ManchesterGop.com
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Manchester, New Hampshire Republican Committee
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Manchester has played a unique and historically significant role in American history. Called the Queen City because it is the largest city in New Hampshire yet not the state capital, this waterfront city was shaped by the hard work, spiritualism, creativity, and dedication of generations of people of different backgrounds, from Native Americans to European and Canadian settlers, to the wide variety of worldwide ethnicities represented today. Manchester is home to Revolutionary War hero Maj. Gen. John Stark and many other notable individuals in the arts, politics, philanthropy, and industry.
It was on the banks of the Merrimack River, near the powerful Amoskeag Falls, that America's industrial and technological revolution reached full power through the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, once the world's largest cotton textile mill; changing forever the social fabric of this nation and the world. By the turn of the 19th Century, the label Made in Manchester, NH, USA , appeared around the globe on objects ranging from textiles and shoes to cigars, rifles, sewing machines, and railroad locomotives.
The first cotton spinning mill was built on the west bank of the Merrimack River by Benjamin Prichard, circa 1804. In 1831, a group of investors known as the Boston Associates acquired the small, three-mill complex and reorganized it into the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. The AMC completed its first mill, Stark Mill No. 1, on the east bank of the river in 1839, beginning a century of productivity unmatched in its time. Manchester is named after the city of Manchester, in Lancashire, England, which had long been known for its mills.
