Pequabuck River

River in Connecticut, United States

Pequabuck River
Early 20th-century postcard portraying the Pequabuck River in Forestville, Connecticut
Location
Country	United States
State	Connecticut
Counties	Litchfield County, Hartford County
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	Harwinton, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States

Mouth	Confluence with Farmington River
• location	Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Length	19 mi (31 km)
Basin size	58.4 sq mi (151 km²)

Discharge
• location	Farmington, Connecticut

Basin features
Tributaries
• right	Poland River

The Pequabuck River is a river, approximately 19 miles (30.6 km) in length, which rises in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and courses through neighboring Hartford County before emptying into the Farmington River in Farmington. The river has played a crucial role in the development of Plainville, Connecticut, in particular.^[1] The river's lower drainage basin consists of industrial and urban areas, and effluents from these areas pollute the river's waters.^[2] The Pequabuck drove a water wheel that provided 8 horsepower to the Upper Lock Shop in Plymouth, Connecticut, a facility which would eventually become the Lewis Lock Company in 1851 and, finally, the once-renowned Eagle Lock Company.^[3]^: 55 The river banks were historically the site of one of United States' first malleable iron-producing units, known as Malleable Iron Works (later Andrew Terry and Company).^[3]^: 88^[4]

Etymology

The name Pequabuck was derived from an indigenous Algonquin phrase meaning "clear pond" or "open pond". It is believed that this term originally referred to a pond or wetland at the headwaters of the Pequabuck River.^[5]

References

^ Lynda J. Russell (11 April 2007). Plainville. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-4959-0. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ Geological Survey (U.S.) (1993). National water summary. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey. p. 209. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ ^a ^b Judy Giguere (12 September 2011). Plymouth Revisited. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7591-9. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ Lani B. Johnson (6 January 1996). Plymouth Connecticut. Arcadia Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7385-6410-4. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ John Trumbull (1881). Indian Names of Places, Etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. p. 47. Retrieved 21 January 2016. pequabuck.

Rivers of Connecticut by drainage system

Long Island Sound

Black Rock Harbor	Ash Creek Rooster River
Bridgeport Harbor	Pequonnock River
Connecticut River Watershed	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Podunk River Salmon River Scantic River
Housatonic River Watershed	Blackberry River East Aspetuck River Housatonic River Konkapot River Mad River Naugatuck River Pomperaug River Rocky River Schenob Brook Shepaug River Still River Ten Mile River Whiting River
Little Narragansett Bay (Pawcatuck River Watershed)	Ashaway River Green Fall River Pawcatuck River Shunock River Wood River
Milford Harbor	Wepawaug River
New Haven Harbor	Mill River Quinnipiac River West River
Norwalk Harbor (Norwalk River Watershed)	Norwalk River Silvermine River
Saugatuck River Watershed	Aspetuck River Saugatuck River
Thames River Watershed	Basset Brook Beaver Brook Bigelow Brook Fenton River Fishers Brook Five Mile River French River Hop River Little River Merrick Brook Moosup River Mount Hope River Natchaug River Oxoboxo River Pachaug River Quinebaug River Shetucket River Thames River Willimantic River Yantic River
Others	Black Hall River Byram River Cove River Farm River Hammonasset River Indian River Mianus River Mill River (Fairfield) Mystic River Niantic River Noroton River Oyster River Rippowam River