Manchester, NH

Manchester is located in the central corridor of New Hampshire along the banks of the Merrimack River. Manchester is the largest and most populated city in the state. Manchester, founded as a company town has a storied history of industrialism, once having the largest cotton mill in the world. Other ealry industries included paper, shoes, cigars, and many foundry products.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire<ref>

• Currier Museum of Art

• Amoskeag Fishways

• See Science Center

• American-Canadian Genealogical Society

• Verizon Wireless Arena

• Millyard Museum

• Massabesic Lake

• Rene Gagnon US Marine, Helped raise American Flag at Iwo Jima

• Adam Sandler Comedian and Actor.

• Mike Flanagan Cy Young Award winner 1978

• General John Stark American Revolutionary War General

• Sarah Silverman Comedianne and Actress

• Richard MacDonald Co-Founder of McDonadls

• Maurice McDonald Co-Founder of McDonalds

• Lee M.E. Morin Astronaut

• Joseph Carter Abbott North Carolina Senator and Union General

The Currier Gallery of Art is known world wide for its cross cultural paintings, sculpture, photography and a diverse, ever changing array of exhibitions. Works by Monet, Picasso. O'Keffe, LeWitt and Wyeth are on display year round as well as a tour of Frank Lloyd Wrights Zimmerman House. The below painting "Mercie Cutting Flowers" 1912 by American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell is one of 13,000 works of art on display from all over the world. http://www.currier.org/visit/thingstodo.aspx?id=1738

The Amoskeag Fishways allows visitors a special peek into the lives of several species of wildlife. Migrating shad, sea lamprey, herring and salmon are visible in the 54 step fish ladder display area during the fish migration season in May and June. During the migration season the fishway is open 7 days a week for family tours, student field trips and teacher education events.http://www.amoskeagfishways.org/