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Greeley Park

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52: 82: 78:, the grandson of the original Joseph Greeley. In 1908, John E. Cotton donated $ 5000, an amount that was "matched by city funds", to change the Greeley Farm into a public park. The money was used to create a "stone and cement rest house, a fountain, a shallow pond, a gravel walk, and flower beds". 395: 390: 93:
Greeley Park hosts many citywide events, such as the Fairy Tale Festival, Art Show, and Halloween "Fright Night", and is a traditional photogenic place for prom night for
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section, and the only boat ramp on the west side of the Merrimack River between the Massachusetts border and the first rapids in New Hampshire.
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in the spring and summer there are plays, movies and music festivals. The park also features hiking trails,
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At the northern boundary of the park, near the river, the park is dealing with the threat of
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More than a dozen people help create article (Nashua Telegraph Jan. 2011)
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Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (1938).
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nh.com: Greeley Park gears up for second Music and Film Festival
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to a crowd of around one thousand in Greeley Park, beginning
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contamination that flows from the closed nearby historic
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Entrance to Greeley Park, from a c. 1920 postcard
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42°46′50″N 71°27′48″W / 42.780575°N 71.463275°W / 42.780575; -71.463275

Nashua, New Hampshire
Merrimack River
Joseph Greeley
Joseph Thornton Greeley

howitzer
Nashua High School South
North
bandstand
horseshoe pits
community gardening
creosote
railroad tie
John McCain
president of the United States
his first presidential campaign
Black Lives Matter
George Floyd
More than a dozen people help create article (Nashua Telegraph Jan. 2011)
Google Maps (Google.com Jan. 2011)
New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State
ISBN
9781603540285


Nashua: In Time and Place
ISBN
9780738500249

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