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Mattabesset River
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The Mattabesset River as delineated on present-day maps flows out of Harts Ponds in the town of Berlin and travels 16.1 miles (25.9 km) east to the Connecticut River, passing Kensington and later forming the boundary between Middletown and Cromwell.
Further south, the Coginchaug River (or "winding meadow") flows from an upland meadow in Durham, northwards to the Mattabesset just upstream of that river's junction with the Connecticut. This river was the route to the portage place, located near Palmer Field, just below Sowheag's main stronghold at Indian Hill. Since it was the old western bou...
16.1 mi total
1 sections
2 access points
0 camps
0 rapids
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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.