Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua, New Hampshire Main Street in downtown Nashua Main Street in downtown Nashua Official seal of Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua is a town/city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
As of the 2010 census, Nashua had a total populace of 86,494, making it the second biggest city in the state (and in the three northern New England states) after Manchester.
Nashua was twice titled "Best Place to Live in America" in annual surveys by Money magazine. It is the only town/city to get the No.
Tyngsborough and some of Dunstable remained in Massachusetts, while Dunstable, New Hampshire, was incorporated in 1746 from the northern section of the town.
Located at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack rivers, Dunstable was first settled about 1654 as a fur trading town.
On December 31, 1836, the New Hampshire half of Dunstable was retitled "Nashua", after the Nashua River, by a declaration of the New Hampshire council (the Dunstable name lives on athwart the Massachusetts border). The Nashua River was titled by the Nashuway Indians, and in the Penacook language it means "beautiful stream with a pebbly bottom", with an alternative meaning of "land between two rivers". In 1842 the town split again in two for eleven years following a dispute between the region north of the Nashua, and the region south of the river.
During that time the northern region (today "French Hill") called itself "Nashville", while the southern part kept the name Nashua. They reconciled in 1853 and joined together to charter the "city of Nashua". Six barns lines crossed the foundry town, namely the Boston, Lowell and Nashua; Worcester and Nashua; Nashua and Acton; Nashua and Wilton; Concord and Nashua; and Rochester barns s; with 56 trains entering and departing daily in the years before the Civil War. These various barns s led to all sections of the country, north, east, south, and west.
Nashua River Dam in 2006 Nashua is positioned in southeastern Hillsborough County at 42 45 04 N 71 28 51 W (42.751038, -71.480817). It is bordered to the south by Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 31.9 square miles (82.6 km2), of which 30.8 square miles (79.9 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2) is water, comprising 3.25% of the city. The easterly boundary of Nashua is formed by the Merrimack River, and the town/city is drained by the Nashua River and Salmon Brook, tributaries of the Merrimack.
The Nashua River roughly bisects the city.
The highest point in Nashua is Gilboa Hill in the southern part of the city, at 426 feet (130 m) above sea level. The town/city is bordered on the east by the Merrimack River, athwart which lies the town of Hudson, New Hampshire.
Nashua has a four-season humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), with long, cold, snowy winters, and very warm and somewhat humid summers; spring and autumn in between are mostly brief transitions.
Climate data for Nashua, New Hampshire The city's government is headed by a mayor and fifteen aldermen: six at-large aldermen propel three at a time every four years, and nine ward aldermen, one for each ward in the city, propel every two years.
In the New Hampshire General Court, Nashua is represented in the House by Hillsborough County's 20th (Ward 1), 21st (Ward 2), 22nd (Ward 3), 23rd (Ward 4), 24th (Ward 6), 25th (Ward 7) and 26th (Wards 5, 8 and 9) districts and in the Senate by District 12 (Wards 1, 2, and 5, shared with Hollis, Mason, Brookline, Greenville, New Ipswich, and Rindge) and District 13 (Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9).
At the nationwide level, Nashua is situated in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Ann Kuster.
Nashua Fire has 176 full-time members and is responsible for 31.9 square miles (83 km2), protecting a populace of 87,259.
The department has six engines, two ladder trucks, two spare engines, one spare ladder, two hazmat trucks, and two forestry trucks. Nashua uses private ambulance AMR (American Regional Ambulance).
Nashua has three chief commercial districts.
Centered on Main Street near the geographic center of the city, Downtown Nashua is the earliest of the commercial districts, featuring commercial, entertainment, and dining venues, near historic commercial buildings and homes as well.
Recent plans have incorporated the Nashua River into the design of a pedestrian-friendly walkway.
The downtown Nashua Riverwalk is a large, public/private venture funded through the use of tax increment financing (TIF).
The South Nashua Commercial District, centered on Daniel Webster Highway near the Massachusetts border, is anchored by the Pheasant Lane Mall, attracting many citizens from Massachusetts taking favor of the lack of revenue tax in New Hampshire.
The town/city is home to a number of technical firms, including Nashua Corporation, which took its name from the town/city and river.
Was a dominant producer of floppy disks through the early 1990s, making the Nashua name well known in the world of personal computers.
The town/city recently instead of building what many locals call the "Broad Street Parkway", a primary highway evolution that joins Exit 6 of the Everett Turnpike to the city's downtown region ("Tree Streets" neighborhood), with the goal of easing traffic congestion and opening up Nashua's old mill-yard as part of the city's economic development.
Work on the universal started in May 2011 and was instead of in 2015. The new parkway provides a third crossing of the Nashua River and a way for traffic to avoid Library Hill, a busy downtown intersection.
The town/city is presently working with Renaissance Downtowns, a Plainville, New York evolution company, to precarious a different commercial and residentiary evolution on 26 acres (11 ha) of city- and privately owned territory off Bridge Street.
