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  History of Holden, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1723 - Holden is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1741 - Holden is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Holden
  Holden, Massachusetts
  Worcester county. This town is finely watered by branches of Blackstone and Nashua rivers. It has a valuable water power on Quinipoxet river. It has some good meadow land on the borders of the streams. There are 5 cotton and 2 woolen mills in the town, and manufactures of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - HOLDEN. [Pop. 1,874. Inc. 1741.]
  Holden was separated from Worcester, and named in honor of an English gentleman, whose family were benefactors of Harvard College, and of the colony.
  
  Branches of the Nashua and Blackstone water the town.
  
  The manufactures consist of cotton and woollen goods, boots and shoes.
  
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• 1848 - Holden
  This town was taken wholly from the town of Worcester, being included in their original grants, and was the north-westerly part thereof. It was incorporated in 1740, by the name of Holden, in commemoration of the Hon. Samuel Holden, Esq., one of the directors of the Bank of England, who was a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Holden
  Holden, a post-township of Worcester co., Massachusetts, 50 miles W. of Boston. Population, 1933.
  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.
  
  
•  1871 - A TORNADO. HOUSES, BARNS AND TREES PROSTRATED IN MASSACHUSETTS - DESTRUCTION IN ITS PATH - SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED.
  Worcester, Mass., June 11. - A sweeping tornado passed through the towns of Paxton, Holden and West Boyleston this afternoon at 4 1/ 2 o'clock, demolishing every building in its track and tearing up trees by the roots. The first account of it received here was of its appearance in the town of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Holden Massachusetts, 1890
  Holden is a large town occupying high ground near the centre of Worcester County. Its form is nearly that of a diamond, having its greatest length north and south. Sterling and Royalston lie on the east, Worcester on the southeast, and Paxton, Rutland and Princeton on the southwest, west and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Holden / Jeffersonville
  Holden, a post-village in Holden township, Worcester co., Mass., on the Fitchburg Railroad and the Massachusetts Central Railroad (Quinapoxet Station), 52 miles of Boston, and 8 miles N.N.W. of Worcester. It has churches, a graded school, a cotton-mill, &c. The township contains Jeffersonville, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Ye Old Abbott Tavern
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  The Common
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  First Baptist Church
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  "Old Stone Bridge," Jefferson, Mass.
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  Town Hall, Holden, Mass.
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  New Reservoir
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• 1916
  Holden, a post-village in Holden township (town), Worcester co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine R., 52 miles W. of Boston. It has woollen manufactures, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2464.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
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  Gale Free Library, Holden, Mass.
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  Holden High School
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  Holden Shopping Center
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