Concord, New Hampshire, USA (East, West) (Penacook) (Concord Heights)
1895 - Concord

Concord, a city, the capital of New Hampshire, and Merrimack co., is pleasantly situated on the right bank : the Merrimack River, 18 miles N. of Manchester, and 13 miles by railroad N.N.W. of Boston. Lat. about 45° 13' N.; lon. 71°29'W. It extends 2 miles or more along the river, and has wide straight streets, lighted by electricity. The hotels and principal business houses are on." street and Railroad Square. Concord is supplied with good water by works constructed in 1872 at an expense of $200,000. It contains a granite state-house, a government building, and the state library building, situated in the centre of a beautiful common shaded with maples and elms, a city hall, 12 churches (4 Congregational, 3 Baptist, 2 Methodist, 1 Unitarian, 1 Roman Catholic, and 1 Universalist), 3 national banks, 3 savings-banks, a state prison, a high school, St. Paul's School (Episcopal), charmingly located about one mile from the state-house, a state lunatic asylum, and a public library, besides the state library of 11,000 volumes. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Concord has abundant water-power, and extensive manufactures of cotton goods, woollen goods, carriages, machinery, leather belting, wooden-ware, organs, &c. It is connected with Boston by the Concord & Montreal Railroad. The other railroads which meet here are the Concord & Claremont, and the Concord division of the Boston & Maine. Here are quarries of fine granite, of which large quantities are exported. Pop, in 1870, 12,241; in 1880, 13,843; in 1890, 16,948.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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