Fort Wentworth was a colonial fort built in 1755 at the junction of the Upper Ammonoosuc River and Connecticut River, in Northumberland, New Hampshire, just downstream from the present site of Groveton.
Diamond International Papers was originally the hub of Groveton. Diamond International was replaced by James River Paper Company, which was followed by Wausau Paper. In 2008 Wausau ceased production in its Groveton mill, which in turn precluded the trains from stopping in Groveton.
shortly after the Revolution constructed both grist and saw-mills. (See his petition to General Court in another chapter.) The vast supplies of pine and spruce have made the water privileges on the Ammonoosuc at Groveton profitable investments for the manufacture of lumber, and various firms from first to last have been engaged in this. In 1872 there were at Northumberland Falls, starch, straw-board, and shoe-peg mills; at Groveton, manufactories of leather, clapboards, shingles, etc.
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H'l/lroads. — The Boston. ( loncord & Montreal railroad forms a junction with the Grand Trunk at Groveton JuDction. There are three stations in the town, which gives it a great advantage as a shipping point. Groveton station does a freight business of 1,000 tons a mouth, and gives the Grand Trunk about ."><»<» passengers in the same time. W. H. Fowler, station agent. Groveton Junction, Stephen M. Mathews, station agent, has a freight bnsinessof 6,000 tons per month, passeng< is about 2,000 in the same time. We can give no figures for Northumberland or Guildhall station.
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