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1751 The town of Derryfield was incorporated. Its population was made up of Scots-Irish and English settlers. The town hall was on Mammoth Road.
A partnership called the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company acquired the textile mill. The company built two more mills and established Amoskeag Village.
1831 The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company became a stock corporation. It acquired land on the east side of the Merrimack River, and began constructing canals and mill buildings.
1838 The first cotton textile mill began operating in the mill yard, constructed for the Stark Manufacturing Company. Over the next decades the Amoskeag will build mills for other corporations as well as for itself.
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Manchester built a new town hall at Elm and Market streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1844 and was replaced with the current structure in 1845.
The first water-powered spinning mill began operating on the west side of Amoskeag Falls.
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1810
The town charter was signed at the tavern.
The name of Derryfield was changed to Manchester in honor of the Samuel Blodget, the builder of a transportation canal at Amoskeag Falls. He had believed that the swift water at the Falls could one day power a great industrial city.
1 759 The City’s first meeting house was constructed in this location, officially marking the City center until the center was relocated in 1841.
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184 6 1840 The Amoskeag built the first dam across the Merrimack River at Amoskeag Falls.
The City of Manchester was incorporated.
1838 The Amoskeag began implementing its vision for the new City of Manchester. This is one of the earliest large-scale urban planning projects in the United States.
1837 The Amoskeag Dam was constructed. Subsequently, upper and lower canals were constructed to power the textile manufacturing machinery with hydroelectric power.
1853 Manchester expanded to the west side of the Merrimack river by annexing Amoskeag Village (then part of Goffstown) and Piscataquog Village (then part of Bedford).
