Looking Back: Rival land companies compete in New Hampshire’s northern territory

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The “Plan of the Sources of the Connecticut River,” map included in the “Report of the Commissioners to Indian Stream,” 1836, showing no border between the western tip of New Hampshire and Lower Canada.

The town of Pittsburg occupies the far northern tip of New Hampshire. Not only is it the state’s largest municipality in size, but it is the only place in the state that borders Canada. For decades after the end of the American Revolution in 1783, much of the 291.3 square miles of land and water that today comprise Pittsburg was disputed territory.

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