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Dummer (New Hampshire)
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Dummer is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 306 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT micropolitan statistical area. Dummer is home to the Pontook Reservoir, popular with canoeists, kayakers and birdwatchers. In the western part of Dummer lies the village of Paris.
The town was granted on March 8, 1773, by Governor John Wentworth to a group of wealthy Portsmouth investors, including his father, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Nathaniel Haven and others. He named it after Massachusetts Governor William Dummer, who successfully defended the eastern English provinces from the French and Indians in Dummer's War. But the town remained unsettled until 1812 when William Leighton arrived from Farmington, New Hampshire, with his family. Dummer was incorporated by the General Court on December 19, 1848.
Mountainous terrain and sterility of the soil prevented cultivation. But the region had forests, and the Upper Ammonoosuc River provided water power for mills. There were two sawmills operating by 1859, with a considerable trade in timber. Log drives on the Androscoggin River supplied the papermills downstream in Berlin. Pontook Dam, which created Pontook Reservoir, was reconstructed in the mid-1980s to generate hydroelectric power.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and are water, comprising 2.44% of the town. The highest point in Dummer is the summit of Cow Mountain, at above sea level in the northern part of the town. Roughly the western third of Dummer lies within the Connecticut River watershed, where it is drained by the Upper Ammonoosuc River, with the eastern two-thirds in the Androscoggin River watershed. The former community of Paris is in the western part of town, along Phillips Brook.
Dummer is bordered by Milan to the south, Errol and Millsfield to the north, Cambridge to the east, and Odell and Stark to the west.
Dummer is crossed by New Hampshire Route 16.
As of the census of 2000, there were 309 people, 128 households, and 102 families living in the town.
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