Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable)
1895 - Nashua

Nashua, a city, one of the capitals of Hillsborough £, N.H., is situated on the W. bank of the Merrimac River, at the mouth of the Nashua River, 35 miles S. "f Concord, and 14 miles N.W. of Lowell. It is on the Boston, Lowell & Nashua Railroad and the Concord Railroad, and is a terminus of the Nashua & Rochester and Worcester & Nashua Railroads. An extension of the first named road connects it with Greenfield, N.H. A canal 3 miles long, 60 feet wide, and 8 feet deep has been cut from the Nashua River to the Merrimac, in order to supply motive-power for the numerous manufactories of this town. Nashua contains 11 churches, 2 national banks, a high school, and printing-offices which issue 2 daily and 2 weekly newspapers. Here are extensive manufactures of cotton, iron, steam-engines, edge-tools, locks, carpets, &c. The Nashua Manufacturing Company has 4 cotton-mills and a capital of $1,000,000 or more. About 2000 operatives are employed here in the manufacture of cotton. It is stated that the Nashua Iron-Works consume in a year 3,000 tons of iron and 800 tons of steel. Nashua was chartered as a city in 1853. Pop. in 1890, 19,311.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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