Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester horizon from above Amoskeag Falls, Hanover Street, a Fisher Cats game at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, the Arms Park Riverwalk and Millyard, and City Hall.
Manchester horizon from above Amoskeag Falls, Hanover Street, a Fisher Cats game at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, the Arms Park Riverwalk and Millyard, and City Hall.
Official seal of Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester is the biggest city in the U.S.
State of New Hampshire, the tenth biggest city in New England, and as of 2015 the biggest city in northern New England, an region comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
Manchester often appears favorably in lists ranking the affordability and livability of American cities.
In 2009, CNNMoney.com rated Manchester 13th in a list of the 100 best metros/cities in which to live and launch a company in the United States. In addition, Kiplinger voted Manchester the second most tax-friendly town/city in the United States, second only to Anchorage, Alaska. Also in 2009, Forbes periodical ranked the Manchester region first on its list of "America's 100 Cheapest Places to Live." According to the Equality of Opportunity Project, released in 2013, Manchester ranked as the seventh best urbane region in terms of upward income mobility in the United States. See also: Timeline of Manchester, New Hampshire Mills on the Merrimack River and the West Side of Manchester Derryfield remains a neighborhood in intact Manchester, along its easternmost region adjoining to Massabesic Lake. He envisioned here a great industrialized center, "the Manchester of America", like the Industrial Revolution's Manchester in England, the first industrialized town/city in the world. In 1809, Benjamin Prichard and the rest assembled a cotton spinning foundry directed by water power on the bank of the Merrimack.
Following Blodgett's suggestion, Derryfield was retitled Manchester in 1810, the year the foundry was incorporated as the Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company. It would be purchased in 1825 by company doers from Massachusetts, period to 3 mills in 1826, and then incorporated in 1831 as the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. Child workers at Amoskeag Manufacturing in Manchester (1909); photo by Lewis Hine Incorporated as a town/city in 1846, Manchester would turn into home to the biggest cotton foundry in the world Mill No.
The Amoskeag foundry made rifles, sewing machines, textile machinery, fire engines, and locomotives in a division called the Amoskeag Locomotive Works (later, the Manchester Locomotive Works).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.0 square miles (90.6 km2), of which 33.1 square miles (85.7 km2) is territory and 1.9 square miles (4.8 km2) is water, comprising 5.33% of the city. Manchester is drained by the Merrimack River, the Piscataquog River and Cohas Brook.
Main article: Neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire The Manchester Planning Board, in its 2010 Master Plan, defines 25 neighborhoods inside the city.
In 2007, the town/city began a Neighborhood Initiatives program to "insure that our neighborhoods are vibrant, livable areas since these are the portions of the town/city where most of the inhabitants spend their time living, playing, shopping and going to school." The purpose of this initiative is to foster vibrancy and redevelopment in the neighborhoods, and to restore the sense of neighborhood communities that had been overlooked in the town/city for some time.
The town/city began the program with street-scape and transit framework improvements in the Rimmon Heights neighborhood of the West Side, which has spurred expansion and investment in and by the community. Even with the success of the program in Rimmon Heights, it was unclear in recent years how the town/city planned to implement similar programs throughout the city.
The urban core of Manchester extends beyond its town/city limits in a several directions, especially west and south of downtown, including: Pinardville In the town of Goffstown, Pinardville is a fairly dense, former streetcar suburb along Mast Road to the west of Manchester.
River Corridor In the town of Bedford, the River Corridor is a mid-density, primarily shopping precinct along South River Road about two-and-a-half miles from downtown Manchester.
The region has recently implemented Tax Increment Financing to advancement and maintain infrastructure, and the Town of Bedford's most recent master plan has called for increasing mixed-use evolution and promoting walkability and transit use, though the Manchester Transit Authority bus service in the region was recently curtailed following a decision by the Town of Bedford to discontinue funding service.
South Hooksett The southeastern portion of the town of Hooksett is a widespread, suburban shopping region north of Manchester.
Manchester Boston Regional Airport near the city's southeastern corner, and the encircling industrial areas extend into neighboring Londonderry.
Downtown Manchester looking south along Elm Street The town/city is the center of the Manchester, New Hampshire, New England City and Town Metropolitan Area (NECTA MA), which had a populace of 187,596 as of the 2010 census. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 109,565, and its 2015 populace estimate was 110,229. The Manchester-Nashua urbane area, with an estimated populace in 2015 of 406,678, is home to nearly one-third of the populace of New Hampshire. Amoskeag Bank in 1913: At 10 stories, it was Manchester's "skyscraper" for over a half-century.
