Concord, New Hampshire

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Music in Concord

Rivers & Roads in Song near Concord

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Concord.

History of Concord

The Mill That Built a City RoadyGoat

Manchester was built around a single, staggering enterprise: the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, which by the late nineteenth century was the largest cotton textile plant on earth. Strung along the Merrimack River, Amoskeag grew to some thirty buildings and roughly seventeen thousand workers at its peak. Its Mill No. 11 was the world's largest cotton mill, nine hundred feet long and packed with four thousand looms; the company even supplied denim for the first Levi's jeans. The whole city was essentially company-planned around the waterpower. Then the twentieth century turned: the textile industry drifted south, and Amoskeag went bankrupt in 1935, gutting the local economy almost overnight. The brick mills didn't vanish, though. Today they're reborn as offices, restaurants, software firms, college campuses, apartments, and a museum, a riverfront monument to one of America's great industrial rises and falls.

15.2 mi away

New Hampshire Secretary of State - Primary Filing

1920

Since 1920, New Hampshire has held the first presidential primary in the nation, a tradition fiercely protected by state law.

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

1986

Built in 1990 in memory of Concord teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.

New Hampshire State House

1819

Built in 1819 from New Hampshire granite, it is the oldest state capitol building in which the legislature still meets in its original chambers.

Canterbury Shaker Village

1792

A Shaker community active for 200 years from 1792 to 1992, with 25 original buildings preserved as a National Historic Landmark.

9.5 mi away

Daniel Webster Birthplace

1782

Daniel Webster, one of America's greatest orators and statesmen, was born in this small frame house in 1782.

11.4 mi away

Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

1838

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company operated the largest textile manufacturing complex in the world, stretching over a mile along the Merrimack River in Manchester.

15.4 mi away

Everything Near Concord

26 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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