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Packer's Falls - Durham, New Hampshire
Packer's Falls
Corner of Route 108 and Bennett Road
Durham, NH

Marker Number: 154

Name and date established: Durham 1985

Description: These scenic falls, 1.6 miles west of here on the Lamprey River, once provided waterpower and industry for the early settlers. A deed dated April 11, 1694, shows that Capt. John Packer, Jonathan Woodman, James Davis, Joseph Meder, and James Thomas were granted "the hole streame of Lamprele River for erecting a saw mill or mills." Thomas Packer of Portsmouth was a merchant physician, judge, member of the King's Council, and father of the famous Sheriff Thomas Packer.

Location: Located at the corner of Bennett Road and Route 108.



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