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About Coaticook

The town is located on the Coaticook River, which flows south into the U.S. state of Vermont and eventually to Lake Champlain, where it enters New York State as the Winooski River and ultimately empties into Lake Champlain at Burlington Bay in Vermont's largest city of Burlington. The river was used by early settlers for water power to run mills; hence its name (Coaticook means "river with many falls" in Abenaki). The area around Coaticook had been settled since 1791 when Loyalists arrived from Saint John, New Brunswick after being defeated by American rebels during their rebellion against British rule known as the American Revolution or War of Independence (1775–83). They were led by Colonel Thomas Baker who purchased land along both sides of what would become known as Baldwin Street in 1802 from a group that included Benjamin Ladd Jr., one-time owner/operator of Stanhope Mill No 1 built on his property adjacent to today's airport runway site circa 1800s .