Chocorua, New Hampshire

Chocorua, New Hampshire
Unincorporated community
A small dam on the Chocorua River in the village of Chocorua
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Coordinates: 43°52′39″N71°13′13″W / 43.87750°N 71.22028°W / 43.87750; -71.22028
Country	United States
State	New Hampshire
County	Carroll
Town	Tamworth
Elevation	525 ft (160 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	03817
Area code	603
GNIS feature ID	871674 [1]

Chocorua is an unincorporated community within the town of Tamworth in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It is located in the general area where Routes 16 and 113 meet, south of Mount Chocorua and Chocorua Lake.

Mount Chocorua is commonly known in the area as the "Matterhorn" of the White Mountains due to its triangular summit. Chocorua Lake, along NH 16 at the southern base of the mountain, is a common stopping place for photos of the mountain landscape. ^[2]

Notable people

• Truman Howe Bartlett, sculptor, Abraham Lincoln photography historian (summer resident)
• Raymond W. Bliss, Army surgeon general
• James Read Chadwick, gynecologist and medical librarian (summer resident)
• William James, philosopher and US founder of experimental psychology; died in Chocorua ^[3]
• Paul Scott Mowrer, New Hampshire's first Poet Laureate; lived in Chocorua ^[4]
• Hadley Richardson, the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. ^[4]
• Robert I. Rotberg, former President of the World Peace Foundation (vacation resident)^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "Chocorua". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Mayo, Lawrence Shaw (1946). "The History of the Legend of Chocorua". The New England Quarterly. 19 (3): 302–314. doi:10.2307/361968. ISSN   0028-4866.
3. "William James", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
4. Hemingway, Jack. Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman, pp. 269-70

External links

• Chocorua Public Library