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Spofford Lake is a 732-acre (2.96 km 2) [1] body of water in the town of Chesterfield in southwestern New Hampshire, United States.Water from Spofford Lake flows via Partridge Brook to the Connecticut River.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in New Hampshire. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
This is a list of rivers and significant streams in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.. All watercourses named "River" (freshwater or tidal) are listed here, as well as other streams which are either subject to the New Hampshire Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act or are more than 10 miles (16 km) long.
Granted in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, this town was the site of Fort Number 1, first in the line of forts bordering the Connecticut River.After the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed, the town was incorporated on February 11, 1752 [3] by Governor Benning Wentworth as Chesterfield, named for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
Lake Francis and Murphy Dam are named after Francis P. Murphy, [4] who served as the Governor of New Hampshire from 1937 to 1941. The lake covers nearly 2,000 acres (8 km 2 ), has a capacity of 131,375 acre-feet (162,049,000 m 3 ), [ 1 ] and has average and maximum depths of 40 feet (12 m) and 82 feet (25 m), respectively.
A New Hampshire state trooper who fatally shot a man at a psychiatric hospital in November shortly after the man killed a security guard was justified in using deadly force, the state attorney ...
At the beginning of the 19th century, the East River was the center of New York's shipping industry, but by the end of the century, much of it had moved to the Hudson River, leaving the East River wharves and slips to begin a long process of decay, until the area was finally rehabilitated in the mid-1960s, and the South Street Seaport Museum ...
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