. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . New Hampshire Rangers going into QueenAnnes w^ar from here. When the Revolution began, Dunstable nameswere common in the volunteers under Stark who hastened to BunkerHill, or, later, followed Washingtons lead; and here General Blanchardis buried. In 1800 the little settlement Indian Head, at the mouthof the river, became Nashua Village, and began to flourish as a mer-cantile point in the boating on the river, for locks had just been builtaround the Pawt
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . New Hampshire Rangers going into QueenAnnes w^ar from here. When the Revolution began, Dunstable nameswere common in the volunteers under Stark who hastened to BunkerHill, or, later, followed Washingtons lead; and here General Blanchardis buried. In 1800 the little settlement Indian Head, at the mouthof the river, became Nashua Village, and began to flourish as a mer-cantile point in the boating on the river, for locks had just been builtaround the Pawtucket falls, w^here Lowell now stands, so that sloopsand barges could come up. In 1823 a dam, canal and factory Avereerected, whereupon the manufacturing industry, which has madeNashua so prosperous, began, and twenty years later the toAvnhad rail-way connection wath Boston. The city now embraces about 16,000 inhabitants, and is of attractiveappearance. The largest manufacturing concerns are the cotton mills,which employ between two and three thousand persons. Cards andglazed paper, locks, cotton-milling machines, edged tools and sundry. 15 fancy articles, besides an imraeuse quantity of iron and steel, and30,000 yards a year of ingrain carpets, form other sources of wealthto her citizens. Several railways concentrate here, and the Merrimacis handsomely bridged. Nearly 50 miles remained to Baily between Nashua and Rocliester,and he found himself with less notes in his big Kussia note book ofthis half of the journey than of the earlier part. The first twent)--fivemiles traverse the level farming districts of Hudson and AVindham —a region venerable with traditions of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterianswho were the first to clear away its primeval forest. Not much of in-terest attaches to the region beyond, except in the towns of Eppingand Lee (the former noted for its Methodist camp-meetings) whosehistory goes back 250 years and is filled with Indian warfare and \\ i i ! 1 J^ Jk «^
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