Manchester, New Hampshire

I lived there 2 years in 90s.. Still love it.

The oldest part of the canal system that was not filled and paved over in the 1970s is actually the oldest part and pre dates the AmoskeagMFG co. Most of this work dates 40 years earlier when the town was stilled known as Derryfield. This was part of the Blodgett barge canal to afford passage up around the falls enabling goods from NH to reach south to the Boston market via the Merimack river and Middlesex canal to Cambridge. With the arrival of the railroad in the 1830s the canal quickly fell into disuse. As the Amoskeag MFG began to develop the land on the east bank of the river for water powered textile industry, the great dam was built and the original holding pond, ice weir of the original barge canal were retained as part of the gate system to control water to the power canals now vanished. Remnants of the locksare still to be seen with a keen eye. The barge canal had a series of locks south of the red gate house which are now filled over but in the 60s one could still discern granite hosing for the lock gates. In the1830s the blodgett canal, later known as the lower canal, was extended southward as a water power canal and its course lies under the present day commercial st.The Amoskeag constructed a second power canal, know as the upper canal supplied with water out of this same gate system

Wolf Park Little League fields

Built in 1888 and currently the oldest city Elementary School. In 1913 the school was cut in half and the East side was moved 40 feet and then infilled to create a larger school.