. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . er. Its construc-tion was first undertaken by SamuelBlodgett early as i 794, but it was notcompleted until 1807. Eight miles above Amoskeag thelocks and short canal of Hooksett over-came a fall of some seventeen feet:and six miles further on the Bow locksand canal afforded the final lift oftwentv-seven feet, to the level of the Frederick G. Stark and /lie Merrimack River Canals. navigable water of the Merrimack riverat Concord. Short side canals with locks weresubsequently built at the junctio
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . er. Its construc-tion was first undertaken by SamuelBlodgett early as i 794, but it was notcompleted until 1807. Eight miles above Amoskeag thelocks and short canal of Hooksett over-came a fall of some seventeen feet:and six miles further on the Bow locksand canal afforded the final lift oftwentv-seven feet, to the level of the Frederick G. Stark and /lie Merrimack River Canals. navigable water of the Merrimack riverat Concord. Short side canals with locks weresubsequently built at the junctions ofthe Nashua and Piscataquog rivers withthe Merrimack to facilitate the passageof boats from the Merrimack to thestorehouses in Nashua and Piscatatjuogvillages. iron, glass, grindstones, cordage, paints,oils, and all that infinite variety of mer-chandise required by country mer-chants, formerly classed under the gen-eral terms of dry and West Indiagoods. The original bills of lading,many of which are now in the writerspossession, also show that they broughtup from Boston for consumption in the. The old Blodgett Mansion at Amoskeag Canal. Erected in 1795. Pulled down in 1870. For forty years this line of canalsformed the principal channel of heavytransportation beween the two capitals,and, except that the canals did noteffectually compete with the stages forcarrying passengers, they held the sameposition to transportation as is now heldby their successor and destroyer—therailroad. Daring the entire season of openriver, from the time that the springbreak-up of winter ice permitted navi-gation to commence, until the frosts offall again closed it, this eighty-five milesof water was thronged with boats, takingthe products of the country to a marketat the New England metropolis, andreturning loaded with salt, lime, cem-ent, plaster, hardware, leather, liciuors. country, flour, corn, butter, and cheese,which plainly indicates that the peopleof the Merrimack river valley gavemore
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