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Cohesive Design. The story of Amoskeag begins in the early 1800s, when Samuel Blodgett, a Massachusetts businessman, was looking for a farm to buy near the small village of Derryfield on the Merrimack River. Just back from England, and impressed with the opportunities in the textile industry, he instead put his fortune into building a canal linking the Merrimack with Boston. He boasted: "Here, at my canal, will be a manufacturing town that shall be the Manchester of America." The small cotton mill he started did indeed grow to house the largest textile mill in the world, and after...
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