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History of Westborough, Massachusetts, USA

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Where is Westborough, Massachusetts, USA?

• 1675 - Westborough is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1717 - Westborough is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  Eli Whitney Birthplace
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• 1845 - WESTBOROUGH. [Pop. 1,658. Inc. 1717.]
  Westborough was probably so named because, when taken from Marlborough, in Middlesex county, it formed the west part of that town. Northborough...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Westborough
  This town was taken from Marlborough, and lying the whole length of that town on the west side at the time of its incorporation, in Nov. 1717, it was ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Westborough
  Westborough, a post-township of Worcester co., Massachusetts, intersected by the Boston and Worcester railroad, 32 miles W. by S. from Boston. The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Whitney House
  Erected in 1881. Destroyed by fire Jan. 5, 1907.
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•  1885 - Men of Brains - Some of the Distinguished American Inventors
  Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin; born at Westborough, Massachusetts, 1765; died 1825; went to Georgia in 1792 as teacher; in 1793 invents the ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Westborough Massachusetts, 1890
  Westborough is an active farming and manufacturing town of 4,880 inhabitants, situated in the southeastern part of Worcester County, 32 miles from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Westboro Weaving Co., Westboro, Mass.
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  Chauncy Park, 1905
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  Congregational Church and Main St., 1905
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  Evangelical Church, 1905
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  Engine House, 1905
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  Town Hall & Baptist Church
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• 1906
  Westboro, a post-village in Westboro township (town), Worcester co., Mass., on the Boston and Albany R., 12 miles E. of Worcester. It contains the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Square. Westboro, Mass. (1907)
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  The Square, 1908
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  Unitarian Church, 1909
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  Smith's Mill, 1910
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  Eli Whitney School, 1910
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  Pavilion at Lake Chauncy, Westboro, Mass.
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  Railroad Depot
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  Odd Fellows Block and Westboro Inn
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  Memorial Circle and Post Office
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  Cunniff's Lodge
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