Indian Stream is a tributary of the
Connecticut River, approximately long,
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. It rises in the mountains of extreme northern New Hampshire, in Coos County near the Canada–United States border, where the East Branch of Indian Stream joins the West Branch. Indian Stream flows south-southwest, joining the Connecticut downstream from the village of Pittsburg.
The area around Pittsburg was the subject of a border dispute in the 1830s between the United States and Canada, leading to the short-lived, self-proclaimed Republic of Indian Stream. The border dispute, based upon an ambiguity in the Treaty of Paris (1783)
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, was resolved in 1842, with the river drainage and the land lying east of Halls Stream established as part of the state of New Hampshire.
See also
* List of New Hampshire rivers
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Pittsburg, New Hampshire
Rivers of Coös County, New Hampshire
Tributaries of the Connecticut River
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