Merrimack River

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an earlier spelling that is sometimes still used) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport. From the point where the Merrimack turns northeast in Lowell, Massachusetts onward, the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border is roughly calculated as the line three miles north of the river.