To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

43°03′54″N 70°54′18″W / 43.0651°N 70.9049°W / 43.0651; -70.9049

Lamprey River
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew Hampshire
DistrictRockingham County
MunicipalitiesNorthwood, Deerfield, Raymond, Epping, Lee, Durham, Newmarket
Physical characteristics
SourceMeadow Lake
 • locationNorthwood
 • coordinates43°12′3″N 71°12′19″W / 43.20083°N 71.20528°W / 43.20083; -71.20528
 • elevation594 ft (181 m)
MouthGreat Bay
 • location
Newmarket
 • coordinates
43°3′54″N 70°54′20″W / 43.06500°N 70.90556°W / 43.06500; -70.90556
 • elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Length50.2 mi (80.8 km)[1]
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftPawtuckaway River, North River, Little River
 • rightNorth Branch River, Piscassic River
TypeRecreational
DesignatedNovember 12, 1996
Lamprey River c. 1920, Epping, New Hampshire

The Lamprey River is a 50.2-mile-long (80.8 km)[1] river in southeastern New Hampshire, the United States. It rises in Meadow Lake in Northwood, and flows south, then generally east through Raymond, Epping, Lee, Durham and finally Newmarket. Here, it meets Great Bay, a tidal inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, to which it is connected by a tidal estuary, the Piscataqua River. The river from the Bunker Pond Dam in Epping to the confluence with the Piscassic River is part of the designated National Wild and Scenic River System.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/1
    Views:
    333
  • Lamprey River Fishing New Hampshire

Transcription

History

Segments of the river are rich in history. Saw- and gristmills which operated by water power were common along the river. The Wiswall Falls Mills Site in Durham is on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally a sawmill, the site was used subsequently to make knives, nuts and bolts, pitchforks, carriages, matches and wallpaper. Sites such as Wadleigh Falls show the remnants of old mills and the rich river culture that used to be. Located in Lee, the falls is the remains of a dam created to power a mill which fed a 150-acre (61 ha) mill pond at one point.

Wildlife

The shoreline of the Lamprey River, its floodplain and its wetlands provide a wide range of valuable wildlife habitats. Its anadromous fishery is one of the strongest in the Great Bay watershed. Such fish species that use the Lamprey River include shad, river herring, smelt and even Atlantic salmon. These fish are hatched in the river, then spend most of their lives out at sea, returning to the river to spawn. With the construction in 2012 of a fish ladder at Wiswall Dam in Durham,[2] the fish species are able to move up the river as far as Wadleigh Falls Dam in Lee.

The river is also rich in species of freshwater mussels. The river is managed by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department for several different types of game fish, including brook trout which is native to the river. Rainbow trout and brown trout are also stocked in many parts of the river but are not native to the area.

Lampreys are also present in the river. However, the Lamprey River derives its name from an early settler who lived in the area, John Lamprey, rather than the fish itself.[3]

Setting

Along the banks are hardwood forests and numerous farms. The area is under pressure from suburban development as one of the fastest-growing areas in New England. There is a strong local culture surrounding the Lamprey River with several local events held on the river, including numerous town-run fishing derbies and the Lamprey River Canoe Race held annually in Epping.

During the course of its journey from the Saddleback Mountains in Northwood down to Newmarket, the Lamprey changes from a small torrential stream to a small tidal river. The river between these points has slow meanders and rapids, and small waterfalls such as Packers Falls in Durham.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b NH GRANIT database
  2. ^ "Wiswall Falls Fish Ladder Construction". Lamprey River Advisory Committee. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  3. ^ "Community Profiles: Newmarket, NH". NH Economic & Labor Market Information Bureau. Retrieved September 25, 2017.

External links

This page was last edited on 22 October 2023, at 22:15
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.