defunct. Software company Kronos Incorporated is one of the largest private employers in the region, as is Philips, whose medical division is based in Andover. The defense industry also has had a major presence in the Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts-based Raytheon has several large plants and offices in the Merrimack Valley, and BAE Systems Inc. also employs many people. Due to its proximity to Boston, the region also serves as a bedroom community for employers in Boston. Many major highways (including I-93, I-95, and US 3) and several heavily used lines of the MBTA Commuter Rail system provide easy access to the city from the Merrimack Valley.

Attractions include:


Institutions of higher education include:

New Hampshire edit

While the textile industry that served as the underpinning of the Merrimack Valley has disappeared, the region has since transferred to other economic activities. Sanders Associates, a major defense contractor based in Nashua has, through several mergers and acquisitions, become a division of BAE Systems Inc. and is one of the regions largest employers. Technology companies also have a large presence in the region, including mobile phone company Verizon, which is the largest private employer in Manchester. The financial industry is also a major employer, with Lincoln Financial in Concord and Fidelity Investments in Merrimack among the largest private employers.

The area between Manchester, Nashua, and Salem was once described as the "Golden Triangle" of New Hampshire. The name was due to job growth that fueled a housing boom and led to the creation of several major new retail centers, including the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua.[16] This area contains roughly 30% of the population of New Hampshire.[17]

Attractions include:

Institutions of higher education include:

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Cities & Towns in the Greater Merrimack Valley". Merrimack Valley Massachusetts. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ "MVLC Libraries". Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  3. ^ . Visit NH. NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Metcalf, Henry Harrison; McClintock, John Norris (1878). The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress. H. H. Metcalf. pp. 26–27.
  5. ^ Pendergast, John (1996). The Bend in the River. Tyngsborough, Massachusetts: Merrimack River Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0962933806.
  6. ^ Rosenberg, Chaim M. (2004). The Great Workshop: Boston's Victorian Age. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-0-7385-2468-9.
  7. ^ "Revitalizing Lower Locks | Lowell, MA". www.lowellma.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  8. ^ Eagle-Tribune, The. "1 dead, at least 25 injured in Merrimack Valley gas disaster". Eagle-Tribune. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  9. ^ Writer, Kelsey Bode Staff. "Merrimack Valley gas disaster similar to 1990 Danvers emergency". Salem News. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  10. ^ "Valley of the Poets Walking Tour". annebradstreet.org. March 22, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  11. ^ "Charlotte Gordon - Mistress Bradstreet". Charlottegordonbooks.com. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
  12. ^ "Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1885 - 1900". Places and Poetry: A Biography. The Friends of Robert Frost. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  13. ^ "New England City and Town Areas Wall Map" (PDF). Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau. September 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  14. ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. . Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  15. ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. . Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  16. ^ "Study says NH is tops in well being". Nashua Telegraph. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  17. ^ "2015 Population Estimates of New Hampshire Cities and Towns" (PDF). State of New Hampshire. New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning. July 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2017.

External links edit

  • Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council (Massachusetts)
  • Merrimack Valley Magazine
  • Merrimack Valley Dining of Massachusetts

