Table of Contents
Foreword Robert B. Perreault 7
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 13
1 The Merrimack River 15
2 The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 17
3 The First Textile Mills at Amoskeag Falls 19
4 The Original Amoskeag Companies 21
5 Amoskcag Village 25
6 The Birth of the Amoskcag Manufacturing Company 28
7 East Side or West Side? 30
8 Powering the Mill Yard 32
9 The Corporate Realm: The Mill Yard and Workers' Housing 46
10 Creating the New City 55
11 The First Mill: The Stark Manufacturing Company 63
12 The Amoskcag's Own Textile Mills 65
13 The Manchester Print Works 69
14 The Amoskeag Machine Shop 73
15 Amoskeag Steam Locomotives 75
16 Amoskeag Steam Fire Engines 77
17 Mechanics' Row 83
18 A Visit from Abraham Lincoln 86
19 The Civil War 90
20 Amoskeag Gingham 95
21 The Flywheel Disaster of 1891 102
22 Floods 105
23 The Amoskeag and Its Workers 109
24 Child Labor 123
25 The End of Prosperity 127
26 The All-American Flag 131
27 The Strike of 1922 134
28 Bankruptcy 143
29 Amoskeag Industries: Reinventing the Mill Yard 147
30 Postscript 151
Notes 155
Bibliography 163
Index 165
About the Author 175
