The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources is pleased to announce that a New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker has been installed on the campus of the N.H. Technical Institute in Concord to mark the location of an early Pennacook settlement.
The marker reads: “The Pennacook – When Europeans settled in New England in the 1620s, the largest Native American tribal group in the future state of New Hampshire used the flat lands at the bends of the Merrimack River in present Concord for its central village. Named “Pennacook,” which means “at the falling bank,” they were a branch of the Abenaki. The Pennacook were allied with other tribal groups in the Merrimack watershed and owed allegiance to the sagamore Passaconaway. Once numbering in the thousands, by the 1720s only a remnant of the group remained in the area.”
The Pennacook marker was sponsored by the NHTI student council.
New Hampshire’s historical highway markers illustrate the depth and complexity of our history and the people who made it, from the last Revolutionary War soldier to contemporary sports figures to poets and painters who used New Hampshire for inspiration; from 18th-century meeting houses to stone arch bridges to long-lost villages; from factories and cemeteries to sites where international history was made.
An interactive map of all of the state’s historical highway markers is available at the N.H. Division of Historical Resources’ website at nh.gov/nhdhr.
