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This week, New Hampshire Public Radio is focusing on water and today we have the first of three reports about the Merrimack River. In simple numbers, the Merrimack is pretty impressive. It runs a hundred and eighty miles from the headwaters of the Pemigewasset River in the White Mountains to Newburyport, Massachusetts where it flows into the Atlantic. Over 5,000 square miles of land empty into the river’s watershed.

It is used by kayakers, fishers, power boaters and swimmers. It powered the launch of America’s industrial revolution and still generates electricity today. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg looks at the legacy of the river and how it shaped the state in ways both obvious and obscure.