Manchester is northern New England's biggest city, and as of the 2014 U.S.
Enumeration population estimate was the most crowded New England town/city north of Boston, including other Massachusetts cities.
Its economy has changed greatly, as Manchester was a textile foundry town about 40 years ago.
In March 2009 Kiplinger voted Manchester the second most tax friendly town/city in America, after Anchorage, Alaska. Earlier in the year, CNN rated Manchester 13th in its 100 best places to live and launch a company in America. Manchester is nicknamed the Queen City, as well as the more recently coined "Manch Vegas". In 1998, Manchester was titled the "Number One Small City in the East" by Money magazine.
The Mall of New Hampshire, on Manchester's southern fringe near the intersection of Interstates 93 and 293, is the city's chief retail center.
Downtown Manchester's One City Hall Plaza stands 22 stories high, quickly followed by the all-black, 20-story Brady Sullivan Plaza, formerly known as the Hampshire Plaza.
Other primary buildings include the 18-story Wall Street Apartments tower; the 14-story, recently retitled Brady Sullivan Tower, which was the former New Hampshire Insurance building; at 12 stories, the Radisson Hotel and Convention Center Manchester (which serves the SNHU Arena athwart the street), the Carpenter Center (a former hotel), and the Hampshire Towers condominium building; the 10-story Citizens Bank Building, which was, for much of the early- and mid-20th century, Manchester's iconic Amoskeag Bank "skyscraper"; and a several high-rises of or exceeding 10 stories on the city's West Side.
The SNHU Arena, formerly the Verizon Wireless Arena, has turn into the centerpiece of downtown Manchester.
It has also hosted primary recording artists and comedians, nationwide touring theatrical productions, family-oriented shows, and fairs since it opened in 2001. The Northeast Delta Dental Stadium (formerly Merchants - Auto.com Stadium) is a baseball park positioned on the Merrimack River in downtown Manchester and is home to the small-town AA baseball partner of the Toronto Blue Jays, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
Many new retail stores and college studies establishments, including the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, have been uniquely retro-fitted into properties along Commercial and Canal Street.
Manchester has three chief retail areas: downtown Manchester, South Willow Street (NH Route 28), and Second Street (NH Route 3 - A) on the West Side.
The Mall of New Hampshire is positioned on South Willow Street, and, with more than 125 stores, is one of the biggest shopping centers in southern New Hampshire and central New England.
Cultural landmarks include the historic Palace Theatre, the Currier Museum of Art, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the Franco-American Center, the Manchester Historic Association Millyard Museum, the Massabesic Audubon Center, the Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center, the Lawrence L.
It was instead of in 1963, serves as home ice for the Manchester Central and Memorial High School hockey teams, and is home to the Southern New Hampshire Skating Club. By 2003 it was well enough known that a note on Virtualtourist.com said, "Residents reflect the county-wide dry humor by referring to sedate Manchester as 'Manch - Vegas'." By 2005, an article in Manchester's Hippo (a small-town alternative weekly) said that then-Mayor Robert A.
Baines "is pushing to replace the nickname Manch - Vegas with Manchhattan" (meaning Manchester+Manhattan). In 2009 the film Monsters, Marriage and Murder in Manch - Vegas was released referencing Manchester's prominent nickname and using much of the town/city as its backdrop. Manchester has a burgeoning collective of artists, due in large part to the influx of young students at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Southern New Hampshire University, and the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.
Slam Free or Die, New Hampshire's only weekly slam poetry venue, is positioned in Manchester and was voted "Best Poetry Venue in the World" by readers of Write Bloody Publishing.
Manchester is the only town/city in New Hampshire with experienced sports teams.
From 2001 to 2015, Manchester had a team, also called the Manchester Monarchs, that played in the American Hockey League.
In their final season in Manchester, the Monarchs won the league championship.
Manchester Monarchs ECHL, Ice hockey (professional) SNHU Arena 2015 0 Manchester Freedom IWFL, Women's Tackle Football West High 2002 0 Manchester has a several sports leagues.
Manchester East Little League Manchester West Little League Manchester North Little League Manchester South Little League Manchester Central Little League Manchester Southwest Little League In 2007, due to declining numbers, West and Southwest merged into one league to form Manchester West Side Little League.
In the summer of 2015, Manchester East switched affiliation to the Cal Ripken Baseball League, a division of Babe Ruth Baseball.
The league is now known as Manchester Cal Ripken.
