Baker

The Baker River, also known as Asquamchumauke (an Abenaki name meaning "salmon spawning spot"), is a 36.4-mile-long (58.6-kilometer) river in New Hampshire's White Mountains. It starts on the south slope of Mount Moosilauke and flows south and east before emptying into Plymouth's Pemigewasset River. Warren, Wentworth, and Rumney are all located along the river. It is a tributary of the Merrimack River.

The Baker River was named after Lt. Thomas Baker (1682–1753), a Northampton, Massachusetts scout who led a party of 34 scouts down the river's valley in 1712 and destroyed a Pemigewasset Indian town. On April 28, 1752, Abenaki warriors captured John Stark and Amos Eastman along this river and transported them to Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec, near Montreal. William Stark, John Stark's brother, managed to flee, but David Stinson was slain in the ambush.

The river is named "Bakers" River on Thomas Bradford's 1835 map of New Hampshire, and it originates on "Mooshillock Mtn."

Length: 36.4 mi (58.6 km)