Success is an unincorporated

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in Coös County,

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. It is located directly to the east of the city of

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, and borders on the state of

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. Success is part of the Berlin, NH– VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the township had a population of 4. There are seasonal homes, cabins, and cottages mainly located around Success Pond, which give the township an additional small seasonal population. As of 2005, one of the larger landowners in Success is the Androscoggin Valley Regional Refuse Disposal District.

History

Success was granted in 1773 and contained about . The grantees were Benjamin Mackay and about seventy others. The state of New Hampshire requires a nearby incorporated town to exercise the responsibilities that would fall to the town of Success if it should be incorporated. Some towns in the state bearing such responsibility have sought to be relieved of it.

Blanchard and Twitchell Railroad

A railroad was built by Blanchard and Twitchell Company in 1892 from the

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in Berlin through the aboriginal forests to Success Pond in the northeast corner of the township. Six locomotives transported lumber and logs to Berlin sawmills over the railway. Most of the Success township forests were gone within a decade, but the railway operated after 1904 as the George W. Blanchard and Sons Company Railroad, as Cassius M. C. Twitchell had sold his interest in the business in 1901. The Boston and Maine kept of interchange track in service when the remainder of the railroad was dismantled in 1907.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.91%, are water. The entire township is part of the

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watershed. Success Pond is in the north, and is drained by

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. Stearns Brook drains the center of the township, through its North and South Branches and Meadow Brook. The

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crosses the southern part of the township, draining north via Horne Brook and Bean Brook, to the west via Cascade Alpine Brook, and to the south by several small brooks, all flowing to the Androscoggin River. The highest point in the township is the summit of

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, with an elevation of above

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, in the southeast part of the township along the crest of the Mahoosucs. The

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follows the Mahoosuc crest across the township.

Demographics

As of the 2010 census,United States Census Bureau
American FactFinder
2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011. there were no people living in the township, although there are a number of summer homes mainly on the shores around Success Pond.

References

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