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CITIES, AMERICAN. (CONCORD.) 



pupils enrolled. There are also 2 large district- 

 school buildings. Six denominations own build- 

 ings. The court house cost $90,000. 



Concord, the capital of New Hampshire, sit- 

 uated on Merrirnack river, 76 miles north-north- 

 west of Boston by rail ; population in 1890, 17,- 

 004. Its growth has been steady for many 

 years, the largest increase being in the last dec- 

 ade. The Merrimack river divides the city 

 north and south. The main part of the city is 

 on the west side of the river, and comprises the 

 compact part of Concord, the village of West 

 Concord, and part of Penacook (formerly called 

 Fisherville), on Contoocook river, 6 miles north 

 of the State House. An electric railway, 7 miles 

 long, connects all these sections of the city, in 

 addition to steam railway service on two roads. 

 The village of East Concord and nearly all of 



ried. The Abbot-Downing carriage manufactory 

 is one of the largest and longest established in 

 the country, and its products are found in every 

 quarter of the globe. The Page Belting Com- 

 pany has a capital of $500,000, and sends its prod- 

 ucts all over the world. Some of the other larger 

 industries are axle works, furniture, flannels 

 and worsteds, flouring by roller process, harness, 

 boots and shoes, and silverware. The granite 

 industry is conducted by many companies, the 

 largest of which is the New England Granite 

 Company, which is furnishing the stone for the 

 new Congressional Library building at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. The quarries from which all the 

 stone is taken are on Rattlesnake Hill, near 

 West Concord, and are accessible for railroad 

 transportation. The wholesale and retail trade 

 is large, and the city has a great many fine 



UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



the territory east of Merrimack river are com- 

 prised in one ward. Concord is the railway cen- 

 ter of the State, and has one of the largest and 

 most conveniently arranged passenger stations 

 in New England. It possesses a good gravity sys- 

 tem of water works, the source of supply being 

 Penacook lake, which contains 265 acres, 3* miles 

 from the State House. An additional high serv- 

 ice is now in process of construction from the 

 same source. There are 43'89 miles of main and 

 distributing pipes, 10-71 miles of service pipe, 

 183 hydrants for fire purposes, and 24 private 

 hydrants. There are several miles of sewer in 

 the streets of the central part of the city con- 

 nected with the river. There is a gas and elec- 

 tric-light company, which has recently erected a 

 commodious station for arc and incandescent 

 lighting. The manufacturing interests are va- 



stores and business blocks. The new Govern- 

 ment building, which cost $200,000, is of Con- 

 cord granite, and is one of the most beautiful 

 and best-arranged structures of its size to be 

 found in the country. It contains the post- 

 office, United States Pension Office for New 

 Hampshire and Vermont, and United States 

 Court room, with all necessary apartments for 

 officers of the court and jurors. A new State 

 Library building is in process of erection near 

 the State House and Government building. The 

 public-school buildings are unsurpassed by those 

 of any city of its size, the high-school build- 

 ing, completed last year, being a model in archi- 

 tecture and interior arrangement. There is a 

 Roman Catholic parochial school, with 300 pu- 

 pils, and an Episcopal school for girls. St. Paul's 

 School, a noted institution of learning for boys, 





