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History · Nashua

Nashua’s post office opened in 1888, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Charles C. Sargent House. Its Register listing is the Charles C. Sargent House.

1888first post office
1on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
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How Nashua began

When was Nashua founded?

1888

The Nashua post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 301138 years
Founding year: the first Nashua post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Nashua’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Nashua are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Nashua’s homes were built before 1957.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nashua’s history is told.

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The story so far

Nashua, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Nashua yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Nashua is a town in Valley County, Montana, United States. The population was 301 at the 2020 census. The town was established as a station on the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway in 1888. Nashua had a brief economic boom during the building of Fort Peck Dam in the 1930s.

Its first post office opened in 1888. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 290 to 301 (+4%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Nashua, decade by decade

Today4 recent
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Nashua

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Charles C. Sargent House
Charles C. Sargent House, built 1917
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Arts and Crafts Bungalow Style1
Charles C. Sargent HouseArts and Crafts Bungalow Style · Built 1917

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Nashua

Nobody well known was born in Nashua itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Steve ReevesAmerican bodybuilder and actor · b. 1926
Michael McFaulAmerican political scientist, author, and diplo… · b. 1963
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Anthony WashingtonAmerican athletics competitor · b. 1966
Ted SchwindenAmerican politician · b. 1925
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Dolly AkersAmerican politician · b. 1901
Kam MickolioAmerican baseball player · b. 1984
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Nashua’s post office has been open since 1888.

Gone or out of use
Church of Nazarene of NashuachurchFarmers Produce Company ElevatorlocaleImperial ElevatorlocaleOccident ElevatorlocaleWinter Truesdell Elevatorlocale

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Nashua’s history

What year was Nashua founded?

The Nashua post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Nashua?

One place: the Charles C. Sargent House (listed 1982).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.