<p>The Merrimack Valley Region served as the birthplace of the industrial revolution in New Hampshire. After visiting the great manufacturing city of Manchester, England, local entrepreneur Samuel Blodget envisioned the banks of the Merrimack River as the site of an American manufacturing center powered by water that fell fifty feet through "hideous rapids" at Amoskeag Falls. In 1807, thirteen years after construction began on Blodget's locks and canal, his vision began to be realized through the harnessing of the hydro power potential of the falls...This photographic study reveals the history of the major industries that shaped the region and attracted diverse ethnic groups as well as local laborers whose hard work resulted in international acclaim for the quality of the products they produced. Hardcover with dust jacket, profusely illustrated.</p>

The Merrimack Valley New Hampshire: A Visual History

History

Samson, Gary

Americas

First New Hampshire Banks

The New Hampshire Seacoast: A Visual History encompasses three and a half centuries of the region's past. Beginning with the early settlements of English colonists in Dover, Hampton, Exeter, and Portsmouth, this book covers pioneering commercial activities such as seafaring, and lumbering which provided a living for the first settlers. A section on eighteenth-century seacoast New Hampshire emphasizes the pre-eminence of the Wentworth family, a political triumph overshadowed by the turbulence caused by the growing crisis in relations with Britain. The American Revolution brought the capture of Fort William and Mary by local patriots and the overthrow of royal government. With the removal of the state capital from Portsmouth, political power in the seacoast diminished. The rise of the textile industry brought new live...The authors have searched through photographs housed in libraries, historical societies, and private collections in order to illustrated these dramatic changes in the history of one of New England's most beautiful regions.

The Seacoast New Hampshire: A Visual History

Gilmore, Robert C.

The White Mountain region covers more than 1200 square miles in the northern half of New Hampshire and includes the panoramic views and natural wonders in the White Mountain National Forest. Within this region there are eighty-six mountain peaks, nine notches, and the headwaters of the Saco, Androscoggin, Merrimack, and Connecticut rivers. In this visual history the authors have traced the discovery, settlement, and development of the region beginning with Christopher Levett's published report of "The Christal Hill" in 1628. FOlk heroes like Passaconaway, Chocorua, Darby Field, Abel Crawford, Ethan Allen Crawford, Timber Barons W.R. Brown, J.E. Henry, George van Dyke and Cassius Twitchell, road builders David O. Macomber, David Pingree, and cog railroad builders Sylvester Marsh and Walter Aiken provide the stories that are illustrated with hundreds of old photographs from local archives.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire: A Visual History

Bardwell, John D.

Bergeron, Ronald P.

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