ton goods. The city is
the seat of Scotia seminary (for negro girls), founded in 1870 and under
the care of the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, Pittsburgh
Pa. Concord was laid out in 1793 and was first incorporated in 1851.

CONCORD, the capital of New Hampshire, U.S.A., and the county-seat of
Merrimack county, on both sides of the Merrimac river, about 75 m. N.W.
of Boston, Massachusetts. Pop. (1890) 17,004; (1900) 19,632, of whom
3813 were foreign-born; (1910, census) 21,497. Concord is served by the
Boston & Maine railway. The area of the city in 1906 was 45.16 sq. m.
Concord has broad streets bordered with shade trees; and has several
parks, including Penacook, White, Rollins and the Contoocook river.
Among the principal buildings are the state capitol, the state library,
the city hall, the county court-house, the post-office, a public library
(17,000 vols.), the state hospital, the state prison, the Centennial
home for the aged, the Margaret Pillsbury memorial hospital, the Rolfe
and Rumford asylum for orphan girls, founded by Count Rumford's
daughter, and some fine churches, including the Christian Science church
built by Mrs Eddy. There are a soldiers' memorial arch, a statue of
Daniel Webster by Thomas Ball, and statues of John P. Hale, John Stark,
and Commodore George H. Perkins, the last by Daniel C. French; and at
Penacook, 6 m. N.W. of Concord, there is a monument to Hannah Dustin
(see HAVERHILL). Among the educational institutions are the well-known
St Paul's school for boys (Protestant Episcopal, 1853), about 2 m. W. of
the city, and St Mary's school for girls (Protestant Episcopal, 1885).
From 1847 to 1867 Concord was the seat of the Biblical Institute
(Methodist Episcopal), founded in Newbury, Vermont, in 1841, removed to
Boston as the Boston Theological Seminary in 1867, and after 1871 a part
of Boston University. The city has various manufactures, including flour
and grist mill products, silver ware, cotton and woollen goods,
carriages, harnesses and leather belting, furniture, wooden ware, pianos
and clothing; the Boston & Maine Railroad has a large repair shop in the
city, and there are valuable granite quarries in the vicinity. In 1905
Concord ranked third among the cities of the state in the value of its
factory products, which was $6,387,372, being an increase of 51.7% since
1900. When first visited by the English settlers, the site of Concord
was occupied by Penacook Indians; a