Join us for our final weekend of the season (10 AM – 6 PM), including a special event this Saturday as we join the rest of Dover in celebrating Apple Harvest Day! To mark the occasion, we’re throwing a Special Kayak Scavenger Hunt out on the water. Bring your game face (and a camera), put your apple sleuthing skills to the test, and navigate nooks and crannies of the river to find all the hidden apples and be entered for a chance to win a FREE 2027 Membership! To give you the fuel you need to succeed, we’re giving away a free snack or drink to everyone who rents a kayak.
Please join the Cocheco River Corridor Management Plan Steering Committee and Strafford Regional Planning Commission for a public workshop. Share feedback on draft actions and priorities for this Corridor Management Plan. Registration is encouraged for planning purposes.
No one knows exactly when the first dam was built by Euro-Americans on the Cocheco River in Rochester, New Hampshire. However, historical documents indicate that in 1743, the Squamanagonic Falls Garrison along the Cocheco River was accompanied by a mill, and presumably a dam. Squamanagonic, an Abenaki word for either “waters that run by the clay place hill,” or “salmon…