The property is 1 2 mile (800 m) from Main Street and lies along the Nashua and Merrimack rivers near Veterans Memorial Bridge, the easterly gateway to the city. Dining outdoors in Downtown Nashua Nashua's City Hall - Winter 2014 Entrance of Boire Field, Nashua's airport Other New Hampshire state highways in the town/city include: NH 101 - A, which enters the town/city from the northwest and follows Amherst Street to its end at Main Street.
NH 111, which enters the town/city from the southwest and follows Hollis Street to the city's easterly border at the Merrimack River, crossing into Hudson on the twin-span Taylor Falls/Veterans Memorial bridges.
NH 130, which enters the town/city from the west and follows Broad Street to its end at Amherst Street.
Maps of the Nashua region often show a stretch of freeway forming a circumferential highway through Nashua and the neighboring town of Hudson.
If finished, the Nashua-Hudson Circumferential Highway would be part of the Everett Turnpike, and would rejoin the mainline highway at a hypothetical Exit 9 in northern Nashua.
Public transit is provided by the Nashua Transit System, which has nine scheduled bus routes in the city.
Boston Express, a subsidiary of Concord Trailways, operates a Nashua-Boston bus line that runs out of the Nashua Transit Center off Exit 8 on the Everett Turnpike.
Nashua Airport (Boire Field), a general aviation facility, is in the city's northwest corner.
Historically, Nashua was a core for the street car fitness in New Hampshire.
The street car also connected different areas of the city, with the Nashua line ending at the town/city dance hall.
Efforts are being made to extend the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's commuter rail Lowell Line from Lowell to Nashua.
The state council created the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority (NHRTA) in 2007 with the goal of overseeing the evolution of commuter rail in the state.
Nashua airways broadcasts include WGHM 900 AM (ESPN affiliate), talk WSMN 1590 AM, back on the air after going dark in January 2005, and 106.3 WFNQ, a classic hits station owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners.
One tv station is licensed to Nashua.
The town/city of Nashua also provides three channels of PEG Access television.
Nashua Government TV can be found on Comcast cable channel 16, and Nashua ETV (Educational Television) can be found on Channel 99.
The town/city of Nashua also contracts out the operation of its Public Access Channel (Access Nashua) to Community Media Services group.
All three Nashua PEG Access channels also stream their content and offer video-on-demand through the town/city website.
In the 2000 U.S Census, 22,700 inhabitants over age three were enrolled in a Nashua educational institution, approximately a fourth of the city. In 2004, Nashua's enhance high school was split into Nashua High School South (home of the Purple Panthers, opened in 1976 and rebuilt/reopened in 2004) and the new Nashua High School North (home of the Titans, opened in 2002) off Broad Street.
Before Nashua High School (now Nashua High School South) opened in 1976, what is now Elm Street Middle School was the city's high school.
With the new high school opening in 1976, the old high school became Elm Street Junior High School.
In 2004, the school became Elm Street Middle School, after a citywide reorganization of grades: Nashua's elementary schools went from -1-6 to -1-5, and junior high schools serving grades 7-9 were replaced by middle schools serving grades 6-8.
Nashua Catholic Junior High School Nashua is not considered a college town compared to locales such as Durham or Keene, New Hampshire, but as of 2006 the town/city has 5,000 students enrolled at six colleges: Daniel Webster College, Nashua Community College, Rivier University, Southern New Hampshire University Nashua campus, Franklin Pierce University Nashua campus, and Granite State College, which in 2012 opened a co-location on the ground of Nashua Community College, expanding enhance college studies opportunities for the region. Nashua has had a series of amateur, semi-professional, and experienced baseball teams.
The Nashua Silver Knights, part of a summer collegiate league, is the city's current team.
The Nashua Pride, a Can-Am minor league baseball team, played at Holman Stadium from 1998 through 2008, then changed to the American Defenders of New Hampshire in the 2009 season.
Before the Pride, Holman was the home stadium for the autonomous Nashua Hawks; the AA Nashua Pirates; the AA Nashua Angels; and the A Nashua Dodgers, the first racially integrated experienced baseball team in the 20th century. In collegiate sports, Nashua is home to the Daniel Webster College Eagles, who compete in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) and the Rivier University Raiders, who compete in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC).
The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps (1997, 1998, 2004, and 2007 Drum Corps International Division II World Champions) is based in Nashua.
Main article: List of citizens from Nashua, New Hampshire A several episodes of the US tv show The Office were set in a fictional Nashua branch of Dunder Mifflin as Michael Scott's love interest and future wife, Holly Flax, is from Nashua.
An episode of MTV's MADE was filmed in 2004 at Nashua High School North. In an episode of the second season of The West Wing, "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II", amid a flashback Josh Lyman visits a town hall meeting in Nashua to see a candidate he could support.
In Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon's character Will Hunting says, "I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them," to Robin Williams' character Sean. Russian dressing was created in Nashua by James E.
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"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data, Nashua city, New Hampshire".
"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2011 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates (DP03), Nashua city, New Hampshire".
"Nashua Community College, Granite State College partner on bachelor's degree program".
As members of the Nashua Dodgers, Campanella and Newcombe were the first professional, black baseball players to compete on a racially integrated U.S.
"Russian dressing is actually from Nashua, New Hampshire".
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