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Greater Nashua

Living in Nashua, New Hampshire

The state's second-largest city, at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack rivers.

New England town common with a white steepled meeting house, shade trees and a brick sidewalk

Nashua overview

Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County on the Massachusetts border, formed around textile manufacturing at the falls of the Nashua River and incorporated as a city in 1853.

Today it combines a restored downtown along Main Street with substantial commercial and technology employment along the Route 3 and Amherst Street corridors.

Homes and housing

Inventory includes nineteenth-century mill housing and multifamily buildings near downtown, mid-century single-family neighborhoods, condominium developments and newer construction on the city's northern and western edges.

Neighborhoods

Areas include French Hill, the North End, Crown Hill, the Tree Streets and the neighborhoods surrounding Mine Falls Park.

Lifestyle and recreation

Mine Falls Park, the Nashua River rail trail network, downtown Main Street retail and restaurants, and the Nashua Center for the Arts.

Location

On the Massachusetts border, roughly forty miles northwest of Boston.

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