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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Originally part of Sudbury, it was set off as Whipsuferadge Plantation in 1656 and was incorporated as a town in 1660 and named for Marlborough, England. The adjoining Native American plantation of Okammakamefit was annexed in 1718. Shoe manufacturing was begun in 1812.
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Marlborough includes: French Hill
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1657 - Marlborough is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1660 - Marlborough is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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Marlborough's Founding
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General Henry Knox and his troops passed through Marlborough, Massachusetts in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
Read more about Henry KNOX 1827 - ACCIDENT.
In Marlborough on Wednesday last, as the workmen were raising the frame of a building designed for an Academy and Masonic Hall, an accident occurred... Read MORE...
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1845 - MARLBOROUGH. [Pop. 2,101. Inc. 1660.]
Marlborough was probably first settled by the people of Sudbury, to which town it belonged before it was incorporated.
The Indian name was ... Read MORE...
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1848 - Marlborough
A tract of land, six miles square, was granted to a number of petitioners, inhabitants of Sudbury, in 1656: which was incorporated by the name of... Read MORE...
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1854 - Marlborough
Marlborough, a post-township of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, intersected by the Lancaster and Sterling Branch railroad, 34 miles W. from Boston.... Read MORE...
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Marlborough Massachusetts, 1890
Marlborough is an ancient and very thriving agricultural and manufacturing town, lying in the southwest part of Middlesex County, about 25 miles west ... Read MORE...
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1890 - Marlborough is incorporated as a city
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1895 - Marlborough
Marlborough, a post-village of Middlesex co: Mass. in Marlborough township, on the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad, and the Marlborough Branch... Read MORE...
1897 - $150,000 FIRE LOSS.
Marlboro, Mass., Nov. 5. - Fire broke out at 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the three-story wooden block occupied by the Central Hotel and spread to the Corey ... Read MORE...
1902 - LEAVES ON RAILS CAUSE BAD WRECK. FORCE TWO ELECTRIC CARS TO COLLIDE, TWELVE OF THE PASSENGERS BEING INJURED.
Marlboro, Mass., Oct. 11. - Slippery rails on which leaves had fallen is given as the cause of a collision of electric cars in Monument Square this... Read MORE...
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1906
Marlboro, a city of Middlesex co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 25 miles W. of Boston. It has extensive manufactories of boots... Read MORE...
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