Word: merrimac
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...many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...
...visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
...tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...
...night, and all the next day and night rain fell on the little mountains of western New England. It ran down the mountains in rivulets, into the brooks and small rivers, into the big Connecticut River, which is the boundary of Vermont and New Hampshire; into the Merrimac in New Hampshire; into the Hoosick River, which drops to the Hudson out of Vermont and Massachusetts; into Otter Creek, which flows northwest into Lake Champlain; into the Winooski, which tumbles through the Green Mountains for 60 miles...