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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 larger waterways in New England and has helped to define the livelihood and culture of those living along it for millennia Merrimack ValleyThe Merrimack River in Haverhill flowing to its mouth in Newburyport MassachusettsLong axis directionNorthwest southeastGeologyTypeRiverGeographyLocation Massachusetts New HampshirePopulation centersIn New HampshireConcord Manchester NashuaIn MassachusettsLowell Lawrence HaverhillBorders onWhite MountainsPlum Island Massachusetts Atlantic OceanTraversed byInterstate 93 Interstate 495 Haverhill Line MBTA RiversMerrimack RiverMajor cities in the Merrimack Valley include Concord Manchester and Nashua in New Hampshire and Lowell Lawrence and Haverhill in Massachusetts The Valley was a major center of the textile industry in the 19th century Contents 1 Geography and demographics 1 1 Massachusetts 1 2 New Hampshire 2 History and culture 2 1 Pre contact 2 2 Colonization and the early federal period 2 3 Industrial revolution 2 4 Modern era 2 5 Culture 3 Economy 3 1 Massachusetts 3 2 New Hampshire 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksGeography and demographics editMassachusetts edit nbsp Towns in the Merrimack Valley of MassachusettsThe Merrimack Valley area in Massachusetts is a community of towns and cities flanking the Merrimack River along the New Hampshire border a portion of which is defined by a line approximately 3 miles 5 km north and west of the Merrimack The cities marked with italics and towns in this area are 1 2 Amesbury Andover Billerica Boxford Chelmsford Dracut Dunstable Georgetown Groveland Haverhill Lawrence Littleton Lowell Merrimac Methuen Newbury Newburyport North Andover Rowley Salisbury Tewksbury Tyngsborough West Newbury Westford Wilmington The population of the region in 2010 was 631 477 slightly more than that of Boston and about one tenth of the state s The Merrimack Valley contains a mixture of 19th century industrial cities and mill complexes built to take advantage of the river s waterpower modern suburbs many built over towns dating from the 17th century and some relatively rural areas The western part including Greater Lowell and Haverhill Lawrence Methuen is generally more urban than the eastern part The entire Merrimack Valley region in Massachusetts is part of Greater Boston Broader definitions for the region include other areas of Middlesex County including the Route 2 corridor from Devens east to Lexington Automobile travel through the Massachusetts section of the Merrimack Valley is served primarily by Interstate 495 From Lowell and Lawrence U S Route 3 and Interstate 93 respectively head north along the valley joining in Manchester New Hampshire New Hampshire edit nbsp Towns in the Merrimack Valley of New HampshireIn New Hampshire the Merrimack Valley Region is an area of the south central part of the state about 35 miles 56 km wide centered on the Merrimack River and running from Canterbury 3 south to the Massachusetts border Henniker marks the western extent and Nottingham the eastern It includes parts of Hillsborough Rockingham and Merrimack counties namely the following towns and cities in italics Allenstown Amherst Atkinson Auburn Bedford Boscawen Bow Brookline Candia Canterbury Chester Chichester Concord Deerfield Derry Dunbarton Epsom Goffstown Hampstead Henniker Hollis Hooksett Hopkinton Hudson Litchfield Londonderry Loudon Manchester Merrimack Milford Mont Vernon Nashua New Boston Northwood Nottingham Pelham Pembroke Raymond Salem Sandown Weare Webster Windham The state capital Concord and the state s two largest cities Manchester and Nashua are in the valley Manchester has a large regional airport with scheduled commercial services To the east is the Seacoast Region to the west is the Monadnock Region and to the north is the Lakes Region Interstate 93 bisects the region which is also served by Interstate 293 U S Route 3 and many New Hampshire state highways History and culture editThis section has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it April 2010 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp The second largest city on the Merrimack River Lowell owes its existence to the waterpower the river provided to run its mills Pre contact edit The original settlers of the Merrimack Valley were various tribes of the Pennacook Indians The river provided an easy means of transportation an exceptional source of salmon as well as other fish and the land along the river banks was suitable for hunting and sometimes farming 4 Colonization and the early federal period edit The earliest European records of the river date to a French expedition under Pierre du Guast Sieur de Monts in 1605 By 1629 the British were moving into the area and a land grant delineated by the river was made to a Jonathan Wheelwright in 1629 5 The city of Newburyport first settled in 1635 at the river s mouth became an important shipbuilding center during the colonial era using lumber floated downriver from the White Mountains Its prominence was diminished when the Middlesex Canal was completed in the first quarter of the 19th century allowing lumber to be shipped directly downriver from the White Mountains to Charlestown Massachusetts and improving connections between Boston and the Merrimack Valley 6 Prior to this time other small canals had been built around falls and rapids to make the Merrimack navigable such as the Pawtucket Canal at East Chelmsford which became Lowell 7 Industrial revolution