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Welcome to Lake Winnipesaukee

Lake Winnipesaukee has been a tourist destination for more than a century, especially for residents escaping the summer heat of Boston and New York City. The Native American name Winnipesaukee means either "smile of the Great Spirit" or "beautiful water in a high place".[3] At the outlet of the Winnipesaukee River, the Winnipesaukee Indians, a subtribe of the Pennacook, lived and fished at a village called Acquadocton. The site is today called "The Weirs" named for the weirs colonists discovered when first exploring the region.

Winnipesaukee is a glacial lake and an unusual one at that, since the last glaciation actually reversed the flow of its waters. Draining the central portion of New Hampshire, it once flowed southeast, leaving via what is now Alton Bay toward the Atlantic Ocean. When glacial debris blocked this path, flow was redirected westward through Paugus Bay into the Winnipesaukee River. The latter flows west from the lake and joins the Pemigewasset River in Franklin to form the Merrimack River, which flows south to Massachusetts and into the Atlantic.

Lake Winnipesaukee is located in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire at the foothills of the White Mountains. Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in the state and the 6th largest lake in the United States that lies completely within the borders of the United States. Surrounded by three mountain ranges, the wooded shoreline and crystal clear water of this spring-fed lake make it a popular summer resort and a place to rest and relax in beautiful surroundings and enjoy water sports of all sorts. Visitors may explore the numerous villages on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee by boat or by car. Each one offers something unique.

Center Harbor witnessed the first intercollegiate sporting event in the United States, as Harvard defeated Yale by two lengths in the first Harvard-Yale Regatta on August 3, 1852.[4] The outcome was repeated 100 years later when the schools celebrated the centennial of the race by again competing on Lake Winnipesaukee.[citation needed] French President Nicolas Sarkozy took his first vacation in office in August 2007 at Wolfeboro on the lake. Lake Winnipesaukee was also where the eponymous Lake Winnipesaukee mystery stone was found.

Lake Facts: * 504 Feet above Sea Level * Maximum Depth: 180 feet * Average Depth: 43 feet * Volume: 625 billion gallons * Length: Approximately 25 miles * Width: Approximately 15 miles at widest point * Water Surface: 72 square miles * Distance around the lake: 182 miles * Shoreline excluding islands: 178 miles * Islands: 244 * Island shoreline: 100 1/2 miles.

There is only one outlet for the lake and its through Paugus Bay at the south end right where the trains from the Winnipesaukee Scenic RR change direction to go north back to Weirs and Meredith. From the small dam there at Lakeport it flows through Laconia to connect with Lake Winnisquam. At the very southern point on Winnisquam it passes over another small dam that outlets to Silver Lake. From Silver lake in Belmont it becomes the Winnipesaukee River and flows down through Tilton, NH and then Franklin where it mergers with the Pemigewassett River to become the beginning of the Merrimac River. The Merrimac goes through a lot of old industrial mill towns such as Concord and Manchester and Nashua NH before it then crosses into Massachusetss to serve the cities of Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill, MA. Then it eventually travels east to Newburyport MA where it reaches its outlet into the Atlantic Ocean

Real Estate Facts 2008: There are currently 21 Meredith Lake Winnipesaukee waterfront homes on the Northern New England Real Estate Network. The average asking price for these Meredith Lake Winnipesaukee waterfront homes is $1,657,943.

There are ninety-six (96) residential Meredith real estate listings on the market as of March 6, 2008. These ninety six (96) Meredith homes have a median asking price of $444,450 and an average asking price of $774,647. The average number of days on market is 229.

Six (6) Meredith NH homes sold in the past thirty days (since February 6, 2008). The average selling price was $442,083. The median selling price was $250,000. The average number of days on market was 168.

Twelve (12) Meredith homes were listed in the past thirty (30) days with a median asking price of $365,450 and an average asking price of $564,106. The average number of days on market so far for these home is eighteen 18.

Two Meredith NH Lake Winnipesaukee waterfront plots of land have sold since January 1, 2008. These are on Meredith Neck Road and Powers Road. The average selling price was $922,500.

Meredith NH residential home sales saw a decrease in number of sales from 2006 to 2007 but an increase in average sales price from 2006 to 2007.

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