Name: Evening Hike - Mine Falls Park, Nashua
Start: 2024-12-04T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-04T19:30:00-05:00

## **Join us for an evening walk through Mine Falls Park.** **Then dinner at Shorty's Mexican Restaurant, Nashua**

## Mine Falls Park History

The name Mine Falls derives from the 1700's when low quality led was supposedly mined from the island below the falls. In the early 1800's the potential of the Nashua River to drive the wheels of industry was recognized. Workers used shovels and mules to dig the three-mile-long canal, which provides a vertical drop of 36 feet for the water at the mills.
The Gatehouse near the falls was completed in 1886 with the first gates being![90742480_520311285298256_2497833506248327168_n](https://www.nashuanh.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=30853) built in 1826. This facility still brings the river water to Mill Pond also located in the park. The hydroelectric plant near the falls was added in 1984.
In 1987 the Nashua River Canal and the Nashua Manufacturing Company Historic District (aka the Millyard), were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1992 the park trails were designated as part of the New Hampshire Heritage Trail system, which extends 130 miles along the Merrimack River from Massachusetts to Canada.
MIne Falls Park is one of the most instantly recognizable and vital parts of the City of Nashua. The park is located in the City and was purchased in 1969 with both City and Federal Land and Water Conservation monies. The 325-acre park includes forest, wetlands, and open fields and is bordered on the North by the Nashua River and the south by the Mill Pond canal system.

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