edit nbsp The Amoskeag Mills in West Manchester New Hampshire circa 2006 The massive structure once housed the largest cotton textile manufacturing plant in the world Since the late 20th century it has been rehabilitated for mixed use development While the Merrimack had been used for small manufacturing concerns for decades in the early 1820s a group of investors from Boston founded the city of Lowell to take advantage of the 32 foot 9 8 m drop of the Merrimack over the Pawtucket Falls Lowell the first large scale planned textile center in America remained the nation s largest into the 1850s Textile production spread up and down the Merrimack Valley in both states for the next century but eventually was eclipsed after the Second World War Manchester s Amoskeag Mills was once the largest cotton textile plant in the world Other major textile companies based in the Merrimack Valley included the Merrimack Manufacturing Company in Lowell the American Woolen Company in Lawrence headquarters moved to Andover in 1919 Pemberton Mill in Lawrence and the Nashua Manufacturing Company in its namesake city Lawrence was the site of the Bread and Roses strike a landmark event in the history of labor relations in the United States Modern era edit nbsp Merrimack River watershedAfter World War II the textile industry collapsed rapidly After a few decades of stagnation the Massachusetts Miracle came to the valley bringing the headquarters of Wang Laboratories to Tewksbury then Lowell Apollo Computer located in Chelmsford and Nashua Corporation in Nashua moved beyond printing to computer products The defense industry for example Raytheon in various sites and Sanders Associates in Nashua became a major local employer Increased development pressure from Greater Boston and the proliferation of the automobile pushed development outside of Massachusetts Route 128 to Interstate 495 and up Routes 3 and 93 into southern New Hampshire greatly increasing the populations of these communities over the postwar years On September 13 2018 several gas lines suffered leakage due to high pressure in the tubes of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts causing several fires and explosions and homes were evacuated 8 9 Culture edit The Merrimack River Valley is considered the Valley of the Poets 10 by some local artists and poets Anne Bradstreet was a founding mother of three towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Boston Cambridge then Newtowne and the original Andover Parish known now as North Andover where she lived and wrote for the last half of her life The first published poet of the New World she died in North Andover in 1672 11 In Haverhill and Amesbury the family of John Greenleaf Whittier settled Mr Whittier was so well thought of during his lifetime his birthday was celebrated as a national holiday citation needed Lawrence is the birthplace of actress Thelma Todd composer conductor Leonard Bernstein and actor singer Robert Goulet Robert Frost spent his teenage years there as did his future wife Elinor Miriam White They were co valedictorians 1892 at Lawrence High School 12 Actress Bette Davis and the writer Jack Kerouac were born in Lowell West Newbury is the birthplace of John Cena a WWE professional wrestler actor former rapper and television personality The Merrimack Valley is one of the few places in the United States where the card game Forty fives is popular The Merrimack Valley was once home to numerous apple and fruit orchards of which several still remain Some of the larger remaining orchards include Apple Hill Cider Hill Long Hill Orchard Mann Orchards and Smolak Farms Apple picking is a popular pastime in the Merrimack Valley during the late summer and fall months The Merrimack Valley s leading boarding schools such as Brooks School in North Andover Massachusetts Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts St Paul s School in Concord New Hampshire and The Governor s Academy in Newbury Massachusetts provide cultural institutions to the public including the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Robert S Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Andover Economy editMassachusetts edit The Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts is divided into three New England city and town areas NECTAs by the U S Office of Management and Budget Lowell Billerica Chelmsford MA NH Lawrence Methuen Town North Andover MA NH and Haverhill Newburyport Amesbury Town MA NH 13 The M3 Coalition serves several towns that expand the definition Most large employers are in the sectors of health care and higher education 14 15 Institutes of higher learning include Hockey East rivals UMass Lowell and Merrimack College The region was once a technology hub reaching its peak during the 1970s and 1980s with corporations such as Wang Laboratories in Lowell among the largest technology employers though it has since gone defunct Software company Kronos Incorporated is one of the largest private employers in the region as is Philips whose medical division is based in Andover The defense industry also has had a major presence in the Merrimack Valley Massachusetts based Raytheon has several large plants and offices in the Merrimack Valley and BAE Systems Inc also employs many people Due to its proximity to Boston the region also serves as a bedroom community for employers in Boston Many major highways including I 93 I 95 and US 3 and several heavily used lines of the MBTA Commuter Rail system provide easy access to the city from the Merrimack Valley Attractions