Piscataqua River

The Piscataqua River is a river in the northeastern United States that has a 12 mile long tidal estuary formed by the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Cocheco rivers, and flows southeastward. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where it forms one of the finest natural harbors in the northeastern United States and is the location of New Hampshire's deep water port, the Port of New Hampshire. The river's borders touch the towns of Portsmouth, New Castle, Kittery, and Dover.

The name of the river comes from the Native American word Piscataquanke, meaning "a great deer place." In November 1629, Capt. John Mason obtained a grant from the council of Plymouth of all that part of the main land in New-England "lying upon the seacoast, beginning from the middle part of Merrimack River, and from thence to proceed northwards along the sea-coast to Piscataqua River," forming part of the New Hampshire and Maine borders.

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