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Amoskeag may refer to: *Amoskeag Falls, a waterfall on the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA *Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a former textile manufacturing company *:Amoskeag Company, a company spun off from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company *Amoskeag Locomotive Works, a former locomotive manufacturing company *Amoskeag Rugby Club The Amoskeag Rugby Football Club is a Rugby union, rugby club in Manchester, New Hampshire. They play in Division I of the New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU). Founded in 1984, they play at the Northeast Athletic Club in Pembroke, New Hampsh ...

Amoskeag Falls
The Amoskeag Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. History "Amoskeag" derives from the Pennacook Native American word "Namoskeag", which roughly translates as "good fishing place". Here, the Merrimack River drops over the course of . Local tribes in the region fished Amoskeag Falls for its plentiful migrating sturgeon, alewife, and salmon, which were easily caught in the rapids. Natives typically used a combination of large nets strung across the river. Significant native settlements were sited near the falls, particularly on the high bluffs overlooking the east side of the river. In 1807, Samuel Blodgett started a canal and lock system at the river to help vessels navigate around the falls, opening the area to development. This soon led to the use of the falls for a power canal to provide water power for Manchester's 19th century industrial development, most notable for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
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Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile industry, textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings. In the early 20th century, changing economic and social conditions occurred as the New England textile industry shifted to the Southern U.S., and the business went bankrupt in 1935. Many decades later, the original mills were refurbished and renovated, and now house offices, restaurants, software companies, college branches, studio, art studios, apartments and a museum. History Origins In May 1807, Samuel Blodgett completed a canal and lock (water transport), lock system beside the Merrimack River at Derryfield. His enterprise allowed boats traveling between Concord, New Hampshire, Concord and Nashua, New Hampshire, Nashua to bypass Amoskeag Falls, opening the regio ...
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Amoskeag Company
The Amoskeag Company was a privately owned American holding and operating company. It was calved off from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (AMC) of New Hampshire in 1925, which went bankrupt a decade later. Through its subsidiary the Pillowtex Corporation it was the last owner of the Fieldcrest Mills in North Carolina. When AMC profits declined in the mid-1920s, the Amoskeag Company was created as a shelter in order to transfer all of the profits from the manufacturing company's booming years clear both of that firm's operational needs and possible business failure. When AMC declared bankruptcy in 1936 that money was untouchable, allowing the holding company to continue unaffected. The company was reincorporated into a holding company in 1965 based out of Boston, MA. Amoskeag later merged with Fieldcrest Cannon in mid-1993, which was later purchased by Pillowtex. The Pillowtex Corporation filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or ot ...
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Amoskeag Locomotive Works
The Amoskeag Locomotive Works, in Manchester, New Hampshire, built steam locomotives at the dawn of the railroad era in the United States. The locomotive works operated as a division of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company between 1848 and 1859. Besides building locomotives for railroad use, Amoskeag also built steam fire engines until 1876. A steam-driven self-propelled appliance was made by Amoskeag was used to fight the Great Boston Fire of 1872."Manchester Locomotive Works first self-propelled Amoskeag Steam Fire Engine. Sold to Boston Fire department after use at Great Boston Fire of 1872".
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