include Chain Bridge Massachusetts an historic bridge spanning Amesbury and Newburyport Deer Island Amesbury Massachusetts an island in the Merrimack in Amesbury Haverhill Historical Society Historic District John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead birthplace of the famous poet Lawrence Heritage State Park Lowell s Boat Shop the birthplace of the fishing dory Lowell National Historic Park Machine Shop Village District North Andover Maudslay State Park a sprawling park in Newburyport along the banks of the Merrimack Museum of Printing Haverhill Newburyport Historic District Newburyport Harbor Rear Range Light Pawtucket Falls Massachusetts famous waterfall in Lowell Plum Island Massachusetts a barrier island at the mouth of the River Rocks Village Historic District an early ferry crossing point between East Haverhill and West Newbury United States Customhouse Newburyport Massachusetts a former custom house turned museumInstitutions of higher education include Massachusetts School of Law Andover Merrimack College North Andover Northern Essex Community College Haverhill University of Massachusetts Lowell LowellNew Hampshire edit While the textile industry that served as the underpinning of the Merrimack Valley has disappeared the region has since transferred to other economic activities Sanders Associates a major defense contractor based in Nashua has through several mergers and acquisitions become a division of BAE Systems Inc and is one of the regions largest employers Technology companies also have a large presence in the region including mobile phone company Verizon which is the largest private employer in Manchester The financial industry is also a major employer with Lincoln Financial in Concord and Fidelity Investments in Merrimack among the largest private employers The area between Manchester Nashua and Salem was once described as the Golden Triangle of New Hampshire The name was due to job growth that fueled a housing boom and led to the creation of several major new retail centers including the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua 16 This area contains roughly 30 of the population of New Hampshire 17 Attractions include Bear Brook State Park Canobie Lake Park an amusement park McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center a planetarium air and space museum New Hampshire Historical Society Museum New Hampshire State House Pawtuckaway State Park Robert Frost Farm a state historic park Silver Lake State ParkInstitutions of higher education include New England College Henniker New Hampshire Institute of Art Manchester Rivier University Nashua Saint Anselm College Goffstown Southern New Hampshire University Manchester Hooksett University of New Hampshire at Manchester University of New Hampshire School of Law ConcordSee also edit nbsp New Hampshire portalMerrimack Valley Conference a high school athletic conference in MassachusettsReferences edit Cities amp Towns in the Greater Merrimack Valley Merrimack Valley Massachusetts Retrieved 2019 05 18 MVLC Libraries Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Retrieved August 17 2022 New Hampshire Regions Merrimack Valley map Visit NH NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development Archived from the original on December 2 2016 Retrieved January 28 2016 Metcalf Henry Harrison McClintock John Norris 1878 The Granite Monthly A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History Biography Literature and State Progress H H Metcalf pp 26 27 Pendergast John 1996 The Bend in the River Tyngsborough Massachusetts Merrimack River Press pp 35 36 ISBN 978 0962933806 Rosenberg Chaim M 2004 The Great Workshop Boston s Victorian Age Arcadia Publishing pp 58 59 ISBN 978 0 7385 2468 9 Revitalizing Lower Locks Lowell MA www lowellma gov Retrieved 2024 02 01 Eagle Tribune The 1 dead at least 25 injured in Merrimack Valley gas disaster Eagle Tribune Retrieved 2018 09 15 Writer Kelsey Bode Staff Merrimack Valley gas disaster similar to 1990 Danvers emergency Salem News Retrieved 2018 09 15 Valley of the Poets Walking Tour annebradstreet org March 22 2013 Retrieved January 28 2016 Charlotte Gordon Mistress Bradstreet Charlottegordonbooks com Retrieved 2015 03 13 Lawrence Massachusetts 1885 1900 Places and Poetry A Biography The Friends of Robert Frost Retrieved January 28 2016 New England City and Town Areas Wall Map PDF Geography Division U S Census Bureau September 2018 Retrieved August 29 2019 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Largest 100 Employers in Lowell Billerica Chelmsford MA NH NECTA Division Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Archived from the original on 2011 08 20 Retrieved 2011 03 20 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Largest 100 Employers in Lawrence Methuen Salem MA NH NECTA Division Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Archived from the original on 2011 08 20 Retrieved 2011 03 20 Study says NH is tops in well being Nashua Telegraph 14 October 2014 Retrieved 17 March 2017 2015 Population Estimates of New Hampshire Cities and Towns PDF State of New Hampshire New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning July 2016 Retrieved 17 March 2017 External links editMerrimack Valley Economic Development Council Massachusetts Merrimack Valley Magazine Merrimack Valley Dining of Massachusetts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Merrimack Valley amp oldid 1202184813, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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