Editing Nashua, New Hampshire (section)

==History==
The area was part of a {{convert|200|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} tract of land in [[Massachusetts]] called "Dunstable", named after Edward Tyng of [[Dunstable]] in England.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=August 26, 1875 |title=Nashua Illustrated |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/428244316/ |access-date=June 16, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last1=Coolidge |first1=Austin Jacobs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcoMAAAAYAAJ |title=A History and Description of New England, General and Local: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont |last2=Mansfield |first2=John Brainard |date=1859 |publisher=A.J. Coolidge |pages=585–91 |language=en}}</ref> Located at the confluence of the [[Nashua River|Nashua]] and Merrimack rivers, Dunstable was first settled about 1654 as a [[Fur trade|fur trading]] town. Nashua lies approximately in the center of the original 1673 grant.<ref name=":02" /> In 1732, Dunstable was split along the [[Merrimack River]], with the town of Nottingham West (now the town of [[Hudson, New Hampshire]]) created out of the eastern portion. The previously disputed [[Northern boundary of Massachusetts|boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire]] was fixed in 1741 when the governorships of the two provinces were separated.<ref name=":02" /> As a result, the township of Dunstable was divided in two. [[Tyngsborough, Massachusetts|Tyngsborough]] and some of [[Dunstable, Massachusetts|Dunstable]] remained in Massachusetts, while [[Dunstable, New Hampshire]], was incorporated in 1746 from the northern section of the town.<ref name=":02" />

Like many 19th century riverfront [[New England]] communities, New Hampshire's Dunstable was developed during the [[Industrial Revolution]] with textile mills operated from [[water power]].<ref name=":12"/> In 1823, the [[Nashua Manufacturing Company]] was incorporated.<ref name=":12" /> The company eventually had four mills and employed approximately 1,000 people.<ref name=":12" /> The following year, the Jackson Manufacturing Company was incorporated.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayward |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFWRHJpLJGQC |title=The New England Gazetteer |publisher=Heritage Books |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7884-0003-2 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1836, the New Hampshire half of Dunstable was renamed "Nashua", after the Nashua River; the Dunstable name lives on across the Massachusetts border.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Roadside History: Old Dunstable |url=https://www.unionleader.com/nh/travel/historical_markers/roadside-history-old-dunstable/article_a5971ede-ac36-5705-865c-fc01754752be.html |access-date=June 16, 2021 |website=UnionLeader.com |date=30 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="HIST2">{{Cite web |title=History of Nashua |url=http://www.nashuanh.gov/677/History-of-Nashua |access-date=March 29, 2017 |publisher=City of Nashua}}</ref> The Nashua River was named by the [[Nashaway]] people, and in the [[Pennacook|Penacook]] language it means "beautiful stream with a pebbly bottom",<ref>{{cite web |title=NIAC Publications ~ Nipmuc Place Names – Maine & Massachusetts |url=http://www.nativetech.org/Nipmuc/placenames/mainmass.html |website=www.nativetech.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMbAQAAMAAJ&q=nashua++ |title=The Native North American Almanac |date=2001 |publisher=Gale Research, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7876-1655-7 |language=en}}</ref> with an alternative meaning of "land between two rivers".<ref name="RIVERS2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nashuanh.gov/CityGovernment/Departments/CityClerksOffice/NashuaHistory/HistoryofNashua/tabid/155/Default.aspx|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110171502/http://www.nashuanh.gov/CityGovernment/Departments/CityClerksOffice/NashuaHistory/HistoryofNashua/tabid/155/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|title="A Short History of Nashua" on the city website|archivedate=November 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stylianos |first=Joan |title=Heart of Nashua: How well do you know your city? |url=https://www.unionleader.com/voices/heart_of_nashua/heart-of-nashua-how-well-do-you-know-your-city/article_3dc11036-cf06-5d8c-bd6f-1b2bf4e3abee.html |access-date=June 16, 2021 |website=UnionLeader.com |date=19 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In 1842, the town split into two towns.<ref name=":2" /> Eleven years later, they joined back together under the name "Nashua", and were re-incorporated as a city.<ref name=":2" /> During the split, the northern area, known today as "French Hill", called itself "[[Nashville Historic District (Nashua, New Hampshire)|Nashville]]", while the southern part kept the name Nashua.<ref name="HIST2" />

