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My father, a geologist, is fond of saying that my study of the social sciences does not have sufficient scope or breadth because from our human perspective and action change takes such a long time. But change does happen, and the New Hampshire of 1823 is a very different place than the NH we now know. Back in 1823, there were approximately 250,000 people and 83 Prisoners in the corrections system. We’re now looking at 1.3 million and 2,500.
Change is a functio of technology and resources. And as the 1800s seafaring world began to wane, the state began to look to other resources, in this case, the resources were natural resources including the forests of Northern NH and the rivers that supported the mill towns and in particular the mill town in manchester. From 1838 to 1936, the textile company, Amoskeag Manufacturing, would take a village and make it into a city. Within 10 years, the population would grow from 125 to 10,000 people, and make Manchester the largest textile producer in the world.
And as the textile industry moved to china and the logging industry declined, New Hampshire identified a new set o of resources. Around the time of the bicentennial, And as the textile industry moved to china and the logging industry declined, NH had become in many people’s eyes a back country economy with relatively low income and fewer opportunities. But something changed and changed and chagned very quickly. Between 1976 and 1986 we became the fastest growing economy in New England. Why?
Ask an economist and they will say that one of the primary drivers of this economic boon in New Hampshire resulted from our proximity to the Boston metropolitan area. The Massachusetts miracle saw growth was heavily centered in high-tech industry and financial services, within Boston and in its suburbs along Route 128 , just to our south. The tech boom transformed southern NH and represented the next set of