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Blackstone, Worcester, MA
Blackstone was settled by European immigrants in 1662 and was incorporated in 1845. The town was part of Mendon, Massachusetts, before becoming a separate municipality. wikipedia
Blackstone includes: Millerville, New City, Privilege, Waterford, and Wheelockville.
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Blackstone, Massachusetts, USA

American Woolen Co., Saranac Mills, General View, Blackstone, Mass.
"...These mills were founded by Welcome & Darius D. Farnum in 1840 and were sold to Bailey Evans, Caleb Seagrave & Co. in 1850. They were burned down in 1864, and rebuilt in... Read MORE...
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1662 - Blackstone is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1845 - BLACKSTONE. [Pop. in 1840, 2,517. Inc. 1845.]
Blackstone, was the south parish of Mendon, until its incorporation as a separate town. It was named in honor of the Rev. Mr. Blaxton or... Read MORE...
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1845 - Blackstone is incorporated
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1851 - SAD ACCIDENT.
One of the melancholy results of intemperance, transpired this morning at Blackstone. A man, with a horse and chaise, left TAFT'S stable at about 12... Read MORE...
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1854 - Blackstone
Blackstone, a post-township in Worcester co., Massachusetts, 35 miles N. W. from Boston. It contains a bank. Population, 4391.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1869 - In the towns of Cumberland, Smithfield, Blackstone, and Bellingham, R. I.,
there are seventeen cotton and eight woolen mills, which employ 5,550 hands, run 4,480 looms, and annually use 15,300,000 pounds of cotton.... Read MORE...
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Blackstone Massachusetts, 1890
Blackstone is a young, enterprising and growing town in the extreme southeastern corner of Worcester County, 36 miles from Boston on the New York and ... Read MORE...
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1895 - Blackstone / East Blackstone / Millville
Blackstone, a post-village, partly in a township of the same name, in Worcester co., Mass., and partly in Providence co, R.I., is on Blackstone... Read MORE...
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1916
Blackstone, a post-village, in a township (town) of the same name, in Worcester co., Mass., is on the Blackstone River and on the New York, New Haven ... Read MORE...
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