Research Catalog

Title

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company : a history of enterprise on the Merrimack River / by Aurore Eaton ; foreword by Robert B. Perreault.

Author

Eaton, Aurore.

Publication

Charleston, S.C. : The History Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

174 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Mills and mill-work
• Textile manufacturers
• New Hampshire > Manchester
• Amoskeag Manufacturing Company History
• Mills and mill-work > New Hampshire > Manchester > History
• History
• Textile manufacturers > New Hampshire > Manchester > History
• Manchester (N.H.) > History
• Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index.

Contents

The Merrimack River -- The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- The First Textile Mills at Amoskeag Falls -- The Original Amoskeag Companies -- Amoskeag Village -- The Birth of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company -- East Side or West Side? -- Powering the Mill Yard -- The Corporate Realm: The Mill Yard and Workers' Housing -- Creating the New City -- The First Mill: The Stark Manufacturing Company -- The Amoskeag's Own Textile Mills -- The Manchester Print Works -- The Amoskeag Machine Shop -- Amoskeag Steam Locomotives -- Amoskeag Steam Fire Engines -- Mechanics' Row -- A Visit from Abraham Lincoln -- The Civil War -- Amoskeag Gingham -- The Flywheel Disaster of 1891 – Floods -- The Amoskeag and Its Workers -- Child Labor -- The End of Prosperity -- The All-American Flag -- The Strike of 1922 – Bankruptcy -- Amoskeag Industries: Reinventing the Mill Yard

ISBN

• 1626197741
• 9781626197749

LCCN

2015939217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library