Manchester
Manchester is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and in northern New England (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). At the 2020 census, it had a population of 115,644.Manchester is, along with the city of Nashua, one of two seats of New Hampshire's most populous county, Hillsborough County. Manchester lies near the northern end of the Northeast megalopolis and straddles the banks of the Merrimack River. It was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodgett, namesake of Samuel Blodget Park and Blodget Street in the city's North End. His vision was to create a great industrial center similar to that of the original Manchester in England, which was the world's first industrialized city.The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's millyard complex was considered "one of the most remarkable manifestations of our urban and industrial culture" by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in her December 22, 1968, article Manchester, NH: Lessons in Urbicide.
