Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County in southern New Hampshire. Covering 31.8 sq mi (82.5 sq km), it has a population of 86,000 people (2011 estimate), making it the second biggest city in New Hampshire.

Hunt Memorial Library, Nashua, New Hampshire
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Nashua is part of a 200-sq-mile piece of land that was originally known as Dunstable. It was granted to Edward Tyng in 1673. That was when New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts, when the New Hampshire state was created, Dunstable was broken into two parts.

In 1836, Dunstable, New Hampshire, was renamed Nashua, after the Nashua River. For an eleven-year period from 1842, the town split into two, with the northern part calling itself Nashville, but the two parts eventually reconciled as the city of Nashua in 1853.

Nashua had a textile industry that prospered at the turn of the 20th century, but declined after the First World War. Today it has reinvented itself as part of the Boston-area high-tech corridor.

Visiting Nashua

US Highway 3 connects Nashua with Boston.

Places of Interest in Nashua

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