Pembroke Street / Watering Trough

Pembroke Street / Watering Trough (HM26KJ)

Location: Pembroke, NH 03275 Merrimack County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 9.503', W 71° 28.113'

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(side 1: Pembroke Street)

Pembroke Street is one of several parallel roads laid out when the town was planned between 1730~36.
The original large lots along this wide thoroughfare were subdivided into smaller lots for dwellings, meeting houses for Congregationalists and Presbyterians, taverns, stores, schoolhouses, and Pembroke's earliest cemetery, making the street a linear village by 1755.
After 1804, Pembroke Street became an extension toward Concord of the Chester Turnpike, a privately built 19-mile toll road connecting Chester and Pembroke.

(side 2: Watering Trough)

Clean water was essential to the health of horses, particularly on heavily traveled roads and in extreme weather.
A state statute of 1858 authorized towns to reimburse private citizens who provided and maintained watering troughs for the use of travelers' horses.
In 1884, Pembroke took the added step of providing "good drinking water for man and beast" at public expense, purchasing this trough from the C. A. Bailey Granite Company in Allenstown for $124 and adding a bronze drinking fountain for human refreshment.
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HM NumberHM26KJ
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Year Placed2016
Placed ByState of New Hampshire
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 at 10:01am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)31N E 166021 N 0
Decimal Degrees43.15838333, -71.46855000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 9.503', W 71° 28.113'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 9' 30.18" N, 71° 28' 6.78" W
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Area Code(s)603
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 383 Pembroke St, Pembroke NH 03275, US
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