Tarbell Brook

{{Short description|Tributary of the Millers River in New England}}

{{for|the stream in Broome County|Tarbell Brook (New York)}}

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| image_caption = Tarbell Brook in Winchendon, Massachusetts

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| subdivision_name2 = New Hampshire, Massachusetts

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| subdivision_name3 = Cheshire, NH, Worcester, MA

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| subdivision_name4 = Rindge, NH, Fitzwilliam, NH, Winchendon, MA

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| source1 = Pearly Lake

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| mouth = Millers River

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Tarbell Brook is a {{convert|10.1|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}[http://www.granit.unh.edu New Hampshire GRANIT state geographic information system] stream located in southwestern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts in the United States. It is a tributary of the Millers River, itself a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.

Tarbell Brook rises in the western part of Rindge, New Hampshire, at the outlet of Pearly Lake,{{Cite gnis|609987|Tarbell Brook}} and flows south to the Damon Reservoirs. The brook then passes into Winchendon, Massachusetts, reaching the Millers River approximately {{convert|2|mi|0}} west of the town center.

History

It bears the name of Lieutenant Samuel Tarbell (1744-1828), a Revolutionary War Minuteman who settled in Rindge with his wife Beatrice Carter in 1773, soon thereafter building a watermill at the outflow of Pearly Lake (formerly known as Tarbell Pond). Although the mill is long gone, Tarbell's Cape Cod style house nearby still presides over Route 119.

See also

References

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{{Massachusetts rivers}}

{{Rivers of New Hampshire}}

{{Connecticut River}}

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Category:Rivers of New Hampshire

Category:Rivers of Worcester County, Massachusetts

Category:Tributaries of the Connecticut River

Category:Rivers of Massachusetts

Category:Rivers of Cheshire County, New Hampshire

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