Chocorua, New Hampshire

Unincorporated community in New Hampshire, United States

Chocorua, New Hampshire
Unincorporated community
A small dam on the Chocorua River in the village of Chocorua
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Coordinates: 43°52′39″N 71°13′13″W / 43.87750°N 71.22028°W / 43.87750; -71.22028Coordinates: 43°52′39″N 71°13′13″W / 43.87750°N 71.22028°W / 43.87750; -71.22028
Country	United States
State	New Hampshire
County	Carroll
Town	Tamworth
Elevation	525 ft (160 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	03817
Area code(s)	603
GNIS feature ID	871674[1]

Chocorua is an unincorporated community within the town of Tamworth in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It is located in the general area where Routes 16 and 113 meet, south of Mount Chocorua and Chocorua Lake.

Mount Chocorua is commonly known in the area as the "Matterhorn" of the White Mountains due to its triangular summit. Chocorua Lake, along NH 16 at the southern base of the mountain, is a common stopping place for photos of the mountain landscape.

Notable people

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  Truman Howe Bartlett, sculptor, Abraham Lincoln photography historian (summer resident)


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  William James, philosopher and US founder of experimental psychology; died in Chocorua^[2]
  


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  Paul Scott Mowrer, New Hampshire's first Poet Laureate; lived in Chocorua^[3]
  


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  Hadley Richardson, the first wife of Ernest Hemingway.^[3]
  


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  Robert I. Rotberg, former President of the World Peace Foundation (vacation resident)^{[citation needed]}
  

References

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2. 
   ^ "William James", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
   


3. 
   ^ ^ab Hemingway, Jack. Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman, pp. 269-70
   

External links

• Chocorua Public Library

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Chocorua, New Hampshire.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States
County seat: Ossipee
Towns	Albany Bartlett Brookfield Chatham Conway Eaton Effingham Freedom Hart's Location Jackson Madison Moultonborough Ossipee Sandwich Tamworth Tuftonboro Wakefield Wolfeboro
Township	Hale's Location
CDPs	Bartlett Center Ossipee Center Sandwich Conway Melvin Village North Conway Sanbornville Suissevale Union Wolfeboro
Other villages	Center Conway Chocorua East Wakefield Eidelweiss Ferncroft Glen Intervale Kearsarge Lees Mill Mirror Lake North Sandwich Redstone Silver Lake South Tamworth West Ossipee Wolfeboro Falls Wonalancet

v t e Saco River watershed
Tributaries	Bearcamp River Beech River Charles River Chocorua River Cold River Cold River (Bearcamp) Cutler River Dan Hole River Deer River Dry River East Branch Saco River East Branch Whiteface River East Fork East Branch Saco River Ellis River Hancock Brook Kezar River Little Cold River Little Ossipee River Little River Little Saco River Lovell River Mad River Middle Branch Mad River Mill Brook New River Old Course Saco River Ossipee River Pequawket Brook Pine River Rocky Branch Sawyer River Shepards River South Branch Mad River South River Swift River Swift River (Bearcamp) Tenmile River West Branch West Branch Tenmile River Whiteface River Wildcat Brook Wonalancet River
Lakes	Lake Arrowhead Balch Pond Barker Pond Broad Bay Chocorua Lake Conway Lake Dan Hole Pond Echo Lake Hancock Pond Kezar Lake Lovewell Pond Moose Pond Ossipee Lake Pine River Pond Province Lake Sand Pond Silver Lake Skelton Dam
Towns	Acton Arundel Baldwin Bartlett Biddeford Bridgton Brownfield Buxton Chocorua Conway Cornish Dayton Denmark Eaton Effingham Freedom Fryeburg Hart's Location Hiram Hollis Limerick Limington Lovell Lyman Madison Newfield Ossipee Parsonsfield Porter Saco Sebago Shapleigh Standish Stoneham Stow Sweden Tamworth Waterboro Waterford
Landmarks	Crawford Notch Maine Central Railroad U.S. Route 302 White Mountains

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