On September 2, 1893, a huge fireman’s muster was held in Milford, NH, featuring fire apparatus and personnel from Nashua, Milford, Goffstown, Pepperell, MA, Groton, MA, and Ayer, MA. Non-competing firefighters attended from as far away as Lowell, MA. The festivities were started with a huge parade through Milford where “the houses were finely decorated.”
Today, reporting a fire in Nashua is simple and fast… call 911 on your cell-phone, or pull the switch on the many fire call boxes around Nashua. Back in “the day” it wasn’t so simple.
Police officers, in Nashua and every other city in America, perform a number of services in the course of their job that citizens never see. Since the very beginning of an organized Nashua police force, beat-officers always check for open or unlocked doors on businesses. And since the beginning, open or unlocked doors have always been found.
Stories from the History of Nashua’s Police and Fire-Rescue Departments. At the beginning of the 1870s, the Nashua Fire Dept.