
La Dame de Notre Renaissance Française - Nashua, NH
N 42° 45.719 W 071° 28.045
19T E 298105 N 4737336
The centerpiece of Le Parc de Notre Renaissance Françaiseto on the Nashua River.
Waymark Code: WM8FFA
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2010
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This elegant sculpture, depicting an 1870's millworker and her son, is the work of artist Christopher Gowell (
visit link) The sculpture serves as the main feature in Nashua's Le Parc de Notre Renaissance Françaiseto, a small park located between Water Street and the Nashua River.
The park itself is dedicated to French-Canadian immigrants who settled in the area in the 1800s and worked tirelessly in Nashua's textile mills. Appropriately, the old Nashua Manufacturing Company mill building (now Clocktower Place apartments) (
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