NASHUA 



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NASHVILLE 



between Charles I and Parliament. The con- 

 flict took place on June 14, 1645, in the parish 

 of Naseby, in Northamptonshire. The Parlia- 

 mentary army was commanded by Cromwell 

 and Sir Thomas Fairfax. Cromwell attacked 

 the enemy's center, Fairfax pressed it from the 

 front, and gradually the Royalist infantry sepa- 

 rated into small groups which surrendered one 

 after another. The spoils included a hundred 

 standards and colors and the private papers of 

 the king. This battle meant practically the 

 complete annihilation of the last field army of 

 Charles I. 



NASHUA, nosh 1 u a, N. H., a manufacturing 

 center in Hillsborough County, situated in the 

 southeastern comer of the state, eighteen miles 

 south of Manchester and forty miles northwest 

 of Boston. It is on the Nashua River near its 

 entrance into the Merrimac River, and is served 

 by several branches of the Boston & Maine 

 Railroad and by electric interurban lines. 

 Forty per cent of the population are French. 

 In 1910 the population was 26,005; in 1916 it 

 was 27,327 (Federal estimate). 



Prominent features of the city are the Fed- 

 eral building, a United States fish hatchery, 

 public library, Y. M. C. A. building, the Church 

 of Saint Francis Xavier and Greeley Park (165 

 acres). The principal institutions are the Me- 

 morial and Saint Joseph's hospitals, the Hunt 

 Home and Nashua Sanitarium. Power for 

 manufacture is supplied by a three-mile canal 

 extending from the Nashua River. The chief 

 industrial establishments are cotton mills and 

 manufactories of shoes, cards and gummed pa- 

 per, asbestos, ice-cream freezers, refrigerators, 

 furniture, hardware and saddlery. The city is 

 the trading center of the surrounding agricul- 

 tural country. 



Nashua was settled in 1655 and in 1673 was 

 incorporated by Massachusetts as the township 

 of Dunstable. The latter was reincorporated 

 by New Hampshire in 1746. The present name 

 was adopted in 1836, and the place became a 

 city in 1853. The commission form of govern- 

 ment was adopted in 1913. 



NASHVILLE, TENN., the capital of the state 

 and the county seat of Davidson County, in 

 population ranking next to Memphis among 

 the cities of Tennessee. It. is on the Cumber- 

 land River, mainly on the left bank, and on 

 the Louisville & Nashville, the Nashville, Chat- 

 tanooga & Saint Louis and the Tennessee Cen- 

 tral railroads, and has electric interurban and 

 steamboat service. Its location is central in 

 the state, 186 miles south and west of Louis- 



ville, Ky., and 233 miles northeast of Mem- 

 phis. In 1910 the population was 110,364; in 

 1916 it was 117,057 (Federal estimate). Nash- 

 ville has an area of about eighteen square miles 

 and is situated on gently-sloping and hilly land 

 which rises gradually westward from the river 

 to an elevation of 560 feet. It is surrounded 

 by the blue grass country, a fertile and pic- 

 turesque section. The streets of the city are 

 wide, and many of them are lined by beautiful 

 old colonial homes. 



Public Buildings and Parks. The principal 

 building is the State House, situated on a hill- 

 top in the center of the city, and constructed at 

 a cost of $1,500,000. The surrounding grounds 

 contain an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson 

 and the tomb of James K. Polk. Other note- 

 worthy structures are the Federal building, 

 which, with an addition, has cost $1,500,000; 

 the courthouse, city hall and union station. In 

 Centennial Park (the grounds of the Tennes- 

 see Exposition of 1897, which commemorated 

 the admission of the state to the Union) stand 

 the Parthenon and the History Building of the 

 exposition, which was modeled after the Erec- 

 theum, and contains a museum and art gallery. 



Nashville has many attractive parks, among 

 them Glendale Park, south of the city, a place 

 of great beauty; Cumberland Driving Park, 

 Shelby and Watkins parks and the state fair 

 grounds. In the national cemetery north of the 

 town are the graves of 16,643 soldiers, among 

 them 4,711 of the "unknown dead." In Mount 

 Olivet Cemetery is a beautiful Confederate sol- 

 diers' monument; also the graves of 2,000 Con- 

 federate soldiers are here. 



Institutions. Nashville is one of the chief 

 educational cities of the South. Among its 

 schools of importance are Vanderbilt Univer- 

 sity (which see) ; Peabody College for Teach- 

 ers; the medical and dental departments of the 

 University of Tennessee; Knapp School of 

 Farm Life (which see) ; Fisk University for col- 

 ored students (which see) ; Meharry Medical 

 College (colored) ; Walden University (Metho- 

 dist Episcopal) (colored) ; Roger Williams Uni- 

 versity (Baptist) (colored) ; Boscobel College, 

 for women (Baptist) ; Ward-Belmont College, 

 for women (Presbyterian) ; Saint Cecilia 

 Academy, for women (Roman Catholic) ; and 

 Buford College for Women. 



The state library contains 40,000 volumes; 

 the Carnegie Library building, a fine structure 

 costing $100,000, contains 94,000 volumes. Wat- 

 kins Institute has the Howard Library of 10,- 

 000 volumes, and valuable collections, manu- 



