History of Boxborough, Massachusetts, USA

Boxborough, Massachusetts
Middlesex county. Incorporated, 1783. Population, 1837, 433. Some shoes, palm-leaf hats, and straw bonnets are manufactured in this town, and large quantities of hops are grown. It lies 25 miles N.W. by W. from Boston and 9 W. by N. from Concord. Good lime-stone is found here.

The land is hilly, but there are no important streams, and very little fertile land.

Hops are raised, and good limestone found in the town.

Distance from Concord, 9 miles ; from Boston, 25.

This town was incorporated in 1783. The tract comprising the township is elevated and hilly. There is no stream of much importance in the town. The township lies between Concord and Nashua rivers, and at nearly equal distance from both. The population of this town in 1837 was 433, being smaller than that of any other in Middlesex county. About one thousand dollars’ worth of straw bonnets and palm leaf hats were manufactured in this place. Limestone is found in the town, and hops have been cultivated to some extent. Distance, 9 miles from Concord and 25 from Boston.

Boxborough, a post-township of Middlesex co., Massachusetts, 24 miles W. by N. from Boston. Population, 396.

Boxborough is a small farming town, somewhat hilly and of a passably good soil, lying in the westerly part of Middlesex County, midway between the Concord and Nashua rivers. It is bounded on the north by Littleton, east by Acton, south by Stow, and west by Harvard.

It has calcareous gneiss for its formative rock, in which has been opened a good quarry of limestone ; and there are found the minerals scapolite, garnet, spinel and augite.

Guggins Brook rises near the centre of the town, and running easterly is joined by Half-moon-meadow Brook, from the northeast part, both soon entering the Assabet River ; while Beaver Brook, running northerly, and Assabet Brook southerly, drain the western section of the town, and afford a little motive power. Whittington Pond, of an elliptical form, and containing 37 acres, lies in the northwest section of the town. The Fitchburg Railroad crosses the northeastern corner, but the nearest station is West Acton, 27 miles from Boston. That village is ...

Boxborough, a township of Middlesex co., Mass., traversed by the Fitchburg Railroad, 24 miles from Boston. Pop. 318.