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Pearly Lake

Pearly Lake

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Pearly Lake or Pearly Pond[1] is a 192-acre (0.8 km2) water body in the town of Rindge, Cheshire County, southwestern New Hampshire, United States.[2] Formerly known as Tarbell Pond,[3] named for Revolutionary War Minuteman Lieut. Samuel Tarbell (1744-1828) who settled here, the lake is one of the headwaters of Tarbell Brook, a tributary of the Millers River, which flows southwest to the Connecticut River at Millers Falls, Massachusetts.[4]

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The undergraduate campus of Franklin Pierce University is located on the northeast shore of the lake.

The lake is classified as a warmwater fishery, with observed species including largemouth bass, chain pickerel, yellow perch, bluegill, horned pout, American eel, and green sunfish.[5]

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  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pearly Lake
  2. [2]
    "GRANITview mapping system". NH GRANIT statewide GIS. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  3. [3]
    View of Tarbell Pond c. 1870-1880; Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County
  4. [4]
    Samuel Tarbell grave information
  5. [5]
    "Pearly Lake, Rindge" (PDF). NH Fish & Game. Retrieved September 4, 2014.


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