Manchester

Manchester, the largest city of New Hampshire, stands mostly on the east bank of the Merrimac River, 16 miles S. of Concord, 59 miles NNW. of Boston by rail. Its principal streets are wide and shaded with elms, and it has several public parks. The river here falls 54 feet, and affords water-power to numerous factories. The great industry of the place is its manufacture of cottons and woollens; but locomotives, fire-engines, sewing-machines, wagons, edged tools, boots and shoes, paper, &c. are also manufactured. Manchester is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and has a Catholic orphanage and a convent, besides a state reform-school. Pop. (1870) 23,536; (1890) 44,126.