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West Boylston is located at what was the junction of the Quinapoxet and Stillwater Rivers and the south branch of the Nashua River. The town's center developed here to take advantage of the waterpower for industry. In the 1890s, the state of Massachusetts recognized this abundance of water as ideal for a reservoir. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, the center of town and almost all the local industries were destroyed to create the Wachusett Reservoir, which began providing water to the growing city of Boston. Only one ...

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West Boylston 2006, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531623470

Hardcover

West Boylston 2006, Arcadia Publishing (SC), Charleston, SC

ISBN-13: 9780738539409

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