Hannah Duston Memorial State Historic Site is a statue in
Boscawen, New Hampshire
Boscawen is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census.
History
The native Pennacook people called the area ''Contoocook'', meaning "place of the river near pines". In March 1697, Hannah ...
, located on a small island at the confluence of the
Contoocook and
Merrimack rivers. Erected in 1874 and the first publicly funded statue in New Hampshire, the memorial commemorates
Hannah Duston
Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, or Durstan) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736, , who was captured in 1697 in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, during
King William's War
King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand All ...
, then killed her captors while they were camped at the site in Boscawen.
References
External links
Hannah Duston Memorial State Historic SiteNew Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
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State parks of New Hampshire
Parks in Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Boscawen, New Hampshire