Starting in 2016, the options for youth baseball include Manchester Cal Ripken for all youths 12 and under in Manchester, and: Manchester West Side Little League Manchester North Little League Manchester South Little League Manchester Central Little League Manchester South Junior Soccer League Manchester North Soccer League Manchester Junior Soccer League West Manchester East Soccer League Manchester Angels Youth Soccer League is a spring-only league.
Manchester is home to the Manchester Regional Youth Hockey Association.
Youth football organizations in Manchester include: Manchester West Raiders (AYF) Manchester Flag Football League There are many other youth sports opportunities in Manchester, including AAU baseball and basketball as well as CYO basketball.
The 3 high schools (4 including Manchester School of Technology) each have one team apiece: Manchester High School Central has FRC Team 131, CHAOS; Manchester Memorial High School has FRC Team 238, the Crusaders (named for the school mascot); Manchester High School West has FRC Team 501, the Power Knights (also titled for the school mascot); and Manchester School of Technology has FRC Team 6763, Fusion (rookie year 2017). Manchester is incorporated as a town/city under the laws of the State of New Hampshire, and operates under a strong mayoral form of government.
The School Board is not a town/city department; rather, it is a school precinct coterminous with the city, which obtains financing from the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Manchester's enhance school fitness is run by the Manchester School District.
Manchester School District has four enhance high schools: Manchester High School West Manchester High School Central Manchester Memorial High School Manchester School of Technology Manchester School District has four enhance middle schools and fourteen elementary schools.
Manchester is served by three private high schools: Granite State College Manchester Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Manchester, New Hampshire Secondary Campus New Hampshire Institute of Art (formerly called the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences) Saint Anselm College, positioned in the Pinardville neighborhood of the adjoining town of Goffstown, but with a Manchester mailing address and telephone exchange Southern New Hampshire University, positioned on the boundary between Manchester and Hooksett University of New Hampshire at Manchester The town/city is served by the following newspapers: the New Hampshire Union Leader (formerly the Manchester Union Leader), The Hippo, and the Manchester Mirror.
The town/city is served by Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (airport code MHT), the fourth-largest passenger and third-largest cargo airport in New England.
NH 101 is a four-lane highway eastbound from Manchester to Hampton Beach, connecting the town/city with the southeastern part of the state and the seacoast, as well as Maine and the Massachusetts North Shore via Interstate 95.
West of Manchester, NH 101 is a two-lane highway serving as the chief artery to Keene, the Monadnock region, and other points in southwestern New Hampshire, eventually connecting to NH 9 and the state's border with Vermont.
A direct highway access with the airport joins the Everett Turnpike just south of the town/city with the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport via a Merrimack River-crossing connector road known as Raymond Wieczorek Drive (in honor of a former Manchester mayor instrumental in getting the access road built).
Public transit is provided by the Manchester Transit Authority, which runs a several bus routes throughout the town/city and encircling areas.
In 2008, Boston Express moved to suburb Londonderry, New Hampshire, and now provides only limited service to downtown Manchester.
The possibility of Manchester being served by the Capital Corridor, an extension of the MBTA commuter rail from its current end in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Concord, which would also include a stop at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, is being studied by the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority and New Hampshire Department of Transportation, which have received federal funding for studying and planning the route. The Capital Corridor route is also being studied as a possible future high-speed rail line connecting Montreal and Boston. Currently, the Manchester-Nashua region is one of the 40 biggest urbane areas in the United States without Amtrak service. With the expansion of Interstate 93 to eight lanes from Salem to Manchester under construction, space is being reserved in the median for potential future commuter or light rail service along this corridor. The I-93 transit study also suggested restoring service on the Manchester and Lawrence branch for commuter and freight rail. This corridor would support freight rail along with commuter, something that light rail cannot do.
The loop would go from the Manchester Millyards, down south for about half a mile, then turn over Elm Street, separate into two rails (the other going towards Manchester-Boston Regional Airport), and climb north to Bridge Street and up to the New Hampshire Tower, where it ends.
The Manchester police station is presently positioned at 405 Valley Street on the corner of Valley and Maple.
The town/city of Manchester is protected all year by the 258 paid, experienced firefighters of the town/city of Manchester Fire Department.
Burkush, two Deputy Chiefs, and five District Chiefs. The Manchester Fire Department presently operates out of ten fire stations, positioned throughout the city, and operate a fire apparatus fleet of ten engines, five trucks, one rescue, and one precinct chief (two if manpower permits).
The Manchester Fire Department presently responds to over 18,000 emergency calls annually. Main article: List of citizens from Manchester, New Hampshire List of mayors of Manchester, New Hampshire West Side, Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester homes the state Roman Catholic Diocese at 153 Ash Street.
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