Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable)
1854 - Nashua / Dunstable

Nashua, formerly Dunstable, an important manufacturing post-town of Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, 40 miles N. N. E. from Boston, is situated at the confluence of the Nashua river with the Merrimack,and at the terminus of the Lowell, the Worcester, the Wilton, and the Concord railroads, by which it has communication with the principal cities and towns of New England. The Nashua river has a fall at this place of 65 feet in about 2 miles, affording a vast hydraulic power, which has been greatly improved for manufacturing purposes. Its volume is 180 cubic feet per second in the dryest season. A canal, with locks of solid stone, 82 feet long, and 24 feet high, connects the waters of this stream above the falls with those of the Merrimack. Nashua has long been distinguished for its manufactures, which are very extensive, and embrace articles of almost every description Among the numerous corporations may be mentioned the Nashua Manufacturing Company, chartered in 1823, with a capital of $300,000, which has since been increased to $1,000,000. This company has at present four extensive mills, which give employment to about 1000 operatives, having charge of 37,450 spindles, 1089 looms, consuming annually 10,000 bales of cotton, and producing 13,000,000 yards of prints, shirtings, &c. The company also have a large machine shop, in which several hundred hands are employed. The sales of the Nashua Iron Company amount to $175,000 per annum. The entire quantity of cot ton fabrics annually produced is about $18,000,000 yards, and the total capital employed $1,480,000. The total capital invested in the various manufactures is upwards of $2,000,000, and the number of operatives engaged about 1000 males and 1300 females. The receipts of the post-office amount to about $3000 a year. There are in Nashua, 7 churches, 3 newspaper offices, and a bank. In 1842 the township was divided, and the part lying chiefly on the N. side of Nashua river, received the name of Nashville. A bridge connects the two places. Nashville also has 1 bank. Population of the township, 5820.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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