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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.
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.
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island, with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, from Manhattan Island, and from the Bronx on the North American ...
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.
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 ).
Great East Lake is an 1,825-acre (7.4 km 2) [2] water body located in Carroll County, New Hampshire, and York County, Maine, in the United States. The lake is shared by the towns of Wakefield, New Hampshire , and Acton, Maine , with 45% of its surface area in Acton and 55% in Wakefield. [ 4 ]
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Partridge Brook is a 7.5-mile-long (12.1 km) [1] stream located in southwestern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River , which flows to Long Island Sound . Partridge Brook begins at the outlet of Spofford Lake at Spofford village in the town of Chesterfield, New Hampshire .