"Manchester." In Harris' Pittsburgh Business Directory, for the Year 1837: Including the Names of All the Merchants, Manufacturers, Mechanics Professional, & Men of Business of Pittsburgh and its Vicinity. Pittsburgh: Isaac Harris, 1837, 169-170.
This new and flourishing town is pleasantly situated on the Beaver road, and on the bank of the Ohio river, about two miles below Pittsburgh. It contains about five hundred inhabitants, the great mass of whom, like almost every person in and about Pittsburgh, are industriously occupied. It has a number of good dwelling houses, a small market house, a school house, with a day and Sabbath school, two stores, three taverns, and the following extensive establishments, viz:
Marlatts & Hall's Plough Manufactory, employs 75 hands, and manufactures 85 ploughs a day. Mr. Hall's Wagon and Cart Factory employs 20 hands, and makes a large quantity of wagons, &c. annually. Mr. Hall's Plough and Wagon Factory together produce about $16,000 worth of work annually; the principal part of which finds a ready sale about Natchez, and along the Mississippi river, &c. The above two establishments consume about 30,000 bushes of coal annually.
Union Paper Mill belonging to Messrs. Hind & Howard, employs 36 hands, 11 males and 25 females--uses about three hundred thousand lbs. rags, manufactures about thirty thousand dollars worth of excellent paper, and consumes about thirty thousand bushels of coal annually.
Several of our rich and respectable citizens have their dwelling houses in the neighborhood of Manchester; and as there is a considerable quantity of level and beautifully located land above, below, and around it, (and it is so near Pittsburgh and Allegheny,) it must increase rapidly in population, business and importance.