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1965 Map of Nashua South

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Nashua South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

The Merrimack River serves as the central artery for this late-1960s landscape, winding south from Nashua through the borderlands of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. This era captures the rapid suburbanization of the region, where the industrial legacy of the Boston and Maine railroad meets the modern expansion of the Everett Turnpike and the Daniel Webster Highway. Numerous educational and religious institutions, such as Rivier College and St Anthonys Friary, are established alongside traditional crossroads like Perhams Four Corners.

To the west, the more rural character of Dunstable and Westford remains evident, punctuated by numerous named hills and family-identified crossroads like Frederick Corner and Hayward Corner. The map preserves the locations of several historic cemeteries, including Evergreen Cem and Sherburne Cem, and industrial sites like the Fletcher Quarry, providing a detailed record of the shifting land use as northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire integrated into a broader metropolitan corridor.