The: Amoskeag Manufacturing Company: A History of Enterprise on the Merrimack River
Author: Aurore Eaton
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781540212283
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The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company: A History of Enterprise on the Merrimack River
Author: Aurore Eaton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1625853297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Amoskeag Manufacturing Company experienced extraordinary growth following its founding in 1831. The complex company developed land and water power and produced rifle muskets for the Union army during the Civil War. America fell in love with the beautiful, long-lasting colors and quality of Amoskeag's iconic gingham. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. Author Aurore Eaton explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
History On The Merrimack River
Author: Donnette Titus
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings in the near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. The company's history is one of engineering genius and invention, enlightened city planning, and visionary leadership. It is also the story of the workers, including thousands of eager immigrants who came to Manchester seeking economic opportunity and personal freedom. The company struggled through labor disputes and conflicts between economics and altruism. When the doors finally closed in 1936, local business leaders saved the property from abandonment and extended the Amoskeag legacy through a new wave of prosperity. The author explores this revolutionary industry and its lasting significance in Manchester.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire
Amoskeag
Author: Tamara K. Hareven
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780874517361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company shaped the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire during America's rise as a manufacturing power.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company,
Author: Aurore Eaton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1626197741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →:This book tells the story of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a corporation that played a major role in [the history of the textile industry]. The story takes us from the Amoskeag;s early origins as a small spinning mill at Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River in the early nineteenth century to its closing in the midst of the Great Depression. From its incoporation as a stock corporation in 1831 through its bankruptcy in 1936, the company exerted tremendous infuence over the landscape and the people of Manchester, New Hampshire." --From preface.
Manchester's Shoe Industry
Author: Kelly Kilcrease & Yvette Lazdowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1467141429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Famous for its dominance in textile production, Manchester was also affectionately called "Shoe City." More than seventy different shoe companies once called Manchester home, and thousands of area residents worked tirelessly to produce some of the best-known shoes in America and throughout the world. The largest manufacturers were the F.M. Hoyt Shoe Company, maker of Beacon Shoes, and the granddaddy of them all, the McElwain Company, known for its popular brands, including the iconic Thom McAn shoes. Authors Kelly Kilcrease and Yvette Lazdowski reveal how these and other Manchester-based shoe shops were vital to the area's economic and employment prosperity, especially among the immigrant population, as well as how the McElwain Company was an integral part of the Melville Corporation, known today as CVS.
Manchester
Author: Robert B. Perreault
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017-10-09
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1439663211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known as New Hampshire's "Queen City," Manchester could be called "Change City." Throughout its history, it has reinvented itself many times. From a Native American fishing and gathering place called Amoskeag to a Yankee colonial town known as Derryfield, it became a multiethnic industrial center, the "Manchester of America," home of the world-famous Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (1831-1936). When Amoskeag Manufacturing closed during the Depression, "the city that would not die" was reborn through more diversified industries that carried it through the post-World War II era. Several decades of urban renewal saw the demolition of many older buildings and entire neighborhoods. Lamenting the loss of Boston & Maine Railroad's Union Station and St. Mary's Bank's marble building, Manchester residents drew inspiration from the US bicentennial in 1976 to create a renaissance of interest in history and architecture, which brought about the adaptation to modern use of several remaining older structures. Yet more major losses came in 1978 and 1989 with the destruction of the State Theatre and Manchester's beloved Notre Dame Bridge.
Migrants and City-Making
Author: Ayse Çaglar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-08-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0822372010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing—Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany—Çağlar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society’s periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çağlar and Glick Schiller explore their multifaceted role as city-makers, including their relationships to municipal officials, urban developers, political leaders, business owners, community organizers, and social justice movements. In each city Çağlar and Glick Schiller met with migrants from around the world; attended cultural events, meetings, and religious services; and patronized migrant-owned businesses, allowing them to gain insights into the ways in which migrants build social relationships with non-migrants and participate in urban restoration and development. In exploring the changing historical contingencies within which migrants live and work, Çağlar and Glick Schiller highlight how city-making invariably involves engaging with the far-reaching forces that dispossess people of their land, jobs, resources, neighborhoods, and hope.
The Merrimack River
