Cultural Diversity continued:

Those of indigenous-Pennacook, English, Scotch-Irish, and African ancestry have been in this community since colonial days. Our first Irish and Roman-Catholic residents arrived in the late 1830’s, followed by the French-Canadian people of Quebec Province in the late 1860’s, then the great wave between 1885-1925 of the Jewish, Greek, Polish, Lithuanian, Armenian, Romanian, Lebanese, Albanian, Italian, Chinese, and others to the great manufacturing and railroad city on the Merrimack River. And from the 1950’s onward to today the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican, Brazilian, El Salvadorian, Indian, Pakistanian, Russian, Cambodian, Vietnamese and countless others have made Nashua their hometown. Diversity whether industrially, commercially, socially, ethnically, and culturally is the fundamental strength of our city, and this heritage will continue for many generations to come. Ethnic festivals, celebrations, ceremonies, events, exhibitions, and expressions abound in Nashua.