A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . ty court-house, several banks, twelve churches,and several other public buildings. Con-cord has about eight hundred and fiftydwelling-houses, and a population ofabout seven thousand. The Statehouse, a beautiful structure,appropriately built of granite, is onehundred and twenty-six feet in length,and forty-nine in breadth. It occupiesa conspicuous situation, surrounded bya rtiie [);irk. The view from the cupolais very extensive and picturesque. Thehalls of the house of representatives andthe senate contain several works of art;among whi
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . ty court-house, several banks, twelve churches,and several other public buildings. Con-cord has about eight hundred and fiftydwelling-houses, and a population ofabout seven thousand. The Statehouse, a beautiful structure,appropriately built of granite, is onehundred and twenty-six feet in length,and forty-nine in breadth. It occupiesa conspicuous situation, surrounded bya rtiie [);irk. The view from the cupolais very extensive and picturesque. Thehalls of the house of representatives andthe senate contain several works of art;among which are a portrait of CoimtRumford, the founder of the town, afterwhom it was originally named, and afine copy of (xilbert Stuarts lull-lengthlikeness of Washington. Concord is noted as having* been, indays anterior to the revolution, the sceneof several thrilling and bloody encoun-ters with the Indians. Until recently. Concord was the ter-minus of the railroad north. But sev-eral roads have been projected ; and theenterprise of the people, once awakened,. 38 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. will not rest till the iron bands, whichare drawing the extremes of our wide-spread country nearer and nearer, shallextend to every section of the state,and even to the commercial metropolisof Canada. Mancukster.—This city is one of theyoungest but most flourishing manu-facturing places in the state. It wascommenced with activity, by a largeBoston company, about eight years ago,at one of the best sites for water-poweron the Merrimac, and hns rapidly in-creased in business and popiihition. Thesoil is sandy, and the situation favorableonly for the objects foi- which the townhas been built; but the prospects aieflattering for permanent and increasingprosperity. The good regulations es-tablished in most of the other largemanufacturing places in New l^^ngland,have been, from the first, adopted here,and the results are highly are taken to secure com-fortable, heal
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