For Manchester worked with Public Service Company of New Hampshire to create a three-season overlook that provides wonderful vistas of the falls that once powered Manchester's mills and Manchester's old canal system, worked with businesses to improve the lighting downtown and helped organize holiday parades and other special events. Warm weather finds residents, local employees and visitors enjoying lunchtime concerts, buying locally-grown produce at the downtown Farmer's Market, or enjoying a soccer game at a new field that was financed in large part by a local family. During the winter, the downtown comes alive with ice skaters at the new downtown ice rink. Outside of Manchester, many of the surrounding communities truly are small towns. Budgets are set by old-fashioned Town Meetings and citizens take a very active role in how their towns are run.
Residential options range from family communities to centuries-old farms.
Residents are quick to point out that the area is close to everything. Within an hour s drive is Boston, New Hampshire's seacoast beaches, Lake Winnipesaukee, and world-class skiing and hiking in the famous White Mountains. Rich History From antique Colonial homes that date back to the Revolutionary War to Manchester's massive old textile mills, the region's architecture tells a visual story of its past. Manchester and its surrounding communities pay homage to the past through active preservation and education programs. Goffstown is planning to rejuvenate its historic town village, while Londonderry is celebrating its agricultural past through the preservation of the town's noted apple orchards.