Six [[railroad]] lines crossed the [[mill town]], namely the [[Nashua and Lowell Railroad|Nashua and Lowell]], [[Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad|Worcester and Nashua]], Nashua and Acton, Nashua and Wilton, Concord and Nashua, and Rochester railroads.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 8, 1965 |title=The Railroad — Integral Part in Nashua's Growth |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/74885973/ |access-date=June 16, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>

Like the rival [[Amoskeag Manufacturing Company]] upriver in [[Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heart of Nashua: Whatever happened to Textile Field? |url=https://www.unionleader.com/voices/heart_of_nashua/heart-of-nashua-whatever-happened-to-textile-field/article_9e2b0769-f4c4-558e-b5d9-8e45f6d763f0.html |access-date=June 16, 2021 |website=UnionLeader.com |date=18 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> the [[Nashua Manufacturing Company Historic District|Nashua mills]] prospered until about [[World War I]], after which a slow decline set in. Water power was replaced with newer forms of energy to run factories, such as coal, and cotton could be manufactured into fabric where it grew, saving transportation costs.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Koistinen |first=David |date=2002 |title=The Causes of Deindustrialization: The Migration of the Cotton Textile Industry from New England to the South |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23699718 |journal=Enterprise & Society |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=482–520 |doi=10.1093/es/3.3.482 |jstor=23699718 |issn=1467-2227}}</ref>

In 1922, it was affected by the [[1922 New England Textile Strike]], shutting down the mills in the city over an attempted wage cut and hours increase.<ref name=":123">{{Cite book |last1=Foner |first1=Philip Sheldon |title=History of the labor movement in the United States. 9: The T.U.E.L. to the end of the Gompers era |last2=Foner |first2=Philip Sheldon |date= 1991 |publisher=Intl Publ |isbn=978-0-7178-0674-4 |location=New York |pages=19–31}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=E. Tilden |first=Leonard |date=1923 |title=New England Textile Strike |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41828627 |journal=Monthly Labor Review |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=13–36 |jstor=41828627}}</ref>

The textile business started moving to the [[Southern United States|South]] during the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kennedy |first=John F. |date=January 1, 1954 |title=New England and the South |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1954/01/new-england-and-the-south/376244/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> with the last mill near Nashua closing in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 30, 1949 |title=Milford Textron Plant Closes Down |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/56467054/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>

But then [[Sanders Associates]], a newly created defense firm that is now part of [[BAE Systems]], moved into one of the closed mills and helped restart the city's economy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aug 23, 1952, p. 1  ''Nashua Telegraph'' at Newspapers.com |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/74732187/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Arrival of BAE – then known as Sanders – helped Nashua economy recover |url=https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2012/12/08/arrival-of-bae-then-known-as-sanders-helped-nashua-economy-recover/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=nashuatelegraph.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Sanders Associates also played a key role in the development of the [[home video game console]] market. [[Ralph H. Baer]], an employee of Sanders, developed what would become the [[Magnavox Odyssey]], the first commercial home video game system.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=December 8, 2014 |title=Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/ralph-h-baer-dies-inventor-of-odyssey-first-system-for-home-video-games.html |access-date=June 17, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The arrival of [[Digital Equipment Corp.]], now part of [[Hewlett-Packard]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=A look back at Digital Equipment Corp. |url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/gallery/dectimeline/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=Boston.com |language=en}}</ref> in the 1970s made the city part of the [[Boston]]-area high-tech corridor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 10, 1976 |title=Digital to build in Nashua |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/56557362/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Leibovich |first=Mark |date=March 25, 1998 |title=A Tech Corridor's Life Cycle |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1998/03/25/a-tech-corridors-life-cycle/a70ef928-28c7-4ee7-adaa-bcde85421903/ }}</ref>

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File:Nashua, New Hampshire (2675828930).jpg|An 1883 bird's-eye engraving of Nashua
File:Nashua Millyard from truss bridge Mills 1-2-3.JPG|The [[Nashua Manufacturing Company Historic District|Nashua Millyard]]
File:Canal Street Bridge, Nashua, NH.jpg|Canal St. Bridge, {{circa|1908}}
File:The Willows, Nashua, NH.jpg|The Willows, {{circa|1910}}; the road is now [[New Hampshire Route 101A|Route 101A]] near Somerset Plaza
File:Huntlibrarynashua.jpg|[[Hunt Memorial Library]] in 2006
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