History · Nashua

Nashua’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Nashua. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
1need a date
Little Brown Church in the Vale, State Route 346 · Library of Congress

The story

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Nashua was incorporated as a city in 1869. It is named after Nashua, New Hampshire, the native town of one of its founders.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nashua’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLittle Brown Church in the Vale, …: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Famous people from Nashua

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Nashua, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Nashua is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Nashua has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Brooks Round Barn in Nashua, 2.1 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Brooks Round Barn’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Nashua?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Nashua’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old place
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Little Brown Church in the Vale, State Route 346 and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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