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Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spanning Merrimack River, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spann...

Significance: The dam in Concord, New Hampshire, was one of the longest timber crib dams in the eastern U.S. On September 29, 1893, this became the second commercial supplier of three-phase electric current in ... More

Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spanning Merrimack River, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spann...

Significance: The dam in Concord, New Hampshire, was one of the longest timber crib dams in the eastern U.S. On September 29, 1893, this became the second commercial supplier of three-phase electric current in ... More

Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spanning Merrimack River, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Sewall's Falls Hydroelectric Facility, East end of Second Street spann...

Significance: The dam in Concord, New Hampshire, was one of the longest timber crib dams in the eastern U.S. On September 29, 1893, this became the second commercial supplier of three-phase electric current in ... More

Town Hall, 226-232 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Town Hall, 226-232 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Town Hall was built in 1830 by the proprietors of the Locks and Canals, agents of Lowell's textile companies, who managed town affairs and most other aspects of early community life. The stru... More

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Mi...

Significance: The Swamp Locks complex consists of a flight of two navigation locks with a dam at the west end of the upper lock. The original locks opened in 1797, and were rebuilt in 1822-1823 when this confi... More

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Mi...

Significance: The Swamp Locks complex consists of a flight of two navigation locks with a dam at the west end of the upper lock. The original locks opened in 1797, and were rebuilt in 1822-1823 when this confi... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merrimack County, NH

Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merri...

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Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merrimack County, NH

Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merri...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boulder Farm, Dunbarton Road, Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Boulder Farm, Dunbarton Road, Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Survey number: HABS NH-42 Building/structure dates: 1816 Initial Construction

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The City of Lowell is generally considered to be the birthplace of large-scale manufacturing in the U.S. Begun as a transportation canal, the Lowell Canal System evolved, during the 19th century,... More

Barnstead Bridge, Spanning Suncook River at Barnstead Road, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, NH

Barnstead Bridge, Spanning Suncook River at Barnstead Road, Pittsfield...

Significance: The bridge is a representative example of a standard-design rigid frame concrete highway bridge, typical of thousands built in the U.S. from 1922 through the mid-20th century. Survey number: HAER NH-30

Pinkie Durham eight year old sweeper. See label #3730, and his sister Eliza. She began at eleven; now twelve according to the School Record. She recently had her leg broken in the mill. Boy ran a doffing box into her. She has been working for one year in Merrimack Mfg. Co, 426 C Street. See Hine report.  Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Pinkie Durham eight year old sweeper. See label #3730, and his sister ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas & Eliphalet Williams House, Route 4, North side, Salisbury Heights, Merrimack County, NH

Thomas & Eliphalet Williams House, Route 4, North side, Salisbury Heig...

Significance: Originally one of the most elaborate and imposing houses in the village. House demonstrates the early New England practice of incorporating place of business (store) into the dwelling house. Dur... More

Ocean-Born-Mary House, Route 202 vicinty, Henniker, Merrimack County, NH

Ocean-Born-Mary House, Route 202 vicinty, Henniker, Merrimack County, ...

Significance: The highly academic and imposing quality of the overall form, roof, and elevations of the house is very unusual in this rural locality; it most closely resembles the sophisticated pre-Revolutionar... More

Ocean-Born-Mary House, Route 202 vicinty, Henniker, Merrimack County, NH

Ocean-Born-Mary House, Route 202 vicinty, Henniker, Merrimack County, ...

Significance: The highly academic and imposing quality of the overall form, roof, and elevations of the house is very unusual in this rural locality; it most closely resembles the sophisticated pre-Revolutionar... More

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Nichols Saw Mill, Bow Mills, Merrimack County, NH

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Mi...

Significance: The Swamp Locks complex consists of a flight of two navigation locks with a dam at the west end of the upper lock. The original locks opened in 1797, and were rebuilt in 1822-1823 when this confi... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Frank Baldwin. Been spinning and doffing in Merrimack Mills for a year and a half, so he went to work at least at eleven years old, if we can believe the Family Record which says he is thirteen this month, but indications are that the record had been changed. See Hine report.  Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Frank Baldwin. Been spinning and doffing in Merrimack Mills for a year...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing. Merrimack Park, Norfolk, Virginia. This project to house married enlisted personnel of the Norfolk naval base has 500 units which include single-story detached dwellings, two family houses, two-story group houses and apartments. Built at a cost of $1,980,000 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority), the project was opened for occupancy on July 1, 1941. Rentals are divided into four groups which run from a low 13-15 dollars to a high of 30-33 dollars

Defense housing. Merrimack Park, Norfolk, Virginia. This project to ho...

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Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchest...

Significance: The bridge is significant as the best example of the steel arch truss (the most advanced metal truss design) in New Hampshire. The structure is one of five surviving steel arch bridges in the stat... More

Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merrimack County, NH

Penacook House, Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. Route 3), Boscawen, Merri...

Public domain photograph of building construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Extracts from the report and records of the Merrimack Bible society ... Newburyport, 1829.

Extracts from the report and records of the Merrimack Bible society .....

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 54, Folder 20a.

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Contoocook Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merri...

See also HAER NH-38 (Contoocook Railroad Bridge) for additional documentation. Significance: The Contoocook Covered Bridge, a Long truss, carried the main road to Hopkinton until 1935 when it was demolished. U... More

Contoocook Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merri...

See also HAER NH-38 (Contoocook Railroad Bridge) for additional documentation. Significance: The Contoocook Covered Bridge, a Long truss, carried the main road to Hopkinton until 1935 when it was demolished. U... More

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The City of Lowell is generally considered to be the birthplace of large-scale manufacturing in the U.S. Begun as a transportation canal, the Lowell Canal System evolved, during the 19th century,... More

Merrimack County Bank, 214 North Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Merrimack County Bank, 214 North Main Street, Concord, Merrimack Count...

Significance: Architecturally significant as good example of American interpretation of Adamesque style. Building housed the N.H. Historical Society in its early days, contained the law office of Franklin Pier... More

Lamprey House, South side of Dover Road, 0.05 mile east of Goboro Road, Epsom, Merrimack County, NH

Lamprey House, South side of Dover Road, 0.05 mile east of Goboro Road...

Survey number: HABS NH-232 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Covered Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River, Hopkinton, Merrimack County...

Significance: In May 1863 the town voted to build a wooden bridge over the Contoocook river on the road to Henniker. The bridge was damaged in the freshets of 1935 and demolished the following year after a new... More

[Corporal John A. Hartshorn of Company A, 19th Maine Infantry, in Union uniform sitting with bayoneted musket] / From Walton's Ambrotype & Photograph Rooms, corner of Merrimack and Pecker Streets, Haverhill, Massachusetts.

[Corporal John A. Hartshorn of Company A, 19th Maine Infantry, in Unio...

Photograph shows identified soldier John A. Hartshorn, who volunteered to enlist in the army as a substitute for John W. Crane in August 1863. Hartshorn died on May 23, 1864 of wounds received at Cold Harbor, Virginia.

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

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