Amoskeag Millyard

Mile Long Run Of Red Brick Mills On The Merrimack River Built By The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, By The Early 1900s Described As Among The Largest Textile Producers In The World; The Company Closed In 1935 And The Mills Now Hold Offices, Restaurants, The SEE Science Center With Its Large LEGO Model Of The Millyard, And The Millyard Museum Of The Manchester Historic Association. · Manchester, New Hampshire

A mile-long wall of red-brick mills on the east bank of the Merrimack River in Manchester, built through the nineteenth century by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, which grew the city around its looms. By the early 1900s Amoskeag was described as one of the largest textile producers in the world, employing many thousands of workers, many of them French Canadian, Irish, Greek and Polish immigrants. The company failed and closed in 1935, and local investors bought the empty mills to fill them with new tenants. Today the long buildings along Commercial Street hold offices, tech firms, college classrooms, restaurants and two small museums. The Millyard Museum of the Manchester Historic Association tells the story of the mills and the city, and the SEE Science Center next door is a hands-on science museum known for a very large LEGO model of the millyard as it looked around 1900. A riverwalk and Arms Park run along the water behind the mills, and upstream Amoskeag Falls, where the city began, has a fish ladder open in spring.

Commercial Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, 03101, United States

The Millyard streets, Commercial Street, the riverwalk and Arms Park can be walked at any time, all year, and lit at night. The Millyard Museum keeps limited public hours, typically several days a week and closed on some weekdays such as Sunday and Monday, and on major holidays (confirm current days). The SEE Science Center is generally open daily with shorter hours on some days and closed on major holidays (confirm). The Amoskeag fishway opens only in the spring fish migration season, roughly May to June, and for some programs; it is closed the rest of the year (confirm). Mill restaurants open mostly for lunch and dinner, some closed on Sunday. The office buildings are private.

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