Editing Contoocook, New Hampshire (section)

==History==
[[File:Contoocook NH circa 1870.jpg|thumb|Original covered railroad bridge (left) and covered highway bridge (right)]]
The village is named after the [[Contoocook River]] that runs through it. The name ''Contoocook'' comes from the [[Pennacook]] tribe of Native Americans and perhaps means "place of the river near pines". Other variations of the name include the [[Abenaki]] meaning "nut trees river" or [[Massachusett language|Natick language]] meaning "small plantation at the river".<ref name=Coolidge>{{Cite book| last = Coolidge| first = Austin J.| author2=John B. Mansfield| title = A History and Description of New England| publisher = A.J. Coolidge| year = 1859| location = Boston, Massachusetts| pages = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n462 424]–426| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ| quote = coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Day| first = Gordon M. |author2=Michael K. Foster |author3=William Cowan| title = In Search of New England's Native Past| year = 1998| location = United States of America| pages = 61–64| isbn = 9781558491519 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7-9Afcy47XgC&q=meaning+of+contoocook&pg=PA61}}</ref> In previous centuries the area was known as "Contoocookville". It is the birthplace of [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[United States Navy|naval]] officer [[George H. Perkins]]. His daughter [[Isabel Weld Perkins]] and his son-in-law [[Larz Anderson]] maintained [[Perkins Manor (Contoocook, New Hampshire)|Perkins Manor]] as one of several summer homes.
 
In describing the approach to Perkins Manor one commentator writes:
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"In passing up the [[Concord and Claremont Railroad]] from [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]], the observant traveler has doubtless noticed the substantial and comfortable-looking homestead with large and trim front yard, shaded by thickly planted and generous topped maples, on the right-hand side of the road after crossing the bridge that spans 'Contoocook's bright and brimming river' at the pleasant-looking village of Contoocookville in the northern part of [[Hopkinton, New Hampshire|Hopkinton]]."<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13680/13680.txt The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bay State Monthly]</ref></blockquote>