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Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in northern New England. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.[3]
Along with Nashua and Manchester, Manchester is one of the two counties in New Hampshire that are home to Hillsborough County, New Hampshire's largest county. Manchester is located near the Northeast megalopolis' northern end and straddles both the Merrimack River and Merrimack River. Samuel Blodgett (the inventor and merchant who first called it Manchester), was the one to give it its name. Blodget Street is located in the city's North End. His vision was to build a great industrial hub similar to the one in Manchester, England. It was the first industrialized city in the world. [4]
The native Pennacook people called Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River—the area that became the heart of Manchester—Namaoskeag, meaning "good fishing place".[5] In 1722, John Goffe III settled beside Cohas Brook, later building a dam and sawmill at what was dubbed "Old Harry's Town". It was granted by Massachusetts in 1727 as "Tyngstown" to veterans of Queen Anne's War who served in 1703 under Captain William Tyng.[6] But at New Hampshire's 1741 separation from Massachusetts, the grant was ruled invalid and substituted with Wilton, Maine, resulting in a 1751 rechartering by Governor Benning Wentworth as "Derryfield"—a name that lives on in Derryfield Park, Derryfield Country Club, and the private Derryfield School.[6]