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NASHUA , a See also:

city and one of the See also:county seats of Hillsboro county, New See also:Hampshire, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Nashua and See also:Merrimac See also:rivers, 35 M. S.S.E. of See also:Concord and 40 M. N.W. of See also:Boston by See also:rail. Pop. (1890) 19,311; (1900) 23,898, of whom 8093 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 26,005. Nashua is served by the Boston & See also:Maine railroad, whose several divisions centring here give the city commercial importance, and by electric lines to See also:Hudson, See also:Litchfield, See also:Pelham, Dracut and Tyngsboro. The See also:area of the city in 1906 was 30.71 sq. m. To the N.,W. and S.W. of the city there are beautiful hills and mountains. The See also:church of See also:Saint See also:Francis See also:Xavier and the First Congregational church are architecturally noteworthy. The city has a soldiers' See also:monument, a public library, a See also:court See also:house and two hospitals. There is a See also:United States See also:fish hatchery here, and until after the See also:close of the 18th See also:century fishing was the See also:principal See also:industry of the See also:place, as manufacturing is now. See also:Water-See also:power is furnished by the Nashua See also:river and by See also:Salmon See also:Brook, and the city is extensively engaged in manufactures, notably See also:cotton goods, boots, shoes, and foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products.

The value of the city's factory products increased from $10,096,064 in Igloo to $12,858,382 in 1905, or 27.4%, and in 1905 Nashua ranked second among the manufacturing cities of the See also:

state. Nashua is one of the See also:oldest interior settlements of the state. The first See also:settlement here was established about 1665; and in 1673 the township of See also:Dunstable was incorporated by the See also:General Court of See also:Massachusetts. In 1741, when the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was settled, the See also:jurisdiction of this portion of Dunstable was transferred to New Hampshire; five years later it was incorporated under the See also:laws of that state; and in 1803 the settlement, originally known as See also:Indian See also:Head, was incorporated as a See also:village under the name of Nashua, and in 1836 the township of Dunstable also received the name Nashua. The See also:town of See also:Nashville was set apart from the town of Nashua in 1842, but the two towns were united under a city See also:charter obtained in 18J3. In 1795 the first See also:stage See also:coach was run through here from Boston to See also:Amherst, and at about the same See also:time a See also:canal was built around See also:Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimac at See also:Lowell. In 1822 a manufacturing See also:company was formed, which at once began to develop the water-power and in 1825 erected the first cotton See also:mill. Thirteen years later the Nashua & Lowell railroad (now leased to the Boston & Maine) first reached Nashua. See The See also:History of the City of Nashua, edited by E. E. See also:Parker (Nashua, 1897).

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