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Nashua & Lowell Freight House of c. 1853 (14-16 Railroad Square) Laton House Hotel of 1878–1881 (28 Railroad Square) Stearns' Block of 1898–1899 (17-19 Railroad Square) Whiting Block of 1892–1893 (29-37 Main Street) former First Baptist Church of 1849 (43-49 Main Street) First Church of Nashua of 1893–1894 (1 Concord Street)
The single-story building at 931 Ocean Blvd. once housed Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Co., North Beach Bar and Grill and the Secret Spot, which served smoothies, snacks and acai bowls.
The creation of a new railroad line to Nashua from Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1838 gave the local economy a further boost, and the Nashua Iron Company opened, specializing in locomotive parts for this growing new industry. The Nashua Manufacturing Company built 48 houses or tenements and two churches to be able to hire enough workers to man the ...
The original Capital Grille was founded by Ned Grace, in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1990. [4] The opening was curious for several reasons: the upscale steakhouse contrasted with the then-rundown downtown area of Providence, and the opening occurred amid an ongoing recession.
In the early 19th century, the potential of the Nashua River to drive the wheels of industrial mills was recognized after the success of the Merrimack Canal, dug in the 1820s in Lowell, Massachusetts, 10 miles (16 km) downstream from Nashua. [3] [4] The first gates were built in 1826, and the gatehouse near Mine falls was built in 1886. [5]
Samuel Longley Bickford (1885–1959) began his restaurant career in 1902. In the 1910s, he was a vice president at the Waldorf System lunchroom chain in New England and, in 1921, he established his own quick-lunch Bickford's restaurants in New York.
The land was deeded to the city of Nashua in 1896 by Joseph Thornton Greeley, the grandson of the original Joseph Greeley. [1] [2] In 1908, John E. Cotton [3] donated $5000, an amount that was "matched by city funds", to change the Greeley Farm into a public park. The money was used to create a "stone and cement rest house, a fountain, a ...
The Estabrook Historic District, southeast of Bailey, Colorado, is a 272-acre (110 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] [2] It was deemed. significant for its association with the Denver South Park & Pacific Railway and the tourist industry that developed at some points along the line ...