Now available on the library's web site: the History of the City of Nashua, N.H., edited by Edward Everett Parker. Published in 1895, this history of Nashua covers the settlement of the area when it was called Dunstable, and follows its progress up through the late 1800s. Chock full of portraits and biographies of prominent citizens, it also discusses aspects of the town's development, from manufacturing to railroads to medicine. You can download the entire book as a single PDF file, but be warned that it is 350 MB. If certain chapters interest you, you can just download the files for the individual chapters. Each file is searchable. You will need the free Adobe Reader to open these files.

Of course, you can still view the paper copy of the History of the City of Nashua, N.H. and other Nashua history books here at the library. We have a number of copies in the Hunt Room and in the reference collection. Just ask at the reference desk.

The digitization of the History of the City of Nashua, N.H. was a project of the Reference Department of the Nashua Public Library. It was made possible by funding from a library trust fund.