outh of the town got larger and expanded to east some. The growth of the city was becoming fast and town officials decided to begin claiming public grounds and building parks. It was at this time that Greeley Park was built that contained about a square quarter mile of land and Holman stadium was built at the northern part of town. Miles of land west of the river and south of the factories that ran along the Nashua Canal were set aside as Mines Falls Park, Nashua’s largest park, with nature trails and clearings for fishing. As the town continued to grow, Main Street continued to remain the center, the heart of the town, until in the sixties, a proposal was made to extend the Everett Turnpike into New Hampshire and through Nashua. The Town Officials had a hard time deciding whether to allow it, as part of Mines Falls and a lot of the farm lands would have to be used for the development of the road, on the other hand, the road would give way to more expansion and allow for neighborhoods to stretch out and relieve the overcrowding of the downtown. In the end, the officials agreed, with provisions to build paths that would extend under the highway to connect the two halves of mines falls that would result, and construction that would last almost a decade went underway.During the 1970’s a major cleanup action took place in Nashua. After the factories along the river shut down, the river was disgracefully polluted, the heart of the town and its most valuable resource was nearly black with the variable dyes and chemicals that had been dumped from the factories throughout the century. The cleanup took years, but in the end, the heart and symbol of the city was restored. At this time the turnpike was finished and a steady expansion that has lasted to this date began. The fingers of the development began to creep and consume land at a terrific rate, and the town laid down more public parks to compensate for the lost of the be...
