Manchester Things to Do Tips by biljah Top 5 Page for this destination

The old Straw Street School.

The old school is a beautiful piece of old fashioned architecture. Many of Manchesters old buildings do remain, sadly however there are many that have been equally lost.

Commercial Street

Commercial street has renovated the factories and filled them with, cafes, resteraunts, universites, clubs, pubs, bars, lofts, apartments, gyms, businesses, and museums. It's a bit of old world style with new world commerce at Manchester's Commercial street.

Manchester Mills

The mills as shown across from the Merrimac river. The mills used as various factories to produce such things as cotton and shoes. Now the mills have lofts, apartmens, adn other businesses.

John Stark Park

John Stark was NH's own American Revolution war hero. We was a very succesful general who was one step ahead of the enemy. In New Englad we love our revolutionary figures!

Merrimak River

This picture is of the Amoskeag Millyards and Merrimack River. On this side of the river is New Hampshire Heritage Trail which is a great place to hike, mountain bike, kyak, fish, or simply walk.

Amoskeag Falls

I grew up fishing here at the falls. There are Bass at the bottum of the falls, and the salmon try to swim up the falls but cannot. Manchester has since built a fish observatory which allows the fish to bypass the falls and swim upstream to hatch their eggs. The observatory has different levels and goes aroud the falls to the side, which has thick glass windows where you can actually see all kinds of fish.

Riverfest

Every year in manchester for the 4th of juky they have river fest downtown. There are fireworks and lots of festive fun. People gather all around downtown to go see the the festival.

Manchester YMCA

This historical building is still in Manchester today. I used to go to The Young Mens Christian Association, or better known as The Y, or YMCA. I grew up going here as a kid. I also shool Bill Clintons hand while he was the presidential canidate in the early 90's. He came up to me and said " I'm Bill Clinton tell your parents about me". I was so excited sure enough I went and told my parents, I was about 12 then. Little did I know where hid hands had been, I might not have been so excited to have shook his hand!

Elm Street

The main street which runs through downtown manchester. It is said to be the longest dead end street, be it New Hampshire folk lore or not. Elm street is supposed to be the only Main street in america, that ends in a dead end, again wives tale or not it's a fun tid bit of info. I believe that the tree in the pic is an old elm tree.

City Hall

The tallest Building in Manchester is also the City Hall. It's not the Empire State Building, but for NH residents it is the closest thing. Not many cities have their city hall as the tallest skyskraper in the city.