[CrawfordCentury]

I had wondered which lake that was filmed on - but not quite curious enough to look it up myself.

Thanks for doing the legwork!

And, yes - it's too much of a coincidence that the fictitious lake is called Amoskeag. Prolly Adam's doing.

The mills of Manchester were once the largest cotton producing complex in the world, with something of a peak output in the order of 500 linear miles of cloth daily. Distributed over a 6-day work week, that's enough ticking, muslin, etc. to extend from the Granite State to the Golden State.

The mills took their name from the falls. It's Abenaki for "place of many fish" - the best fishing between Pawtucket Falls and the Weirs.

For them in the early years of the republic, the falls were a boon and an impediment since most shipping travel was done via riverways.

After the completion of the Middlesex canal in Mass., a judge named Samuel Blodgett constructed a canal around the falls, thereby linking Boston with Concord, NH.

Because of the waterpower potential of the area (then called Derryfield), Blodgett proclaimed that the small farming community would become an industrial city that would rival those of England - the "Manchester of America" as he prophesied.

To evoke the spirit of the late great Paul Harvey, now you know the rest of the story.