Yester-Heroes: Nashua Police in the mid-1920s and the end of the Main Street Bridge

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On December 11, 1924 the Main St. bridge, which was then constructed of wood, burned in a spectacular fire crippling Nashua’s north/south traffic. The bridge burned all the way through, collapsing into the river sending what was described as a “fountain of sparks hundreds of feet into the air.”