Manchester Wedding

Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It is in Hillsborough County on the banks of the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 107,007. As of 2005 the population has been estimated by the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning to be nearly 110,000.[1] Manchester is the center of the Manchester, NH, New England City and Town Metropolitan Area (NECTA MA), with a population in 2000 of 176,663[2], and is near the northern end of the BosWash megalopolis.

Pennacook Indians called the area "Namoskeag," meaning "good fishing place" -- a reference to the Amoskeag Falls in the Merrimack River. In 1722, John Goffe settled on land beside Cohas Brook, where several years later he built a dam and sawmill. The community was called "Old Harry's Town." In 1735, the Province of Massachusetts Bay granted it as "Tyngstown" to settlers from Massachusetts. A decade following the separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts, Governor Benning Wentworth in 1751 chartered the town as "Derryfield."