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History

1837-

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and Manchester, New Hampshire, the city it planned and created beginning in 1837, were products of the industrial order established in New England by a close-knit group of Boston entrepreneurs. The newly established town, strategically positioned near the Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, was named after Manchester, England, which had become renowned as the world's greatest textile centre. When the largest textile mill in the world moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, fifty years later, it had avoided some of the environmental issues that its English namesake had experienced. Over the course of the late 1800s, the Amoskeag Company acquired mills that had been founded as independent companies but were overseen by directorships that overlapped. It was the only major textile company in Manchester by 1905, with the exception of the Stark Mills, which it acquired in 1922.

From its founding in 1838 until its closing in 1936, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company had a major impact on Manchester for over a century. It had an impact on almost every aspect of Manchester inhabitants' lives, establishing a connected and independent community. The Boston Associates, who based the business in Boston, oversaw Manchester's development and was influenced by the Lowell, Massachusetts, model. The Associates obtained water rights along the Merrimack River and secured a large stretch of land for the city's construction, integrating real estate development into the company's activities.

References

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