Nashua

Nashua, a manufacturing city of New Hampshire, is 40 miles by rail NW. of Boston, at the junction of the Merrimac and Nashua rivers. The falls of the latter, rendered available by a canal 3 miles long, supply motive-power to many manufacturing establishments, including very extensive cotton-factories and ironworks, paper and carpet mills, &c. Pop. (1880) 13,397; (1890) 19,311.