The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . i he Pi Isbury Snoe Factory aid J. E. Batchelders. Hotels sprang up. Many distin-guished men were entertained, amongthem Lafayette and President Mon-roe. Contact with the outside worldstimulated enterprise. Our merchantslearned to draw trade from the sur-rounding country, and the towngained a mercantile ascendency thatit has not yet wholly lost. We arestill a center of trade in hardware,dry-goods, millinery, and fancy arti-cles, besides being resorted to forlegal and medical services, academiceducation, music, surveyi
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . i he Pi Isbury Snoe Factory aid J. E. Batchelders. Hotels sprang up. Many distin-guished men were entertained, amongthem Lafayette and President Mon-roe. Contact with the outside worldstimulated enterprise. Our merchantslearned to draw trade from the sur-rounding country, and the towngained a mercantile ascendency thatit has not yet wholly lost. We arestill a center of trade in hardware,dry-goods, millinery, and fancy arti-cles, besides being resorted to forlegal and medical services, academiceducation, music, surveying, den-tistry, photography, and printing. With the building of the railroadsthe turnpike lost its importance as athoroughfare. Boston usurped thetrade of Portsmouth. North wood wasleft stranded as a hill town, while thecurrents of commerce swept by oueither side. Still the enterprise ofthe people proved equal to the newconditions and we suffered no retro-gression. About this time was intro- duced the form of manufacturing,which soon became the industrial dis-tinction of
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