The Nashua Manufacturing Co., listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was important to Nashua's textile industry and early economic development. In 1823, Daniel Abbot, Moses Tyler, and Joseph Greeley received a charter to manufacture cotton, woolen, and iron goods. Its main products included cotton shirting, sheeting, and 122 types of cloth and, by the 1880s, flannel cotton. Yankee Mill Girls dominated the workforce until the late 1800s, when French and Irish immigrants were hired under the same conditions for longer hours and less pay. After the New Hampshire Legislature passed a ten-hour law, the company presented a contract to workers three days before the law took effect, threatening discharge to anyone unwilling to keep a 13-14 hour workday. Only one third signed, forcing a temporary closure of the mills. They shut down again in October 1915 when Polish and Lithuanian workers went on strike. On May 18, 1944, the company received the Army-Navy E Award for its contributions during World War II. Textron, Inc. bought the company in 1945 and, in 1948, closed the Nashua Mills to move south, leaving 3,500 workers jobless. The buildings reopened as the Residential Clocktower Place in 1991.