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Northumberland is a town located in western Coös County, New Hampshire, U.S., north of Lancaster. It is portion of the Berlin, NH–VT micropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 2,126, of whom 1,068 lived in the village of Groveton.

North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War. The town was contracted as “Stonington” in 1761 to John Hogg and others by Governor Benning Wentworth, and first established in 1767 by Thomas Burnside and Daniel Spaulding. Burnside was a aficionado of Rogers’ Rangers.

The land was regranted by Governor John Wentworth in 1771 as “Northumberland”, the reveal derived from Northumberland in England. The town was incorporated November 16, 1779. In 1797 the town voted to build a meeting house, which was completed in 1799. The structure can nevertheless be found next to U.S. Route 3.