The Merrimack River: its source and its tributaries. Embracing a history of manufactures, and of the towns along its course; their geography, topography, and products, with a description of the magnificent natural scenery about its upper waters./ By J. W. Meader.

ITS SOURCE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
of the Amoskeag Company, is unsurpassed for its romantic beauty.
The " Pine Grove Cemetery" is well adapted for a silent city of the
dead. The Catholic Cemetery is on the west side of the river.
Among the oldest inscriptions on any of the tombstones are the
following: -
"Here lyes the body of
Mrs. Janet Riddel, wife to
Mr. Samuel Riddel. She Died Septr. 18,
1746. Aged 50 years."
Another reads thus:
" Here Lyes The Body of Mrs.
Chresten McNiel. She
Died September 17th, 1752.
Aged 66 years."
Here is still another: -
" Here Lyes The Body of Mr.
Archibald Stark. ile
Departed This Life June 25th,
1758. Aged 61 years."
The City Hall was erected in 1845, at a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars. The State Reform School is also in Manchester; the
building is four stories high, convenient and roomy, and the lot on
which it is built contains one hundred and ten acres.
Manchester, like most manufacturing cities, is eminently a transient place; but many of the descendants of the first settlers still
occupy the old estates, and are counted among the most valuable
citizens; but, beyond all question, Gen. John Stark was the most
renowned of all her native citizens. He died in May, 1822, at the
advanced age of nearly inety-four years, and was buried in a cemetery provided by himself for that purpose on his own farm, on a
commnanding bluff just above Amoskeag Falls, whose rushling, rumbling cataract, like the roar of mighty battle, in which, from a stern
sense of duty, he engaged tnd won unfading laurels when living, is
his perpetual requiem. A plain granite shaft, bearing the inscription "M aj. Gen. Stark," marks the final resting-place of the
patriot and hero.
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