55. Baker River
Rumney safety rest area, Rumney, NH
erected 1968
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"Known to Indians as Asquamchumauke, the nearby river
was renamed for Lt. Thomas Baker (1682-1753) whose company of 34 scouts from Northhampton, Mass.
passed down this valley in 1712. A few miles south his men destroyed a Pemigewasset Indian village.
Massachusetts rewarded the expedition with a scalp bounty of L40 and made Baker a captain."
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