Coös County
The largest and northernmost of New Hampshire's ten counties, Coös county takes its name from "coo-ash," an Abenaki word signifying "white pine"; the Western Abenaki Indian group living in the area were known as the "Coo-ash-aukes," or "dwellers in the place of the white pines," the name sometimes also transliterated as Cowasuck. Originally, the "white pine place" was the broad river meadows near Newbury, Vermont, and Haverhill; this area was known as "the Cohos." When the meadows near Lancaster began to be settled, that area was known as "the Upper Cohoss." And still later, when the area around Colebrook was being settled, the famous mapmaker Philip Carrigain bestowed on that region the title of "the Cohoss above the Upper Cohoss." The county was created in 1803, but references to the name appear earlier, and in varied forms. The umlaut over the second "o" signifies it is to be pronounced as a separate syllable, COH-ahs, unlike the name of Coos Bay in Oregon, there spelled without the umlaut and pronounced COOZ.
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