Location
Located in south-central New Hampshire along the Merrimack River, Manchester, NH is just 20 miles from the Massachusetts border and 58 miles from Boston. Ranked in the top ten of the “Best Small City for Doing Business in America” in 2005, Manchester offers a vibrant community with many new restaurants and shops downtown, as well as the convenience of the Manchester Airport.

History and Demographics
The Merrimack Valley was originally inhabited by various groups of Native Americans. Remnants of the Native American tribes remain not only in the form of artifacts found along the banks of the Merrimack, but in language as well. One of the most familiar names in Manchester is Amoskeag, which means “place of many fish”. Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River was a source of food for native peoples, where it is said the salmon were so thick one could almost walk across the river on their backs. Europeans settled Manchester in 1722 as a farming community several miles east of the river. For many years the town was known as Derryfield until it was renamed Manchester in 1810 to honor Samuel Blodget’s vision of a great industrial city like that of Manchester England. Samuel Blodget developed a canal and lock system around the Amoskeag Falls that opened a trade route from Boston to Concord. The canal and lock system made it possible for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company to open its doors in 1838, becoming the world’s largest cotton milling operation with 64 mills lining the banks of the Merrimack. The mills brought cultural diversity to the city as immigrants moved to Manchester looking for good paying mill jobs.

Quality of Life
Manchester residents point with pride to the fact that the area is “close to everything,” yet many people find they never have to leave home to pursue their favorite activities. In fact Manchester has recently been ranked among the top cities by a number of different Magazines. The Manchester metro area was selected as one of America’s “Best Places to Live and Work” and rated as a “Four-Star Community” by Expansion Management in May of 2003.

For more information, contact Gary Karagianis at 641-5905 x143 or email: garykaragianis@masiello.com.

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