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At 452 Amherst Street along Route 101A, a 40-acre farm held two of the last early nineteenth- and late eighteenth-century homes remaining in northwest Nashua. The area long bustled with commerce because connecting roads carried travelers to and from major commercial centers. Route 101A linked Amherst and Boston by way of Nashua, while the New Hampshire seacoast was connected through Thornton's Ferry across the Merrimack River at Merrimack, where the road becomes West Thornton Road, and Thornton Road then crossed west of this location to Hollis and beyond. In the final chapter of these old homes, they housed a historic restaurant and tavern whose owners used the original architectural features to create a unique atmosphere. Today, lush green landscaping around the property is all that remains of what was once a small historic neighborhood.
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Nashua, New Hampshire · United States
