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Amesbury Carriage Industry Leads New England Growth
Amesbury emerges as a thriving manufacturing town famed for its carriage industry. The piece traces the town’s development from early river power and shipbuilding to a modern, world market driven sector with hundreds of firms and about 2000 workers, exporting to Europe and the Americas. It highlights a pioneering open display policy begun in 1889, the town’s population, wealth, and historical ties to Salisbury, Stonehenge lore, and local founders.
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New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Massachusetts
Amesbury
Merrimac River
Merrimacana
Board of Trade
Gridley
Stonehenge
Ambresbury
Abbey of
Great Britain
Tennyson
Arthur
Lancelot
Salisbury Plain
Knights of the Round Table
Merlin
Boston
Salisbury
Salisbury New Town
Powow River
Ag Nearas
John G. Whittier
Wilts
England
Emrys
Ames
Ambres
Ambrosius
Cornwall
Jacob
Bethel
Powowas River
Old Town
General Court
Salispury
Samuel Colby
Merrimac
Alliance
Continental Congress
William Hackett
New
Josiah Bartlett
Washington
Monroe
Angle Pond
Danville
N. H
Lake Attitash
Whittier
Powow
Jacob Perkins
West Amesbury
Deer Island
Rocky Hill
New Hampshire
Maine
Michigan
Louisiana
Missouri
Morrilltown
California
Newark
N.J
Paris
Tenn
New York
Waltham
Lowell
Barnards
Hoyts
Curriers
Charles B. Pat
William E. Carr
Selectman, PLC
United States
Canada
France
Germany
South America
Mexico
Australia
Africa
Ten
John Coffin