2024
- 2024 Manchester election results. Which pro-liberty candidates for the 2024 New Hampshire general election won in Manchester? 2024-11-06.
- 2024 Manchester election info. Manchester’s pro-liberty candidates for the 2024 New Hampshire general election. 2024-11-04.
- Protesters at the BMA meeting. Written testimony regarding the protesters at the 2024-02-20 Board of Mayor & Aldermen meeting. 2024-02-27.
2023
- 2023 Manchester municipal election results. Results of the Manchester 2023 city election. 2023-11-08.
- 2023 Manchester municipal election info. Information on the Manchester 2023 city election. 2023-11-04.
The name
The name Manchester, a reference to the city in England, derives from the Latin Mamucium or Mancunium, which in turn comes from either mamm- (“breast,” in reference to a breast-like hill) or mamma (“mother,” in reference to a local river goddess), plus castrum, Latin for a fort. Amusingly, the Uncanoonuc Mountains, directly west of Manchester, derive their name from the Massachusett term kuncannowet, which also means “breast.”
Manchester is probably one of the few -chester placenames still pronounced with all its syllables intact. The Welsh name for Manchester was originally Manceinion, which in modern Welsh has somehow become Caerfawnwydd. People from Manchester are known as Mancunians. The Latin term for something of or from Manchester is Mancuniensis. ▰